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Can I delete these files from the C-drive and move them to an E-drive?

Started by batpark , May 23 2015 05:42 PM

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batpark

Posted 23 May 2015 - 05:42 PM

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I am trying to gain free space on my C:drive (in a Dell desktop with XP) by moving as many files as I can to an aux memory, E:drive.

I see (by searching the c:drive for *.jpg) that I have some 1200 such jpg files, in a folder named C:\I386.. Typical files are SKIPUP.JPG and TYROL.JPG. They look like stock images that came with XP.

Question: Can I safely move all those C:\I386 files to a new file that I create on my Edrive --- say E:\I386 -- and then delete them from the C-drive? Or is that verboten?

Thanks. ...batpark

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zep516

Posted 23 May 2015 - 05:53 PM

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The i386 folder holds the files used to install, repair, modify, update and rebuild Windows. Though these files are also located on your Windows installation CD (if you have one), I recommend you not delete anything located here. Deleting these files won’t recover much room.