Your crucial data is stored across various drives.
Your crucial data is stored across various drives.
The quickest method is to save your personal files in your user profile, turn off the other drives in BIOS, or disconnect them. Clear your system drive, remove all partitions, reinstall Windows 11, restore the backup of your files. The machine account and access control list for files and folders will differ, so avoid backing up the registry or anything else. Turn on your other drives, reconnect them, delete system partitions, and expand the main storage partition.
To achieve this, you'll need to reduce the size of your front and back windows partitions so they fit properly. I haven't done this before, but if you proceed and disable other disks to prevent booting, using the install USB can help fix the issue. Your system has a 499MB recovery partition, a 100MB EFI partition before C:, and a 650MB recovery partition at the end. You'll require around 600MB of free space at the front and 650MB at the end of the disk.
btw... with Steam Ubisoft and other game loaders, you can save your game data. If you have room on your hard drive, just copy the game files there and restore after reinstalling. for drivers, I’d use PowerShell to run Export-WindowsDriver with the path D:\Drivers. You can place drivers in any folder you prefer, and they’ll load quickly from there. check the Device Manager to install them directly.