Windows 10: Can I start from scratch?

I’m installing a new SSD C-drive that I will format and configure.

My laptop has one HHD drive (partitioned into two parts, D-drive and E-drive) that I want to backup, wipe clean, and then reinstall—much more neatly this time—the programs I want and the data I need.

To do that I created two folders All files on D-Drive and All files on E-Drive on the D and E drives respectively. My plan was to back up both these ‘All drives on…’ directories and restore from the two backups the files I wanted.

There were some folders on the root of these drives that I didn’t want to backup. They seemed folders/files that were generated by the computer (not by me, to my knowledge), namely:

D-Drive: System Volume information (Access Denied); MSOCache (87 files/19 Folders 686 MB /All Users/[a bunch of folders holding mostly .msi files that seem related to MS Office apps] ); WUDownloadCache (969 files/2 folders mostly .esd, .cab, and .xml files)

E-Drive: System Volume information (Access Denied); Windows10Upgrade (6.45 GB two .esd files); and the $Recycle.BIN (which I was surprised wasn’t on the C-drive)

Would there be any harm in deleting these Folders/Files, or to be more direct, would I lose anything of importance by reformatting and re-partitioning the HDD drive?

Thanks

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• Must be a new purchase from an authorized EVGA reseller. Step-ups do not qualify.
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Hi,



Apologies for the late reply.

I would suggest you to try the following steps:

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  Click Start icon and click Settings
  
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