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?

> 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...?

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" <no@thanks.no> wrote in message
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> 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?

All but one, and I don't know how to change them. See clip:

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"Jimmy Brush" <JimmyBrush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> If you go into computer management -> disk management, which partition is
> listed as active?
>
> - JB

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.

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"Walter Blanchard" <Walter B@communities.nospam> wrote in message
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> All but one, and I don't know how to change them. See clip:
>
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>
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>
> Walter B
> walterb[at]tampabay[dot]rr[dot]com
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>
>
> "Jimmy Brush" <JimmyBrush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F19C736E-87DF-4ADF-ABAB-46916FCFB415@microsoft.com...
>> Hello,
>>
>> If you go into computer management -> disk management, which partition is
>> listed as active?
>>
>> - JB
>

You would think...

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"Jimmy Brush" <JimmyBrush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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