LakeLL5P

What's the best way to remove the windows files? Just delete the windows directory on the HDD? From looking at other forums sometimes people get a "permission denied" when attempting to do so.

I'm FINALLY making the move from a 2 TB HDD to running a setup with that in junction with a 128 GB SSD for the OS. I am running Windows 10 and would love to do a fresh OS install on the SSD. I have read that Windows 10 will now activate from an activation key in the BIOS. Is the fresh installation as simple as making Windows Boot Media, unplugging the HDD and connecting the SSD, installing fresh on the SSD, then replugging the HDD? I'm assuming Windows will detect there is still an OS on the HDD. My main question pertains to getting the data off of the HDD. Will this need to be formatted and then I can reinstall all games/ move over all other data from files moved to an external HDD beforehand? Cloning the drive isn't an option with about 1.2 TB used on the HDD. I'll take any suggestions to other approaches as well.