deleting windows vista - filesharing problems
I've been using win7 side by side with Vista for a while now and am happy enough with win7 to want to remove Vista but am having trouble with the file permissions. As Administrator, trying to set recurring object permissions on child objects in the Vista Windows folder prompts an error stating I need to provide Administrator permissions. Consequently I need to enter each folder and set permissions on each and every file individually to delete them. Please tell me there's another way to delete Vista other than going through each and every file individually to set permissions before I can delete anything. Thanks in advance.
March 24th, 2010 12:56pm

RHTizzy - Well... The obvious solution would be to simply remove the files you want to keep from the drive manually and then FORMAT the partition/drive Vista is installed on. One word of warning, however, if your booting Vista and Win 7 in a way where Vista and Win 7 are dual booting in a way where you have a menu pop up when you boot asking which OS you want, you will likely need to boot from the Windows 7 DVD and do a repair of the boot instructions. If you're booting each OS from it's own drive and are using the system's BIOS to change the boot order, then this isn't a problem as each drive will have it's own version of the boot routines on the drive itself. Either way - be sure to have a full and complete backup of EVERYTHING on BOTH partitions/drives before you go to it.
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March 24th, 2010 1:22pm

Thanks Wolfie but I obviously don't want to format the drive otherwise I wouldnt have posted the question specifically as 'Deleting Vista'. Any other idea's?
March 25th, 2010 12:32pm

If you do not want to format the drive, please log on the Windows 7 system and then enter Windows Vista partition, delete the Windows, Program files and Users folder. If permission issue is encountered, please enable the admin account: Enable built-in admin account==============1. Click Start, click "All Programs", please find and open "Accessories" folder.2. Please right-click on "Command Prompt" item and select "Run as administrator".3. Please type the following command line in to the coming window. net user administrator /active:yes Note: There is a space between "Administrator" and "/active:yes". 4. Log off and log on the Administrator account and then try to delete. You can also run the following command to delete folder: (Also run cmd as Run as administrator) RMDIR FolderDirectory /s For example, if you want to delete D:\Users folder, type RMDIR D:\USERS /S Hope it helps. Vivian Xing - MSFT
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March 26th, 2010 5:55am

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