[Solved]Problem removing Vista from WinXP.

[JFord]

Hello,

To make a long story short - I got two hard disks, and I've installed Vista on one of them, when I got Windows XP on the other hard disk.

Now I want to format my Windows XP hard disk and install a fresh install of Vista. But before I do so I'd like to remove the Vista that I already have

on my other hard disk.

So I looked for a guide on removing Vista on the internet. And I've used the Fixboot and Fixmbr and it worked(I got my old boot.ini back). But for the next step - removing Windows folder, Boot folder, and Bootmgr file, I can't do. Even from the Recovery Console I get an Access Denied, and also Attrib wouldn't work.

And now I can't run Vista since I used Fixboot to get my old boot.ini back.

So my question is - Is there any way to remove those folders? And will I need to re-install Vista on that drive again?

I can always format that drive but I'd like to avoid that.(I assume that it won't give me a problem formatting

Thanks in advance to all helpers,

JFord.

Edit: I've tryied disabling simple file share, and getting the ownership back with the replace owner on subcontainers and objects option, but I still get the same denied access error.

Edit2: Checked an inherit checkbox and now it works sorry for bothering

Edited January 30, 2007 by JFord