i initially backed the files up to a separate partition. however, windows’s recovery partition stubbornly caused issues during the install; an internet forum equated my system partition configuration (excluding the backup partition) to hell and recommended me to just erase the disk.
so, i found a 500GB microSD card, where a previously-copied soccer video was working, and used the live ISO’s Dolphin file manager (KDE my goat) to copy the partition’s files over. however this made my live ISO (run over ventoy) run out of SWAP or sth, so i rebooted into the live ISO and used rsync for the remaining files. I did not verify any of those, save for taking a glance at the files list. and uh it turns out none of my files were copied correctly! now, i have a list of files and their sizes (which are both correct), filled with garbage information.
That sucks, what happened?
i initially backed the files up to a separate partition. however, windows’s recovery partition stubbornly caused issues during the install; an internet forum equated my system partition configuration (excluding the backup partition) to hell and recommended me to just erase the disk.
so, i found a 500GB microSD card, where a previously-copied soccer video was working, and used the live ISO’s Dolphin file manager (KDE my goat) to copy the partition’s files over. however this made my live ISO (run over ventoy) run out of SWAP or sth, so i rebooted into the live ISO and used rsync for the remaining files. I did not verify any of those, save for taking a glance at the files list. and uh it turns out none of my files were copied correctly! now, i have a list of files and their sizes (which are both correct), filled with garbage information.