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Can not delete old vista installation on other partion
When I was still running xp, but wanted to try out vista business, I
installed it on an extra partion where I could play with it. Now I have changed entirely to vista and have it installed on my primary partion and want to delete the old copy on the data partion... problem is that I can't. When I go to delete the windows folder, it fails, telling me the files are write protected. When I try to skip, It still fails. When I try changing the protection on the folder, I get an error telling me I do not have the access and it lets me do it as admin, which I try and then again it tells me I have no access. This I have tried as admin and as ordinary user. I even tried it under xp before I installed vista again. I can not get to the files, which are on a ntpf drive. How do I proceed? |
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Can not delete old vista installation on other partion
Format the partition
peter "Jakob Nielsen" wrote in message ... When I was still running xp, but wanted to try out vista business, I installed it on an extra partion where I could play with it. Now I have changed entirely to vista and have it installed on my primary partion and want to delete the old copy on the data partion... problem is that I can't. When I go to delete the windows folder, it fails, telling me the files are write protected. When I try to skip, It still fails. When I try changing the protection on the folder, I get an error telling me I do not have the access and it lets me do it as admin, which I try and then again it tells me I have no access. This I have tried as admin and as ordinary user. I even tried it under xp before I installed vista again. I can not get to the files, which are on a ntpf drive. How do I proceed? |
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Can not delete old vista installation on other partion
Format the partition
This would be where I point out certain words in the original post. "delete the old copy on the data partion..." The principal word being "data partition". It is 120 GB of data which I have no temporary storage for while formatting the partition. I can not imagine that MS created an undeleteable OS. Obviously there must be a way to remove it...? |
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Can not delete old vista installation on other partion
Have you tried to change the ownership of the disk/partition/files. I think
I had a similar problem and changing the owner to local admin solved it. "Jakob Nielsen" wrote in message ... When I was still running xp, but wanted to try out vista business, I installed it on an extra partion where I could play with it. Now I have changed entirely to vista and have it installed on my primary partion and want to delete the old copy on the data partion... problem is that I can't. When I go to delete the windows folder, it fails, telling me the files are write protected. When I try to skip, It still fails. When I try changing the protection on the folder, I get an error telling me I do not have the access and it lets me do it as admin, which I try and then again it tells me I have no access. This I have tried as admin and as ordinary user. I even tried it under xp before I installed vista again. I can not get to the files, which are on a ntpf drive. How do I proceed? |
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Can not delete old vista installation on other partion
Hello,
Please try the following: 1) open admin command prompt - Click start - Type: cmd - right-click it under programs - click Run As Administrator 2) take ownership of everything (will take a while) In the command prompt: change to the drive your old Vista install is on, e.g. d:\ cd windows takeown /F . /A /R /D Y NUL 3) grant yourself permission to everything In the command prompt: icacls . /grant:r AdministratorsF) /T /L /Q 4) Delete everything - Make sure you close any explorer or command windows that are looking at or inside windows (except the cmd window you are using). If you don't, you will receive an error while performing this step. In the command prompt: cd .. rmdir /S /Q windows That should do it -- - JB Windows Vista Support Faq http://www.jimmah.com/vista/ |
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Can not delete old vista installation on other partion
Jimmy,
Maybe you can help with this one. HDD 0 is connected to the SATA 1 controller on Motherboard. It has 2 partitions; one primary with Vista installed, and one logical with data. HDD 1 is connected to the SATA 2 controller on Motherboard. It has 1 primary partition with documents on it. I have a Boot directory on both drive c: and drive d: BCDedit shows: Windows Boot Manager -------------------- identifier {bootmgr} device partition=D: default {current} displayorder {current} timeout 30 Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {current} device partition=C: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate osdevice partition=C: systemroot \Windows I have tried everything I can think of to change the Boot Manager device to partition=C: to no avail. I have successfully deleted everything from d:\boot except BCD and BCD.LOG. I have taken ownership of both files, but when I try to delete them, even from an elevated Command Prompt, I get "Action cannot be completed because file is open in another program." Any advice or suggestions, please? -- ______________________________ Walter B walterb[at]tampabay[dot]rr[dot]com ______________________________ "Jimmy Brush" wrote in message ... Hello, Please try the following: 1) open admin command prompt - Click start - Type: cmd - right-click it under programs - click Run As Administrator 2) take ownership of everything (will take a while) In the command prompt: change to the drive your old Vista install is on, e.g. d:\ cd windows takeown /F . /A /R /D Y NUL 3) grant yourself permission to everything In the command prompt: icacls . /grant:r AdministratorsF) /T /L /Q 4) Delete everything - Make sure you close any explorer or command windows that are looking at or inside windows (except the cmd window you are using). If you don't, you will receive an error while performing this step. In the command prompt: cd .. rmdir /S /Q windows That should do it -- - JB Windows Vista Support Faq http://www.jimmah.com/vista/ |
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Can not delete old vista installation on other partion
All but one, and I don't know how to change them. See clip:
-- ______________________________ Walter B walterb[at]tampabay[dot]rr[dot]com ______________________________ "Jimmy Brush" wrote in message ... Hello, If you go into computer management - disk management, which partition is listed as active? - JB |
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Can not delete old vista installation on other partion
I think I fixed it! I disconnected the d: drive and ran repair from the
Vista DVD. Machine booted fine, no errors. I then reconnected the d: drive, and deleted the boot directory and the bootmngr file. Rebooted with no problems. Disk management now still shows the d: and x: drives as Active, Primary, but happily, the c: drive now shows as System. -- Walter B walterb[at]tampabay[dot]rr[dot]com "Walter Blanchard" Walter am wrote in message ... All but one, and I don't know how to change them. See clip: -- ______________________________ Walter B walterb[at]tampabay[dot]rr[dot]com ______________________________ "Jimmy Brush" wrote in message ... Hello, If you go into computer management - disk management, which partition is listed as active? - JB |
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Can not delete old vista installation on other partion
Good solution
I was having trouble finding detailed information on how booting works in Vista. You'd thing the bcdedit tool would allow you to change which store was loaded during boot. - JB |
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