Removing windows off a hard drive

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A while ago I bought an SSD to install windows on. I already had windows on my HDD but when I put the SSD in I never bothered to remove windows off the HDD. I have the SSD as my boot drive and HDD as a storage for large files/games. Over time I have downloaded files/games etc and stored them on the HDD. Is there a way I can remove the old windows and any files on that windows without deleting the new files/games?
 
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Delete the Windows directory off your second hard drive. Did you actually install any games on that second drive or just download them? If you only downloaded them, you can also delete the Program Files directory on that second drive. If you actually installed the programs on the second drive, don't touch that directory.
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I dont have a separate drive but what I could do is partition my drive and move the files to the new partition and wipe the old one. But, how do I differentiate between the old files and new files when backing it up? How do I only backup the files that I put on the HDD whilst on the Windows on my SSD?
 
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Delete the Windows directory off your second hard drive. Did you actually install any games on that second drive or just download them? If you only downloaded them, you can also delete the Program Files directory on that second drive. If you actually installed the programs on the second drive, don't touch that directory.
 
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