Ok, so like half my hard drive is blocked off

**Head** · 02-08-2004, 09:26 PM

Yeah so about a year and a half ago my friend gave me a downloaded copy of Windows XP Pro, I installed it, and used it for about a year and it worked fine.

I guess Microsoft eventually found out that I had an illegal copy, because I suddenly wasn't able to open windows or internet explorer, thus making my computer pretty usless.

My computer wouldn't let me uninstall Windows XP for some reason, so I just reinstalled the copy of Windows XP Home that came with my comp.

When that was all done, I still had all of the stuff that I had on my computer from before on it, but my computer won't let me access or delete it (it was under the my computers master account, but I had to create a new one when I reinstalled Windows).

So now I just have like half my hard drive just idle, and that is pretty annoying, as I could use the space. I really don't wanna reformat, because I really don't feel like going through putting all my files that I have on my comp on CDs than copying them again to the comp. Anybody know anything that can be done that would let me access, or even just delete all the old files on my comp? Any help would be appriciated.

Thanks in advance.

02-08-2004, 09:26 PM	#1
Head Shocker Posts: 3,124	Ok, so like half my hard drive is blocked off Yeah so about a year and a half ago my friend gave me a downloaded copy of Windows XP Pro, I installed it, and used it for about a year and it worked fine. I guess Microsoft eventually found out that I had an illegal copy, because I suddenly wasn't able to open windows or internet explorer, thus making my computer pretty usless. My computer wouldn't let me uninstall Windows XP for some reason, so I just reinstalled the copy of Windows XP Home that came with my comp. When that was all done, I still had all of the stuff that I had on my computer from before on it, but my computer won't let me access or delete it (it was under the my computers master account, but I had to create a new one when I reinstalled Windows). So now I just have like half my hard drive just idle, and that is pretty annoying, as I could use the space. I really don't wanna reformat, because I really don't feel like going through putting all my files that I have on my comp on CDs than copying them again to the comp. Anybody know anything that can be done that would let me access, or even just delete all the old files on my comp? Any help would be appriciated. Thanks in advance.