Windows 10: Ready to upgrade but driver concerns

Apologies for the simple question, but I have an external hard drive with plenty of space but it also has a lot of valuable files on it. If I use this drive to backup with Macrium Reflect, does it reformat the drive and delete these valuable files or can they be retained?

 

Disk imaging programs will let you create a folder and name the file created which will contain your image. Other files and folders are untouched.

A very useful trick is to plug in your external drive, run diskmgmt.msc, apply a drive letter like R (late in the alphabet) to your external drive.

Next time you plug it in, it will be R.
That way the path always matches your backup settings in the imaging program, making life easier.

Macrium Reflect allows you to manage how many backups you keep for a given disk or partition, controlling the space used. You may prefer to do a system image for Windows, and image data partitions or disks separately.

 

Macrium Reflect will not reformat your external drive safe01 *Smile It will just make an image file of your Windows OS and place the file anywhere you tell it too. Your external drive is a excellent choice. *Smile

 

Again, thanks for the replies. Glad to hear those files won't get deleted. Still haven't decided what to do yet but if I have any problems I'll report back.

 

By 2020 98% of the tech heads on this forum will have moved on to another system.
It's the nature of technology.

 

Hi Bob,
I read that you were able to upgrade a CQ50 to Windows10. My setup sounds just like yours. I can never get a successful upgrade to 10 though. Last night it got to 99% install so I left it and went to bed and this morning it was rebooted back to Win7 64bit.
Do you recall what steps you had to take in order to complete the win10 install on a CQ50? Thanks. -Jim.