djkorea Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 someone please help me. i installed vista to my second hd (drive f) and it was working fine. afterwards i upgraded to windows xp media center 05 on my first hd (drive c) from windows xp pro sp2. i tried to log onto vista and it wouldn't load. so i tried to repair, but it just sat for hours and did nothing. so i re-installed vista over the previous version of vista but it created a 5gb windows.old folder. i tried to delete it but it won't because it is read only. i am the only user on my computer and i am trying to delete it from windows xp media center 05. i tried this.... https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=376358 but no luck. when i tried to add trusted installations to the admin, it says name not found. is it suppose to be added to the member of tab? i do not know. someone please help me as this is annoying me so much. thanks. if you can email me at kandrews43@hotmail.com that would be great as i do not go on this site much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narshornsyst Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 You might consider taking the global properties for all the files , right click and untick the read-only for all of them . The you might be able to erase them :D The other thing is instead of deleting the files , reformat the drive :cry: this will delete them more surely :cool: More seriously , you altered something when you did the upgrade from xpSP2 to Media center . It's about files properties . Better reformat your vista drive from Media center NOW , and clean install of Vista from there too :yes: Regards N.A.R. PS have you tried the safe mode to delete the files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djkorea Posted October 8, 2005 Author Share Posted October 8, 2005 safe mode doesn't work. trying to remove read only under properties doesnt work either. i can reformat but would rather not. id rather use that as a last resot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Dee Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 Try taking ownership of the folder: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...;308421&sd=tech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non Stop Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 This deletes everything that have problems like that: http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ Completely free, and removes everything that is blocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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