Windows and Windows.old

Morthoseth · 27 Apr 2008 at 23:50

Why do i have a Windows.old file? i've never noticed it before today.

Its 10.4gb and the windows folder is 478mb - i've changed neither, but i know 478mb is too small for windows vista... yet have no idea why the folders are seperate, they havent always been like that

Morthoseth · 27 Apr 2008 at 23:52

scratch that, apparantly windows is 23gb O_o and windows.old is 10.4

johns-andy · 27 Apr 2008 at 23:54

same here, cos when i installed vista i never formatted the harddrive proper.

mines is only 2gig. so i'v never bothered deleting it or nothing.

Morthoseth · 27 Apr 2008 at 23:55

I'm toying with the idea of deleting it, but i'm scared its going to mess things up ;p

RobH · 28 Apr 2008 at 00:02

It's the remains of you old OS when you install Vista on a hard drive that had a previous version of Windows on. You can safely delete it but you may not be able to just delete it because Windows won't let you. I think you can delete it in Safe Mode as an Administrator or in Windows from an elevated command prompt using the 'del' command.