diff --git a/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.cpp b/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.cpp
index 5d4b61a2f..ede96305a 100644
--- a/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.cpp
+++ b/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.cpp
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* === This file is part of Calamares - <https://github.com/calamares> ===
  *
  *   Copyright 2014, Teo Mrnjavac <teo@kde.org>
- *   Copyright 2017-2018, Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org>
+ *   Copyright 2017-2018, 2020, Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org>
  *
  *   Calamares is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -285,6 +285,13 @@ System::targetPath( const QString& path ) const
     }
 }
 
+/// @brief Cheap check if a path is absolute.
+static inline bool
+isAbsolutePath( const QString& path )
+{
+    return path.startsWith( '/' );
+}
+
 QString
 System::createTargetFile( const QString& path, const QByteArray& contents ) const
 {
@@ -323,6 +330,17 @@ System::createTargetFile( const QString& path, const QByteArray& contents ) cons
     return QFileInfo( f ).canonicalFilePath();
 }
 
+void
+System::removeTargetFile( const QString& path ) const
+{
+    if ( !isAbsolutePath( path ) )
+    {
+        cWarning() << "Will not remove non-absolute path" << path;
+        return;
+    }
+    QFile::remove( targetPath( path ) );
+}
+
 
 QPair< quint64, float >
 System::getTotalMemoryB() const
diff --git a/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.h b/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.h
index 8265f0fdb..5c5e04eb2 100644
--- a/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.h
+++ b/src/libcalamares/utils/CalamaresUtilsSystem.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* === This file is part of Calamares - <https://github.com/calamares> ===
  *
  *   Copyright 2014, Teo Mrnjavac <teo@kde.org>
- *   Copyright 2017-2018, Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org>
+ *   Copyright 2017-2018, 2020, Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org>
  *
  *   Calamares is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -246,6 +246,15 @@ public:
      */
     DLLEXPORT QString createTargetFile( const QString& path, const QByteArray& contents ) const;
 
+    /** @brief Remove a file from the target system.
+     *
+     * @param path Path to the file; this is interpreted from the root
+     *      of the target system (@see targetPath()).
+     *
+     * Does no error checking to see if the target file was really removed.
+     */
+    DLLEXPORT void removeTargetFile( const QString& path ) const;
+
     /**
      * @brief getTotalMemoryB returns the total main memory, in bytes.
      *
diff --git a/src/modules/machineid/MachineIdJob.cpp b/src/modules/machineid/MachineIdJob.cpp
index 393950ded..af3a68d90 100644
--- a/src/modules/machineid/MachineIdJob.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/machineid/MachineIdJob.cpp
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *   Copyright 2014, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@chello.at>
  *   Copyright 2016, Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org>
  *   Copyright 2017, Alf Gaida <agaida@siduction.org>
- *   Copyright 2019, Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org>
+ *   Copyright 2019-2020, Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org>
  *
  *   Calamares is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -68,18 +68,20 @@ MachineIdJob::exec()
     QString target_dbus_machineid_file = QStringLiteral( "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id" );
     QString target_entropy_file = QStringLiteral( "/var/lib/urandom/random-seed" );
 
+    const auto* system = CalamaresUtils::System::instance();
+
     // Clear existing files
     if ( m_entropy )
     {
-        MachineId::removeFile( root, target_entropy_file );
+        system->removeTargetFile( target_entropy_file );
     }
     if ( m_dbus )
     {
-        MachineId::removeFile( root, target_dbus_machineid_file );
+        system->removeTargetFile( target_dbus_machineid_file );
     }
     if ( m_systemd )
     {
-        MachineId::removeFile( root, target_systemd_machineid_file );
+        system->removeTargetFile( target_systemd_machineid_file );
     }
 
     //Create new files
diff --git a/src/modules/machineid/Workers.cpp b/src/modules/machineid/Workers.cpp
index fefaf24b9..f1f7bb369 100644
--- a/src/modules/machineid/Workers.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/machineid/Workers.cpp
@@ -36,17 +36,6 @@ isAbsolutePath( const QString& fileName )
     return fileName.startsWith( '/' );
 }
 
-// might need to use a helper to remove the file
-void
-removeFile( const QString& rootMountPoint, const QString& fileName )
-{
-    if ( isAbsolutePath( fileName ) )
-    {
-        QFile::remove( rootMountPoint + fileName );
-    }
-    // Otherwise, do nothing
-}
-
 Calamares::JobResult
 copyFile( const QString& rootMountPoint, const QString& fileName )
 {
diff --git a/src/modules/machineid/Workers.h b/src/modules/machineid/Workers.h
index 5cf6270d9..31561af1b 100644
--- a/src/modules/machineid/Workers.h
+++ b/src/modules/machineid/Workers.h
@@ -30,9 +30,6 @@ namespace MachineId
  * for moving files around in the target system.
  */
 
-/// @brief Remove @p fileName from the target system at @p rootMountPoint
-void removeFile( const QString& rootMountPoint, const QString& fileName );
-
 /// @brief Copy @p fileName from host into target system at @p rootMountPoint
 Calamares::JobResult copyFile( const QString& rootMountPoint, const QString& fileName );