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dtleonard
By dtleonard
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I have a Samsung 450GB harddrive that has win7 on it and I'd like to use the drive with another drive that also has win7 

I would like to remove win7 completely off of the drive but keep all other files

Is this possible?

Thanks for you help

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Manually partition the 450GB drive into 2, copy the files you want to the other partition, delete the partition that has Windows on it would be my guess.

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Samsung should have data migration software that come with their SSDs, otherwise im not 100% sure.

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If you get a hold of a us hard drive enclosure then you can plug it in as an external after booting off another drive and format it from there. If you can't find a hold of that then a slightly more difficult method is to install Linux on a flash drive, boot from that, and then format the hard drive from Linux.

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