windows.old

So, after a shortage, Windows decided that it would simply not start anymore. So I did the Refresh option it gave me because the option said that it would try to keep as much as possible (the other option was Reset which said it would do exactly that, reset everything). Now, the only thing it...

Suffered a head crash on a laptop's C: drive. Was able to recover nearly all the data using Linux tools, but the boot sector and some critical Win 7 files were damaged beyond recovery, so I have been unable to create a bootable volume using that info. I cloned the data to a new physical volume...

Okay, so I am aware that I am about to sound extremely dumb, but I am on the search for a game I played when I was a child on an older Windows system. Sadly I do not remember what OS it was (as we had a few throughout the years) and I am trying to find this game that I believe came installed on...

I have registered to another Windows forum a week or so ago. That forum is so lack of new questions that I seldom visit it. Today I decided to see what was cooking there. I came upon a thread which I wanted to reply. It was about running out of disk space in Windows8. I wanted to tell the OP...

Hi Background: I bought Windows 7 Home Edition disc but then upgraded online to Pro so I don't have a disc for Pro Edition. When I got an error message about hal.dll not working, and could neither restore to an earlier point nor get the OS to fix itself, someone in another Forum told me to...

Basically, I used Disk Cleanup utility on a windows 7 Ultimate machine to delete the Windows.old folder only to discover that it contained a critical amount of data in the 'users/JonDoe/' which was referenced to from the upgrade by a simple shortcut on the desktop. How can I recover the...

Hi, Yesterday my antivirus started popping up with a virus/trojan Trojan.Win32.Hosts2.gen. I have a few windows.old from new installs, and this thing is traveling from those installs to the current one, zonealarm treats it but then it comes back. I ran spybot hoping it was some kind of...

While attempting to set up for dual-booting with Linux, I used a free program that apparently messed up my Win7 MBR or structure of my sectors. I panicked because I couldn't see anything on the disk after that. I concluded in despair that everything was lost so I got a Win7 disk from a friend...

Hello. I don't have a hard drive large enough to backup the data on my daughter's netbook with a corrupted W7 starter install. When I attempt to re-install W7 starter, it does tell me that if it detects a previous Windows install, it will move the files over into a Windows.old folder. I'm...

Hello all, Came across this yesterday. Video on how to remove Windows.old after upgrading to Windows 8; Hope you find this useful Don

I had a dual boot on my computer which was XP and Windows 8 Beta. I put the Windows 8 upgrade on XP. Now I have two Windows 8 that I can boot into. My computer say that my C drive is my system, and Default drive. However my Windows 8 upgrade in my D drive because it has Windows old on it. Now...

Hi, I've had Windows 8 since Halloween and its been fine until I had deleted my Windows.old folder. Everything seemed fine afterwards but it was when I noticed games weren't loading at all. I tried restarting but then it had to dianose and repair but that didn't seem to work nor did reset...

Ok so my computer was getting this BSOD when I tried turning it on, so it wouldn't turn on so I reinstalled Windows 7 on my computer, and now everything looks weird. My screen resolution seems off, and appearently my GFX card isn't "good" for some programs which it was perfectly fine before...

ok... i have a toshiba qosmio G50. windows 7 ultimate 32 bit..... for weeks now i have been posting on forums for help on re installing my windows office .... in the end i was advised to do a clean install. so, this morning after backing up everything i began ..... let me just say , on my comp...

My son in his haste, installed the system disk and loaded windows again. Now I have a folder windows.old created. Can I just simply copy folders back to root drive? There is no restore points to go to ,the laptop is new. I have reloaded most of the drivers but there are some programs in the...

Hi all, I upgraded form Windows Vista 64-bit to Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. It must have not been a clean install bc i had several Windows.old folders. I deleted some of them but still have windows.old and some of windows.old.000. I want to keep windows.old, but wish to delete all of windows.old.000...

Hello all. I suppose I'd best start from the beginning, when I moved installed Windows 8 Release Preview onto the second hard drive on my build, duplicated files onto it, and left 7 on my WD drive(in case 8 didn't work out) About a week later, trouble struck. The WD drive started to make...

Hello guys, if I try to install windows and I accidently shut down the computer, what it will happen to my old windows that was installed before?

Hi. I've been having a persistent BSOD and CTD problem with my desktop PC for over a year now. It's getting to the point where it's unuseable. I upgraded frmo Vista to Windows 7 in an attempt to resolve the issue, but sadly it's still there. I then went back and upgraded again as a 'fresh...

Hey all. I just reinstalled windows 7(32bit) and my windows.old file, which doesn't contain anything in it except for empty folders, still has size to it. Does anyone know what the deal is with this? Never had this happen to me. The show hidden files/folders option is ticked and still shows...