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One Drive has taken my files out of my laptop hard drive and replaced with small icon.
I had to have Windows 11 removed (it was "upgraded" without my permission), because it was full of bugs and windows 10 reinstalled. When I copied my backed-up files back to my laptop, most had a "red...
Sounds like you had your files in the cloud only, with files on demand set.
When you ran the backup this will have just backed up the "File on demand" file that links to the cloud.
You then went into OneDrive on the cloud and deleted your files.
You then removed win11 and returned to win10, and restored the backup that pointed to the cloud files (the ones you deleted)
So now the files are gone. Unlee you check the recycle bin in onedrive cloud.