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A few weeks ago, I bought a new external HDD for backups and whatnot. Since I already have a few, I needed to move shit around and between drives so that I have at least some redundancy.

This also required some formatting native Linux filesystems (mix between btrfs and ext4) because I can't use NTFS as a reliable backup for my Linux shit. I mean, I can, but it's slow and none of the shit I'm backing up needs to be readable by a Windows machine.

Still, I keep one NTFS drive for backed up Windows images in case I need to return my laptop for whatever reason.

Yeah, so cut to today. Going through my drives because I'm having a hardware issue (battery) and might need to send it back in. I'm sure you know the rest of this. Blah blah, lost the Windows images, blah blah.

Apparently Windows is tied to hardware keys, so reinstalling it with their Media Creation Tool should work fine because the license key is already there. But now I'm going to be seesawing between OS backups and restores for the next day just to make a new backup of Windows.

Honestly, this probably needed to happen. It's reminded to to do a full image backup of my current system, which I'd forgotten to do (it's not super necessary, since I tend to often reinstall a fresh system anyway, but still).

Oh, also I'm having chest pains again, which is fun. (I've been checked and my heart and lungs are okay. Had this same issue a couple of weeks ago. Turned out to be either muscular or anxiety or both. One probably made the other worse.)