Delete files left over after uninstalling Vista

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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!!!!!!!
 
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. :-)
 
Thanks for that Roberto :o)
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
 
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