Little confusion of Installing windows in SSD

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Hi, I have a 1 TB toshiba HDD with windows and a bunch of games on it. Now I am buying an SSD and want to install windows on it and as I dont want to loose the data on the HDD, I will install a clean windows on the SSD and change the boot option in BIOS from my HDD to my SSD. Now I will have two windows installed.

My question is that how will I delete the windows in my hard disk? Should I just select the windows and programfiles in my HDD and permanently delete it? Or should I format my hard disk and install windows on SSD?
 
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SkyNetRising
This is the way to do it.

Windows files are located in:

  • \Windows
    \Program Files
    \Program Files (x86)
    \Users - this contains user profiles, there might be some files you don't want to loose
Delete those folders from old disk and old windows is gone.
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Formatting your Hard Disk, for one, will wipe all of the data that is on it (it can be recovered) but there are better ways around it.

I'll tell you how I would go around at doing this.

You can either; Wipe your HDD, unplug it and install Windows on the SSD, then add your HDD again (It will add some files onto the HDD, which is not what you would want. Orrr...... You can unplug the HDD, and leave the SSD installed, then reinstall Windows 7 onto the SSD, then plug in your HDD. I believe, on windows 7, you can clean it using this guide ( https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/2852386 ) I believe that should work.

How I would do this, if I didn't want to wipe the HDD would be the second option, but it would be a lot more messing about, unfortunately, but it is still possible. Personally, I would wipe the HDD, then install W7 on the SSD, then install the HDD, and re-install all of the games and applications back onto the HDD. That is what I did on my current system.
 
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This is the way to do it.

Windows files are located in:

  • \Windows
    \Program Files
    \Program Files (x86)
    \Users - this contains user profiles, there might be some files you don't want to loose
Delete those folders from old disk and old windows is gone.
 
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Asbaat

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Thank you both of you!
 
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