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I use the paid version of GoodSync on a daily basis. Highly recommended for backup "jobs," which can have very granular options and folders to include an exclude. I used to use FreeFileSync but that utility could not cope with large differences between the same folder on different systems.

Hi all, I am the OP on this thread, from last April. To recap, i gave up on Win 11 because I couldn't get a clean install get past the need to be connected to a network, even though drivers hadn't been installed yet. Instead I did a clean install of Win 11 to replace the old, bit-rotted...

I just managed to do a clean install of Win 11 Pro, 2H22, thanks to help from people in this thread Unable to run oobe or msoobe on clean Win 11 install :-) But I hafta wonder. Why is Microsoft making a Win 11 clean install such a pain in the tuchus?:eek1: Win 10 clean install was very...

Yeah, that worked. :-) (y)

@Try3 the good news and the bad news. The Good News is that there is an oobe subdirectory in Windows\System32, with an msoobe executable. The Bad News is that running this program with the \bypassnro option did not accomplish anything useful. To be clear, I wasn't connected to the web...

How so? I had no problem with booting from the USB for installing Win 11. And for Win 10 never again problems either.

I'm trying to do a clean Win 11 install, completely clean of all the accumulated Windows 10 cruft from my old Wkindows. So the first thing I did with the Win 11 USB installer was wipe the drive clean. Then I started to do a clean install, and got as far as the screen "Let's connect you to a...

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I have several recovery partitions on the drive with my C: partition. I also create a D partition for data files on the same physical drive. When I built this system in 2019, I was still running Windows 7, but then upgraded to Windows 10, updating it to the current 22H2 release. I assume that...

I used to use SyncToy until I discovered that it was making copies (with "(1)" in the filename. FreeFileSync failed under heavy loads. I have had great success with the paid version of GoodSync.

I keep all my data in separate Windows partitions. A clean Windows install doesn't affect those partitions.

Per my post #5 above, I use Goodsync for partitions other than C:. My C: partition is only for Windows and programs. All my data goes on D or E for media like photos, music, etc. I also have an F drive where I store my program installs, programs I want to try out, etc,

I use Goodsync, www.goodsync.com. You can set up "jobs" which control which files or folders you want synchronized, meaning add/update and delete files. You run the jobs on demand. Sync can be one-way or two-way. No external drives or server is needed.

I want to upgrade an old Lenovo T530 to run Win 11 Pro 64, but it fails the Win 11 install requirements. Right now it's running Win 10 Pro 64 v22H2, and booting up much faster since I replaced the old HDD with a SSD. I've read a bunch of guides for doing the necessary modifications to the Win...

@Bree, @jimbo45 and @NavyLCDR Hi guys. I'm glad to see some "familiar faces" from the Win 10 forums also here. Makes me feel a bit better about upgrading all my systems to Win 11.