Question re HP 14-fq0045nr

[Linda_707]

Paul, once again your advice has been money. I reinstalled Windows 10 on the laptop, it's now using the SSD as the main drive, and the emmc is the d: drive. However it looks like Windows shows up on both c: and d: - assume this is duplicative, can I delete the d: Windows version? I also see a file called 'Windows 10 Old' on the c:  Wondering if that can also be deleted. Thanks again for all your help thus far!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

First, you must determine which drive is C:\ and which drive is D:\.

That should be easy because one of the drives is only ~64 GB.

Whichever drive is the eMMC drive, if you don't need to keep any files on it, I recommend you format the whole drive and use it for storage only.

Yes, you can delete the Windows.old file after you determine you don't need to recover any files from it.

The Windows.old folder will have your old user profile on there so it may have some personal files if they were not moved to the new Windows installation.

To delete the Windows.old folder, run the disk cleanup utility and after the window opens, click on the Cleanup system files button at the bottom left side of the window.

The utility will run again and when the window reappears, you check all of the boxes to delete the files including the Windows.old folder.