File Removal and System Recovery

Hi,

I have tried doing a system recovery to get rid of duplicate files and files I created with windows files in them. I now what to remove them all and start afresh. I have tried system recovery but it does not delete all files off my C: drive and creates a windows.old folder.

I have attached a image of what I would like below.

Anyone have any idea what I can do? The system recovery disk doesn't agree with me

Thanks!

 

I had noticed this a while back. I think its is a change introduced with Vista to reduce the risk of user files getting zapped by the recovery process.

Just re-check the Users folder in the Windows.old for any user files which you want to keep and then Delete the whole Windows.old folder. (You might need to do this as Administrator).

John

 

Thanks John.

However do how I removed the Windows.Vista folder and duplicate files as displayed in the image?

Thanks

 

First you need to be 100% sure that the current Windows installation is not using anything in the Windows.Vista and users folders (check the contents for anything with a date newer than your reinstallation). Then, right click on the folder name to bring up the menu, hold down the shift key and select delete. That should do a permanent deletion. That looks as if it will work for me, but I've given myself full administation rights and UAC is disabled (to do that you need to Start > Run > MSconfig and go to the tools tab).

John

 

Thanks,

How would I go about giving myself full admin rights also?

Vista makes it so difficult just to do a simple thing!

Thanks

 

I recall there being some Administrator option on the right click menu. I don't see it, perhaps because UAC is disabled.

John

 

Tried it and it shows when UAC is enabled couldn't deleted when run as administrator. Tried it with UAC disabled and full control under the right click menu with no luck too.

I feel like throwing this laptop out the window. I can't believe I have no control over my HD

Thanks for your help

 

I'm sure I went through something similar last year without these problems.

Lets try a workaround which avoids Microsoft. What happens if you boot from a Linux Live CD? You should be able to find those folders and zap them.

John

 

Cheers John,

I booted into Ubuntu using a disk I burnt and it was just sitting at the command prompt.

I remember in past versions of ubuntu it didn't require any sort of commands typed in. It says type help for a list of commands but that doesn't provide anything useful.

Feel like I am exhausting everything here.

Anything else I could try?

Thanks

 

Was that the latest Ubuntu (8.04)? When I tried it on my Zepto it did a very good job of detecting and configuring the hardware and left me with a desktop with petty icons. The earlier versions of Ubuntu had problems with some of the hardware.

If you were using 8.04, then I suggest you open another thread in the Windows forum since the problem is more to do with Vista than Samsung. I'm short of other suggestions, partly because I can't replicate the problem.

John

 

Solved it now. Hirens boot cd.

Also do you know if graphics cards can be added to the samsung R20?

Thanks

 

No. The GPU is not upgradeable.

You could use Clockgen to boost the CPU speed. However, a 25% CPU overclock will only boost the overall graphics performance by about 10%. 2 x 1GB RAM will also help a little, because the graphics shares the system RAM.

John