Clearing the data from Windows

Clear data from a Windows installation.

There are two options for clearing data from a Windows installation:

Procedure

To delete all data from the default directories, including the commitlog and saved_caches:
1. Complete the process of stopping Cassandra.
2. Run the following command from the install directory:
```
C:\> rmdir /s "Program Files\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\data"
```
To delete only the data in the data directory:
1. Complete the process of stopping Cassandra.
2. Run the following command from the install directory:
```
C:\> rmdir /s "Program Files\DataStax Community\data\data"
```

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