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Deleting system files

I have an old hard drive that use to be my boot up HD (windows 7) and then after I bought a new ssd drive and install windows 10, I slave my old drive for more total capacity. Now I have to make some room and when I try to delete windows, program files and other folders it said I don’t have permission. Is there a tool or command that will delete not only the folders but also subfolders? I’ll appreciate any help.

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Joseph Hornsey

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Well I'm Joseph Hornsey solution but ultimately will do a complete backup if it does not work, this is a 4TB hard drive with files on different user profiles and some others on different partitions just the windows directory is over 100GB

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Is working now; it will take a long time to backup (copy) to an external drive but I'm good, Thanks everyone.

John

Thanks for the update