My WINDOWS folder is now named Windows2 - HELP!

vasica143 · 04-25-2009, 12:35 PM

Hi

A short time ago my XP Home crashed on me. I inserted the Fujitsu Siemens XP Recovery Disc. I tried to reinstall XP over the current 'WINDOWS' but the procedure was not as smooth as I expected. I ended up with 4 versions of Windows.
Windows
Windows0
Windows1
Windows2

When I started to install drivers etc - everything was being placed in WINDOWS2.
And everything has worked fine since.
I deleted Windows0 and Windows1 without any problems because I want to stick to Windows2.
BUT when I try to delete the folder 'Windows' i.e. the original it refuses to shift - there are no messages, it just will not go into the bin!

My two questions are;
1) Is there a way to delete the original Windows folder?
2) If there is - can I then rename Windows2 back to just
'Windows' without experiencing any problems?

Many thanks in advance

All the outgoing emails are been automatically scanned by the Norton Antivirus.

laressa · 04-25-2009, 12:36 PM

The same thing happened to me, but I have a 500GB hard-drive, so I just renamed them to keep the Boot program from demanding that I tell it which one I wanted at every power-on.

alloy · 04-25-2009, 12:37 PM

Have you tried re-naming the original Windows, then removing it? Mine is now called "XWINDOWS", but I haven't tried to remove it.

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