I have 2 failure windows 7 installs with 35 GB of hard drive space, but I find no windows.old file?

I have 2 failure windows 7 installs with 35 GB of hard drive space. but I find no windows.old file?

The first installation failed because I had a copy of counterfeit Windows 7.

I bought another copy and installed. Then, I got a horrible virus/worm that disabled all .exe files and the fix was just beyond me!

I installed again but did not know that the previous facility where still there.

I tried to clean the disc, but I don't me "from previous versions of windows" to clean.

I find no windows.old file. (Enabled hidden files)

Only I have a disc ssd 60gig and want the missing 35gig kindly returned to use.

Can someone help?

Check the system restore to see how much disk space it uses:

Click Start

Right click on computer

Click on properties

Click on advanced system settings

Click on the System Protection

Click on configure

Adjust the amount of disk space allocated to system restore.

In addition, the amount of RAM you have installed, it will take more disk space for paging, hibernation, and dump files.

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