How to Backup/Archive to External Drive or USB Flash Drive by manually copying and pasting
Plugin your USB Flash-drive or External Drive and it should appear in the bottom left of the Explorer window as a D: or E: drive.
Now highlight the user-profile (see above), right-click and select “Copy”
Now highlight the D: or E: Drive as detailed above, and right-click and select “Paste”
Files will now start to copy to the external drive (E: drive in this example). If insufficient space on the external drive, you will get an error and the operation will stop. Free up space on the external-drive or re-format it, then repeat the copy-paste process.
The copy process may take from a couple of minutes to many hours to complete, depending on the amount of data to transfer.
Once complete, remove the external drive or USB and store in a safe place (if archiving) or connect to the new Windows 11 Machine and copy paste only the files you require to be on the new machine.
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