how to delete a partition

[pyromania]

hi im having some trouble with my hard drive

i had some problems in the past and i had to reinstall my OS but now the previous OS is still in the hard drive.

my OS is windows 7
the previous OS is in a file called Windows.old
and it says i have to be a administer to be able to delete it

any help is nice

 

[carnageX]

That's a folder, not a partition.

Take ownership of the folder: Take Ownership of a File or Folder

 

[pyromania]

-_- so? this is what the partition process said "any partition would be named windows.old" well not that clearly xd

 

[carnageX]

Is the Windows.old under the C: drive?

E.g. Path is: C:\Windows.old\<old files here>

 

[pyromania]

it's not working i change ownership to me but it still asking for administration permission

well it did say i am owner but it is asking me if i want to delete is doesn't know it's me who is deleting it Xd

 

[carnageX]

What is the exact message that it's giving you?

 

[pyromania]

you don't have permission to delete this object ask user:---------------- (me) and i gave my user full control of this file (which it has total of 50gb that it is taking away from my hard drive)

 

[carnageX]

Is it referencing a specific file? Try deleting individual folders, one at a time and see if that gets you anywhere.

You could also try booting in Safe Mode and try deleting.

 

[pyromania]

yes it is referring to A file probably the actual prev OS files

i guess i have to format the hard drive if i want to get rid of those files i really don't want to do that..
oh well i will have to live with it

 

[carnageX]

...you don't have to format the drive...

If it's referencing a specific file, why didn't you tell me the name when I said tell me the exact message its giving you?

Did you try deleting things in increments? Or try deleting everything but that file?