Can't remove old Windows

[Exxon]

Hey guys,

 

Allright, got this hugely annoying problem with an old version of Windows that I can't seem to get rid of.

 

I've got three partitions on my HDD: C, D, and E; where C acted as bin for everything, D for Windows, and E is "Recovery" of about 14gb (no idea what that is).

Few weeks ago, I reinstalled my Windows 7 again (on C this time around) to have a fresh install and get rid of all the sh*t on my HDD.

I didn't dare to format partition D as well, as most of the hardware drivers were on there and I don't know where to get it from through the internet.

This ended up in two Windows 7 installs being present, and I've just seemingly deleted the old one through msconfig, because I really need the space to try to upgrade to Windows 10 (really? Yes, really).

 

Somehow, I just can't delete the Windows folder of the old install, whatever the f*ck I do. Delete, Disk Cleanup (doesn't show up as an old install), there's no Windows.old, I can give myself whatever rights and it still won't let me.

There's also this folder with some sort of a backup in it with Program Data, Users and Windows in it, even though it's very useless and doesn't serve any purpose.

If I try to delete that folder, my Windows Explorer immeadiately crashes.

 

Whatever I do, I can't delete the two folders.

Can somebody please help me out? It's driving me nuts.

 

Thanks in advance,

Jesse

 

EDIT

I can't even format partition D. What the f*ck?

Edited March 16, 2020 by Exxon

[sivispacem]

Try making a bootable live USB of something like GParted (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GParted) and erasing the disk from that.

[Guest]

Fdisk should do the trick.

 

Don't worry about drivers, Windows Update tool should find them all.  If not google PC spec or use CPUZ to determine hardware.