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Can I delete Windows off of an SSD, from Linux? (Without formatting) (piefed.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago by purplenimblefrog404@piefed.zip to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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So, I recently wanted to try Linux on my main Desktop after liking it on my Chromebook. So I bought a second SSD and put it on that so i wouldn't risk messing up anything with Windows. But I really like Fedora Linux on my desktop, and I want to wipe windows off my other SSD without removing all of my data on it. So that I can have the TB of storage on my Desktop again.
Is this possible to do from the Linux OS? Or do I need to boot it up with Windows for this?
And if so, how do I do it?
Thanks! :)

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

If you mean wipe windows OS off the SSD but keep your data such as music and photos that was on the same drive, that will be tricky if you had all your windows and data on one partition.

You could shrink the windows partition and create a new one to copy all your data to, then wipe the windows one, then grow the new partition...but there are a lot of steps where you could accidentally delete your data. Might be better to mount the windows drive and copy any necessary data to your new Linux drive first.