For some reason I forgot all about boot discs lol, thank you Syu much for the reminder, there's this awesome bootdisc toolkit I used to use that should still exist. I just need to remember the name...

It's kinda disastrous in the sense that I have over 200gb of games using up space and I can't figure out how to free it back up. You wouldn't happen to know if some sort of...aggressive permission...

Fortunately my data like music and photos are fine, only large games and a few installed programs were affected by the upgrade. I had managed to restore, but not access a couple of folders and delete...

I think the problem is related to a similar issue I experienced in Linux with improperly configured symbolic links. I know the data is still there, it's still taking space on the hard drive, but the...

Oh, also, it happened in many other locations, including c:/program files (x86)/ and other typically used install directories

They were created by the games during installation while I was using Windows 8.1, and the shortcuts did work before the upgrade.

I will have to check my programs in control panel, but the shortcuts on the desktop link to those blank files. They used to be directories, and when I attempt to launch the shortcut it gives a target...

I don't know why or how but many of my folders have been lost after an upgrade, mostly games, and converted into 0 byte files. I don't know how else to explain it, so here's a screenshot:

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