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I've got a 1TB Seagate HDD which I had Win 7 on, and after the upgrade to 10 today, the Windows.Old folder is now a thing. When I was reading about how the upgrade worked, I thought it was very smart of Microsoft to let us hold on to our old data for a month before the Windows 10 settles in. Granted, it would've been nice if we could keep it forever, but that's why we have backup HDDs, amirite?

 

SO ANYWAYS, here's my point. My Windows.old folder seems to be much larger than other peoples'. It's supposed to be around 20-30 GB, right? But here's mine. 

http://puu.sh/jicJ6/a3df2e2ff9.png 

500 freakin' gigs. Obviously that's all of my data from Windows 7, but is it supposed to be as large as mine is? 

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Mine was just over 20gb. But I did a reset because I wanted a clean install so it deleted it anyway. 

 

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