Advice please: getting rid of an XP "boneyard"
Someone put xp on my computer. Unfortunately it didn't work out, so I got him to format my hard disk ©and reinstall '98, which works a treat. The problem is. . . . I now have all these Found. 000,001 etc folders and a System Volume Information folder on my second drive (d) with over 1.
Someone put xp on my computer. Unfortunately it didn't work out, so I got him to format my hard disk 
and reinstall '98, which works a treat. The problem is....I now have all these "Found.000,001" etc folders and a "System Volume Information" folder on my second drive (d) with over 1.5 gb of data. It's got stuff like .exe, .dll. and .vbs files.
My question is, if it's some sort of dump for xp after it's been uninstalled (which I suspect) is it safe to delete the whole lot?
and reinstall '98, which works a treat. The problem is....I now have all these "Found.000,001" etc folders and a "System Volume Information" folder on my second drive (d) with over 1.5 gb of data. It's got stuff like .exe, .dll. and .vbs files.My question is, if it's some sort of dump for xp after it's been uninstalled (which I suspect) is it safe to delete the whole lot?
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That sounds really strange. If you packed Win98 back on, without repartitioning, then you were running Xp with fat32. Fat32 is trouble compared to Ntfs.
Yeah, chuck that 1.5gig of junk. You can scan through it with a hex editor, but it's only there if you have critical info to recover. I'd think about repartitioning if you keep poping errors on that drive.
Yeah, chuck that 1.5gig of junk. You can scan through it with a hex editor, but it's only there if you have critical info to recover. I'd think about repartitioning if you keep poping errors on that drive.
