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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Want to add my old laptop hard drive to my new system (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm unsure if this is the right place to ask, but I have a hard drive from an old laptop that I added to my new computer and was wondering if there's an easy way to delete all of the windows files from it while retaining my files so that I can keep my system more organized.

As far as I can tell, the simplest but least clean option would be to manually delete anything unnecessary from the drive's system folders. Any tips would be appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Could it be simpler to transfer the important stuff off, reformat, and then transfer it back in? You don't have to change the folder structure if you do it all in bulk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Basically just delete everything but the "users" folder And of course any folders you created yourself