Is this ok/safe after a clean install?

Hey, sorry for a total noob questions.

I purchased Windows 7 Professional and did a clean install from Vista Premium. I had backed up all my information on an external hard drive, but little did I know that I did not need too since everything was saved under windows.old folder. So I just cut and past my user files to the new Win7 location.

My first question, is it safe to delete this windows.old folder? I have some old programs, but my understanding is that they would not work so I have to reinstall them all again anyways right?

Secondly. my partition drive, D, did not get wiped clean. I thought it would, like reformating, but all my programs are still there. I had installed my games into that partition, such as WC3, WoW, etc. Is it safe to just leave it there and run the games from there? Or should I delete them and reinstall? Because when I open up CCleaner, it does not show any of the programs that I had installed in my D drive on the list for removable programs. Even in the Program features I cannot remove it from there.

Thanks a lot guys, cheers

 

You can delete the windows.old file, but use disk cleanup to do it.

You can reinstall your games to drive d, run updates, and then most likely all of your previous game settings and daved will be available,

You cannot play them as is. If you wish, you qipe then out and reinstall from scratch, too

 

What do you mean you cannot play them as is? I just opened up the games on my D:/ and it worked, but I am just curious if this is harming my laptop. Thanks!

 

Wow, someone who actually took a full backup and didn't trust the internal msft upgrade process.

Great Example!!!

It's ALWAYS better to spend time to take a full backup and throw it out later than to speed through an upgrade and not have a backup to use when the upgrade barfs.

 

Sorry what?

 

Then it is safe.

Most games install files and settings in places other than the gaming folder (for example, in the Windows directory, your user profile, the registry, etc(. So, if you install a program on a second drive, some files and settings would have been installed on the OS on the first drive. Removing the first drive will usually render the games on the second drive inoperative.

Your games are the exception to the rule. Congrats. Happy computing!

 

what I am saying is that there are loads of people who have (lazily) cut corners in their windows 7 install/upgrade and have quickly regretted their decision to NOT take any backups.

You have all the backups you need and are in the position to wonder what to do with them instead of hoping that there is some way to recover lost files.

 

For proper operation of your software/games in the D drive, it's best to install them. Some software might works, but they may crash on you when you try to do something as it requires some library file (dll) in C:\Windows\System32 or some other place in C:\ partition that is not existent, that normally the software setup puts there.

When you told Windows to format.. you format only the SELECTED partition. In this case you picked the C:\ drive. If you selected the D drive as well, then it would be also formatted.