How to remove Windows Files?

[Afromancer]

Hey LTT forum people,

 

          I know the title sounds odd but I have a secondary drive in my computer that I originally used and I now use an SSD for all Windows Files. Is there any way I can remove just the Windows files from the old drive? I would love to free up space and I will never boot from it again...

 

Thanks in advance!

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[Guest]

Best way is just to format the secondary drive imo

[Afromancer]

1 minute ago, OVD123 said:

Best way is just to format the secondary drive imo

I know I'm noobish for asking, but wouldn't that remove all my photos and music from it?

[Guest]

It will erase everything on there but i think Windows has a built-in disk cleanup tool that removes Windows system files but i don't know if it is able to remove an entire copy of Windows. Maybe if you have space on your SSD you can copy your photo's and music onto the SSD, format the HDD and then copy your photo's and music from the SSD back again to the HDD.

[Afromancer]

Just now, OVD123 said:

It will erase everything on there but i think Windows has a built-in disk cleanup tool that removes Windows system files but i don't know if it is able to remove an entire copy of Windows. Maybe if you have space on your SSD you can copy your photo's and music onto the SSD, format the HDD and then copy your photo's and music from the SSD back again to the HDD.

Okay, thanks for the help!