removing a OS

PCDave · 4 Nov 2009 at 19:53

Hello party people!

i have 3 drives in my system one os drive one raid (two discs mirrored) and one ex os disc with a os still on it. the raid is full and it needs to be to br transferred to the ex os disc. the live os disc wont allow me to remove the ex os windows folder from the ex os disc. is there a way i can get round it?

UnworthyBean · 4 Nov 2009 at 20:03

Have you tried just formatting the drive? Or is there other stuff on it that you want to keep.

droyden · 4 Nov 2009 at 20:04

If there is nothing on the "ex os disk" then you could just try to boot from a linux live cd and format/fdisk it. You can't format it from disk management in windows?

PCDave · 4 Nov 2009 at 20:05

there is stuff i need to keep but dont have extra space to store it

UnworthyBean · 4 Nov 2009 at 20:06

In that case, Try the Command prompt way? Not sure if you can even still do this, But it normally gets rid of any folder.

PCDave · 4 Nov 2009 at 20:25

nope not even using the force command worked

im local admin on my pc to!

droyden · 4 Nov 2009 at 21:27

or make a boot floppy and copy fdisk.exe to it (www.bootdisk.com)

Nanobot · 4 Nov 2009 at 21:54

Does the old os drive show up as an active system partition under Disk Management?

JonJ678 · 5 Nov 2009 at 00:52

Load a linux live cd (say ubuntu), nuke any and all pieces of windows you feel like. Run chkdsk. Install windows on the current partition, then sort out the boot.ini file which may be confused.