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A picture of Noahs Ark. It has the caption "How I feel Gathering all my files before reinstalling windows"

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[–] Beryl@jlai.lu 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Your files should always be on another partition than your system. I relocate user folders (documents, pictures, etc.) to a dedicated partition. It saves a lot of time when you have to reinstall.

[–] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't trust windows install enough to do that lol

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Same. I'd still back everything up.

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