windows.old

I installed RTM (x86), and did a "fresh install". When setup was done, I went to delete Windows.old and Windows.000. Windows.000 deleted OK. Windows.old ( which has /Windows and /Program Files directories in it ) won't delete. The OS keeps telling me I need "Trusted Installer" permission to...

M$ has laid down the rules..... upgrading from an activated RC to RTM will not carry your programs and settings over. Microsoft confirms Windows 7 RC upgrade rules by Link Removed due to 404 Error, posted Jul 14th 2009 at 11:23AM Link Removed due to 404 Error As October 22nd hastily...

Trying to do a back up to a portable HD 250 GB I'm told insufficent room! Looking at Windows I see files Windows Old that is 63 GB and Windows Old 000 that is 36 GB in size - can someone enlighten me on these, what they are they for? are they necessary? and can they be got rid of? :confused:

I am hoping there is some small chance here. In anticipation for installing Windows 7 on my main drive I installed my new 1TB SATA drive as secondary under XP, formatted it and moved files to it. I had no problems accessing anything so I didn't think there would be any problem when I tried the...

Hello all. I have just installed Windows 7 for the third time. And each time I have had the same problem. It runs along fine then suddenly I'll get a blank white screen and the system seem's to have frozen. It can also be blue and white stripes or white with grey lines. Is this a known bug and...

Im new to W7, installed it yesterday. As I was sick and tired of my computer and how slow it has been recently I decided to do a completely fresh install. Halfway through I realise that I didnt back up my emails in my outlook! Is there any way these can be retrieved from windows.old?

When i installed windows 7 rc on my xp machine it say it was going to save my windows system as old windows, where is that hiding and how can i delete it to free up more disc space. tks

A simple question; I backed up all my files before installing Windows 7 RC. The installation made a film called Windows old that takes up 46GB. Can this file be deleted without harm to my system?

If I put the drivers from system32 in the windows.old folder into the windows 7 drivers folder...would that help some drivers be seen properly? Can I do that? or will that cause errors?

I was on Build 7000 and had a few sticky notes on my desktop. In my haste to use Build 7100 (RC), I did a clean install of 7100 on the same partition and it put my previous installation files in a folder Windows.old. Can anyone help me with where I can find and recover my sticky notes in the...

In my C:, I have 2 folders. One is called windows and the other is windows.old. Is this normal? Do I need to keep the .old one? Please let me know. I am hoping a few different people can answer me. thx

When Windows 7 Beta expires in August, will there be a way to return to Vista? I noticed when installing the beta a folder called "Windows.old" was created. I assume this contains all the needed Vista system files. If you can't go back, what's the point of this folder?

I booted up the .iso DVD that I have and notcied that Windows 7 automatically moved itself to the D:\ drive. It will not run at all. When I press F1 to boot the hard drive, they keyboard stops working. If I delete the partition does it keep the 1st one with Windows XP or does the Windows.old...

Hi, I upgraded from XP and am having some crippling problems that I cannot deal with, so I was wondering if there is a built in restore to previous OS option? I have noticed there is a windows.old folder, with my previous installation, so can I revert to that, or do I have to reinstall XP manually?

hey guys, first of all, i'm not a computerwhiz and i had to keep my hands of this 7 beta, but i did so.... ive installed windows 7 from the official microsoft site and the install worked fine, os is running fine but all my programs, music, etc... was not being unpacked into windows 7. it came...

Hi there, I installed windows 7 on top of XP, I noticed my XP is still in windows.old. Is there anyway of reverting back? probably not i guess.... let me know thanks! ps i love windows 7, i have it on my laptop, my main issue for my desktop is that it wont let you make the fonts that...

.....and the feeling is mutual. At random intervals (first time was about 4 months?) my computer would crash and won't restart. I tried safe mode, last know good registry etc but it always come back with a registry error. I've reinstalled Windows many times after that and now have a collection...