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How to backup user data before major hardware change
Hi! In the next couple days I will be installing an Asrock Z77 OC formula with an Intel Core i7 3770K processor. I have a lot of programs that have user data that I don't want to lose. What is the best way to go about doing this? I already have movies, books and music on external hard drives but want to backup the program profiles associated with them.
I've only had one user profile "Admin" (Locks on other user profiles) but was finally able to locate it with this command %userprofile%\AppData .
Do I copy the whole folder ie Mozilla, Thunderbird and place on an external hard drive and then transfer back after the new install or only part of the folder.
Another example is Newsbin that I use to download from newsgroups and it has my server info, all the newsgroup headers that I've subscribed to. So would I backup the whole folder.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated to save as much data as I can for important programs.
Thanks, Ken