I have win10 AND win7 installed, how do I delete win7?

[valtterivalimaki]

I recently installed win10, but apparently it didn't work out like I wanted to;
I now have win10 on my HDD and win7 on my SSD... Now, I need to get rid of win7 and somehow move my win10 to my SSD.

I need some big time advice, I have no clue how I should operate.

 

[jankerson]

The best way to do it is to remove the standard hard drive from the machine leaving the SSD in.

Then boot the machine with the Windows 10 media and install Windows 10 from scratch.

Or

You can use disk cloning software to move Windows 10 from your HD to the SSD.

Depending on what type of SSD you have most have downloadable cloning software you can use.

 

[Paul NZ]

Do you get a menu asking which one to boot from when you turn this on?

If you do boot into windows 10 type msconfig in search. Go to the boot menu, select Win10 as the default OS. If the Win7 entry is here delete it

 

[valtterivalimaki]

The best way to do it is to remove the standard hard drive from the machine leaving the SSD in.

Then boot the machine with the Windows 10 media and install Windows 10 from scratch.

Or

You can use disk cloning software to move Windows 10 from your HD to the SSD.

Depending on what type of SSD you have most have downloadable cloning software you can use.

I don't have a physical copy of win10, I just got the serial number. Doesnt that mean I cant boot from win10 media?

 

[jankerson]

The best way to do it is to remove the standard hard drive from the machine leaving the SSD in.

Then boot the machine with the Windows 10 media and install Windows 10 from scratch.

Or

You can use disk cloning software to move Windows 10 from your HD to the SSD.

Depending on what type of SSD you have most have downloadable cloning software you can use.

I don't have a physical copy of win10, I just got the serial number. Doesnt that mean I cant boot from win10 media?

Yeah, you have to download Windows 10 from Microsoft.

You have to use the Media creation tool to create the media, either DVD rom or Flash drive.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

 

[valtterivalimaki]

Do you get a menu asking which one to boot from when you turn this on?

If you do boot into windows 10 type msconfig in search. Go to the boot menu, select Win10 as the default OS. If the Win7 entry is here delete it

When I go into msconfig I have only one option; win10. I can't select it as default.

 

[valtterivalimaki]

The best way to do it is to remove the standard hard drive from the machine leaving the SSD in.

Then boot the machine with the Windows 10 media and install Windows 10 from scratch.

Or

You can use disk cloning software to move Windows 10 from your HD to the SSD.

Depending on what type of SSD you have most have downloadable cloning software you can use.

I don't have a physical copy of win10, I just got the serial number. Doesnt that mean I cant boot from win10 media?

Yeah, you have to download Windows 10 from Microsoft.

You have to use the Media creation tool to create the media, either DVD rom or Flash drive.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Ok, I don't have a big enough Memory stick to do that, quess I'll need to get one..
And what do I do after I have win10 on the stick?

 

[Paul NZ]

It's not dual boot then. You have to select either one to boot from in the BIOS

If the hdd with Win7 appears when you boot into Win10, quick format it

Depending on what the ssd is. If it's Samsung get the Samsung program to clone whats on the Win10 hdd

Is the ssd big enough for the files that are on the hdd tho?

 

[jankerson]

The best way to do it is to remove the standard hard drive from the machine leaving the SSD in.

Then boot the machine with the Windows 10 media and install Windows 10 from scratch.

Or

You can use disk cloning software to move Windows 10 from your HD to the SSD.

Depending on what type of SSD you have most have downloadable cloning software you can use.

I don't have a physical copy of win10, I just got the serial number. Doesnt that mean I cant boot from win10 media?

Yeah, you have to download Windows 10 from Microsoft.

You have to use the Media creation tool to create the media, either DVD rom or Flash drive.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Ok, I don't have a big enough Memory stick to do that, quess I'll need to get one..
And what do I do after I have win10 on the stick?

Turn off the PC.

Remove the standard HD from the computer, just unhook the power and data cables.

Put the Flash drive in a USB port.

Turn the PC back on.

It will boot from the flash drive.

Install Windows 10, choose clean installation.

After you are all done you can shut down the PC again and connect the power and data cables to the reg HD.

Then format it or what ever.

 

[valtterivalimaki]

The best way to do it is to remove the standard hard drive from the machine leaving the SSD in.

Then boot the machine with the Windows 10 media and install Windows 10 from scratch.

Or

You can use disk cloning software to move Windows 10 from your HD to the SSD.

Depending on what type of SSD you have most have downloadable cloning software you can use.

I don't have a physical copy of win10, I just got the serial number. Doesnt that mean I cant boot from win10 media?

Yeah, you have to download Windows 10 from Microsoft.

You have to use the Media creation tool to create the media, either DVD rom or Flash drive.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Ok, I don't have a big enough Memory stick to do that, quess I'll need to get one..
And what do I do after I have win10 on the stick?

Turn off the PC.

Remove the standard HD from the computer, just unhook the power and data cables.

Put the Flash drive in a USB port.

Turn the PC back on.

It will boot from the flash drive.

Install Windows 10, choose clean installation.

After you are all done you can shut down the PC again and connect the power and data cables to the reg HD.

Then format it or what ever.

Thank you for making it perfectly clear. Will do this.

 

[valtterivalimaki]

It's not dual boot then. You have to select either one to boot from in the BIOS

If the hdd with Win7 appears when you boot into Win10, quick format it

Depending on what the ssd is. If it's Samsung get the Samsung program to clone whats on the Win10 hdd

Is the ssd big enough for the files that are on the hdd tho?

When I enter BIOS and choose to boot from my SSD, it starts up win7. When I choose HDD, it starts up win10. And I have Kingston SSD. And it has enough space.

 

[Paul NZ]

Yup so you have to select which one to boot from

 

[valtterivalimaki]

Yup so you have to select which one to boot from

Yes but I want my win10 onto my SSD and win7 completely removed for disk space.

 

[Paul NZ]

Do the above then, what Jankerson said