[SOLVED]How to uninstall windows 7

Well I plan on getting an SSD so I’ll use my current disc as storage. But it has W7 installed and it takes space.
Is there any way to completely remove W7 from the disk without formatting? because I have like 500GB of data and don’t feel like burning hundreds of dvds lol
Thanks.
Answer #1
the windows & program files folders can just be deleted
might take a while tho as there are thousands of files
and you need to boot to something other than windows 7/vista so those file won’t be protected by the OS
MiniXP on Hiren’s BootCD should work
Answer #2
Oh ok thanks ed. Your answers are always good =)