[SOLVED] Windows.old present after clean install

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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
 
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.
 
can not afford to have uncertainty I want this wiped
 
I did that .that’s what the post is about
 
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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
I would hold on to .old for a while. But...
https://www.wikihow.com/Delete-Windows.Old
 
no no no ...not different file format.

Let the MediaCreation tool build what it needs, how it needs.
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
 
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
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.
 
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
 
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
You do not need to format the flash drive.
The mediacreation tool does everything needed.
 
You do not need to format the flash drive.
The mediacreation tool does everything needed.
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
 
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
Again...are you 100% sure there is no other flash drive connected?