Deleting Xp Partition?
Jan 30, 2009I'm seeking to reinstall XP on the corrupted partition / delete the XP partition, repartition the drive again, and then reinstall XP.
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Deleting XP Partition
Nov 7, 2008i want to delete my Windows XP Pro partition on my HDD as i am running out of space, when i goto disk management in admin tools it doesn't give me the option to delete as it is non-clickable, i also want to merge the XP partition once i've deleted it. My OS is Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit,
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Aug 14, 2009I have a Toshiba Satellite P105 than runs on Vista Home Premium 32bit.
I bought the computer used, so it already came partitioned, and without any CDs.
I'm fairly competent in my computer skills; I just need someone to tell me how to remove the partition(which is a (D:) drive) and reboot my pc without a CD.
Disk Management: Remove The Recovery Partition And Then Extend The C: Partition
Oct 5, 2009I recently acquired a Dell Studio XPS 435 desktop with Vista Ultimate as the OS. My plan is to upgrade to Windows 7 in the next couple of months or so. Therefore I won't need the Vista recovery partition on the hard drive. I am trying to eliminate it and add to the C: drive partition. Looking at my drive 0 in disk management I have from Right to left a C: partition 683Gb NTFS with the usual Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition). Directly to the left is the Recovery or D: drive which is 15Gb NTFS marked Healthy (Primary Partition) and finally to the left is the last partition of 71Mb marked Healthy (EISA Configuration). No idea what that is. Right clicking in the Recovery partition gives several options including: format, shrink volume, extend volume, delete volume, mark volume as active, change drive letter and paths, as well as help.
My question is how to remove the recovery partition and then extend the C: partition. My first thought is to format the recovery partition, delete the volume and then right click the C: drive partition and extend it but I really need some advice so I don't screw up the whole disk. For instance I have no idea what if anything hapens to the drive letters.I think maybe what I am calling partitions are really volumes so you can see I am over my head here.
EASEUS Partition Master Or Partition Magic?
Mar 16, 2009i want to extend my system partition on Vista, and my friend Bob told me to use EASEUS Partition Master or Partition Magic, but i dont know which one to choose?
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Feb 6, 2009Well for some reason when i wiped my HD clean and tried reinstalling vista home premium i couldnt make a partition until i lowered it to 250 gig. even though when i got it there was 650 gig. So now ive got 400 gig of unallocated space i want to addon to this partition. how would i do that WITHOUT UN installing vista and LOSING my data
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Jan 14, 2009I think I messed up my hard drive while trying to erase the EISA partition on it. It's a Gateway P7811-FX laptop with a single 200 GB hard drive. Before, I only had 1 main partition: the C: Drive (176.31 GB), along with the hidden 10 GB EISA partition. After making recovery disks, I followed this tutorial: Delete and Remove to Unlock EISA Hidden Recovery or Diagnostic Partition in Vista » My Digital Life
Following that, I went in Disk Management. The hidden partition showed up, but I couldn't extend the C drive to use the unallocated 10 GB, so I converted it to a simple 10 GB volume. Then I used Acronis Disk Director Suite and merged the two partitions. And now, I can't do anything in Disk Management. There's only one partition now (186.31 GB), but when I right click on it, there's no options to create, shrink, delete, or extend the partition. They were there before, but the only option that shows up is Help.
Under Status, it says Healthy (Active, EISA Configuration). I think I merged the partitions the wrong way, so now there's no "System, Boot, Page File..." partition. Everything is on the EISA partition. When I try to run Acronis, the program doesn't load up. I've tried using Diskpart but I can't create any new partitions either.
Remove The Partition D Which Is The Recovery Partition
Jul 26, 2009I've got a Hp computer that has Vista Home Premium 64 bit on it and I want to remove the partition D which is the recovery partition. I have factory backup dvd's, made my own backup dvd's and have a True Image of the drive with both partitions, so I think I'm covered. Anyone know how to go about removing the complete partition?
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Feb 17, 2009I don't know if this is the place to post this thread so excuse me if this is the wrong group, I saw none that really applied. I'm running Vista SP1 64bit.
I'm looking for a Free Partition program to partition my external hard drive into at least 2 partitions. Does anyone know of such a program that's straight forward without all the bells and whistles? Also, would I set the partitions as Logical or Primary? Currently the drive is a Primary but if I partition it into 2 partitions what should they be?
