tacwalker

Wel now Tom, that puzzles me. This windows.old folder holds many of your
files from your previous os. I allowed Vista to reformat and do a clean
install on the same drive I had XP. Vista created a folder named windows.old.
I then uninstalled Vista (driver problems) and reinstalled, and a folder
named windows.old.000 was created. Then, once more (more minor problems), I
uninstalled and re-installed Vista and a folder named windows.old.001 was
created. All 3 folders held a total of 50 gigs of data.

Look again Tom. If you can't find this folder, perhaps an installation
upgrade does not create a windows.old.

Cheers!

"Tom McDonald" wrote:

> I did an upgrade from XP but there is no windows.old folder anywhere. The
> closest I could find was a hidden folder called $WINDOWS.~Q with 848MB in
> it.
>
> "tacwalker" <tacwalker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7F186A4D-E542-4C17-9758-3253D1991565@microsoft.com...
> > Are you guys taking in to consideration the contents of the folder
> > "windows.old". This folder can be quite large and, assuming you have
> > retrieved any files (images/documents, game stats) you need from this
> > folder,
> > it can be safely deleted.
> > Windows creates the folder during and upgrade or a clean install. If you
> > for
> > any reason uninstall and re-install Windows, another folder will be
> > created
> > on the second install named windows.old.000...a third re-install
> > "windows.old.001" and so on. All these folders can be responsible for a
> > lot
> > of wasteland and can be safely deleted.
> >
> > tac
> >
>