[SOLVED] Windows.old present after clean install

[Tamatotomto]

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

 

[USAFRet]

Disk 0 - Delete ALL those partitions, leaving one blank space.

I do not know why "Disk 1" is appearing. If hat is the actual thing you are installing from, it should NOT be there.

 

[Tamatotomto]

Disk 0 - Delete ALL those partitions, leaving one blank space.

I do not know why "Disk 1" is appearing. If hat is the actual thing you are installing from, it should NOT be there.

I’ve done that 3 times now it’s not working in the image I sent earlier you can see there’s only unallocated space left

 

[Tamatotomto]

unplugged the usb with installation media and refreshed and it disappeared so its definitely the installation usb

 

[USAFRet]

unplugged the usb with installation media and refreshed and it disappeared so its definitely the installation usb

1. THat shows a lot of 'partitions'.

2. In all my Win 10/11 installs, I've never seen the install USB as a location to install to.

Something is 'not right'.

 

[COLGeek]

When using the Media Creation Tool, just select the target USB drive and let the tool itself format the drive you will use to install Windows from.

Delete ALL of the Disk 0 partitions. Then let Windows manage setting up the partitions it needs.

 

[USAFRet]

unplugged the usb with installation media and refreshed and it disappeared so its definitely the installation usb

Next time, try a different USB port.

 

[Tamatotomto]

1. THat shows a lot of 'partitions'.

2. In all my Win 10/11 installs, I've never seen the install USB as a location to install to.

Something is 'not right'.

I was thinking the same thing . Partition with 700kb

 

[Tamatotomto]

Delete ALL of the Disk 0 partitions.

When using the Media Creation Tool, just select the target USB drive and let the tool itself format the drive you will use to install Windows from.

Did the first thing several times and the second thing aren’t I already doing that by just running the tool regardless of if I formatted it before hand

 

[Tamatotomto]

Next time, try a different USB port.

Tried that

 

[Tamatotomto]

I’m a goat

No one will probably see this but what you want to do is boot into your installation media I forget if it’s the first or second window but you will see something along the lines of “use previous setup process” I forget the exact quote but then you just go through it like normal click custom delete all partition all that jazz and your done no more old windows.old

 

[Tamatotomto]

Not going to lie though am a bit nervous that it’s lying to me or something can’t fully trust this thing after a bug that critical can’t imagine not realizing that it didn’t actually clean install and getting more things stolen

 

[Tamatotomto]

Thank for trying to help guys have a good rest of your night