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I had a drive failure about 2 months ago on my custom built PC with Windows 10 (probably professional version). It was a Seagate drive and they sent the drive to recovery and sent back a USB slimdrive with all of the files recovered.

My question is: How do I now recover back to Windows 10?

I was hoping I could copy those files onto a new drive and boot up Windows, but that results in "No MBR Found". I also tried booting from the USB slimdrive, but that results in a different message telling me to select a proper boot device.

Andrew
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How do I now recover back to Windows 10?

Download a fresh Windows Setup-Media and reinstall windows 10 from there on your new drive. When done, copy only the files you need back from the stick to your drive.

bjoster
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  • How would the registry be transferred so that all of the programs still work? – Andrew Aug 10 '20 at 16:20
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    You need to re-install all the programs on top of the freshly installed Windows. The registry contains so much installation-specific information that it is impossible to copy. – Tero Kilkanen Aug 10 '20 at 20:01
  • You *could* try to copy your user profile back (\users\name), but I doubt this would make you happy. – bjoster Aug 11 '20 at 09:43