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I recently replaced my laptop with one that has an absurdly tiny hard drive. However, I still have my old laptop, which is no longer functional but does have a functional HD. Thus I decided to remove my old laptops HD and make it an external one to supplement my new laptops tiny internal HD.

My problem is that my old HD has a full windows installation and a bunch of other duplicate software on it that is no longer needed, along with allot of things I do want to lose. I'm trying to figure out the cleanest way to remove all the software that I want installed on my internal HD, including the windows installation, from my external HD without wiping all the things I still wish to retain.

Do I need to boot up off of the old HD to easily remove software, or is there a tool that will assist me with doing that without changing my boot config? While this is less important is there a way to remove the windows I don't think I need but still keep the license in case I want to reinstall that windows installation somewhere one day?

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  • Buy a 3TB HDD (they are cheap now maybe £10 used). Now mount the old HDD to your existing windows system and drag drop the important files to back them up. When finished, wipe the old HDD and start fresh.
    – Mastaxx
    Commented Apr 29, 2022 at 13:54

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I believe DriveZilla will be able to fix your issue. If not, BalenaEtcher allows to copy drives, source to target, but there has been reports of malfunctions erasing both drives.

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