[SOLVED] Windows.old present after clean install

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Tamatotomto

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Turns out I was ratted -_-. Followed the clean install I think correctly but yet there is still a windows.old folder I had some sort of rat/ info stealer on my old os so I clean installed yet the windows.old folder is there. As seen below there is another device there but that not my internal drive is it? Is that not the usb media drive? Was I supposed to delete it too cause the tutorial said not to. This may be irrelevant I read in the tutorial that it was subject to change but the second image window did not pop up so I didn’t get to click custom just went straight to third window
 
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Just looked up a video and he skipped the window to so it’s normal I’m guessing. The only other thing I can think of that would cause it is that other drive but I’m pretty sure that is the installation media. The tutorial said that the installation media not supposed to pop up but it something did, is that what caused the issue I don’t think I’m going to be able to get my x or discord account back and still trying to get other accounts back can not afford to have uncertainty I want this wiped.
 
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Tamatotomto said:
can not afford to have uncertainty I want this wiped
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How To - Windows 11 clean install tutorial

Windows 11 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows 11, version 23H2 or newer but can be equally applied to earlier versions which may have some basic differences in the screens you see but will largely remain similar in...
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USAFRet said:

How To - Windows 11 clean install tutorial

Windows 11 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows 11, version 23H2 or newer but can be equally applied to earlier versions which may have some basic differences in the screens you see but will largely remain similar in...
forums.tomshardware.com forums.tomshardware.com
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I did that .that’s what the post is about
 
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Tamatotomto said:
asMOw2Z_d.webp
g2oS2pS_d.webp
W0b3PWP_d.webp
Turns out I was ratted -_-. Followed the clean install I think correctly but yet there is still a windows.old folder I had some sort of rat/ info stealer on my old os so I clean installed yet the windows.old folder is there. As seen below there is another device there but that not my internal drive is it? Is that not the usb media drive? Was I supposed to delete it too cause the tutorial said not to. This may be irrelevant I read in the tutorial that it was subject to change but the second image window did not pop up so I didn’t get to click custom just went straight to third window
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I would hold on to .old for a while. But...
https://www.wikihow.com/Delete-Windows.Old
 
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USAFRet said:
no no no ...not different file format.

Let the MediaCreation tool build what it needs, how it needs.
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That’s what I did the first time I even created another installation media after the fake clean install and both of them pop up with windows.old and both pop up have the usb popping up in the installation media
 
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Tamatotomto said:
That’s what I did the first time I even created another installation media after the fake clean install and both of them pop up with windows.old and both pop up have the usb popping up in the installation media
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I don't know what else to say.

The USB you are installing From, does NOT show up as a place to install To.

Further, 'windows.old' cannot survive actual partition deletion. Nor appear after a simple Windows install on a blank drive.
 
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i recorded everything I did the only thing I can think that could have been possible wrong is the way I formatted the usb though I would think the installation media would fix it even if I did you the wrong allocation size or if I wasn’t supposed to put it to fat 32 prematurely
 
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Tamatotomto said:
i recorded everything I did the only thing I can think that could have been possible wrong is the way I formatted the usb though I would think the installation media would fix it even if I did you the wrong allocation size or if I wasn’t supposed to put it to fat 32 prematurely
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You do not need to format the flash drive.
The mediacreation tool does everything needed.
 
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USAFRet said:
You do not need to format the flash drive.
The mediacreation tool does everything needed.
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well it’s not working 😭just tried to format it to ntfs then create it again and the usb still pops up. Are the USB’s bad it’s sandisk usb 2.0 cruzer glide 32 gb. Is there any bios setting that could make something like this happen? Any chance it’s a bios or something I know that super unlikely but I really don’t get what’s going wrong it literally hard to mess up
 
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Tamatotomto said:
well it’s not working 😭just tried to format it to ntfs then create it again and the usb still pops up. Are the USB’s bad it’s sandisk usb 2.0 cruzer glide 32 gb. Is there any bios setting that could make something like this happen? Any chance it’s a bios or something I know that super unlikely but I really don’t get what’s going wrong it literally hard to mess up
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Again...are you 100% sure there is no other flash drive connected?
 
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