delete folder

[Cal]

Hi group

I have XP and Vista on the same phisical hard disk,
after installing Vista, inside XP partition there is a hidden folder named
boot, do someone knows, what files or folders inside can I delete?
many thanks in advance, Carlos.

 

[Rock]

Hi group

I have XP and Vista on the same phisical hard disk,
after installing Vista, inside XP partition there is a hidden folder named
boot, do someone knows, what files or folders inside can I delete?
many thanks in advance, Carlos.

Why would you want to delete anything there? It's used for the dual boot.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Carlos,

None of them, nor should you try to. While Vista is on its own partition,
the XP volume is the active one and contains the boot files necessary to
load either operating system in the \Boot folder. Regardless of where Vista
is installed (the boot volume), the \Boot folder is created on the volume
designated as being active (known as the system volume - seems backwards but
that's what it is).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Cal]

Hi Rock, i used to delete all unnecesary folders and files. Now several of
them seemed to be dependent on language porposes only. Carlos.

 

[Rock]

Hi Rock, i used to delete all unnecesary folders and files. Now several of
them seemed to be dependent on language porposes only. Carlos.

"Rock" escribió en el mensaje

That is not an unnecessary folder if you are dual booting XP and Vista.

 

[Cal]

"That is not an unnecessary folder if you are dual booting XP and Vista."

you'r exagerating, i said folders or files inside, not the complete boot
folder., Carlos.

 

[Rock]

"That is not an unnecessary folder if you are dual booting XP and Vista."

you'r exagerating, i said folders or files inside, not the complete boot
folder., Carlos.

Exaggerating - how so? Go ahead delete the files then.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Cal.

That hidden \Boot folder is always in the "System Partition" - the one that
actually starts the boot-up process when the computer is powered on. The
contents of that folder are a part of the Boot Configuration Data (BCD)
system that actually loads Vista (and WinXP, if you are dual-booting). That
folder is protected, so it won't be easy to delete from inside Vista, and,
if you do manage to delete it, you probably will not be able to boot Vista
again without repairing or re-installing it. That folder is usually not
large, anyhow.

Google turned up over 1,000 hits on "bcd +'boot folder'". The first one is
from computerworld.com and will tell you more than you might want to know
about that folder. ;-}
http://www.computerworld.com/action...wArticleBasic&articleId=9004916&pageNumber=17

If you need more info, please post back. We might need to know more about
your computer, such as how many hard drives and how they are partitioned,
and which OS is on which partition or volume. And not just by "drive
letters'; WinXP and Vista often disagree on which one is Drive C:.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)

 

[Jonathan M. \TacticalSniper\ Boyko]

Um, I'm not an expert here, but if it's called "Boot" I'd say don't touch it
as to not accidentally screw up your entire PC.

--

«Kono kuni wa mada, honto no hero wo shiranai»

TacticalSniper
http://tacticalsniper.blogspot.com/

 

[Cal]

Hi and thanks for all your answers,

Inside the boot folder, there are folders that have the name of some
language, inside each of those folders, there is a file of *.mui type,
wich remembered me the mui package to change idiom of xp, so I
supposed that probably i can delete folders of other languages i shall never
use, like japanese, etc. Naturally, i cant delete the complete boot folder,
for example, there is a very important file there used to test physical
memory.

Well, i like to try to delete all unused files and folders, so i posted.

Now i plan to delete only one folder of some extrange language, if my
machine dont boot, i think i shall have boot from Vista dvd, and to go
through basic repair options included there, because there is an option to
repair start problems. But i started from XP and i couldnt to delete any
folder inside boot folder.
It is interesting too, if i can place the file memtest.exe on another
device, like cd-rom, etc.
thanks very much in advance, Carlos.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Carlos.

Are you the Administrator? And logged on as such?

I have no trouble browsing to the D:\Boot folder and deleting either the
ja-JP folder or the bootmgr.exe.mui file (the only file) inside that folder.
And no trouble Restoring them from the Recycle Bin. Each .mui file is only
about 50 KB, so all 24 of them on my computer add up to just 1.4 MB - not
much by today's hard drive standards.

My recommendation: If you don't know how important these files are - and
you obviously don't - then don't touch them!

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)

 

[Cal]

Hi RC White, yes, I am administrator, did you deleted them from XP or from
Vista?
mi hard drive is 40 gbs total, so useful files as a whole can be disturbing.
I repared boot systems on xp machines, first time now dealing with boot with
Vista included.
many thanks, Carlos.