Clean Installation Windows 10

[saas1980]

Hi, I used a Windows 10 USB stick created from the Media Creation Tool to re-install windows 10 home. In the installation start-up process I deleted all the hard drives and partitions to run a clean install of Windows 10.

Once the installation was complete I checked C: and saw a folder called Windows.old. Is this normal for a clean installation of Win 10?

 

[Colif]

i can't find anything about it but since you deleted all the partitions first, it has to be "normal" If you run disk cleanup and choose system files it should remove it. Not sure whats in it...

 

[Kurz]

Hi, I used a Windows 10 USB stick created from the Media Creation Tool to re-install windows 10 home. In the installation start-up process I deleted all the hard drives and partitions to run a clean install of Windows 10.

Once the installation was complete I checked C: and saw a folder called Windows.old. Is this normal for a clean installation of Win 10?

No thats not normal... Unless the media creation tool is old and doesn't have 1151 part of it.
1151 update will create a Windows.old folder.

 

[wpgwpg]

It doesn't seem normal, but I have to ask how many bytes are in it. Either there's a partition that you somehow missed or that Windows.Old folder is practically empty; that would be my take.

 

[saas1980]

Hope you dont mind me answering a year late lol. Just saw the question from my old threads.

I dont seem to recall the exact used space but it was a couple of gigs. I eventually had Windows live support look into it and I was informed it was harmless. Eventually they connected to my machine via remote access and deleted the entire folder. I tried initially myself but kept getting errors and the deletion would fail so they used an alternative method and trashed it all.