I loaded vista onto a spare hard drive but not in dual boot mode. I had to
go into bios and tell it to boot from the spare drive.

Now I cant delete the vista files from the spare drive. Access denied.

How do I remove these files?

You can't. You told Vista to boot from the spare drive. Files are in use!


"Harry Syme" <thatsme!!> wrote in message
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>I loaded vista onto a spare hard drive but not in dual boot mode. I had to
>go into bios and tell it to boot from the spare drive.
>
> Now I cant delete the vista files from the spare drive. Access denied.
>
> How do I remove these files?
>
>
>[/color]

You could format the drive. You do this from a command prompt in
Vista, but you have to launch the command prompt with admin priveleges
to do it. When you bring up the command prompt type help format
for the parameters. Mainly you will need the drive letter, I believe the
rest are easy to set interactively from format.

-- Larry Maturo

"Harry Syme" <thatsme!!> wrote in message
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>I loaded vista onto a spare hard drive but not in dual boot mode. I had to
>go into bios and tell it to boot from the spare drive.
>
> Now I cant delete the vista files from the spare drive. Access denied.
>
> How do I remove these files?
>
>
>[/color]

"Harry Syme" <thatsme!!> wrote in message
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>I loaded vista onto a spare hard drive but not in dual boot mode. I had to
>go into bios and tell it to boot from the spare drive.
>
> Now I cant delete the vista files from the spare drive. Access denied.
>
> How do I remove these files?[/color]

Have you tried deleting them from the 'non-spare' drive?