How to Delete Windows.old and $Windows.~BT folders in Windows 10  

I had trouble deleting windows.old but was finally successful using f14tomcat's direction on page 2 of this thread.

After getting rid of it I now have 2 c:\ folders, one in my PC and one isolated. Is there a simple way to get rid of this second one? It does not show in diskmgr.

More importantly, In one of your (Shawn) install tutes you said "after you update you can do a clean install". Where did I see that? I thinking about doing a clean install with all disks removed from system but the boot disk.

thanks

trbodden said:

I had trouble deleting windows.old but was finally successful using f14tomcat's direction on page 2 of this thread.

After getting rid of it I now have 2 c:\ folders, one in my PC and one isolated. Is there a simple way to get rid of this second one? It does not show in diskmgr.

More importantly, In one of your (Shawn) install tutes you said "after you update you can do a clean install". Where did I see that? I thinking about doing a clean install with all disks removed from system but the boot disk.

thanks

Are you looking for this tutorial ?
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...n-install.html

That's the one Mike, thanks.

But do you have any thoughts on two C:\'s

trbodden said:

That's the one Mike, thanks.

But do you have any thoughts on two C:\'s

sorry at the moment I don't. But if you are going to clean install, then I wouldn't worry about it. Clean install would fix that issue for sure. :)

RobertR said:

I had the same problem removing windows.old, 2 driver files which are "in use". (IntcDAud.sys in 2 maps)
Renaming and rebooting didn't work.
But if you disable the "Intel(R) Display Audio" driver, you can delete them, remove the complete windows.old map and then enable the driver.
Be sure to also empty the Recycle Bin before enabling of the driver, otherwise it will start using the file in the Recycle Bin.

wow. after an hour of fighting the windows.old folder, this simple trick worked. thanks

Greetings from Holy Jerusalem
Thanks God,I tried the first and third options but not the second option """" Delete "Windows.old" Folder in Elevated Command Prompt """" which did the Job.
Thanks and many thans

Hi PeterAstle
I had the same problem with the Windows.old folder and those drivers until I rebooted into safe mode and deleted the old folder that way.
There is a copy of those drivers in the normal Windows folder anyway.

I have tried all 3 options at least twice to delete Windows.old & nothing works. I have taken ownership of the Windows.old Folder & subfolders & files & I still get access denied at the command prompt. I get the files are in use message if I try to just outright delete it in File Explorer. I'm using WIndows 10.