I recently had a shop destroy my OS, and I re-installed Windows 10.
There are two drives, an SSD for the OS, and a hard drive with 1.5tb of programs. The previous data on the SSD was moved by the OS into a "windows.old" subdirectory where it's there but programs unusable.
Because the OS is 'new', it's like an entirely new environment except for the existing data.
I wanted to mention how I'm planning to approach this to see if there are any suggestions to improve it.
Basically, it seems to me that I'll just need to go through the SSD and copy off any text/data files I want to save onto a USB drive, and then reformat the SSD to totally wipe it and re-install the OS.
Then, re-install all the software I noted was on it.
For the hard drive, similarly it'll be noting all the programs I have on it (hundreds, mostly games) and then formatting it and re-installing everything I want on it.
Unless there's some way to do something like restore the registry from the windows.old backup so the programs are usable, I don't know of a better approach.
This seems like a tedious, weeks-long gradual process.
Any ideas?
There are two drives, an SSD for the OS, and a hard drive with 1.5tb of programs. The previous data on the SSD was moved by the OS into a "windows.old" subdirectory where it's there but programs unusable.
Because the OS is 'new', it's like an entirely new environment except for the existing data.
I wanted to mention how I'm planning to approach this to see if there are any suggestions to improve it.
Basically, it seems to me that I'll just need to go through the SSD and copy off any text/data files I want to save onto a USB drive, and then reformat the SSD to totally wipe it and re-install the OS.
Then, re-install all the software I noted was on it.
For the hard drive, similarly it'll be noting all the programs I have on it (hundreds, mostly games) and then formatting it and re-installing everything I want on it.
Unless there's some way to do something like restore the registry from the windows.old backup so the programs are usable, I don't know of a better approach.
This seems like a tedious, weeks-long gradual process.
Any ideas?