Quick Windows 7 Question?

antijoke · 26 Apr 2009 at 20:09

I have just installed Windows 7, question is can I delete the windows.old directory the install has created? I have all the files from my previous install backed up so nothing to worry about there.

theheyes · 26 Apr 2009 at 20:35

Yeah if your files are backed up just nuke it.

Skeeter · 27 Apr 2009 at 00:31

Having a Windows.old directory suggests you installed a fresh copy of windows onto a drive that already had some form of windows on it without formatting? Ive never really had an install like this work properly, so id just reformat and start again doing it properly if you dont need anything thats in the folder.

NightSt@lk3r · 27 Apr 2009 at 01:12

Skeeter said:
Having a Windows.old directory suggests you installed a fresh copy of windows onto a drive that already had some form of windows on it without formatting? Ive never really had an install like this work properly, so id just reformat and start again doing it properly if you dont need anything thats in the folder.

I had a windows.old created even though i installed onto a fresh partition.

antijoke · 27 Apr 2009 at 09:06

Windows 7 wouldn't give me a format option, so I just went with the bottom install option.

I was hoping to put it on a reformatted disk but alas.