Reinstallation issue

gregrocker
I did report an error when trying to boot please read again.

addram
sorry got side tracked which happens when you work forself and someone demands your attention :-(

Vasanth MS
Thanks that's provided a solution and works although I'd prefer to delete the other boot option if possible.

AddRAM said:

It looks like 55 GB are already taken out of C: did you delete the windows.old folder yet ?

Yes moved it to another drive.

What error did you report at boot on your new install? You said you reinstalled because of errors. This should mean there is only one installation so is it erroring too? If so how are you getting into Windows?

As you'd know if you read the note to Dell Owners in Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 the Recovery partition will no longer run after doing a reinstall and not Recovery. So that partition is now dead weight, yet providing the boot for Win7. This is not optimal or desired. This is why I suggested you read the Special Note for Dell Owners and then consider doing it over to get it right.

This time unplug all other HD's, on Disk0 during install delete all partitions except the first small OEM partition, providing Dell Diagnostics will run from boot when you tap the F12 key and choose Diagnostics and then Utility Partition. These are valuable and will run after a reinstall so I would keep only the first partition if they run.

When I tried a clean reinstall to factory OEM it wouldn't work so had to use a disk. Its taken me all weekend and yesterday to reload everything which is all working ok. If no easy way to delete the old boot option I'll just leave it set as per Vasanth MS suggestion.
Thanks for your time and help.

The disk is used to Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7. Please read it so you know what it is. Are you reading or following any of the suggestions?

What appears on the Disk Mgmt Boot tab? This is where to start to remove the stray listing.