Windows 10: Visually impaired and faced with the Win 10 install! :(

Very poor eyesight. I can't see any text on my screen without the Windows Magnifier. Asperger's, dyslexia, and a whole list of other yucky stuff wrong with my brain that can make life feel like I'm doing hard time!
I'm trying to move files from my C drive to the D drive so they won't be effected by the Win 10 clean install. Most of my files are already on the D drive because I reserved the C drive for a few games I like to play. C:/ is an SSD.

But I'm having lots of trouble moving files to the D drive that accidentally got saved to that drive by my wife! I don't know what they are... and a lot of them won't move. Maybe they're system files? The computer is asking for "administrator permissions!!!!" "Unexpected errors" are popping up! I really wanted to do this "almost" clean install,


but it's starting to look impossible! I'm pretty freaked out! I don't wanna do the "in place" upgrade because I need to clean out the system so the computer will run faster again. I can't see... my brain doesn't work, and I'm alone. Friends, family, and even someone from the American Foundation for the Blind didn't reply to my email asking for some help. I'm not angry... This is just the way of the world. I donno what to do. I have valuable files on this computer. Does anybody here have any suggestions?

The computer is running slower and slower probably because of malware and bloatware that tend to build up over time. I really need to refresh the system!

I'm running Win 8.1 Pro. I want to install Win 10 Pro.

:)

 

Accessibility and the Visually Impaired

Hi, I want to get a windows phone 7 but I don't know if it has any features that can help me. I'm registered as severely sight impaired in the UK and I wanted to know if windows phone 7 has any accessibility features that can help me. I have a iPhone 3Gs
currently and that has 3 features that I usually use, I can zoom in anywhere on the screen at any time, it has text to speech and a high contrast mode. Does windows phone 7 have similar features and if so what? Thanks in advance for the help.

 

Accessibility and the Visually Impaired

Hi,

Please have a look at
this website. It discusses several ways you can alter your phone to make it easier fo you to use.

An hearing aid or an TTY/TDD for example are supported by the phone.



Hope that helps,

Tobias

 

I would install Macrium Reflect Free, make a backup image of at least your C: drive partition - which will be saved as one file to your D: drive. Once you install Windows 10, then you can re-install Macrium Reflect Free on it. You then mount the image file that you created earlier and you can browse it and copy files from it just like it was a separate drive, like an E: drive.

The only requirement is that you have enough free space on D: drive to hold the image file that will be at most 90% of the used space of C: drive. Making the image file makes it so that you don't have to worry about "did I copy everything I need to?" because everything is copied.

Macrium Reflect Free

 

Just to add something: of course you can also use any external drive to store the Macrium image, it does not have to be your D: drive. When I make Macrium images I connect an external USB3 drive to store them, using it as target.

 

Will the free version of Macrium enable me to mount the image? I've never done this before.

If the image is not "mounted," then Windows can't see it... right? Mounting it makes it look like something Windows recognizes?

Like if my name was Windows, (call me Winnie), and I was looking for my friend "Joe," and I saw a giant blob of gook in the middle of the street, would I even attempt to look in that blob for Joe? No! But then if I saw a car double-parked down the block, with its lights on, then maybe I might think I could find Joe in that car?

(Sorry for the weird description.)

 

It is very simple. In screenshot below I have opened a folder where I have stored a Macrium system image. I simply double click it to mount it as a virtual hard disk:




The image contains several hard disks or partitions, files I want to access are in this example stored on C: drive. I select it and click OK:




I can now access the user folders as if the system image virtual hard disk were a totally normal hard disk and copy them to my current Windows installation:




When done I select the virtual hard disk in File Explorer (This PC) and select Unmount Macrium image:

 

You might want to put the check in the box to enable access to restricted folders when mounting the drive from the image file.

Thank you Kyhi for the clear explanation!

 

I only got half of your explanation so far. I'm severely dyslexic in addition to lots of other yucky stuff. So I'm gonna do this, one "baby-step" at a time.
I'm gonna ask silly questions because my brain just doesn't work properly. *Sad

Step 1.
I'm on the first Macrium screen.
I see 2 options:
Clone this disk
Image this disk

I want the selected data that's on this C drive, to be permanently on the D drive.
I didn't select the part of the C drive with the OS on it. I assume that will be wiped with the clean install of Win 10.

Which option should I choose?
Clone or image?

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I have to say how much I appreciate this help. This is pretty difficult for somebody who's not playin' with a full deck! *Smile Thanks. *Smile

I guess I should list some of the stuff:
Asperger's
Low vision
Dyslexia
Dyscalculia
Synesthesia

Contrary to what most people think, synesthesia can cause problems... and for me, it does. *Sad

 

This is a video I made for another Forums member so he could View Event Logs of Mounted Image, this might get you acquainted along with Kari's mini tutorial above*Smile

[youtube]dIH0q-Z_-1Q[/youtube]

 

As far as I know access to restricted folders is not needed if the data to extracted is normal user data, personal files and folders in user profile folder.

 

I might have misunderstood the purpose for that block. I thought I had to have that checked in order to access user folders in the image that were not the current user logged in mounting the image.

 

Please understand. I'm an Asperger. (High functioning autistic.) I'm unable to do many ordinary things. But on the other side of the equation, Asperger's syndrome can be a super-power. I learnt all the basic guitar chords in one night... figured 'em out... but the tutorials you guys sent me did not answer my question/s! *Sad

The Asperger mind works like a simple computer. (286 maybe...) Information given to me has to be totally literal if possible. Anything IMPLIED, I may miss. And I have very little RAM!!! *Sad I don't process incoming information well at all.

The tutorials start a step or two ahead of where I'm at. I don't know how to get to the first step. On the first screen in Macrium, do I choose CLONE THIS DISK, or IMAGE THIS DISK?

All I wanna do is move some files and programs from the C drive to the D drive, (where they should've been in the first place. My wife kept saving things on the C drive, (which I reserved for games plus the OS).

 

All of us have some kind of disabilities. My vanity and love for single malt whisky are mine, making me a fruitcake, not to mention my neurological damages which forced me to apply for disability pension just yesterday as told here.

I'm with you my fellow geek, we'll go this through together *Smile

I am already grateful to you for teaching me something new. After reading your original post I have Googled and Binged your disabilities. You have my full respect.

Let's see what you wrote in your original post:

If your only intention is as you mentioned to copy the files from your C: drive to a safe place, then clean install Windows 10, and finally extract your files and copy them to new fresh Windows 10 install, then you select Image this disk selecting the physical hard disk where the C: drive is located.

In my case in this example I am saving the D: drive where my personal files are located, so I unselect other disks and other partitions on first disk except the D: partition. In your case you would unselect all other disks and partitions than the C: drive:



(Click screenshots to pop-out, click again to enlarge.)

Now I select Image selected disks on this computer:




Follow the on-screen instructions to create the image. This excellent video tutorial on our sister site Seven Forums will explain how Macrium works: Imaging with free Macrium - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

OK, I got really confused... so I tried another method... but that was even worse! The videos don't really work for me I guess. My eyesight is really bad... and I'm dyslexic, autistic, and blablabla... *Sad I know I have to make an image or clone of the data I wanna keep after I install Win 10. And after the installation of the new OS, I have to mount the data so I can use it. There's a video up already that will attempt to show me how to deal with the data. How to mount it I guess? 'Cause I don't know how to do that. But I think I probably need to get a text description instead of a video, telling me what I have to do to make the image or clone. Do I choose CLONE THIS DISK, or IMAGE THIS DISK? And how do I tell Macrium where to put the "disk?"