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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
To be clear, there is data on it that you want to keep?
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This is the big question.
disk
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Bunch of stuff you don't want
Some stuff that you do want
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vs
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nothing that you want/need
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The process is very different.
If there's nothing on the drive that you want/need to save, then just format the drive.
If it was me, depending upon what's going on, I might move everything that I want off, then format, then put stuff that I moved off back on.
But that will take longer than just deleting stuff that you don't want need.
If it was the only drive in a computer (like the situation that I'm currently in) and you've used almost all of 1TB, then my guess is that you've got <200GM of apps and OS and the rest is documents, videos, pictures, etc.... If that's the case and you're doing USB back and forth for 750GB, it will take forever vs just deleting stuff that you don't need. To really get things clean, you'd need to get windows setup to show you hidden files too.