I’m going to switch from Windows 11 to Linux soon but first I wish to backup every every data and config files I can in my current Windows installation, even those that wouldn’t natively work in Linux. I know the \Users folder is important to back up, but I don’t know what other directories I am missing.
As a general rule when it comes reinstalling a computer while preserving data, I will always recommend removing all drives but the boot drive during install.
Especially since Linux and Windows identifies hard drives in a very different manner.
This is done to prevent any mistake and make it easier to understand what drive contains what data.