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  1. Brink
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    Ok. See if you can delete it after taking ownership of, and allowing yourself "Full Control" of it. You may need to do this in Safe Mode.
    Last edited by Brink; 17 Nov 2009 at 23:06. Reason: typo
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  3. Mike89
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    Already did that. Maybe something do do with SecuRom.
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  4. stevelew47
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    Great answer!


    Thanks for the information! This really helps totally. When I use install Windows I had to format the disc using FDisk or something like that. I even had to go back to my DOS 3.1 floppies. It has changed with Win 7. :)
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  5. Akpsp
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    Thanks for the tut! i have more space now.
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  7. Whiim
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    Thanks for the tutorial!
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  8. Aaron7pm
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    Zidane24 said:
    I might be mistakened but I believe that the Windows.old folder has no additional permissions applied to it...you should be able to just delte the folder like any other
    takes longer to do than this method
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  9. BLED
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    wow 60 gigs!
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  11. Brink
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    Wow, that is a bunch.
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  12. murphy25
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    i can beat it,just installed 7 on my daughters desktop and was getting the could not boot from disk error 5 (it needed a bios update)but instead of messing around with that installed 7 from within xp and did a custom install and was left with a windows old of 90.3 gb .
    i thought it would take ages to get rid of that lot but only took a few minutes.
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  13. coldy
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    I remember seeing this ages ago and totally for got about doing it.
    work well brink thanks for the cool tutorial
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