When I reinstall the operating system win 7 from the hard drive, after the installation is complete, the windows.old folder appears on drive C. Their space is a lot to delete but cannot be deleted, please Taimienphi.vn please guide me how to delete this folder. Thank you!
Answer:
Hi there! When reinstalling the operating system for the computer, if you do not format the drive (C drive, win installation drive), after the installation will appear a Windows.old folder, this directory contains the data of the old operating system, you can delete them if you have backed up the data before installing. However, no, you cannot delete normally (Delele or Shift + Delete) but must do it in the following ways.
Method 1: Delete the Windows.old folder using the Disk Cleanup tool available on these operating systems:
Step 1: Access My Computer, right click on drive C (win drive containing windows.old folder) select Properties
Step 2: On the Properties window, select the General Tab, and then click Disk Cleanup
Step 3: Here the program will conduct a scan shortly, you wait and then click Clean up system files
Step 4: Then the tool will scan unused files in the system. Next, you need to find and check Previous Windows installion(s) containing the previous version of Windows, i.e. the Windows.old folder. Finally click Ok.
Upon completion, you check the result by accessing C drive and will see the windows.old folder will no longer be available.
Method 2: Use the command to delete the Windows.old folder:
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Step 1: From the Start menu enter the keyword cmd, then right mouse and select Run as adminitrator
Step 2: Here you enter the command: RD / S /Q %SystemDrive%windows.old then enter.
Then you check whether the windows.old folder will be deleted from the system.
You need to do one of the above two ways to delete the folder, the Windows.old folder on drive C. Good luck!