Deleting windows.old doesn't free up space from disk

[odiopuroo]

Hello everyone. I have deleted the folder of old windows after i have reinstalled it, and 25GB should have been freed up, but it did not happen and now my hard disk is full. In the system files the folder windows.old takes up no space, so it is deleted, but it still says that my storage is full. How can i truly free up space?

 

[USAFRet]

Hello everyone. I have deleted the folder of old windows after i have reinstalled it, and 25GB should have been freed up, but it did not happen and now my hard disk is full. In the system files the folder windows.old takes up no space, so it is deleted, but it still says that my storage is full. How can i truly free up space?

You do that by determining exactly what is taking up your space.
Either WinDirStat or TreeSize will do that.

Possibly a Restore Point?

Also, how did you "delete" windows.old?

 

[odiopuroo]

Hello everyone. I have deleted the folder of old windows after i have reinstalled it, and 25GB should have been freed up, but it did not happen and now my hard disk is full. In the system files the folder windows.old takes up no space, so it is deleted, but it still says that my storage is full. How can i truly free up space?

You do that by determining exactly what is taking up your space.
Either WinDirStat or TreeSize will do that.

Possibly a Restore Point?

Also, how did you "delete" windows.old?

I used the disk cleanup tool. I will try with threesize and see what it tells me

 

[jacobweaver800]

Hello everyone. I have deleted the folder of old windows after i have reinstalled it, and 25GB should have been freed up, but it did not happen and now my hard disk is full. In the system files the folder windows.old takes up no space, so it is deleted, but it still says that my storage is full. How can i truly free up space?

You do that by determining exactly what is taking up your space.
Either WinDirStat or TreeSize will do that.

Possibly a Restore Point?

Also, how did you "delete" windows.old?

If you mean deleted it as in right clicking and hitting delete? If you do that is just moves to the recycle bin on your desktop, try emptying the recycle bin completely.

 

[odiopuroo]

Hello everyone. I have deleted the folder of old windows after i have reinstalled it, and 25GB should have been freed up, but it did not happen and now my hard disk is full. In the system files the folder windows.old takes up no space, so it is deleted, but it still says that my storage is full. How can i truly free up space?

You do that by determining exactly what is taking up your space.
Either WinDirStat or TreeSize will do that.

Possibly a Restore Point?

Also, how did you "delete" windows.old?

If you mean deleted it as in right clicking and hitting delete? If you do that is just moves to the recycle bin on your desktop, try emptying the recycle bin completely.

I used the disk cleanup tool

 

[jacobweaver800]

Hello everyone. I have deleted the folder of old windows after i have reinstalled it, and 25GB should have been freed up, but it did not happen and now my hard disk is full. In the system files the folder windows.old takes up no space, so it is deleted, but it still says that my storage is full. How can i truly free up space?

You do that by determining exactly what is taking up your space.
Either WinDirStat or TreeSize will do that.

Possibly a Restore Point?

Also, how did you "delete" windows.old?

If you mean deleted it as in right clicking and hitting delete? If you do that is just moves to the recycle bin on your desktop, try emptying the recycle bin completely.

I used the disk cleanup tool

Some disk cleanup tools don't actually work, BTW. Also, what drive are you using? it could be you just have a lot of stuff on it, and you might not be able to free up a lot of space.

 

[USAFRet]

Some disk cleanup tools don't actually work, BTW. Also, what drive are you using? it could be you just have a lot of stuff on it, and you might not be able to free up a lot of space.

I think he means the Disk Cleanup tool built into the OS.

 

[jacobweaver800]

Some disk cleanup tools don't actually work, BTW. Also, what drive are you using? it could be you just have a lot of stuff on it, and you might not be able to free up a lot of space.

I think he means the Disk Cleanup tool built into the OS.

Oh, that should work, unless there aren't any useless files to clean, in which case you need to delete your own files or buy a second drive.

 

[rgd1101]

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Question from odiopuroo : "Problem with hard drive in Windows 10"

Hello everyone, i have reinstalled windows 10 maintaning my old files due to problems with updates. WHen i reinstalled it, the folder with the old os was created and due to this folder my hard drive was full so i decided to delete it. I used the disc cleanup software and deleted the old windows (which was around 25Gb if i remember correctly). After that, in the system files, the folder windows.old doesn't take up any space at all, but the hard drive is still full. I even deleted some files and cleaned 1 Gb, but in 2-3 days it has filled again, and it keeps filling up. My pc has become slow because of this. What can I do?
edit: it's literally losing 1-2mb of usable space every time i open it, about every 2 seconds, this is insane

To delete everything from your hdd do a fresh install of windows format the entire hdd. most important is to backup your files first etc. Personal files Media documents Game saves. Right click on start open system then system protection. turn off system protection or delete it to save space

 

[odiopuroo]

I used treesize and it says that the "logs" folder is taking up 80GB, is this normal? Also i have deleted the restore point freeing up 6GB but they are getting filled up at very high speed

 

[odiopuroo]

I deactivated the windows module installer and deleted the CBS file in the logs folder wchich was 80GB because of a compression bug apparently. Doing this i have freed up 120GB of space, i think that i have solved the issue

 

[jacobweaver800]

I deactivated the windows module installer and deleted the CBS file in the logs folder wchich was 80GB because of a compression bug apparently. Doing this i have freed up 120GB of space, i think that i have solved the issue

Ok, just be careful which files you delete as it may cause some functions to not work properly.

 

[geofelt]

Delete does not free up space.
You need to empty the recycle bin to do that.

 

[jacobweaver800]

Delete does not free up space.
You need to empty the recycle bin to do that.

I know that, when I said delete I mean't emptying the bin too.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

I used treesize and it says that the "logs" folder is taking up 80GB, is this normal? Also i have deleted the restore point freeing up 6GB but they are getting filled up at very high speed

My log folder is 4 mb, a lot less than 1 gb. You need to do something about that.

This applies to Windows 10;

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3112358/microsoft-windows/windows-7-log-file-compression-bug-can-fill-up-your-hard-drive.html