i have a 1tb hdd in my pc. i will buy an ssd in the near future. i will have only os and few programms on the ssd (planning to buy 120gb ssd) and i will have hdd for storage only (games music movies). how can i delete-remove my os from the hdd without loosing anything. i want to keep pretty much everything from my hdd and its almost full (100gb left free)
keep the files from hdd and remove os
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as above but you may want to Keep all the program folders.
Steam, origin, uplay, glyph... (Anything that uses an installer app) - games will almost all work without needing to be reinstalled. Just reinstall the installer app and add the games location to the app's library.
Also, the location of the USERS Folder varies with OS, so dont delete windows if its in there until. You will have to delete everything else in the windows folder instead.
edit - to make some more room, go thru your downloads and delete anything you dont need there too. It usually kept in your users folder unless you changed it.
Steam, origin, uplay, glyph... (Anything that uses an installer app) - games will almost all work without needing to be reinstalled. Just reinstall the installer app and add the games location to the app's library.
Also, the location of the USERS Folder varies with OS, so dont delete windows if its in there until. You will have to delete everything else in the windows folder instead.
edit - to make some more room, go thru your downloads and delete anything you dont need there too. It usually kept in your users folder unless you changed it.
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Your applications will have to be reinstalled anyway.
For other stuff...before you do anything...
Create a top level folder on the HDD. Call it MyStuff. Maybe give it a couple of subfolders for Doc/Music/etc.
Copy any files you wish to keep - files, not applications - out to that folder.
YOu can do the same with Steam games. Copy the SteamApps folder to elsewhere.
After...you can then kill off the Windows folder, and anything else the old OS might use.
But personally, I prefer wiping that entire drive in Disk Management, and then copying things back.
For other stuff...before you do anything...
Create a top level folder on the HDD. Call it MyStuff. Maybe give it a couple of subfolders for Doc/Music/etc.
Copy any files you wish to keep - files, not applications - out to that folder.
YOu can do the same with Steam games. Copy the SteamApps folder to elsewhere.
After...you can then kill off the Windows folder, and anything else the old OS might use.
But personally, I prefer wiping that entire drive in Disk Management, and then copying things back.
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