Help, I am confused on what happens to my data on my storage drive when I backup windows 7!

mike88931

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So I am trying to reinstall windows to fix a problem, but I do not want to lose my terabytes of music, games, movies, and photos. At the moment I have no space left on my 250gb OS ssd and about 800gb left on my 3tb storage drive. If I reinstall windows on my ssd will it affect the storage drive's data? How would I set i back up?
 

mike88931

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So if I put all the data I want to keep on the 3tb storage drive and disconnect it, when I go to reconnect it later I can just plug it back in and will not have to format anything? My data will just be as it was on that drive?
 
yup... and after t=finished w/ the OS install and connecting it back, change the pointers for your User folders to the locations on the 3TB drive.

I have:
C: 120GB SSD
D: 2TB HDD

D:\mystuff\... < user folders.

Nothing on C except totally unavoidable programs and data...