Removing Windows 7 problem

[Tomi-Wan]

Here's my problem,
I installed the beta Windows 7 on my D drive and set up a dual boot with XP, worked fine.
Now I want to remove Windows 7 completely. I did the uninstall to remove it from the start up option but all the files are still on my D drive and I can't delete them. Every time I try I get the error "Files are in use" message.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

 

[Tmagic650]

XP is on C and Windows 7 was on D or are they both on the same drive?

 

[Tomi-Wan]

XP on C and Win 7 on D

 

[Tmagic650]

In XP, right-click on My computer, select Manage, Disk Management and look for the D drive in the list. right-click on the D drive and select format... you might have to unmount the D drive to do this

 

[Tomi-Wan]

My fault, I forgot to say that I don't want to re-format the drive because I have other directories and files on there, just want to remove the Windows 7 directory because it's huge.

 

[Tmagic650]

Move or copy the files you want to save to the C drive, format the D drive and copy the saved files back to the fresh D drive

 

[Tomi-Wan]

I don't have the room to move them, was hoping to just delete Windows 7.

 

[Tmagic650]

Can you copy them to a DVD or CD?

 

[Tomi-Wan]

I'm talking 80 gig on a 120 gig drive and win 7 is about 2 gig of wasted space.