Windows 7 filling up SSD

[wjz_angel]

I installed my windows 7 on my ssd on my first try and everything worked great. But i realized I installed the 32 bit instead of the 64 bit so i reinstalled it into my ssd again. but now my ssd is filled up as twice as before. how do i get rid of the first windows 7?

 

[Blaise170]

You should be able to simply delete the partition that the original installation is residing in.

 

[Jaxem]

run the disk cleanup tool, it should clean off the previous installation, also delete the windows.old folder if there is one (root of c drive).

 

[mapesdhs]

Do you use the Hibernation function? If not, you can free up a lot of space by bringing up a
Command window (do so with Admin rights) and entering:

powercfg -h off


Likewise, in most cases one can reduce the size of the paging file to something more sensible.
Windows will default to making the file very large if you have a lot of RAM, but really it doesn't
need to be that big. 4GB is typically fine for most tasks.

Ian.