Partition Tool: Not Shrink Partition
Mar 13, 2009My C: drive is 1Tb in size (931.43Gb), with Used Space of 73.8Gb and Free Space of 857.65Gb. I want to shrink the C: partition down to 200Gb, and use this just for my OS and App files - I'm running Vista Ultimate 64 bit. This would then leave me with a new partition of c. 750Gb for my data files and documents etc. However, Vista will only offer to shrink the C: partition by around 260Gb as a maximum. It will not allow me to select a larger size than this. I've tried turning off System Restore / Shadow Copies, but this makes no difference. Any ideas why this should be, and what can I do? p.s. I've tried using Acronis Disk Director as well, but whilst I can select a new C: partition size of 200Gb, when the system reboots, nothing has changed, so ADD won't work either.
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Mar 26, 2008I've got a really weird scenario: I've installed Vista on one of my partitions, after a few days it got corrupted, so i've installed another version on a different partition (different disk as well). I've since deleted the first vista installation. Now vista works perfectly on my other partition, no problems. However, when looking at the disk management I can see that the old vista partition's status is:" Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)" whereas my working vista partition is: "Healthy (Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)" My vista partition is not a system partition. This causes some problems, as I can't format the old vista partition. Trying to disable the disk at startup and booting with the Vista DVD doesn't help (it recognizes some problem but when rebooting, nothing happens, no loading of anything).Is there a way to assign the 'System' attribute to another partition and/or to remove the 'System' attribute from a partition?
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Sep 25, 2009I am getting Access denied message when I am tried to
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when I googled it i got one software called unlocker and i tried with
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Deleting Cookies
Jan 25, 2010I want to delete some unwanted cookies. The path I am taking is:-
C:usermynameAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowscookies
This is where I am hitting a wall. I know this is the correct path, but when I get to "Windows", I can't see the cookies file.
I have clicked the view hidden files tab, under folder options but still no luck.
Deleting Files
Dec 3, 2009How can I be certain that a few files that I want permanently deleted cannot be recovered by someone at a later date. I am using Windows Vista Home Premium and I recently did a full hard disc recovery, reinstalling all the applications of Microsoft Office. However, I read somewhere yesterday that some files may still be recoverable by knowledgeable searchers. I had some files that I never want to see again and I do not want anyone else to see them either.
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Mar 23, 2008Just as earlier post says...I too have, in just the past 2 days, begun to have something wacky going on with my Windows Mail. When I open, it receives and posts mesages in the appropriate folders so it is downloading the mesages and the count of how many in each folder. BUT, then the problems start...Sometimes, if I open the email and read it, then move to another folder with mail it deletes the emails just read in the first folder. Other times, it will delete the mail in one particular folder just as I click to open it and read them. I have already gone through and checked View---> Current View---Show All.
I have also watched carefully at the top right corner of my email and each of the 3 folders is marked "Show all Mesages". Nothing is marked to be "Hidden". I have also checked and re-checked the three message rules. The deleted mails are nowhere else to be found. It's now to the point where I may not even get to read them once deposited in the folder of my mailbox. One folder in particular is having the most problems.
Deleting Problem
Mar 20, 2009ive been trying to delete some large files for a long time, but everytime I do an error comes up saying "you need permission to perform this action" and that the destination folder access was denied. Any ideas on how to solve this?
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Sep 27, 2009Can anybody assist me with deleting contacts - I have attempted to delete from the contacts in windows mail but the message windows explorer has stoped working appears and then closes the file down. I have also tried through the explorer but the same message appears.
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Nov 17, 2009I published a application i made with vb2005 express edition, zipped it up with winzip and emailed to my friend who is using vista x64. Whilst doing the extraction process vista is deleting the setup.exe but not the other files in the zipped file. I have successfully done this on at least 5 other vista machine and have not had this issue before. He is logged in on the only account according to him which is the admin account. How can we overcome this security flaw?
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Nov 30, 2008A copy of my picture folder ended up in my music folder. When i tried to move it i got all screwed up. The folders are now empty. I want to delete the one on the desktop with out loosing the original.
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Mar 23, 2008I am hoping to find an automated method for deleting the Vista Search Folders. I tried command line scripts to remove the folder (RMDIR or DELTREE), but I'm not having any luck with the search folders. I am able to delete other folders with a script (like this one): Del C:Myfolder*.*.* RMDir C:Myfolder But I cannot delete a Vista Search
Folders like this folder; C:UsersmynameSearchesEverywhere I can delete them manually, but not with a script.
