Now off to some important tax files needed... are they lost?
I hate to needle you about this, but ... things like "tax documents" should
probably be "backed-up" in
multiple places. They do make (inexpensive) Portable External HDDs, around $50-60 for 1TB, $60-80 for 2TB.
Maybe for the future, at least. I've witnessed too many people lose the "only" copy of important files, sometimes to sudden drive failure or power glitch that kills their PC or storage or SSD, and sometimes even due to lifespan issues on their HDD, that is failing, and they continued to use it, and
never backed up.
Hopefully you have another copy squirreled away somewhere, and if not, I hope that you will do so in the future. It took me losing an entire HDD of downloaded, but mostly-irreplacable stuff, to learn to backup. I still don't do it enough, but at least I have a few, both "online", and "cold".
Buy one of these:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822107170&ignorebbr=1
And two of these:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149697&ignorebbr=1
That should be enough to set up a nice little 4TB NAS unit with RAID mirroring, so if one drive dies, you won't lose your data. Note that, this is still NOT A BACKUP, unless you have SECOND COPY somewhere, either on your primary machine, or also on a portable external HDD, and HOPEFULLY A THIRD COPY somewhere.
But it will give you a sort of "repository" for your important documents (though, probably not your Steam games), that will store them away from your main machine, and optionally, it has Cloud options, etc.
Or, you can manually make a "cold" backup to portable external HDD.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149706&ignorebbr=1
$57 or so shipped, for a 2TB Portable External. Good insurance. Can be put in a safe-deposit box. (Although, I recommend using encryption, or at least, an encrypted ZIP or RAR file.
Edit: To get REALLY serious, about backup, get TWO of those NAS units, FOUR of the HDDs, and setup TWO IDENTICAL units, and store them in DIFFERENT locations, and set them up to REPLICATE between them.