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Installed Windows 7 - safe enough to just select and delete Vista Backup?

  • 19-11-2010 04:13PM
    #1
    worc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭


    Formatted C partition (had Vista) and installed fresh Windows7, the Dell factory image (.wim file) of Vista is still within the D "recovery" partition. Is it pretty much safe to just select the files in the D partition and delete them?

    The recovery stuff would all be Vista which I don't want anymore now that I have 7 - so just checking that by deleting the files in the Recovery partition it shouldn't cause any troubles. The partition does have some other files but I didn't put them there so I'm presuming they are all from the Vista recovery back-ups.

    W7 can't create a backup because the 10GB of space in D is full due the to Vista recovery stuff.


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  • #2
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Yes it is safe to delete the files in the recovery partition.

    You could delete the 10 gig partition and increase the size of your C drive to populate the 10 gigs that are left.


  • #3
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    yup i can confirm it. First time i just migrated and left old files. And after a while i just deleted it.


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