Delete files left over after uninstalling Vista

[Guest]

Played with RC1 dual booting with XP. Had to reinstall XP and now my 2nd
partition has 5 1/2 gigs of Vista files that I can't delete no matter what I
do - it's like they're burned into the drive and I can't even shift them at
boot time. HELP!!!!!!!

 

[Roberto Baggio]

You don't have ownership of the files. Change ownership to yourself, and
then delete away.

If you can format the drive, then that will be faster.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that Roberto )
I did try and take ownership of the files by booting into safe mode and
logging on as admin (running XP home) - still wouldn't let me delete
anything, I'll try and suss that one out a liitle more as I'm not overly
confident with policies and all, so watch this space! I have the two
partitions as default set up with my machine - C & D drives, Documents &
Settings resides on D so's I don't lose everthing when I have to clean boot
on occasion, and that is where I had Vista so I'm a bit reluctant to format D
as I'll likely have to re-install XP again, ARGGGG! Is there somewhere I can
get more info on file ownership, policies, etc?
Cheers