Here's the story, I shutdown the computer, and as soon as I almost get back into Windows XP home edition I get a blue screen error related to a registry file. I call Microsoft and I ended up doing a clean install over my existing copy of Windows XP. The tech guy I talked to on the phone told me to put the new install of XP in a folder on my drive called WINXP. I followed his instructions, and I finally got XP back up and running. Today I tried to remove the old install of XP and I was unable to because of read only protection on the Windows folder. The read only protection cannot be removed. My question is how can I remove the old copy of XP from my hard drive?

Any help is appreciated,

Mike