Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20150709181231/@comment-26427856-20150730022457

206.169.64.230 wrote: If it were me I would just copy + paste all the files I need about from my computer to the external hard drive with Windows Explorer. Could you do that?

Does the Windows 8.1 -> Windows 10 uupdate really make you reset your entire computer? That siunds so inconvenient. I'd never be able to do that. I have hundreds of GB worth of stuff on mine and no external storage big enough to hold it. ^^; My external hard drive is 3 times the size of my laptop's built in hardrive and it already has all of my files on it and it still has plenty of room. It doesn't make you reset your whole computer. Most updates like that do make you do a clean install, but there's a way to just do an upgrade without wiping everything. I plan on upgrading rather than doing the clean install. I've been informed that doing that takes longer and there's a chance things can get put in the wrong places because it like re-allocates your stuff of something (and I often don't install things to where they want to install by default, so I feel like some stuff could get moved around a bit. That's not what I'm worried about though.)

What I'm worried about is that V2 or some other really important program won't work on Windows 10, or that something about Windows 10 won't work right with my computer, or that my computer might run worse on Windows 10, or that I won't like Windows 10-- Pretty much anything that might make me want/need to revert back to Windows 8(.1). But once I have Windows 10 I don't think it will give me the option to go back to 8(.1) so I want to have a copy of the Windows 8 operating system just in case. So that way I could probably figure out a way to force it to restore back Windows 8 if I had to.

I copied what seems like my recovery drive ( This PC > RECOVERY (D:) > recovery ) onto my external hard drive but I'm not sure if that file will actually let me restore back to Windows 8 or if I need to perform some kind of action on it to get it to be able to do that if necessary. HP Recovery Media Creator said I'd need a USB flash drive of at least 22GB, but this file is only 357MB.

Also does anyone know if my computer will be okay to go over into Windows 10 while my locale is still set to Japanese but the system language, format, and location are all still set to United States & English? I don't want Cortana to be talking to me in Japanese or anything. (I mean, as cool as that'd be, I wouldn't be able to understand anything except for the words that like everybody knows, like konnichiwa, arigato, ai kotoba, etc.)   I'm currently checking with the HP Support Assistant download from the HP website to see if my drivers are up to date for Windows 10 and it needs me to restart, so if I have to change the locale back to the US I may as well do that and then restart instead of having to restart twice.