Restore Question: Old Windows; Recent Data
I am running True Image 2015, build 6613 and Windows 8.1 Pro. My main computer has been acting up of late and crashing frequently. While trying to upgrade to Windows 10, I got an error message that a system kernel file is corrupt or missing. I have tried to perform a repair installation of Windows 8.1 but it fails every time.
I have backups for the computer going back about 90 days. I would like to reinstall the oldest backup of Windows in the hopes of restoring the corrupt file(s). However, I don't want to lose my recent work and emails. Most of my work files are stored on separate drives (C: drive is an SSD) but my emails are on C: with the Windows files.
How would you suggest I proceed from here?


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I use Thunderbird for my emails. In the meantime, I decided that I had essentially all of my data on the spindle drives and that my emails were on IMAP servers and so I could probably try to restore only the C: drive. However, the results have not been good. The True Image restore went all right, but apparently my oldest backup is also corrupted. I still have the frequent crashes, and when I tried a repair installation of W8.1 (after crashing three times) I got the error message, "We were unable to install Windows 8.1".
I'm thinking that I may have to do a reset and a clean install of Windows 8.1. I should be able to restore the spindle drives from the Acronis backup, but I'm not looking forward to having to reconfigure the settings on the C: drive...it took me a couple of days to get everything the way I wanted it the first time. Any suggestions that might make it easier?
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