My home PC has a dying hard drive.
We have backups of most of the important files, but there's a lot of settings we have that we'd like to save. There's also a question of if our kids have been putting their important files in the proper locations to be picked up by our backups.
We have a Windows 10 machine, and have already replaced the main drive with a new one and installed Windows 10.
I know Microsoft used to offer a free tool for transferring settings, but that offer seems to have expired.
What do I need to do to copy Windows settings as well as other files from an external USB drive?
In the past, I've tried simply pulling data from the external USB drive, but that doesn't work so well when it's pulling from 'protected' spaces on the drive (like User files in Windows).
