help delete unwanted windows from hard

[wessamex]

hello brothers

i had a problem yesterday trying to merge up 2 partitions on my hdd . that method ended badly with
reboot and select proper boot device message on start up

my pc have no dvd no way to repair without coping data to usb drive .. as u have noticed the data is already locked up on my dead pc

so i downloaded a a copy on my phone and made a bootable usb from labtop . installed it but then bam blue screen . installed it again on different partition . blue screen again . after a hard time i managed to repair my original windows but have those 2 copies of windows on my other partitions

how can i get rid of those - (windows) folders i cant delete it

any help will be much appreciated

 

[Chicano]

You can simply format the partitions that have the failed copies of Windows in them.
Format them from the Disk Manager... Start button / right click on Computer / select Manage / Disk Manager / select the partition with the right mouse button / click on Format / select the format details and Apply them.

Another option is format the drives/partitions with a third party Partition Manager...

Best Free Partition Management Software
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-partition-management-software.htm

If for unknown reasons you cant format the partitions from Windows Disk Manager or a third party software, you can format them from a Live CD that includes a partition manager. You can download a Live CD ISO and burn on a CD/DVD disk or install it on USB thumb drive... most of them can be installed on USB with this program:

Universal USB Installer
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/Universal-USB-Installer.shtml#sgal_0

Top 5 Free Rescue Discs for Your Sys Admin Toolkit
http://www.gfi.com/blog/top-5-free-rescue-discs-for-your-sys-admin-toolkit/

 

[wessamex]

this is easy. you can just boot your computer to safe mode and then you can delete those unwanted folders there. or you can create a bootable media with a desktop and boot the bootable media to delete them. I think if you had used this software to ceate bootale media, you would never have had a hard time managing to repair your original windows. more information: http://www.aomeitech.com/pe-builder.html

safe mode didn't help it says u (need permission to delete ) as always .. change security didn't help either . i used Power iso
to create bootable usb its the best program .. i had hard time cause the copy that i downloaded was crappy and caused bluescreen at startup . i just wanted it to be able to copy my repair files to usb as i dont own DVD .. thanks for your help

 

[wessamex]

You can simply format the partitions that have the failed copies of Windows in them.
Format them from the Disk Manager... Start button / right click on Computer / select Manage / Disk Manager / select the partition with the right mouse button / click on Format / select the format details and Apply them.

Another option is format the drives/partitions with a third party Partition Manager...

Best Free Partition Management Software
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-partition-management-software.htm

If for unknown reasons you cant format the partitions from Windows Disk Manager or a third party software, you can format them from a Live CD that includes a partition manager. You can download a Live CD ISO and burn on a CD/DVD disk or install it on USB thumb drive... most of them can be installed on USB with this program:

Universal USB Installer
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/Universal-USB-Installer.shtml#sgal_0

Top 5 Free Rescue Discs for Your Sys Admin Toolkit
http://www.gfi.com/blog/top-5-free-rescue-discs-for-your-sys-admin-toolkit/

thank you so much that worked with one of my partitions ( D ). format complete . other 1 ( partition f ) can't format it .. i think my original windows uses this one to boot . i can delete it and format by your ways but i will need to repair my windows again .. i think i will ignore it then .. as i have plenty of space and managed to prevent it from showing at start up . i think there is no way to remove the files without format . thanks again for your perfect comment

 

[Chicano]

Yeah, partition F is probably a system partition... but the boot partition should be from 100MB to 300MB and the recovery partition should only hold the DVD contents, I've seen it from 12GB to 20+GB so at 97GB partition F is to large for either boot or recovery so something isn't right, and you may have to investigate it's contents further to know exactly what purpose it serves.. and depending on what you find, you may at least be able to liberate some of it's space with a third party partition manager. The Windows Disk Manager shold also help but with third party partition managers you have better control so that would be my choice.