Restoring a backup after reinstalling Windows 10
I recently ran into a problem with a Windows 10 update that resulted in having to reinstall Windows 10. My drive C was completely wiped clean, meaning that all of my programs now need to be reinstalled. Drive E (a separate physical drive) was not affected and that's where much of my data is stored.
I have a cloud backup of both drives from September 20, four days before the Windows problem occurred, but when I select Drive C to be restored, I get a message saying "The selected destination hard disk is not empty. If you continue, all data the disk contains will be deleted." Is it safe to allow the restore to continue or will that just mess up my newly installed Windows? I'm not real tech-savvy, so I'm reluctant to take chances -- but I sure would like to restore all my programs without having to finds disks and download files one by one. I'd appreciate any advice on how to proceed. This is what the list to be recovered looks like:


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