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Was just looking on my C:/ drive when I came across a file called windows old. So after a bit of googling I learned that it can be deleted using the build in windows disk clean-up. So I run that, --
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--and everything is fine for a few minutes. Then my computer completely freezes up, I hit ctrl+alt+del and do a force logoff, but it just shuts down instantly and starts up again. Now when I start up
I either get the disk boot failure message, or nothing at all, it just stays a black screen. I can access the bios but It wont let me do enter the recovery options (safe mode etc). I have Windows 7.
Any help would be appreciated. I don't want to end up re-installing the OS and losing everything...
Oh btw that "windows old" directory that disk cleanup deleted was like 25 gigs =/
That's honestly really odd. When you install W7, you have an option to choose to keep Windows.old or to not.
What I would do would be System Restore or get the W7 disk and do a repair---
---If you had a disk image, try to like bring back Windows.old, although 25 gb is a little big.
I don't think Windows.old had something to do with it, but I might be wrong, sorry for my help. =[
Woo fixed it, I ended up booting off the W7 dvd then doing a startup repair. Funny thing is though, that "windows old" directory isn't back, so maybe it's unrelated :P
if you had xp or vista before you upgraded, then there would be windows.old but you repaired it.
good job anyway.
Did you install over Vista...?
Yea, but I did a custom (clean) install, not an upgrade. But it turns out that didn't work. after I rebooted it, it did the same thing. Right now I am doing another startup repair, and for some reason
it's taking an extremely long time. I think after I get this sorted out I might just go back to Vista SP3 =/
Now I feel stupid for disabling system restore =P
