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Problems with window installation

there is a personal computer whose window has crashed so i have to install another window but its disk was not partitioned so it still has clients data, what should i do?

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Easiest thing to do is to just install windows on another hard drive and use that to boot, then get the client's info and data off of the unpartitioned drive and onto the one with windows on it. Since it's not partitioned it's likely they don't have windows OS on it so it should be okay.

If the drive that the client's data is on is M.2 and the motherboard only has one slot, then you could put the windows OS on an external SSD/Flashdrive and then clone it over to the client's data drive using window's built-in restore and backup tool. Shouldn't lose data this way but I would still backup the data just in case something goes wrong.

If the client's data is already on an external storage device (USB/SSD Some kind of cloud setup) then you could just unplug it from the system and reinstall windows that way and then just plug it back in and move the data over.

However you do it, just make sure your client's data is backed up.

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