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Is it safe to delete these folders?
Hi Folks I have Windows 10 64bit and use a 2 Tb main drive which I self installed. It had all the files from a previous drive which was 1 Tb such as Windows 10, drivers, Photoshop etc etc. I have a third drive which is 500mb and used to be my main drive. All these drives have Windows folder which I understand is essential get and a Windows .old folder. I believe I am correct in saying that the latter (windows.old) can be deleted OK after upgrading to Win 10 a few months ago and have yet to do this.
Here is the problem, I have been buying new drives and self installing them copying over the Win OS and now have 3 drives, C: plus two other drives which should only hold photo images. However, the other two, older drives also have folders Windows and Windows.old. In addition they have copies of all the software I copied over to the new drive.
Am I correct in saying I have just bloated the two original drives with copies I already have on the main C: drive? My idea was to have the C: drive hold all the software such as Windows, Photoshop etc and use the two older drives just to store photographic images of which I have a large amount.
On the two older drives do I need to retain the folders Windows and windows.old or is it safe to delete them along with the duplicate copies of the data on the main C: drive.
Any help would be appreciated as I am a photographer and have limited IT skills. Thanks in advance.