Vista on C:, Win10 on E:

[hindukush]

I have Vista on my C drive (don't laugh), a smaller SSD, and somehow installed Win10 on my E drive, where all my precious pictures & videos of my kids are (all backed-up on a third-party cloud storage).

How do I remove/unistall Win10 from the E drive? There's no pre-existing prior Windows version on that drive, so can't use that functionality.

Ultimately, I want to reformat my small SSD to be Win10, but want to remove the copy of Win10 from the E drive first.

Thanks. And stop laughing.

 

[James Mason]

When you go to install windows 10, it will ask what drive you want to put it on. There will be an "advanced" button that will give you some more options, select both all of the available "drives/partitions" in the list of install locations and choose "delete". Then tell Windows 10 to install to the smaller drive. (it will show the space available so you can tell which is which, as well as the model number.)

(side note: Windows will always be installed on the "C:" drive, so whichever windows version your currently running will think the drive it's on is the C: drive.)

This guide shows how: http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computing/how-to-perform-a-clean-installation-of-windows-10-11364000633913

 

[hindukush]

When you go to install windows 10, it will ask what drive you want to put it on. There will be an "advanced" button that will give you some more options, select both all of the available "drives/partitions" in the list of install locations and choose "delete". Then tell Windows 10 to install to the smaller drive. (it will show the space available so you can tell which is which, as well as the model number.)

(side note: Windows will always be installed on the "C:" drive, so whichever windows version your currently running will think the drive it's on is the C: drive.)

This guide shows how: http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computing/how-to-perform-a-clean-installation-of-windows-10-11364000633913

Thanks very much; however, won't that delete my pictures & videos from the larger drive?

 

[James Mason]

Thanks very much; however, won't that delete my pictures & videos from the larger drive?

yes, but you said you had them backed up, so... just restore them.

There's no way to "just delete" windows.