Cannot clean up C and D drive after installing windows vista ultimate

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jaschevy

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Topic # 29580 12-Jan-2009 16:00

Can any please help.
I install windows ultimate on my laptop, but know i cannot clean up my c drive, disk clean doesn't work it starts then flicks off. Defragment doesn't work ever.
Then i found also it is on the d drive vice versa.
I have tried everything. Can anyone please help with this.

rscole86

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Reply # 189016 12-Jan-2009 16:43

Not too sure what you mean there? Is this a clean install on a formatted drive, and you have partitioned it yourself?

Or are you installing Ultimate over another version (upgrade) with existing partitions in place?

jaschevy

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Reply # 189017 12-Jan-2009 16:50

i upgrade from windows basic to windows ulitmate and its not a clean install just installed with basic already on there.
hope this helps.

gehenna

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Reply # 189020 12-Jan-2009 16:56

I suggest reinstalling, this time doing a full clean install, removing all other versions when prompted.

jaschevy

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Reply # 189151 13-Jan-2009 10:25

Is that the only way i can fix it. No other seggestions around it.

MrAlan

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Reply # 189391 13-Jan-2009 23:30

probably best thing to do is log on to the Administrator account and try doing a disk clean-up /defrag from there, you might not have sufficient permissions as another user.

jaschevy

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Reply # 189417 14-Jan-2009 07:29

ok. i will try that. how do i log as the administrator to do that?

MrAlan

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Reply # 189617 14-Jan-2009 19:08

ctrl+alt+del at the logon screen. Enter Administrator as the username and use the password that you specified during install.