Remove windows directory

[Tom de Neef]

On a DELL I ended up with a faulty Office application. Reinstalling didn't
work. Eventually, I reinstalled XP. I choose not to overwrite existing XP,
and ended up with two windows directories in teh same partition: windows
(the original) and windows2 (the newly installed one). I removed the dual
boot option from boot.ini. System runs fine. I copied all user data and the
old windows directory has no further purpose. Now I want to remove it. It
takes up space and time (when doing a system search). But simply Deleting it
won't work... Is this described somewhere or is there anybody with a
suggestion pls.
TIA Tom

 

[David Candy]

Why doesn't delete work?

 

[Ivan T. Williams]

Files likes that only normally allows one to delete from either Safe Mode,
or something like that. Now, having said that I personally would rip it
apart and start over. You have nothing to lose AND saves you running into
issues later...(just my opinion...)

 

[Michael Stevens]

On a DELL I ended up with a faulty Office application. Reinstalling
didn't work. Eventually, I reinstalled XP. I choose not to overwrite
existing XP, and ended up with two windows directories in teh same
partition: windows (the original) and windows2 (the newly installed
one). I removed the dual boot option from boot.ini. System runs fine.
I copied all user data and the old windows directory has no further
purpose. Now I want to remove it. It takes up space and time (when
doing a system search). But simply Deleting it won't work... Is this
described somewhere or is there anybody with a suggestion pls.
TIA Tom

Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address box.
I have two installations of Windows/Windows XP on the same partition.......
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[Tom de Neef]

I think Del may have resulted in the deletion of some files in de windows
dir, but the command returns without error or warning and the directory and
its subdirs is still there.

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Why doesn't delete work?

 

[David Candy]

What command is that? I mean I would select it in explorer and press delete. If it whinges type taking ownership in help.