Is this safe to delete from C drive? I installed build 7068 without formating away the older build. Now it has created a Windows.old folder that is 14.9 GB. Just wondering if i delete this, will it effect my windows or are all those files in windows.old not in use by the OS anymore??
Yes, it's completely safe to delete it. That happens when you runs the setup inside windows and choose the clean installation without formatting the partition/drive...
Huh...there will be personal data in windows.old? Crap...there are so much rubbish in that folder Might just take the risk and save myself the trouble
Yeah there are in Windows.old\Users\[USERNAME], they are basically all the folders that you open when you select your user name from the start menu like Videos, Pictures, Downloads, etc. However you can delete the Windows and Program Files folders since they are not usable anymore. I always install new builds like this so I can have my personal data and have a clean install on my machine. I just copy them to their similar directories in my new install.
Small correction - User data is in the %root%\Users\%username% folder not in %systemdir% (like e.g. Windows.old).
Thanx guys. I just remembered that i link the user folder to another partition so every time i install a new build, i just link it all back to the storage partition Just saved myself 15Gb or space