How to Delete an Old Windows Installation from a Second Drive

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I'm going to show you the fastest and easiest way to delete an old windows installation off a second hard drive .

So as you can see , I have C and an E drive and my E drive has windows installed on it because I used it as a windows C drive for a while .

So I want to get rid of this windows folder because it's taking up a lot of space .

But if you try and delete it , it says you're not authorized .

So the first thing you want to do is click on windows folder , right ?

Click and hit rename .

Then at the end of windows just put period old windows dot old .

Once that's done , come down here , type in disk , clean up and hit , enter .

It'll open this window .

You select the letter of the drive .

You wanna delete windows from minus E press .

Ok .

It'll bring up this window here .

You're gonna wanna hit cleanup system files , then it'll bring up the same prompt again , select your drive again , press , ok .

It'll go through this process of calculating the amount of storage taken up by your old windows installation .

It will only take a minute or so and then you'll be able to delete your old windows installation .

Ok .

The dialog just finished .

Now , as you can see , we have three options instead of two before deselect the recycle bin .

Select previous windows installations press .

Ok .

Are you sure you want to permanently delete these files ?

I'm going to say delete files and now it'll delete the old windows installation without having to change any permissions .

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