Trying to install the 1TB drive and it went very badly. I had to re-install WIN 10 on my original drive and now there are two files windows.old and windows.old.000.
Trying to remove these because the drive is showing RED in file explorer the Disk Cleanup will not remove the System Files.

I even tried to delete these using Administrator Permissions in DOS and it states they are removed but when I look back all are still there.

any help removing these old system files. I did copy the windows.old to an external drive so I do have q backup.
It will take some time to rebuild all the apps and desktop that I lost. Luckily all is available on One Drive.
Thanks,
Dan K

ps I still may be in the market for a new PC since this is still a 7 yo machine.
D.