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John
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      10-20-2007
Hi

I have win xp on primary sata disk. I installed vista on secondary sata disk
which took over boot from win xp on primary disk and among other things
created a boot folder with many sub folders. I have since wiped vista from
secondary disk and fixed mbr and boot records on xp primary disk. Problem is
that I am unable to delete vista boot folder on primary disk which is no
longer needed as far as I can tell. It says 'Can not delete bootmgr.exe.mui:
Access denied. Make sure disk is not full or write protected...' when I try
to delete it. How can I get rid of this folder?

Thanks

Regards


 
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Rick Rogers
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      10-20-2007
Hi,

Take ownership of it:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

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"John" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi
>
> I have win xp on primary sata disk. I installed vista on secondary sata
> disk
> which took over boot from win xp on primary disk and among other things
> created a boot folder with many sub folders. I have since wiped vista from
> secondary disk and fixed mbr and boot records on xp primary disk. Problem
> is
> that I am unable to delete vista boot folder on primary disk which is no
> longer needed as far as I can tell. It says 'Can not delete
> bootmgr.exe.mui: Access denied. Make sure disk is not full or write
> protected...' when I try to delete it. How can I get rid of this folder?
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards
>
>


 
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