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The One And Only Thing You Must Do Before Installing Windows 10 Version 1809


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October update rollout projected to resume soon

As I told you earlier this week, Microsoft is in the process of finalizing testing of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update for the second time, after the company previously pulled it due to a data removal bug.

Windows 10 version 1809 was published on October 2 as a manual download for users who wanted to install it without waiting for the automatically rollout to kick off.

However, only a few days later Microsoft decided to pull the plug on the rollout after it discovered that a bug in the OS feature update was causing the removal of user files in libraries.

A fix has already been released to insiders in the Slow and Release Preview rings, and now the software giant is close to giving the go-ahead for the public rollout to resume. This is expected to happen in the coming days or early next week.

Unfortunately, as most people who managed to upgrade to Windows 10 version 1809 found out in the last few weeks, the experience with the update is far from flawless, and despite being tested as part of the Insider program, there are a lot of issues in there that Microsoft has left unfixed.

The more worrying thing is that some of these issues have been there for many months, and several were reported when Windows 10 version 1809 was still in testing phase. So for whatever reason Microsoft ignored them and never shipped a fix, and this is believed to be the case of the data removal glitch too.

Given all of these, the one and only thing you should do before upgrading to Windows 10 version 1809 when it re-becomes available is backing up. I can’t stress enough how important it is to create a backup of your data and operating system, as it’s pretty clear that hoping for a flawless upgrade process isn’t something you should do these days.

First of all, make sure your personal files are backed up no matter what. The ones in Windows libraries are the most important, but you should also create backups of the files stored on the desktop and in other folders on the 'C:' drive or wherever you installed Windows.

Simply copy these files to a removable drive or store them in a cloud account until you upgrade to Windows 10 version 1809. If nothing is lost, you’re good to go, but if anything goes wrong during the installation process, you can always recover your lost data.

Creating a system restore point in Windows 10

You are also strongly recommended to create a system restore point before the upgrade – Windows should also do this before beginning the installation of Windows 10 version 1809, but manually doing the whole thing guarantees that you can recover safely.

To do this, just type Restore Point in Start menu and hit Enter. System protection needs to be enabled for the 'C:' drive – if it’s not, in this screen select the main drive and hit Configure > Turn on system protection. Return to the previous screen and click the Create button to make a new system backup.

If third-party backup apps are your preferred cup of tea, use them before installing Windows 10 version 1809.

And whatever you do after the upgrade comes to an end, do not run a system cleaning process to remove the previous Windows installations. These files are left on your main drive to let you return to an older Windows version at any point within 10 days, and removing them also means this feature goes away.

If backups are created, it doesn’t even matter how smoothly the upgrade process goes. Sure, hitting issues and waiting for several hours for the upgrade to complete isn’t the most convenient thing to do, but at least you won’t be losing any of your files. Unfortunately, we just had to learn this the hard way.

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