To uninstall windows?

[jsmith]

My hard drive has 3 partitions, C, E and F.
C has XP. E and F have non working Windows 7 software.

I want to delete all files and folders from E and F.

Until today was presented with three options at booting...W7, W7 or an
earlier windows version XP.
At least that has been sorted today.....used original XP disc/recovery
console/fixboot..now when booting
just loads XP as required...so that's ok.

I did try fixmbr also but whimped out as in unfamiliar territory when
getting the warning...:-
This computer appears to have a non-standard or invalid master boot record.

FIXMBR may damage your partition tables if you proceed

This could cause all the partitions on the current hard disk to be come
inaccessible.

If you are not having problems accessing your drive do not continue!


Further info...when running msconfig/boot.ini

I note there's 4 added lines at the top;-

;

;Warning:Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems,

;Warning:Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options,

;

...then proceeds as usual with

[boot loader]

timeout=30

etc


When I try to delete the W7 files and folders from E and F..get the
note....Cannot delete ***.**..access denied either write protected or in
use...

Just wondered if the original advice still holds?...am a bit wary to get
down and dirty with stuff I know not much about
Any advice appreciated.

========================

 

[Dave-UK]

My hard drive has 3 partitions, C, E and F.
C has XP. E and F have non working Windows 7 software.

I want to delete all files and folders from E and F.

Until today was presented with three options at booting...W7, W7 or an
earlier windows version XP.
At least that has been sorted today.....used original XP disc/recovery
console/fixboot..now when booting
just loads XP as required...so that's ok.

I did try fixmbr also but whimped out as in unfamiliar territory when
getting the warning...:-
This computer appears to have a non-standard or invalid master boot record.

FIXMBR may damage your partition tables if you proceed

This could cause all the partitions on the current hard disk to be come
inaccessible.

If you are not having problems accessing your drive do not continue!


Further info...when running msconfig/boot.ini

I note there's 4 added lines at the top;-

;

;Warning:Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems,

;Warning:Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options,

;

..then proceeds as usual with

[boot loader]

timeout=30

etc


When I try to delete the W7 files and folders from E and F..get the
note....Cannot delete ***.**..access denied either write protected or in
use...

Just wondered if the original advice still holds?...am a bit wary to get
down and dirty with stuff I know not much about
Any advice appreciated.

========================

You can edit the boot loader with EasyBCD and remove the Win7 entry:
http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

Instead of deleting the files can you format E and F ?
That should delete everything.

 

[jsmith]

My hard drive has 3 partitions, C, E and F.
C has XP. E and F have non working Windows 7 software.

I want to delete all files and folders from E and F.

Until today was presented with three options at booting...W7, W7 or an
earlier windows version XP.
At least that has been sorted today.....used original XP disc/recovery
console/fixboot..now when booting
just loads XP as required...so that's ok.

I did try fixmbr also but whimped out as in unfamiliar territory when
getting the warning...:-
This computer appears to have a non-standard or invalid master boot
record.

FIXMBR may damage your partition tables if you proceed

This could cause all the partitions on the current hard disk to be come
inaccessible.

If you are not having problems accessing your drive do not continue!


Further info...when running msconfig/boot.ini

I note there's 4 added lines at the top;-

;

;Warning:Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems,

;Warning:Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options,

;

..then proceeds as usual with

[boot loader]

timeout=30

etc


When I try to delete the W7 files and folders from E and F..get the
note....Cannot delete ***.**..access denied either write protected or in
use...

Just wondered if the original advice still holds?...am a bit wary to get
down and dirty with stuff I know not much about
Any advice appreciated.

========================

You can edit the boot loader with EasyBCD and remove the Win7 entry:
http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

===============

Instead of deleting the files can you format E and F ?
That should delete everything.

==============================================
No, tried that... wouldn't have it said files either protected or being used
etc,,,

...however have since discovered a program called diskpart within windows XP
and with that was able to delete and unformat partitions E and F - so that's
great...

