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Reset your PC feature win8.1

nohaircut
By nohaircut
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HDD has two partitions named C and D. win 8.1 is C partition. If I do a reset windows will delete files from both partitions or just C? I need some files to save, but I want to know if I can move them to D partition and after reset access them or should I go with external media or cloud (pain in the ass, because it's more than 50GB). Anyone knows the answer?

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load up "disk cleanup" on your pc, then hit "clean up system files"
 

here you will be able to delete the old windows install files

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  1. The PC boots into Windows RE, the Windows Recovery Environment

Windows RE erases and formats the Windows partitions before installing a fresh copy of Windows 8 or 10.

The PC restarts into the new copy of Windows.

Source: http://www.howtogeek.com/132428/everything-you-need-to-know-about-refreshing-and-resetting-your-windows-8-pc/

 

I'd back it up if unsure, but this suggests that it gets deleted anyway as it mentions partitions

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