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white.a.drew said:
You dont have back up active already im sorry even for a starter im a little upset on this one..... Click the windows icon search back up and back up to seondary drive.
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white.a.drew said:
You dont have back up active already im sorry even for a starter im a little upset on this one..... Click the windows icon search back up and back up to seondary drive.
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Make sure it has everythi g included you want it to
 
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HarryBoylan15 said:
This is it right?
https://imgur.com/qhCLwI9

There's nothing important on my PC I already have everything for school sent to my email or on school sites. I don't care about having to set everything up again as long as I do it right. So everything can go pretty much.
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I backed it up, I did already have auto back up on, ill show you what I done and you can tell me if I'm good to go.
https://imgur.com/OZuc2k9
https://imgur.com/tqSJqDO

I told you I was a complete PC noob lol
 
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HarryBoylan15 said:
This is it right?
https://imgur.com/qhCLwI9

There's nothing important on my PC I already have everything for school sent to my email or on school sites. I don't care about having to set everything up again as long as I do it right. So everything can go pretty much.
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Yes everything can go basically if you want. But if there are any pictures... Thats arn't in the picture folder then you may want to find the file and add it.... There are things like that that it wont just add.
Plus the way you are doing this you should keep everything on the pc thats not a program.... So you say that this is you school pc and you may have stuff on here you can't just recover through back-up. So please do give a list of your programs you use for school.
 
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white.a.drew said:
Yes everything can go basically if you want. But if there are any pictures... Thats arn't in the picture folder then you may want to find the file and add it.... There are things like that that it wont just add.
Plus the way you are doing this you should keep everything on the pc thats not a program.... So you say that this is you school pc and you may have stuff on here you can't just recover through back-up. So please do give a list of your programs you use for school.
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I have a college folder it's already on the D drive along with the back up files and I already emailed any photos etc that I want to keep to my email. Well the only programs I use for school are either websites that I can just log onto or just downloadable apps like Microsoft Teams or Zoom etc. nothing that I can't just re-download. I want to do as big of a wipe as I can. Start over. Start fresh cause I do recall the game booting the day I got it. Plus there's not much I would redownload apart from the gpu driver, chrome, word, excel and like a handful others and games. Redownloading them will take me no more than an hour.

So just to confirm 1. what I did was right and it's properly backed up? and 2. the only things that will be left is what's on my d drive, everything else will be gone right?
https://imgur.com/lHbbZ2M
That is what is on my D drive now^

I'm good to go now right and follow the video you linked?
 
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HarryBoylan15 said:
I have a college folder it's already on the D drive along with the back up files and I already emailed any photos etc that I want to keep to my email. Well the only programs I use for school are either websites that I can just log onto or just downloadable apps like Microsoft Teams or Zoom etc. nothing that I can't just re-download. I want to do as big of a wipe as I can. Start over. Start fresh cause I do recall the game booting the day I got it. Plus there's not much I would redownload apart from the gpu driver, chrome, word, excel and like a handful others and games. Redownloading them will take me no more than an hour.

So just to confirm 1. what I did was right and it's properly backed up? and 2. the only things that will be left is what's on my d drive, everything else will be gone right?
https://imgur.com/lHbbZ2M
That is what is on my D drive now^

I'm good to go now right and follow the video you linked?
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Perfect all good to go
 
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white.a.drew said:
Perfect all good to go
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Ok last few things before I do it.
A. Do I choose remove everything or keep my files? (it's keep my files right?)
B. Then do I choose cloud download or local installation? (local installation right?)
C. I didn't purchase my Windows from Microsoft for 100$+ or whatever it is I just got a key like most do, that won't matter right? I won't need to have bought it from Microsoft for this to work?
 
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HarryBoylan15 said:
Ok last few things before I do it.
A. Do I choose remove everything or keep my files? (it's keep my files right?)
B. Then do I choose cloud download or local installation? (local installation right?)
C. I didn't purchase my Windows from Microsoft for 100$+ or whatever it is I just got a key like most do, that won't matter right? I won't need to have bought it from Microsoft for this to work?
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Windows will auto activate
Keep all files
Local install
 
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