Windows.old Folder - Delete

You're most welcome Emman, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)

Hiyya Shawn the pain is back I have tried Option one nothing in there re old and option 2 I saw only tow aprtitions so went to 3 and found what is inthe pic. The old is in C: and sorry mate but I don't know what to do next as the others are marked empty.

Hello John,

You needed to use list volume instead of list disk in diskpart to see the drive letters. :)

On a more important note though, is that how you wanted your partitions setup with those two separate unallocated spaces on your Disk 0 like that?

Normally, you would delete Disk 0 to make all of it unallocated space, then install Windows 7 to it. Afterwards, you would shrink the Windows 7 partition if you wanted to create any new partitions from it instead.

Brink said:

Hello John,

You needed to use list volume instead of list disk in diskpart to see the drive letters. :)

On a more important note though, is that how you wanted your partitions setup with those two separate unallocated spaces on your Disk 0 like that?

Normally, you would delete Disk 0 to make all of it unallocated space, then install Windows 7 to it. Afterwards, you would shrink the Windows 7 partition if you wanted to create any new partitions from it instead.

Ok Shawn I will do that - sorry mate I was trying to rush things before going to work.

I don't know how those partitions came about - I just installed not knowing that the old install would be saved So when I saw how the drive was divided up it came as a complete surprise.

I did also ask in another thread re enabling UEFI and I am not sure but because I had the original install (32bit) in IDE and non UEFI perhaps enabling UEFI and ACHI before this install has completely mucked the whole process up. I did suggest in the other thread too that it may be an idea to completely wipe / erase this drive and start from scratch, just as you have just said, because the UEFI is not working anyway.
I don't have anything of any personal use on it as the machine is my tester and I use it mainly for testing out the free apps and different hardware the like

there is no option for cleanup system files in disk cleanup... what to do ??

its showing access denied when i tried to do it from command prompt......any solution ??

Hello Max, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)

Are you logged in an administrator account? You will not be able to do this as a standard user.

Did you open an elevated command prompt? (right click -> Run as administrator)

Max,

Do you have a C:\Windows.old folder? If so, then you also may try OPTION THREE to delete it at boot.

Did you not get a UAC prompt after clicking on Run as administrator, or a elevated command prompt not open? If not, do you have UAC turned on to at least the default level?