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I have a Windows 7 installation on a PC with a 128GB SSD and a 2TB HDD.

I installed the OS on the 128GB SSD but I forgot to remove the 2TB HDD befopre installing Windows 7, so it installed the system on the SSD, but the bootloader on the HDD.

Now I changed the SSD due to problems related to the old one. I re-installed Windows 7 removing the HDD first and everything works fine.

The only problem is that I still have the old bootloader installed on the 2TB HDD, how can I remove it completely?

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  • superuser.com/questions/531922/…
    – Logman
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 22:59
  • What exactly is left? The Boot directory? Or are you concerned about the boot sector?
    – Daniel B
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 23:01
  • if all you want is to delete the boot partition from the 2TB hdd, I would use a linux livecd (parted magic) and boot up into it and delete the partition. Or get to the recovery mode of the windows 7 cmd line and use diskpart to delete the 100MB hidden partition.
    – Logman
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 23:04

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Why not take the superfluous drive out of the boot sequence. That still allows access to the files on the second disk, but ignores the second disk boot record. Then you can clean up the second drive at your leisure.

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