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Can I just delete my old Win10 install?

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- - December 1, 2020 at 4:55 pm #2316359
    
    Erik_S47
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    I finished building my new desktop DIY machine recently. I kept my old SSD boot drive but did a clean Win10 install on my new faster M.2 SSD drive. I kept the old drive with a new drive letter. Everything is working well, and it was actually useful to have both Windows installs for a while — the ability to poke around back into my old setup to see if I’d forgotten anything in the new one. You can see a picture of my dual boot screen below. Now I wonder if I can just delete the old install — with a quick format of the drive perhaps — or if I’d be asking for trouble in some way. What do you think?
    
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  - December 2, 2020 at 2:09 am #2316471
    
    Paul T
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    Make an image backup to external disk.
    Format the old disk.
    Cross fingers. 🙂
    
    cheers, Paul
    
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