I don't want to have two boot drives of Win 7 on the same computer.

I gave you a number of possible options how to handle the installing another Win7 while preserving your files on the old Win7 installation. These options take into account whether or not you have adequate backup space to move the files off first, and if not how to remove the old OS while keeping the files in place.

If you have specific questions about the options I took the time to write up for you, please ask them back instead of acting so strangely.

I guess I can't get a reasonalble answer here. Microsoft does not believe making computer life easy!! Before I would install Ubuntu and then delete the files I wanted to from Windows file without any interference. Maybe I will try that but I am not sure it works with Win 7.

You deleted me and a last post which I cannot find that suggested there is a way to delete only Windows files without moving everything to another hd or partition.

What is the way to do it?

where are my messages?

gregrocker
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I gave you a number of possible options how to handle the installing another Windows 7 while preserving your files on the old Windows 7 installation. These options take into account whether or not you have adequate backup space to move the files off first, and if not how to remove the old OS while keeping the files in place.

If you have specific questions about the options I took the time to write up for you, please ask them back instead of acting so strangely.

Now Greg what are these options not having to move everything out and then deleting the whole partition.

Please don't delete my messages and move things in a different order. I am telling you what I see and experience!