Windows 10: Cant find personal files to back up from solid state drive

Discus and support Cant find personal files to back up from solid state drive in Windows 10 Gaming to solve the problem; I've had to re install windows fresh due to a blue screen of death loop. Only way I could back up my files was to remove the ssd from the PC and attach... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Gaming' started by Folder boy, Nov 27, 2024.

  1. FOLDER BOY
    Folder boy Win User

    Cant find personal files to back up from solid state drive


    I've had to re install windows fresh due to a blue screen of death loop. Only way I could back up my files was to remove the ssd from the PC and attach via usb to another computer as an external drive to back up files from there. But I can't get into my personal storage. It's showing up all the windows app installation folders in "my pc" from the drive and all the programs installed but I can't find anything else. I checked the drives capacity to make sure nothing was deleted and it showing as 173gb free space which was my free space at the time of the PC blue screen crash. It's a 2TB ssd. I

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    Folder boy, Nov 27, 2024
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  2. JOSHUASMITH3
    JoshuaSmith3 Win User

    Unable to Install Sea Of Thieves on Solid State Drive

    I had Sea of Thieves installed on my harddrive, but the load times were slow so I wanted to switch it to my solid state drive. I took the following steps.

    • Uninstalled Sea of Thieves
    • Navigated to the microsoft store and selected install
    • Selected C: drive (which is my ssd) as the install location
    • After completing the download I get the error: "Couldn't install. We'll retry shortly".
    I've attempted this twice with no luck. It's a large download so it takes a long time to retry, I'm hoping for an easy resolution to get this installed on my C: drive.

    Thank you,

    Josh
     
    JoshuaSmith3, Nov 27, 2024
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  3. BTC55
    BTC55 Win User
    Upgrading to a solid state drive

    I am considering upgrading to a Solid State Drive.

    I have two basic questions that I hope someone can help me with.

    • I am running Windows 10 Professional. It was the free upgrade offered for Win 7 users. If I upgrade will I have any problems reinstalling/switching to the new SSD? Is there anything I should be aware of before upgrading?
    • I have upgraded hard drives many times over the years but this is my first Solid State upgrade. In the past I was always upgrading to a larger drive. Drive software always allowed me to clone to a larger drive. This time, I will be using a smaller SSD for
      my operating system, 250 GB. My current Sata drive is 1 Tb. How do I proceed? If I simply install the smaller SSD, how do I get windows 10 on the drive? Do I install my original Windows 7 operating system and upgrade again? Will that work again? Or is there
      a way to get the Win 10 license key and install Win 10 and use that key. If so, how do I get that key.

    Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

    BTC
     
    BTC55, Nov 27, 2024
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  4. DEANLARSEN2
    DeanLarsen2 Win User

    Cant find personal files to back up from solid state drive

    defragging solid state drive

    is it true that the life of your solid state drive will be shortened by using windows built-in defragging tool?
     
    DeanLarsen2, Nov 27, 2024
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