Over 100GB Gone After Doing A Clean Install

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  1. Posts : 7
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    Over 100GB Gone After Doing A Clean Install


    Recently my computer has been running a bit slow, so I decided to erase everything in order to get some memory back, to see if it will help. As I wasn't exactly sure how to delete everything on my hard drive, I attempted to just reinstall Win7 again, but with a clean install. I'm pretty sure I screwed something up here... I think I might have 2 copies of Win7 on my computer now, because after I did the clean install, I have over 100GB less disk space free now. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.


    (Sorry if this is in the wrong forum)
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  2. Posts : 2,726
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
       #2

    Hiya pal :)
    Have a looky over here ... Clean Install Windows 7
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  3. Posts : 72,046
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #3

    Hello Derek,

    Could you post a screenshot of your Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) showing all of you HDD's layout? It'll help us determine if you do or not. :)
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  4. Posts : 7
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    Thread Starter
       #4

    It wasn't exactly over 100GB of memory lost, but I didn't have much on my computer, only about 10GB used and now I have about 80GB used. My disk space free used to be in the mid 90s, now it's in the 60s. This is my Disk Management...
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  5.    #5

    If you look at your Disk Mangement listings columns, it shows you're only using 10gb on C.
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  6. Posts : 7
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       #6

    I'm not sure what you mean... If I'm only using 10GB on C then why do I only have 68% of my disk space on C free?
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  7. Posts : 72,046
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #7

    Derek,

    I think that should have either been about 10GB used on D: , or 90.23GB (about 100GB) used on C: . :)

    You might look through the tutorial below to see if it may help to find out what is using up your HDD space. Are you sure you did a clean install? Check to see if you may have a C:\Windows.old folder (option 5 below).

    Hard Disk Space - Free Up and Recover
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  8. Posts : 53
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       #8

    go to your hard drive C:. do you have a folder called windows.old? if you do, its ur old windows setup. go to disk cleanup to remove it
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  9. Posts : 7
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    Thread Starter
       #9

    I checked and it appears that I do have a windows.old folder. Is there any special way to delete it, or just click and delete?

    Btw, thank you for all your help, this has been bugging me. :)
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  10. Posts : 72,046
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #10

    This can help show you how to.

    Windows.old Folder - Delete
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