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How to remove wrongly installed Vista from secondary HD

xuroys

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Posted July 19, 2012 at 7:15PM

I tried to reinstall Vista on my failed computer but it installed on the secondary HD instead and was very soon stopped by the Microsoft Police. I now need to remove the Vista Windows foder from the drive so I can use it safely again but it won't let me, even when I use command prompt. Advice needed, please.

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xuroys

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Posted July 19, 2012 at 7:16PM

P.S. I presently have the drive in a caddy attached by USB to my new Win7 computer.

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tullie

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Posted July 19, 2012 at 8:19PM

Cant you format the external drive?

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xuroys

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Posted July 19, 2012 at 8:36PM

I don't want to do that because the drive has a lot of stuff I don't want to lose. Just want to remove the unwanted Windows.

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tullie

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Posted July 26, 2012 at 6:22PM

How about saving your files somewhere else,then format?

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xuroys

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Posted July 27, 2012 at 5:25PM

I tried to copy the files elsewhere but windows prevented me from deleting some because I was not a "trusted" something or other. I found a solution on the Microsoft website but it was complicated !! All now sorted, thanks for the help.

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