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Deleting windows.old and windows.old.000
Son DD contient maintenant les dossiers "windows.old", "windows.old.000" et " windows.old.001" que je n'arrive pas à supprimer. J'ai essayé en mode sans échec, en mode sans échec avec "command line" (commandes de type dos: del, rd, etc..). Tout ça en tant qu'administrateur, mais sans succès.

Installing Vista Home Premium and Format
It was a *clean* install, but it says I still have the old OS under windows.old.. could I go in and change the name of the VISTA install to windows.old and the other back to windows, would that work? "Bill Davis" wrote: Jules Are you trying to access a hard drive on another computer? If you are you do not need a

Win98 won't boot up correctly
You can just wipe the registry, or the c:\Windows (or whatever your windows directory is) and reinstall, and that does all that you need it to do. Yes, I did see that. My last test was to (1) reboot to DOS, (2) rename C:\Windows to C:\Windows.old and finally (3) reinstall from CD. That did not eliminate the 15

Changing windows to windows.old hos to restore old config ???
Charity Slepcevic slepc...@ix.netcom.com comp windows misc Elyse Eisenberg wrote: Can I delete *.old files? I have them in the following directories: c:\autoexec.old c:\detlog.old c:\compuserve\scripts\*.old c:\compuserve\mosaic\*.old c:\windows\system.old c:\windows\setup.old c:\windows\windows.old

C:/Windows.old
David Candy dav...@sia.net.au microsoft public win98 gen_discussion poyou have to format/partition before setup if you want to use the same folder name (eg c:\windows) to install to. To clean install without formatting (if you have enough disk space) ren c:\windows c:\windows.old ren c:\progra~1 c:\progra~1.old

Windows.old
I uninstall the drivers, then re-boot, windows comes up with the detection of new hardware and loads the drivers back without giving me the choice to select "Have Disk" it just loads the same one s back in. How do I stop this? Kendo Two things you can try. Rename the folder \windows\inf to \windows\ old inf This

Ma la cartella windows.old dove è finita?
Mildred Savalier di...@ma.ultranet.com microsoft public inetexplorer ie4 outlookexpress stationery Ok one time in English not html babble Old agents were in Program files New Agent is in Windows Old scripts call the old folder in program files New scripts call the new in windows What I did is this I kept both so

impossible de supprimer windows.old
If windows just runs perfectly beautifully fine, then your old windows was corrupt. To restore your old windows do this... From a MSDOS Mode prompt do a... You need to boot up into your old windows and rename progra~0 to Program Files. When you do the short filename progra~0 will be renamed to progra~1 too.

Comment détruire windows.old
brink brink.2vl...@no-mx.forums.net microsoft public windows vista mail Brazmaster;426339 Wrote: Had to format my HD and reinstalling my Vista. It created the Windows Old with my old archives. But where are my old Windows Mail messages and folders? Help please! Wagner Rio de Janeiro Hi Wagner, If the messages are

Multiboot question
John Inzer oo...@doobie.xyz microsoft public windows vista installation_setup johndoc wrote: Hello, On my C: drive I have aC:/windows.old directory as well as a C:/windows directory. The 'old' directory was last modified many months ago. C:/Windows takes up 9+GB C:/Windows.old takes up 14+GB Q: Can I safely delete

Fonts gone crazy!
msn.com microsoft public fr windows vista general Le 23/02/2008, Jacquouille la Fripouille a supposé : mmmmhhhh, tu devrais attendre l'avis de maître JCB - s'il passe par là - qui m'avait bien dépanné il y quelques années sur un problème similaire. No panic :-) supprimer windows.old n'est pas bien méchant.

Cannot find rule, address, etc. files in "windows.old' folder.
Now when i look on my c drive i have the windows folder (for vista) and one called windows.old which was the xp. How do i get rid of the windows.old folder, or do i need it on there, even though i had just reformatted and its got nothing on it? You may delete windows.old - no prob.

BB: Slow booting Win98 PC
John Inzer oo...@doobie.xyz microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Karl wrote: Hi, I'm trying to restore a PC from Vista to XP using the Windows.old folder. I understand most of the instructions I find here: Z:\Freelance\May 2007\Uninstall Vista Upgrade\How to restore a computer to a previous Windows

98 sec ed. upgrade
JMRB jmro...@terra.es microsoft public es windowsvista He reinstalado Vista y me ha generado una carpeta Windows.old como la puedo eliminar ya que me quita espacio en el HD. Gracias.

Win98 won't boot up correctly
ludo ludo_...@lavache.com microsoft public fr windows vista general Merci à tous pour votre aide. Unlocker a été "la solution finale" pour supprimer ce fichier. Cordialement,

Eliminar Windows.old
Rather, your old users folder (Documents and Settings on pre-Longhorn systems), Program Files and Windows will all be moved under a new top-level folder called "Windows.old". Other existing folder trees off the root directory will be left intact. When complete, you can get information from under the Windows.old

impossible de supprimer windows.old
Adam A...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup windows.old should appear in the C:\ directory if you did a clean install right over the old partition, if you did it any other way (Like formating beforehand) it won't be there. Unfortunately that is the only way I know to revert

Comment détruire windows.old
You had me wondering there when you reported that the "echo" command was not recognised by Windows . . . Anyway, as you reported in your original post, your situation is like so: Old Windows installation: c:\Windows Current Windows installation: c:\Win2 There is no reason why the old installation should be locked,

How can I delete windows.old ?
(933168) How to restore a computer to a previous Windows installation after you install Windows Vista http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933168/en-us And...maybe the following article will offer some ideas if you still wish to delete Windows.old: (930527) How to use the Disk Cleanup feature to delete the Windows.old

Can I clean up Windows.old folders
Karappo rsca...@tiscali.it microsoft public it windows vista In <news:mn.a50e7d745503454d.73367@interfree.it> leggo: Ciao, io si, 9 gb e 16 di installazione pulita per la ultimate. Grazie! -- Ciaoo Roberto Scassellati.