Purchased a new 2TB NVMe, Gen4 SSD and installed a new Windows 10 Pro onto it.
Windows now gives me a choice of the OLD or the NEW install, defaults to the NEW install.
So I want to run this way for a little while longer to make sure nothing else is amiss with the new install, which seems to be running a bit faster without any hiccups, pretty sure my old install got partially corrupted and now repairs fixed it.
Do I have to Take Ownership of the OLD OS folders and such to do this ?
I have a Steam Library on the drive, which I could move before reformatting the OLD OS drive but was hoping for another option, maybe more for my own education etc…
Any thoughts on this one ?
I do have the Take Ownership reg hack installed on the NEW OS already so I can right mouse click to do this procedure.
Next time just do a reset. Its functionally the same as a reinstall but without needing to migrate data.
If you installed over the existing install then you will have a windows.old in the root of C which you will have to take ownership of to remove completely.
nevermind I cant read. msconfig is the way to go to remove the bootloader entry.
Aha, and then I can manually delete the old files/folders once I’m satisfied that the NEW install is good to move forward on, which I’m pretty confident in right now.
I will be testing the NEW install for the next few days and then see about getting rid of the boot entry and then manually deleting the files and folders.
I will try to post once I have completed this task if I run into any issues.