Deleting Vista

[Zoom7000]

I have 2 Hard Drives in my machine. XP installed on my master and Vista on my slave. I had to reformat my master and put XP back on. I lost the ability to boot into Vista. Rather than fix the boot.ini on XP and bcdedit on Vista, I thought, I'd reclaim the space on my slave drive because I don't use Vista.

The only problem is I can't delete certain folders on the 2nd drive. I keep getting "Access is denied"

Windows
Program Files
Program Files (x86)
System Volume Information
Recylcer
$Recycle Bin

I tried using Unlocker, getting System priveledges, still no luck.

I know I could format the drive, but I have another folder that holds about 100Gb of data and I don't wanna have to start copying it all else where.

So, how can I delete these files from within XP? As far as I was aware, XP shouldn't need to care about those folders, because they belong to Vista.

So, how can I reclaim my space?

[pete]

tried taking ownership of the folders from the root of the drive?

[Zoom7000]

How can I do that in XP?

EDIT: I see, I have to turn off Simple File Sharing. I'll try that once I get home.

[juicyj]

How can I do that in XP?

EDIT: I see, I have to turn off Simple File Sharing. I'll try that once I get home.

Yeah i was going to suggest taht you trying doing that, but i guess you figured that out before i could post. Hopefully it works for you.