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Safe to delete my windows.old folder?

Hi everyone.

I recently upgraded from Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit to Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit.

My HP Pavilion dv5 laptop only has a 250 GB hard drive, but the window.old folder takes about 30 gigs of space.

My questions are:
1) Is it safe to delete this windows.old folder?
2) Would I be able to revert back to Vista using my HP System Recovery DVD? The DVD says it will restore the laptop to original factory settings.

Thank you everyone!
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You are very welcome.

To the best of my knowledge both are correct. I haven't yet deleted my windows.old on Win 7 because I haven't had time to verify that nothing is missing, but I did when I upgraded to Vista with no problems.

(2) is absolutely correct as you will need that partition to recover Vista if you ever have a critical fail. However, if you are stable now and have a good disk image you may not ever need it, but if you delete it Murphy's law will make sure the worst possible scenario occurs. Personally I will never delete my recovery partition because something bad could happen on both the primary drive and the image at the same time.

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