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[Buho]

Hello

 

I have a spare HD that i use only for file storage. Recently, I reformatted my main HD and installed Windows 10 Pro in the second hard drive. It diminished the free space on it considerably. Is there a way I can uninstall Windows from there and maintain it only in the main HD?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Pablo

[Ztruker]

The easiest way would be to copy all the file storage off to another drive, format it then copy them back, then install Win 10 on the main HD.

[Buho]

Hello,

 

Thanks. That's certainly the main form of action. Tho I'm sorry to know we don't have an "Uninstall Windows" option.

 

Regards,

 

Pablo

[Ztruker]

There is no uninstall windows,.

 

You could delete all the Windows files and folders manually.  For instance, my boot drive has these on it:

 

 Directory of C:\

04/06/2017  09:55 PM    <DIR>          ESD
02/18/2017  11:52 PM    <DIR>          NST
03/18/2017  05:03 PM    <DIR>          PerfLogs
05/18/2017  07:59 PM    <DIR>          Program Files
05/31/2017  10:28 PM    <DIR>          Program Files (x86)
04/07/2017  09:25 PM    <DIR>          Users
08/01/2017  09:16 PM    <DIR>          Windows

 

If you deleted those that would get 99.9% of Windows, Might be hard to delete all of them though as some are pretty effectively protected by the OS.

 

The better, cleaner and faster way is as I described. Copy what you want to keep elsewhere, format the drive then copy the saved data back.