I am spoiling you I upgraded this machine to Vista ages ago but the old XP I did not delete however this is fine but I don't know how to access the old XP to delete it any ideas and is it just a case of taking it off ?
Deleting a partition, if it's a boot partition, David, is not a trivial task and may end up with you re-installing Vista from scratch. Are you sure you want to go there?
I was just thinking that all the old xp is still here and thinking it would be taking up space ?
There is another task will post in the router section (there its an early Christmas gift for you ;D)
It is, but do you want to risk a re-install. Vista may provide a tool to delete a second partition, I don't know.
You can do it from within Disk Management, but it is not reversible.
Thanks, Glenn. :)
It wont harm the system though I don't think as on completion of the install I recall I was given the option whether or not to delete the old system,I played it safe and kept it but I am OK getting shot of it now.so deleting xp wont affect vista will it ?
Deleting the XP partition should have no effect on the Vista install
Is it on a different partition or has the the old XP windows directory just been renamed as ~old windows
iirr Steve its on a separate partition I have not delved but I do recall it being called old xp !
Looking I see the C disc is nearly empty HDD yet the other one is nearly full Data D
Have you a windows directory on both partitions then?
I will do a screen shot Steve to show what I can see
Will this help ?
[attachment deleted by admin]
Can you display any more detail on that D drive, David?
There is this
[attachment deleted by admin]
same again on C: need to tick the option to show hidden files and folders
will do Steve
This is it
[attachment deleted by admin]
I can't see an old XP Windows folder in either of those partitions unless of course its still a hidden folder.
I will have a delve later Steve its still there somewhere..but I want to now get windows is it 8...I just realised this machine is so good after all the work that went into it it has been stuck in the bedroom doing nothing since March......not any longer though...I feel a monitor coming aong for it soon though ;D
Quote from: badpianoplayer on Nov 29, 2009, 15:42:24
I was just thinking that all the old xp is still here and thinking it would be taking up space ?
There is another task will post in the router section (there its an early Christmas gift for you ;D)
IIRC the Disk Cleanup Tool has a clickable box to remove Windows.old. It also can remove other stuff which will free up space if you tick the required boxes.
Thanks Bob will have a look in that...(runs upstairs)
No luck there but after allowing the 31 updates to do what they do best I rebooted and was given the option of starting with Vista or xp...so the buggers there somewhere ....
Had a google and the same as you said Bob select folder.... that's the big question..which one
I am wondering when I buy Windows if it will prompt a message like delete old version ?
If you installed Vista after XP, then Vista will have overwritten the MBR with BDC anyway, so if you can find the XP folder - just delete it, then use the Vista install disk to repair the boot options to get rid of the orphaned entry. If that doesn't work, use something like BDCEdit to repair it manually.
Make a complete image backup of Vista first, then if you mess your boot up beyond repair, do a clean install of Vista then restore the backup over it. PING (http://ping.windowsdream.com/) would be ideal for achieving this.
Steve
:thnks: Steve...