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removing old windows
Before I reinstalled windows in another partition and hd, i moved
windows to another hd in the event I wanted something that I had forgotten. Now, I want to remove that window, but it denies me...why and how can I get rid of the old windows? |
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removing old windows
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... Before I reinstalled windows in another partition and hd, i moved windows to another hd in the event I wanted something that I had forgotten. Now, I want to remove that window, but it denies me...why and how can I get rid of the old windows? Windows will not allow you to delete any file that is currently loaded: this may be your problem; or it may be that your old folder D:/Windows is still marked "System," this protected by the OS; or it may be a hint that, despite installation to new C:/Windows, your Registry still calls one or more files in D:/Windows You can check for this possibility by searching the Registry for calls to D:/Windows instead of C:/Windows. When you are sure you need nothing in D:/Windows you can DELete it in a DOS box. DOS commands are not inhibited like those of Windows. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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removing old windows
That should not be happening--I am thinking that the original install of
Windows might still be your active system. Do some more investigating before deleting anything. What happens if you unplug the ribbon cable from the hard drive with the supposedly old Windows on it--will the system still boot? -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "TonyB" wrote in message ... Before I reinstalled windows in another partition and hd, i moved windows to another hd in the event I wanted something that I had forgotten. Now, I want to remove that window, but it denies me...why and how can I get rid of the old windows? |
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removing old windows
Don Phillipson wrote:
"TonyB" wrote in message ... Before I reinstalled windows in another partition and hd, i moved windows to another hd in the event I wanted something that I had forgotten. Now, I want to remove that window, but it denies me...why and how can I get rid of the old windows? Windows will not allow you to delete any file that is currently loaded: this may be your problem; or it may be that your old folder D:/Windows is still marked "System," this protected by the OS; or it may be a hint that, despite installation to new C:/Windows, your Registry still calls one or more files in D:/Windows You can check for this possibility by searching the Registry for calls to D:/Windows instead of C:/Windows. When you are sure you need nothing in D:/Windows you can DELete it in a DOS box. DOS commands are not inhibited like those of Windows. Well, I went into dos and found that my windows that I want to delete is now shown in a different partition drive. Why do the drives change? In windows exploerer it is shown in the D drive and in dos it is shown in the F drive...whew..I almost deleted the wrong window. |
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