deleting vista! How.

ChroniC · 24 Jul 2007 at 00:59

I installed the trial version

of vista months ago onto a second hard drive. It gives me duel boot options which i want to remove, and vista. However i cant delete vistas folders using the xp system, and i dont want to format as i have gigs of data i need to keep on the vista hdd.

Any help appreciated.

OspreyO · 24 Jul 2007 at 01:14

Copy your data on to an external. You should have a backup anyway?

d.chatten · 24 Jul 2007 at 01:37

ChroniC said:
I installed the trial version of vista months ago onto a second hard drive. It gives me duel boot options which i want to remove, and vista. However i cant delete vistas folders using the xp system, and i dont want to format as i have gigs of data i need to keep on the vista hdd.

Any help appreciated.

You may need to take ownership of the files and folders from within XP before you can delete them from the Vista drive, take a look at the links below.

Microsift Windows XP - To take ownership of a file or folder

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP

Hope this helps!

ChroniC · 24 Jul 2007 at 18:39

OspreyO said:
Copy your data on to an external. You should have a backup anyway?

wow thanks for the help, sorry if i cant afford to buy an external hdd.

d.chatten said:
You may need to take ownership of the files and folders from within XP before you can delete them from the Vista drive, take a look at the links below.

Microsift Windows XP - To take ownership of a file or folder

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP

Hope this helps!

thanks, oddly cant seem to find any security settings for any of my folders under properties.
I wouldnt mind so much if it didnt ask me which one i wanted to load on boot.

d.chatten · 25 Jul 2007 at 02:16

Did you read the part in the second link that i have quoted below, it may or may not help.

Note You must be logged on to the computer with an account that has administrative credentials. If you are running Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, you must start the computer in safe mode, and then log on with an account that has Administrative rights to have access to the Security tab.

If you are using Windows XP Professional, you must disable Simple File Sharing. By default, Windows XP Professional uses Simple File sharing when it is not joined to a domain.

For additional information about how to do this, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 307874 How to disable simplified sharing and set permissions on a shared folder in Windows XP

marc2003 · 25 Jul 2007 at 02:27

this may not be a permissions problem. i had a similar problem where i couldn't delete the vista folders in xp because the folder structure in vista is too deep for xp to recognise. i tried browsing the folders few levels down but it was too much for xp to handle.... :confused:

in the end i had to backup my data and format the parititon.

removing the boot menu is easy enough though. just boot from your xp cd and access the recovery console and run these 2 commands....

fixboot
fixmbr