removing operating systems

[wallace6457]

Hi all, i recently tried removing 2 installations of xp pro from my pc, as my hard drive was almost full, and these installations were surplus to requirement, i deleted them from the c drive, but after doing a restart, i noticed that there was no extra free space on the drive, there should've been around 8gb more, can anyone explain how this has happend and tell me how to recover the free space that should've been created, i even ran a disk check, but that came back clean with no errorsi am totaly at a loss, any help would be great, thanks, Bob.

[Match]

You can't do that, not the way you describe any way :)

 

at a guess you have used a disk Management tool and deleted the partitions that the copies of XP were on. so that space is now unallocated on your HDD and wont be seen by Windows. just to make sure my assumption is right can you check in Disk Management for us please

 

 

1. Log on as administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
   
2. Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK.
   
3. In the console tree, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window appears. Your disks and volumes appear in a graphical view and list view.
   

 

a screen shot would be nice ;) but what you are looking for is a black Bar and it will be labeled XXX GB Unallocated.

 

If I'm wrong on my assumption then there won't be and then a screen shot would be really nice

 

screenshots :- press prtscn, open paint, select edit, paste, crop to just relevant window, upload and post as an attachment. ;)

[wallace6457]

Hi, thanks for the quick reply, I followed your instructions, and in the disk mgmt window there is only the hdd, C, and the cd rom drives showing as present, no black bar with XXX GB unallocated, the 2 windows installations were folders in the C drive, named, windows, and windows. 0, and not partitions, i didn't see prtscn tab to show you a screenshot sorry, would be greatful for any further suggestions, thanks, Bob

[Match]

the 2 windows installations were folders in the C drive, named, windows, and windows. 0,

Sorry I don't understand this ?!?!?!?

 

To Install a windows OS you need to put it in its own partition on a Hard drive, and will have a folder called windows, so how did you end up with a windows 0? and more to the point if you have deleted Windows, and windows 0, what windows file is running windows?

 

now? have you deleted them from the recycle bin? because if they have just been moved to the recycle bin that's on your C:\ drive they will still be taking up 8 Gig of space, just in a different place.

 

before you do empty the recycle bin you may want to read this

 

How to remove a second installation of a Windows operating system from a partition

 

if you want to put them back open the recycle bin right click on them and select restore then follow the instructions in the link I posted

Edited January 20, 2010 by Match