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I have reinstalled Windows Vista - Hard drive not cleared??
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Hi, I had to reinstall windoes vista after problems with Windows updates failing. All my documents have been backed up so thats not a problem.
However, I assumed that once I had reinstalled Vista, my hard drive and everything on it would have been cleared? But my 100gb hard drive is still saying 50gb is being used. I was using about 50gb before the reinstallation.
So the old files must still be somewhere.. taking up space!
could someone please tell me how to either delete these files so i have a empty hard drive, or even recover them??
Thank you
EDIT:
after doing a disk cleanup there is 55gb in the 'Previous Windows Installation' bit.
Is this all my old documents? can i access them???
However, I assumed that once I had reinstalled Vista, my hard drive and everything on it would have been cleared? But my 100gb hard drive is still saying 50gb is being used. I was using about 50gb before the reinstallation.
So the old files must still be somewhere.. taking up space!
could someone please tell me how to either delete these files so i have a empty hard drive, or even recover them??
Thank you
EDIT:
after doing a disk cleanup there is 55gb in the 'Previous Windows Installation' bit.
Is this all my old documents? can i access them???
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Depends what option you chose as a reinstall. A clean wipe (nuke) will clear the entire drive, granted, but not so a reinstall. And that's deliberate on Microsoft's part: most people reinstall with the proviso that their documents remain intact.
HTH Princess.
Those 'old' files should still be present then in c:\documents and settings and wherever else you might have placed them. Is this not the case?could someone please tell me how to either delete these files so i have a empty hard drive, or even recover them??
Could you perhaps do a search for a file/document and that will point you in the right direction as to which folder.0
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