In the screenshot above you can see there are many options available: Windows 10 installation media is not only capable of installing the system, but also came with the format and delete operations, which are good enough to ensure data empty, but not clean, formatted / deleted drive still have residue for data recovery programs, but if all we want is to remove Windows and reinstall another operating system, it’s Fine. We can’t remove Windows with Windows, neither in the Disk Management tool nor the diskpart command prompt tool, neither the delete operation nor the format command, but we can remove the system when it’s not running (actually, we can remove it even when it’s running, will talk about that later) Remove Windows with the installation media This option is easy to find if you just upgraded Windows: press the Start button and click the Gear icon and click Update and Security and click the Recovery option and then click the Go back to Windows 7 option to remove Windows 10 Tip: The Go back to Windows 7 option is a temporary setting only available for a month after upgrading to Windows 10, after when we’ll have to seek another solution. Delete/Format Windows 10 from the installation media.We’ll use different methods to empty the disk, methods are listed below: This page will guide through how to empty and clean a hard drive with Windows 10 installed. As usual, do a backup of all your data before you attempt to follow this tutorial.Do you want to remove Windows 10? Remove Windows 10 and install Ubuntu? or simply want to remove everything from the hard drive including the operating system and give away the hard drive? You’re in the right place However, any other user-created folders in the C: drive will still be intact.Ģ.
All the applications that you have previously installed will be lost. Reinstallation of Windows 7 will wipe the system folder, Program Files and My Document folders. Even after the reinstallation, your data will still be intact. The fact is, you don’t really have to reformat your hard drive to reinstall the OS. However, most people don’t like (or even hate) to do a reinstallation because it means that they have to reformat the hard drive and probably lost some of their precious data. The best choice for me is to reinstall the OS. Apps start to run sluggishly and I can’t even get the Windows update to function. For my Windows 7 machine, after countless installation/uninstallation of various applications (all for testing purpose), it starts to give way and behaves abnormally. It is very common for WIndows OS to become sluggishly after some time, but when it reaches the point where you can’t get anything to run properly, you know that it is time to do a re-installation.
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