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Recovering PC from Operating System Wipe
6 years ago
Letting you know that the lack of recent updates has been due to a hardware malfunction of my main PC. The solid-state-drive where Windows was located suffered a complete wipe, the drive itself is unreadable and data recovery is not viable.
ALL ART FILES ARE SAFE AS I'VE MADE COPIES OF IT TO AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE.
Nevertheless the operating system had to be reinstalled from scratch on a new drive and everything has to be reconfigured to the state it originally was (or as close as possible) which is going to take a while to get things back up-and-running. (Program settings, keyboard shortcuts, passwords, general configuration options, drivers, etc.)
If for this reason I'm unable to post new content this month I'll pause Patreon so no one gets a charge at the beginning of the month.
My apologies for the inconvenience this may cause. I'll update you as soon as everything gets back on track.
Thanks for your time.
ALL ART FILES ARE SAFE AS I'VE MADE COPIES OF IT TO AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE.
Nevertheless the operating system had to be reinstalled from scratch on a new drive and everything has to be reconfigured to the state it originally was (or as close as possible) which is going to take a while to get things back up-and-running. (Program settings, keyboard shortcuts, passwords, general configuration options, drivers, etc.)
If for this reason I'm unable to post new content this month I'll pause Patreon so no one gets a charge at the beginning of the month.
My apologies for the inconvenience this may cause. I'll update you as soon as everything gets back on track.
Thanks for your time.
*walks away embarrassed*
Image backups work.
Try to have at least two copies of everything important.
If you don't have a good image of your system drive, you will need to keep all of your keys, so that you can reinstall everything you paid for.
You seem very knowledgeable on the matter. I've been thinking about upgrading to Windows 10 now that official support for 7 will end next year. Have you had experience with it and would you recommend it?
Somewhat larger than Win 7. No surprise there.