Delete previous version of windows?

kuepper

I keep getting notifications my computers running low on storage space to do this with the caveat"Warning: you won't be able to go back to it". I don'tsee how i'm short on storage space as I have 1.6 TB free nor do I think I had a 'previous' version of windows, I thought I had windows 10 when i got my laptop about 2 yrs ago. Is it advisable to follow this delete option / why am I getting it?

forgotmyname

because your out of space. Delete the junk or fit a bigger hard drive.

Dandytf

Delete Windows.old

kuepper

forgotmyname wrote: »

because your out of space

I am using less than 300 GB and have 1.6 TB free, how can I be out of space? I'm now not sure if I had windows 7 when I got this but I thought old windows got automatically deleted after 28 days so not sure why I have gor a windows.old file

debitcardmayhem

kuepper wrote: »

I am using less than 300 GB and have 1.6 TB free, how can I be out of space? I'm now not sure if I had windows 7 when I got this but I thought old windows got automatically deleted after 28 days so not sure why I have gor a windows.old file

Every time windows does a 6 month update it is a whole new version ergo it saves you an .old version. Is your disk partitioned? i.e. a C: + drives

John_Gray

In the 'Cortana' search box type Disk Cleanup, and go through the process.
Afterwards, run Treesize Free to show which folders are using the most space. (Or do it before running Disk Cleanup!)

arciere

The Disk clean-up utility will let you delete the windows.old folder and other useless stuff easily.

The error message you are getting could be referring to the Recovery partition which, normally, has close to zero free space. Sometimes, after upgrades, that Recovery partition gets 'monitored' by Windows.

kuepper

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Is your disk partitioned? i.e. a C: + drives

No idea, not even sure what that means!

kuepper

arciere wrote: »

The error message you are getting could be referring to the Recovery partition which, normally, has close to zero free space. Sometimes, after upgrades, that Recovery partition gets 'monitored' by Windows.

it's not an error message, it's a notification that i'm running out of storage space. Sorry but no idea what recovery petition means!

wongataa

kuepper wrote: »

No idea, not even sure what that means!

What drive letters do you have? You will have a C drive but do you have any others?

kuepper

wongataa wrote: »

What drive letters do you have? You will have a C drive but do you have any others?

No idea again I'm afraid, how would I find out?