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 Post Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:46 pm 
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on sunday me and my mate went on my computer and formatted my main harddrive so that i had XP professional on it...

but for some reason my back up harddrive i have installed has parts of XP home edition installed on it... is there anyway to remove this without formatting? as its 250gb and i cant fit it on my main as my mains a 200GB

any ideas?

and no i didnt choose to install it there..

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 Post Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:34 pm 
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Cant you just delete it from the spare drive?

You may need to change the view in Explorer to display all files & folders etc.

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 Post Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:38 pm 
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GeneralPublic=GCHQ= wrote:
Cant you just delete it from the spare drive?

You may need to change the view in Explorer to display all files & folders etc.


tried but it wont let me, says it isnt empty... and when i double click on it... it says windows is not accessible the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable

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 Post Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:59 pm 
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so any ideas? as i ran out of them a few days ago... cant delete it or anything atm...

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in explorer, right click the second drive, click tools.

Press check now, and tick all of the boxes.
When it's done, try deleting the stuff.

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