Sharepoint SQL database cleanup

My company recently got a virtual server running Windows 2012 R2. We were to migrate from our old server box which was running Sharepoint 2007. I was successfully able to migrate our Sharepoint 2007 site to the new virtual server which was running Sharepoint
2013. We were not happy at all with the aesthetics and functionality of Sharepoint 2013 so we decided to try Sharepoint 2010.
I deleted the site and uninstalled Sharepoint 2013. While migrating from Sharepoint 2007 to Sharepoint 2010, the virtual machine ran out of disk space. I posted a screenshot below but the SQL files WSS_Content.mdf and WSS_Logging.mdf are quite large. I'm
guessing this is the database from the Sharepoint2013 site. If so, how can I clean this up so I can start a clean migration to Sharepoint 2010 without any disk space issues?
http://imgur.com/VLv3ZZW

WSS content is your content, if you didn't delete the 2013 version then there's a chance that it's left over from that. WSS Logging is for analytics data, that shouldn't be a 2007 database but does appear in 2010 so that might be relevant.
Why didn't you delete all the SharePoint 2013 databases before migrating?

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