Was running Vista Home 32 bit system. I always had problems with Vista so I wanted to upgrade to 7 ASAP. I never could get the upgrade advisior to run, I couldn't load 7 in as an upgrade either. I always got and error. I had all of my data backed up on a external so last night I did the custom install of 7. Everything went good and 7 loaded fine. Then I realized that when the screen showed the partitions on my computer I should have selected my C drive. I didn't select any drive so it loaded 7 on my Recovery D drive. I found this out when I started getting low disk space windows. I realized what I had done so I went back and reloaded 7 on my C drive and it works great. Here's the question, on my Recovery D drive I see the folder windows.old, I believe that is the old Vista program. Can I delete that? I also see a Windows folder, I believe that is 7 that I miss loaded on D the first time. Should I delete that?
📎 AI Summary:
Bluesjam upgraded from Vista to Windows 7, unintentionally installing it on the recovery drive, and later re-installed it correctly on the C drive, leading to confusion about the Windows.old and Windows folders on the recovery partition. The community advises keeping the Windows.old folder, reviewing the contents of the Windows folder, and possibly extracting files from Windows.old before deleting it. Overall, they aim to help Bluesjam manage disk space and ensure proper setup without losing important files.
Bluesjam upgraded from Vista to Windows 7, unintentionally installing it on the recovery drive, and later re-installed it correctly on the C drive, leading to confusion about the Windows.old and Windows folders on the recovery partition. The community advises keeping the Windows.old folder, reviewing the contents of the Windows folder, and possibly extracting files from Windows.old before deleting it. Overall, they aim to help Bluesjam manage disk space and ensure proper setup without losing important files.
