Running Kafka on Windows but getting Access denied exception for logs folder

I've been trying to run both zookeeper and kafka 2.13 on my local windows machine. I have modified the server properties to point to c:/kafka/kafka-logs and zookeeper data to point to c:/kafka/zookeeper-data.

The zookeeper starts without any issues but when I attempt to start kafka with

.\bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat .\config\server.properties

I get the below error saying AccessDeniedException. I have already tried the below:

1. Deleting the kafka-logs and zookeeper-data folders and running both zookeeper and kafka again - I still run into the error if I do that
2. Creating the kafka-logs folder before running kafka - I still get the access denied exception
3. Running the command prompt as administrator before typing the commands - does not work

Could anyone give some suggestions on how to fix this?

Thank you

what is the kafka version you are using?.

I has this issue in 3.0.0 . I downgraded to 2.8.1 and the issue is resolved.

I think it is something related to kafka.

Kafka is deprecating the usage of Zookeeper and rolling out upgraded Kafka version without Zookeper. Instead it makes use of KRaft for the doing the work of Zookeeper