Windows 10: Does deleting files from all drives when resetting PC affect Onedrive saved data and other...

I’m planning on resetting my PC to sell, however going through the process an unexpected option asking wether to reset all drives appeared. I’m trying to fully remove all my data from the PC so that it can’t be downloaded however I don’t want data on other laptops that are linked to also be deleted if this is what that option does. does anyone know the rest process?

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Cannot access my User Account on local machine but can access Admin account. Need help finding password but NOT reset it as it will delete saved data.

Hi,



I understand your concern and will assist you to resolve this issue.

If you reset the local account password it will not delete the Saved data.

I suggest you to back up the saved data and files from the admin account and try to reset the password and check if it helps.

Follow the steps below to reset the password.

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  Press Windows + R.
  
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  Type netplwiz and press enter.
  
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  Select the user account.
  
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  Click on Reset Password.
  

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help.

 

Onedrive saving data without consent

Try these steps :

Click on the small onedrive cloud icon in your taskbar

Then click on help and settings and then again on settings.

Then in the pop up window click on the first tab (settings)

Untick the last option that says "save space and download files as you use them"

(This will start the process of downloading all your data from the cloud back to your device)

In addition to this untick the first option that says "start onedrive automatically when I sign in to windows " (this will prevent its autostart)

Once the data has finished downloading (You can verify that by looking at the folders) click on backup tab in the same popup window.

ensure that the backup is still off.

At this point please visit www.onedrive.com and compare to your system and look for any data that is still missing in your system. Download it and make a backup since we will unlink onedrive and that data which has not been download will be lost.

Once you have verified go to the Account tab on the onedrive popup window and click on unlink this pc. Confirm your choice and onedrive will be removed from your file manager (You may not be able to delete onedrive app completely from your system since it is an integrated part of onedrive but it will not longer access your files or back them up)

One additional step can be to right click on taskbar then click on taskmanager.

Click on More details at the bottom and then click on Startup tab.

Search for onedrive in the list (if it is not there you may ignore this step)

Right click on it and click on disable.

That is all please let me know if you face any issues.

 

Download from Onedrive to Save Files on PC

Hi!

I have just moved over 500 GB of picture files from my old PC to a new PC using OneDrive. It took a couple of days for the files to download from OneDrive. They now sit on the OneDrive folder on my new PC - only they don't. Every time I open a picture
file I see a message saying downloading file from OneDrive. If I check the properties of the Pictures Folder within the OneDrive folder it shows I have some 435 GB of 503 GB saved on disk. This suggests that not all parts of the files have been download.

I want to save the files from OneDrive on my C: drive in Pictures folder. What is the best way to do it? Do I Copy or Move the files in the OneDrive folder?

All suggestions welcome.

Thanks, Nick