Windows 10: One Drive with a new laptop

So, my old laptop died about a week ago, and fortunately I had a full backup of the entire contents on an external drive. I did the full back on May 24th. During the week I was waiting for my new laptop, I accessed and updated a few files in One Drive using my tablet.


I bought a new laptop and did a full restore from my backup drive, since I don't have all my files synced in OneDrive too many photos, which I don't sync to OneDrive. When I did the restore, I changed where the files were restored, as they didn't seem to restore to the default user initially "Patricia" I think, now "logof" -- made up by Windows 10. See the screenshot listing the users. All my files are under user "logof", which are also the default locations for Documents, Pictures, Music, and Videos. I then downloaded from One Drive the 6 files I had updated over the week to their correct directories, so I had the most recent versions on my desktop.




Now I am noticing that after the download, I made some changes to the downloaded content, and it did not sync to OneDrive. I think OneDrive is looking to sync with the old file structure which no longer exists. I am not even sure what the old structure was, but it mighthave been C:\Users\Patricia, but under that structure, there are no files. As I said, the new files are in this structure: "C:\Users\logof"


How do I get stuff to resync to my new file structure, making sure the changes I made to the files on the laptop this morning, are uploaded to OneDrive, and OneDrive doesn't download the previous versions on top of the new one.'


I am fine with simply blowing away OneDrive and starting over, if that is the easiest way to do it. I have a full backup of my laptop on my external drive. I just want to make sure that the changes I made this morning to my local laptop, are not lost, and I can easily just make copies of those before I do anything.


Trish ;

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Reinstall Windows 10 to new hard drive

Hi Rodolpho,

We want to know about the issue you're having with your recovery drive. Please answer the questions below:

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New laptop and older external hard drive

The laptop doesn't easily "see" the drive.. when I am in Devices and Printers... the icon for the ext HD will appear for just a few seconds.. if I rightclick on it quickly, it'll show the popup for hardware but doesn't have the info for it... does correctly
refer to it as "USB 2.0 CD + HDD".

I tried your list of steps, but , the HD does NOT ever show in the Disk Management list.

I do have an older Dell that I need to see if it will recognize the HD. I'll try that next.

THANKS for taking the time to list those steps...