Windows 10: Windows only starts in winRE after deleting windows files from cloned disk

Recently I tried to clone my windows disk to a larger disk recently and found that the larger disk was far to slow so ended up just using the same disk i always did as boot drive. Afterwards i tried to remove the copied windows files from the large disk and was unable to do so, i tried many different ways and eventually it worked by using diskpart in winRE cmd. After i removed the files i restarted my pc to boot back to windows on the old disk, however now it only boots back into winRE.

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C windows installer folder - Delete?

He can do symbolic link redirection and move the files in it to a different location. *Wink
Better try it out in a virtual of first. Just a suggestion.

Like:
First move everything in c:\windows\installer to d:\installercache
Then delete c:\windows\installer folder
Then type this in command mode as admin
mklink /d c:\windows\installer d:\installercache

Removing those installer files is a bad idea. it might prevent you from updating or uninstalling apps.

 

Windows old files deleting

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query at Microsoft community. I will be glad to assist you.

I suggest you follow this steps and check if it helps.

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  Open Disk Cleanup by clicking the Start button. In the search box, type Disk Cleanup, and then, in the list of results, click Disk Cleanup.
  
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  If you're prompted to choose a drive, click the drive you just installed Windows on, and then click OK.
  
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  In the Disk Cleanup dialog box, on the Disk Cleanup tab, click Clean up system files.
  
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  If you're again prompted to choose a drive, click the drive you just installed Windows on, and then click OK.
  
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  Select the Previous Windows installation(s) check box, and any other check boxes for the files you want to delete, and then click OK.
  
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  In the message that appears, click Delete Files.
  

Hope this helps.

For further assistance, you can post your query in Microsoft Community.

Thank you.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.