Deleting Program Files
Mar 14, 2009I recently had to reformat my computer, but saved basically all of my old computer in the folder windows.old before doing so. Now that I wiped my drive and reinstalled vista, I want to get rid of that windows.old folder because it is huge and I don't use it anymore, but I can't get clearance to delete or move it to an external hard drive.
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Apr 12, 2008I just reinstalled my OS. To get a clean start.
And there are some 'things' I would like to do away with.
Starting with this file. But I am uncertain if deleting it will cause me problems and I should leave it alone.
Deleting Old Update Backups
May 9, 2008I read an article about deleting old Update Backups in XP. The article showed where they were stored. Where are the old Vista Update Backup folders stored? I understand from the article that they take up considerable hard drive space. I don't intend on deleting the most recent but are there any others that should not be deleted?
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Apr 15, 2010I recently deleted some 2,000+ files from my WindowsTemp folder. I remember - back in my Windows 2000 days - I set up a batch file that executed on boot-up from the Start-up folder that deleted such files. What would the equivalent procedure be for Vista Home Premium (64-bit)? Am I able to duplicate that former procedure? Are there other temp files that are created that I should be aware of for deleting purposes?
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Apr 1, 2008How do I delete a desktop icon. Windows says that it can not find the file and will not delete it. I removed the program the way I should but it left the shortcut on the desktop and will not let me delete or move it. I've tried to change the properties , added sharing, and everything I can think of to remove the shortcut with no luck.
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Feb 1, 2010I recently backed up my files to the Recovery D drive (Back up and Restore center). It failed as I did not have enough memory to complete the op. I've since uninstalled programs that I do not normall use, but still only have 20MB free out of the 10GB drive. I'm trying to go into the user files to delete folders which contain pictures that I want to delete to free up room. BUt when I click on the folder and try to delete it, I get an error message indicating that I do not have enough memory to complete the operation. So how do I delete these folders (that contain a ton of pics)?
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May 15, 2010I am trying to delete unused documents from Microsoft Word 2007. Everyone says to open word, click on the upper left button, right click on the file I want to delete and click delete. Right click just gives me a menu about "customized ribbons or something" No Delete in there. If I click on the button to "open", it gives me another list of Docs., but the one I want is not in there. I have tried going to "Computer", User, Docs, but it is not in there either.
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Jun 12, 2008Quite a while ago, I lost my Vista installation due to some errant = program and the lousy installation/removal program it had. As per Microsoft's advice, I recovered all I could off some backups and = stuck that in a directory called "Windows.old". It's a few years later now and Vista is considerably more stable. I've = had no problem whatsoever with Vista -- knock wood! Since I don't use that directory for anything at this point, having = taken everything worthwhile out of it already, I figured now was a great = time to delete it (it's taking up about 20 GB). when I go to delete it Vista tells me that files in that directory, such = as in "Windows.old/Windows" are in use. Huh? Would it be safe for me to force a delete on that directory anyway or is = this risky?
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Nov 1, 2008I am the only user on my computer and am an administrator obviously. I am trying to delete some *.gdp files that a software did not remove when uninstalled. It says I need permission. FROM WHO? How do I rid myself of these files and is it possible for VISTA to be set so it recognizes that I am the only one on the planet actually with the permission to do anything on this stupid OS?
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Jul 31, 2008I have a couple questions that have been bothering me for the last few days.
1. Why do the file or program that I know for sure I deleted, but is still there although it is an empty file. I right clicked it>delete and it says can not be found. It won't let me delete. It doesn't take up any disk space but it bothers me that it is still there. How do I get rid of it?
2. I have many files that are empty in my appdatalocal emp location. Most of them I don't even know what they are. I never downloaded them. Quite a few of them are empty files. Can I delete them?
Deleting Some Shortcut Icons?
Feb 17, 2009I want to clean up my desktop by deleting some shortcut icons. Each of the icons contains the directional arrow in the lower left corner. However, when I "right click, delete" on any Shortcut Icon, I am prompted: Are you sure you want to move this file to the Recycle Bin? I actually deleted several programs before realizing what I was doing. :mad: The wording I was accustomed to in WinXP: Are you sure you want to remove this shortcut ...* isn't offered to me. I'm running Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP1
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