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Re installing windows

Werdna

I am going to upgrade my mobo, and re installing windows 8, do anyone know what happens to all my files and games? Do i have to re install them again?

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back them up to another hdd first...then reinstall

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you back up your files to a USB or other HDD

then after installing windows 8 you redownload all your programs and put your files back on the drive

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If you decide to do complete reinstall, do as adviced above. That will include formatting system drive. So if you are using SSD as OS drive and HDD for other stuff, you can backup to that HDD. It won't be affected.

If you do repair style install where installer only repairs drivers and other errors, your files remain as is. That doesn't always fix problems, though.

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