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Synedisis
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Hah clickbait title gotcha.

Anyways I have 2 1tb HDDs. One is a Barracuda and the other is a WD Blue, I upgraded my storage about a year after I built my pc. Shortly after I realized that I have 2 separate Program Files folders, 2 separate Program Files (x86) folders, 2 separate Users folders, and finally 2 separate Windows folders. 1 of each of the folders is on 1 hard drive. Basically I have all 4 folders on one drive, and another 4 on the other. I haven't run into any clashing that I'm aware of and I was just wondering if there was any way for me to go about fixing this. Otherwise I could just install a clean windows when I upgrade from 7 to 10 :/. 

Thanks in advance to anyone who has the mental capacity to comprehend this as I clearly don't :P 

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Connect the drive that you are using as the C: or boot drive and disconnect all others.  Then use the Windows Media Creation Tool to do a clean, fresh install of Win10.  Once the install is complete, then you can nuke the other drive and set it up as the backup drive to the boot drive.

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/15088/windows-create-installation-media

 

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Looks like you have two installations of windows. one on each drive.

Just boot your system as usual, move the data from your not-C:/users to you C:/users and delete the directories on the not-c drive. You should be fine, assuming you're not using the windows installation on the not-C drive.

 

If windows refuses to delete the directories, I would just reformat the not-C drive. After moving the data temporarily to an external HDD, of course.

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@xc3ll I'll try it out, thanks for the response 

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@kb5zue I'll try fixing the drives first just because I'm still more preferred to 7, but if I do resort to 10 I'll make sure to use what you told me. Thanks for the help

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Have you tried to delete those other folders? Are there anything interesting inside program files folders?

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20 hours ago, Synedisis said:

@kb5zue I'll try fixing the drives first just because I'm still more preferred to 7, but if I do resort to 10 I'll make sure to use what you told me. Thanks for the help

Glad to help, hope it all works out.

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