First of all let me express my deepest apologies for this rant... I mean not to offuscate your helpful ears but just had one of those days that won't end well unless I vent a little... you'll see I am the kind of person that, once I stumble accross a painstalking problem, won't let go untill i either fix it or drive myself crazy trying to fix it i'm about to hit the crazy mark now.. if i'm lucky i'll fall asleep first and retain my sanity untill morning To make it very brief : #1 I installed Vista RC1 #2 I ran into inumberable problems that drove me nearly crazy (See this >> thread << ) Note :(In the process of trying to fix this I reinstalled vista several times and restored my XP image a few times as well, which is a good working backup of an image I made a month ago) #3 I've now decided to go back to square one and rethink my strategy. #4 I"M REALLY SORRY FOR SCREAMING BUT I CAN'T FOR THE LIFE OF ME DELETE THE BOOT FOLDER AND OTHER BCD RELATED BOOT FILES THAT WERE SOMEHOW *beep* (<-- I HOPE THIS GETS CENSORED) INSTALLED ON ALL 5 OF MY NON-SYSTEM PARTITIONS %#$%# *puff puff sigh* ... Vista is gone... it's partition... gone. My XP installation... clean... it never knew the name of Vista... yet those files are locked.. protected.. and won't go away.. and I can't stand it. I also can't FORMAT the drives they are on (because there's no way I am formatting 1 terrabyte of data to get rid of those files!!) I have tried little softwares that are made to delete locked and protected files. I've tried the one called "Unlocker" and the one called "MoveOnBoot". I've also tried deleting them from the command prompt while explorer.exe is shut down. I haven't tried WINPE yet... i'm downloading that as we speak. Dos wouldn't work since all my drives are ntfs. I've only heard of one other person having this major pita problem.. and he formatted the drive to get rid of em.. *sniff* please help if you can.. i hate vista.. really.. after this weekend.. me and vista.. we're gonna break up before we even have our first kiss it seems
