Solved Wish to delete "Windows old" folder

[Simon Sudbury]

Hi

I’ve recently installed Win 7 over Vista. It was a clean install as I couldn’t get the upgrade method to work. I now find I have Windows folder (9.97Gb) and a Windows Old folder (136 Gb).

Can I just delete the Windows old folder? I’m never going back to Vista so that’s not an issue here.

Many thanks

 

[Brink]

Hello Simon, and welcome to Seven Forums.

The tutorial below can help show you how to.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19151-windows-old-folder-delete.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Simon Sudbury]

Many thanks

I'm a bit nervous and curious as to why my old folder is so big in relation to the Windows folder.

 

[whs]

How big was your Vista C partition?

 

[Brink]

Simon,

As Wolfgang posted above, the C:\Windows.old folder contains a copy of your previously installed Vista.

 

[bigmck]

Hi

I’ve recently installed Win 7 over Vista. It was a clean install as I couldn’t get the upgrade method to work. I now find I have Windows folder (9.97Gb) and a Windows Old folder (136 Gb).

Can I just delete the Windows old folder? I’m never going back to Vista so that’s not an issue here.

Many thanks

You can try to delete it as you would any other file/folder. For some reason it does not always work that way. If that does not work you can go through the tutorial then.

 

[Simon Sudbury]

Many thanks

Vista partition was 197Gb.

 

[whs]

Many thanks

Vista partition was 197Gb.

There you have your answer. The freespace of the old partition is of course not in the Windows.old folder.

 

[Brink]

Glad we could help Simon.

 

[Simon Sudbury]

Apologies for late response (having building work doen on house).

Many thanks. This is much appreciated.

 

[Brink]

No problem Simon. We're just glad that you got it sorted.