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How can I free up some space in my C: drive?

I am running Windows 8 on a seperate partition right now, and want to delete everything on my old partition that contains Windows 7, except for the Windows 7 OS (just in case). How can I do this?

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    Your question is rather ambiguous. Are you trying to uninstall programs on the Win7 partition, or delete files, or what? What is the purpose of deleting "everything"?
    – Force Flow
    Apr 1, 2012 at 3:18
  • I want to free up disk space, so that I can allocate the free space from the Window 7 partition and merge it with my Windows 8 one. I just want to keep the Windows 7 install, just in case anything goes wrong.
    – Help
    Apr 1, 2012 at 3:19
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    Use disk imaging software and make a image of the W7 partition and mbr. Now you can delete everything, if things go bad you can restore the image you made to that partition.
    – Moab
    Apr 1, 2012 at 4:16

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  1. Uninstall all the items using Revo Uninstaller.
  2. After doing that, create a new user account and delete the rest in the

    C:\Users folder

  3. Run CCleaner
  4. Finalize a service pack of Win 7.
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  • Why can't he just uninstall using Windows' Programs and Features? Apr 1, 2012 at 4:18
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    @Lèsemajesté Revo Uninstaller does the job better
    – HackToHell
    Apr 1, 2012 at 6:43
  • In what ways does it do it better? Apr 1, 2012 at 7:07
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    @Lèsemajesté Removes stuff from registry that the uninstaller fails to remove, clears the Appdata ..
    – HackToHell
    Apr 1, 2012 at 7:08
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I would just delete everything and reinstall the Windows 7 partition (don't install anything yet), defrag, then select the partition size. On my box, I have like 200g of free space in my Windows partition because I installed programs before I partitioned the drive, and there were some unmovable files. To prevent this error in the future, I am always going to reformat the entire drive, and leave a few partitions free for changes in the future.

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