Satellite A100-216: can I move Windows.old for drive external HARD

Hello

I got my satellite A100-216 almost 12 months, (and I'm pleassed with it, incidentally), and bought with XP, but she has the option (taken) to get the upgrade to Vista Home Premium.

I have finally plucked courage to Vista and have a question.

In the book, it says that the hard drive will be completely erased, and all must be safeguarded. OK - did this.
It lights up during loading to say that only a full upgrade is possible and that the old windows will be stored in a folder called "Windows.old" even if the operating system will be unusable.
There seemed no option but to agree with what is happening and lo and here is the record + Windows.old + is here, and it's * Gb * 6 in size!

After saving everything, can I really keep this large amount of things on my HARD drive. I can move it on my external hard drive?

The capacity of the HARD drive, (nominally 100 GB) but showing 93Gb shows 24,6 now used by Vista without other programs or drivers installed.

If I remove this 6 GB, I'll have a more reasonable 75 GB to play with.

The other option would have been to start on an OEM XP disk, opt for delete and re-create a primary partition and load Vista from there after the format. Would it be: r: work and B: use less space.

If the 6 GB file is all that it would save, I'll just save it on my external HARD drive.

Thanks :)

Post edited by: dave1510

Hi Dave,.

The Windows.old folder is a backup of your files/folders/settings of your XP system etc.

It is automatically created during the process of update for Vista and is designed as a quick way to return to the earlier version of the operating system if you need to do. \obviously its value will decrease over time, once you start using Vista, because different files will become obsolete with the use.

The normal procedure is to remove these backup files "shadow", once you are happy that Vista is not working properly and there is an option to do it for you in the utiliy Vista disk cleanup.

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