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Win7 Reinstallation Problem

chessman2

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Posted December 19, 2012 at 7:46AM

I have a Dell Laptop Studio 1555 and because of a problem with windows updates not working was eventually forced to reload windows with the supplied recovery disk.

All went well, but I accidentally installed win7 on the D drive instead of the C drive as intended twit! However, I repeated the process and this time ensured that the C drive was selected - success.

I now have a laptop that boots and stops presenting me with a choice of 2 windows 7 systems if I select the first one then it continues to boot and present me with the normal win7 screen and I have system warnings telling me that the D drive is very full.

Qstn. How can I best remove the unwanted 2nd installation of win7 on the D drive without affecting the restoration s/w so that my laptop will boot into windows as it used to?

Any help would be much appreciated.

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Jock1e

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Posted December 19, 2012 at 9:41AM

Not sure if you can remove it from msconfig.Press boot when you get on to msconfig and see if it shows both.

Now I know not a lot about it but I think you can remove the D Drive one from there.

Don't even think about it till someone says that that is Ok.

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Chronos the 2nd

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Posted December 19, 2012 at 11:27AM

Not sure what restoration s/w means. But surely you will have little else on the D drive other than Windows 7 which you have just installed? If that's the case format the D drive which will remove the installation.

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lotvic

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Posted December 19, 2012 at 11:43AM

Better have a look at D drive before you wipe it completely, as well as the unintended install of W7 it may contain the restore to factory settings image files The image file contains W7 and all the drivers and is first choice way to reload W7 onto C drive. Here's the Dell instructions

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chessman2

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Posted December 20, 2012 at 11:36AM

Many thanks for all the input from everyone. After much consideration I decided that it was too uncertain trying to remove only the unwanted files so opted to delete the contents of my D: Recovery drive.

However, the system does not want to allow me to do this and returns "Access Denied" messages. a request to format the D: is met with the response "Access denied as you do not have sufficient privileges. You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode."

I was sitting in the root of D: whilst running the windows Command Prompt utility (similar to MS DOS).

Any suggestions how I can overcome these showstoppers?

Once everything is removed I have a copy of Windows 7 from my other PC so if I ever need to load windows again I can use that as both the laptop and desktop PC are running the same version of windows.

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