I'm having a problem getting rid of a windows.old dir. I ran disk cleanup on it and it won't delete the windows.old dir and everytime I try to delete it myself I get an error saying that the dir no longer exists. How can I get rid of this dir? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

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I'm having a problem getting rid of a windows.old dir. I ran disk
cleanup on it and it won't delete the windows.old dir and everytime I
try to delete it myself I get an error saying that the dir no longer exists. How can I get rid of this dir? Any help with this would be
greatly appreciated.

I'd run Chkdsk (Click My Computer, Click C:, Right-click & select Properties, Tools tab, click Check Now (Error-checking), queue for re-boot then re-boot.

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I'd run Chkdsk (Click My Computer, Click C:, Right-click & select Properties, Tools tab, click Check Now (Error-checking), queue for re-boot then re-boot.

I just did what you advised, with no luck. The folder is still there. And I'm unable to delete it. Thanks for your help.

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I just did what you advised, with no luck. The folder is still there.
And I'm unable to delete it. Thanks for your help.

Is it just an empty folder? If so, type "RmDir Windows.old" {shrug}

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On 2015-11-15 10:13 PM, William Chaney -> All wrote:

I'm having a problem getting rid of a windows.old dir. I ran disk
cleanup on it
and it won't delete the windows.old dir and everytime I try to delete it myself
I get an error saying that the dir no longer exists. How can I get rid
of this
dir? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Did Disk Cleanup remove all (or most) of the contents? I recently updated to Windows 10 1511 on a pair of HP Stream 11's (newish low-end small laptops with 32 GB SSDs - so drive space is at a premium).

In each, the Windows.old folder reported taking up 18-19 GB of space - which was more room than was available on the drives.

I ran Disk Cleanup - remember that you have to click the Clean up System Files button, and then manually [x] the option to remove Old Windows installations.

Afterwards, about 9 GB of space was freed up - the Windows.old folder remained,
but only with a few tiny files - total space used: around 100 MB. I haven't tried to delete the folders (and little bit of contents) - more important to me
was having the drive space back.

I am puzzled by the exaggeration of the amount of space taken by the folder, however - on both of these computers.

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I just did what you advised, with no luck. The folder is still there. And I'm unable to delete it. Thanks for your help.

Is it just an empty folder? If so, type "RmDir Windows.old" {shrug}

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It has a bunch of other empty folders in it. I tried the rmdir on it with no success. The folders appear to be empty so I guess I'll just leave it there. Thanks for the reply though.

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On 2015-11-15 10:13 PM, William Chaney -> All wrote:

I'm having a problem getting rid of a windows.old dir. I ran disk cleanup on it
and it won't delete the windows.old dir and everytime I try to delete it myself
I get an error saying that the dir no longer exists. How can I get rid of this
dir? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Did Disk Cleanup remove all (or most) of the contents? I recently updated to Windows 10 1511 on a pair of HP Stream 11's (newish low-end small laptops with 32 GB SSDs - so drive space is at a premium).

In each, the Windows.old folder reported taking up 18-19 GB of space - which was more room than was available on the drives.

I ran Disk Cleanup - remember that you have to click the Clean up System Files button, and then manually [x] the option to remove Old Windows installations.

Afterwards, about 9 GB of space was freed up - the Windows.old folder remained,
but only with a few tiny files - total space used: around 100 MB. I haven't tried to delete the folders (and little bit of contents) - more important to me
was having the drive space back.

I am puzzled by the exaggeration of the amount of space taken by the folder, however - on both of these computers.

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I ran disk cleanup but it kept the windows.old folder and wont let me delete it. I tried rmdir but it didn't find the folder
I was trying to remove. The folders are empty so I guess I'll just leave it like it is. Again thanks for the reply.

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It has a bunch of other empty folders in it. I tried the rmdir on it
with no success. The folders appear to be empty so I guess I'll just
leave it there. Thanks for the reply though.

Ah, then just "RmDir /S /Q \windows.old" should do it ...

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It has a bunch of other empty folders in it. I tried the rmdir on it with no success. The folders appear to be empty so I guess I'll just leave it there. Thanks for the reply though.

Ah, then just "RmDir /S /Q \windows.old" should do it ...

That did it! I sure do thank you, that was like a thorn in my side not being able to get rid of that. But it's gone now. Thanks again.

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William, greets.

I'm having a problem getting rid of a windows.old dir. I ran disk
cleanup on it

It has been mentioned that it will be erased 30 days after you install W-10,
this is your option to get back to where you were. Unless you are limited in space as Alan, I would keep it.

All best wishes. Jean.

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Ah, then just "RmDir /S /Q \windows.old" should do it ...

That did it! I sure do thank you, that was like a thorn in my side not being able to get rid of that. But it's gone now. Thanks again.

Cool, glad to assist. :-)

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In a message on Tuesday 11-16-15 William Chaney said to All:

Hello William,

I'm having a problem getting rid of a windows.old dir. I ran disk
cleanup on it and it won't delete the windows.old dir and everytime
I try to delete it myself I get an error saying that the dir no
longer exists. How can I get rid of this dir? Any help with this
would be greatly appreciated.

I saw that you already received a good advice but I'll give another:

Knowing that one cannot delete/remove a directory that contains files or subdirectories, in the old days I would have changed to that directory,
and first deleted all files in the subdirectories, and the directories
one by one, and finally all the files and then then the main directory.

The "rmdir /S /Q \windows.old" command was unknown to me bacause I use
PC-DOS. Since PCDOS v6.1 there's the command "deltree drive:\windows.old"
that does the same thing. That "deltree" command may have been included
from "PCTools", that became included into the PCDOS operating system.


Have a ggod night,

Holger

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