.....However still have the ...

in msconfig/boot.ini.
Its not causing any problems as far as I can tell...
....but could it cause a problem I wonder?
....but if I wish to sort this one what's the best (safe!) way do you reckon
to tidy up the boot.ini?
Thanks.
==============

 

[Dave-UK]

..however have since discovered a program called diskpart within windows XP
and with that was able to delete and unformat partitions E and F - so that's
great...

....However still have the ...


in msconfig/boot.ini.
Its not causing any problems as far as I can tell...
...but could it cause a problem I wonder?
...but if I wish to sort this one what's the best (safe!) way do you reckon
to tidy up the boot.ini?
Thanks.
==============

As the entries are preceded by a semi-colon they are just remarks not commands.
Leave them alone if you are unsure.

 

[Peter Foldes]

....but if I wish to sort this one what's the best (safe!) way do you reckon

to tidy up the boot.ini?

Just delete the unwanted lines in boot.ini . Open boot.ini in Notepad and delete the
unwanted entries. Save and close
--
Peter

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[Seth]

....However still have the ...


in msconfig/boot.ini.
Its not causing any problems as far as I can tell...
...but could it cause a problem I wonder?
...but if I wish to sort this one what's the best (safe!) way do you
reckon
to tidy up the boot.ini?

Anything in that file that starts with a semicolon ";" is a comment. Also
known as a remark. They are just there for documenting the contents and
commands (like how a programmer would/should have lines that start with the
"remark" command followed by documentation describing what's going on).

You can delete those, or edit the lines to say whatever you want. When the
code is parsed, those lines are completely ignored.

 

[jsmith]

Anything in that file that starts with a semicolon ";" is a comment. Also
known as a remark. They are just there for documenting the contents and
commands (like how a programmer would/should have lines that start with
the "remark" command followed by documentation describing what's going
on).

You can delete those, or edit the lines to say whatever you want. When
the code is parsed, those lines are completely ignored.

================
OK, cheers, TVM

 

[Roy Smith]

My hard drive has 3 partitions, C, E and F.
C has XP. E and F have non working Windows 7 software.

I want to delete all files and folders from E and F.

Until today was presented with three options at booting...W7, W7 or an
earlier windows version XP.
At least that has been sorted today.....used original XP disc/recovery
console/fixboot..now when booting
just loads XP as required...so that's ok.

I did try fixmbr also but whimped out as in unfamiliar territory when
getting the warning...:-
This computer appears to have a non-standard or invalid master boot
record.

FIXMBR may damage your partition tables if you proceed

This could cause all the partitions on the current hard disk to be come
inaccessible.

If you are not having problems accessing your drive do not continue!


Further info...when running msconfig/boot.ini

I note there's 4 added lines at the top;-

;

;Warning:Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems,

;Warning:Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options,

;

..then proceeds as usual with

[boot loader]

timeout=30

etc


When I try to delete the W7 files and folders from E and F..get the
note....Cannot delete ***.**..access denied either write protected or in
use...

Just wondered if the original advice still holds?...am a bit wary to get
down and dirty with stuff I know not much about
Any advice appreciated.

========================
You can edit the boot loader with EasyBCD and remove the Win7 entry:
http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

===============

Instead of deleting the files can you format E and F ?
That should delete everything.

==============================================
No, tried that... wouldn't have it said files either protected or being used
etc,,,

...however have since discovered a program called diskpart within windows XP
and with that was able to delete and unformat partitions E and F - so that's
great...

.....However still have the ...

in msconfig/boot.ini.
Its not causing any problems as far as I can tell...
....but could it cause a problem I wonder?
....but if I wish to sort this one what's the best (safe!) way do you reckon
to tidy up the boot.ini?

Those lines were added when you installed Windows 7 in a multi-boot
configuration. You can delete them as they really don't do anything as
they are just comments.

--

Roy Smith
Windows 7 Home Premium

Timestamp: Saturday, February 20, 2010 5:55:23 PM