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Old April 26th, 2008, 05:40 PM   #1 (permalink)
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fresh install of windows problem

I have installed a fresh copy of windows on my laptop,but most of the hard drive is being hogged by earlier installations that haven't been wiped by the new install.I can't access these programmes to delete them,any ideas anyone.
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Old April 26th, 2008, 06:20 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Reformat and do it properly. If it's a fresh install then this should be a piece of cake.
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Old April 27th, 2008, 03:33 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Reformat and do it properly. If it's a fresh install then this should be a piece of cake.
Is there any way of just formatting the remaining part of the hard drive or is there a way of just finding and deleting the files.
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Old April 27th, 2008, 03:59 PM   #4 (permalink)
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repartition and format hard drive... Then install windows... that is the correct way. it will take you days to figure what files to delete otherwise
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Old April 27th, 2008, 05:07 PM   #5 (permalink)
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repartition and format hard drive... Then install windows... that is the correct way. it will take you days to figure what files to delete otherwise
how do you repartition.
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Old April 27th, 2008, 09:46 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Usually you can get software and burn it to disk from the hard drive manufacturer that will format and partition for you. I know Max Blast works great for a Maxtor hard drive.
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Old April 28th, 2008, 06:45 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Proceed to install Windows the same way as you just did, but when it asks you for partition to install it on, delete all the partitions that are there, then create a new one, format and install. sorted
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Old April 28th, 2008, 02:54 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Thanks for the help all
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Old September 22nd, 2009, 04:48 PM   #9 (permalink)
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you can also use partitionmagic
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Old September 26th, 2009, 10:17 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Did you get it sorted out? For future reference a handy thing to have is "Hiren's boot cd" has loads of tools and is bootable
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