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Cannot delete windows.old (Even with diskcleanup or cmd.exe)
I was stupid and manually tried to delete windows.old. Didn't work. So then I decided to see how to properly do it. Well apparently by manually trying to delete the files, when I tried to use diskcleanup and look for the "Previous Windows Installation" check box does not show up anywhere. I assume its because I'm an idiot and tried to delete windows.old myself manually. Hmph!!! After all that I tried doing the cmd.exe method. It ran but all files said, "Access Denied". So am I completely screwed? Do I need to completely reinstall windows now to fix this or is there some way to do this still? It takes up about 27 gigs of space so I would really like to free that up. Thank you for any advice.