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Reinstalling Onedrive after crashed HDD?
I had my Onedrive installed on an external HDD but the HDD crashed so I bought a new SSD hard drive to replace the old one. My Onedrive folder was E:\onedrive\onedrive so when I signed in to my one ...
Don’t reuse the old OneDrive folder path from your crashed HDD, choose a new folder location on your SSD and let OneDrive create a fresh sync there. Since all your files are safely stored in the cloud, OneDrive will download them anew, ensuring no sync conflicts or data loss. Before doing this, verify your files online and back up any local files not yet synced. This clean restart is the safest and most reliable way to recover your OneDrive setup after a drive failure.
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