How to remove Old Windows folder

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One thing that worked for me - try going into the Windows.old folder and
copying the folders within into another folder that you create on the
desktop. It'll let you move the files fine (but not delete), so if you go
into the folder on your desktop where you moved them, you can delete them.

Strage I know, but that worked for me. On my other machine, taking ownership
worked for it.

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If you can manage to delete everything inside the folder - what I had to do
was just hide the Windows.old (and the Windows.old.000...) folder so that it
wouldn't appear!

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Zack said:
If you can manage to delete everything inside the folder - what I had to do
was just hide the Windows.old (and the Windows.old.000...) folder so that it
wouldn't appear!
Click to expand...

I used robocopy to mirror an empty folder over the top of it.
 
Tried all of that and still no go
Have very little hard drive space left on that drive it is a 30gig and with
all my family photo and movies on that drive there is no room after Vista
5342 installed. I only have 3gigs left so it is running very slow. The
machine is a P4 3200 64bit unit with two 512 matched sticks of ram and 1
30gig 7200 RPM and 2 80gig 7200 RPM drives that run and host my web site and
others.
so I dont want to put anything on those drives from the 30gig

They should have a way in vista to remove the old files.
That is going to be a problem when people install vista on there systems I
think. I did not do the upgrade I should have now I think.
 
I took ownership of it, then deleted in in safe mode (some files were still
locked in normal mode)
 
This is from the release notes:
"You can use the custom installation option to install Windows Server
"Longhorn." There are two ways to perform this type of installation. One way
is to install Windows Server "Longhorn" onto a partition that already
contains an operating system. The existing files and settings are then moved
into a folder named "Windows.old." After the installation is complete, you
must manually delete the old files and settings. If you do not want to save
the old operating system files and settings, you can reformat the partition
during Setup. Either way, you must reinstall your programs when Setup is
complete.
The other way is to install Windows Server "Longhorn" on a different
partition. You should use this approach if you want to have more than one
operating system on the same computer. We strongly recommend that you use
this approach because it allows you to access your old operating system."

http://www.win-vista.net/builds/5342/setup_server.htm
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