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    so I had an ssd which broke but it was still in warranty so i claimed it but that would take some time to arrive so i installed it on my HDD in the meantime. that install had a windows.old folder but it was empty which was expected but i didnt delete it. Today i finally got my ssd and reinstalled windows on my ssd but my hdd still had a windows folder with a windows.old folder which was empty but the windows folder had everything you expect a windows folder to have like system32, sysWOW64 etc, now i cant use any conventional methods to delete it like disk cleanup and temporary files from setti

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