Remove Windows 7 But Keeping All of My Files

So win7 is on old machine and new machine? Both same version (home premium for example)? Both x64 and same language?

You are trying to install win7 on new machine?
Please answer ALL questions... afterwards we'll continue.

sparker781 said:

Sorry for not explaining.....The first drive has vista that I want 7 on I have no issues with installing it... my current drive which is 1.5tb already has but I want to use it for storage only

Has the 1.5TB win7 installed on it or not??? In your first post you say something like "delete win7 from 1.5TB"

sparker781 said:

I want to delete Windows 7 off my 1.5 TB. I just got a newer machine and am going to put Windows 7 on that but wasn't sure if I should transfer all of the info from my other HD or what? Any help is appreciated

Thanks

newer machine: Has win7 already?
old machine (booting from 1.5TB disk): Has it win7?

sparker781 said:

It's on the 1.5tb now but I wanted to know if it's possible to get rid of the os and keep my files

Yes that's possible. You did store all pictures, documents in "my pictures", "my documents"? Actually they are stored in C:\users\<your name> ....

Just delete all stuff you don't want anymore. C:\windows, C:\program files, C:\programdata ..... all can be deleted. What's the problem anyway?

But if that's really the way to go????!!

sparker781 said:

Well there is no issue...Just wanted to use my 1.5tb for storage and the 500gb as my main drive with the os on it....would it be easier to create an image of my current 1.5tb drive and apply it to the 500gb drive? I dunno

So you want to clone the 1.5TB drive to a 500GB drive. At least something that has the same result?
You still don't answer my previous posts. I asked you to answer them ALL.

Without telling me the current situation (exactly) and without knowing what you want as end result... I can't give you advice.

But it looks like you want to clone the current situation (win7 OS, application and all data) to the newer computer.