Refreshing old (now borked) Manjaro installation

[Aragorn]

Welcome to the forum!

@varxx

QUESTION: Is there an easy, sure way to do a fresh install and keep all my existing data?

I am going to quote myself from another thread, where the original poster had a similar problem…

@Aragorn

If you don’t have any backups, then I’m afraid reinstalling is your only option. And it’s a lesson hard-learned that you do need to regularly make backups.

The only good news is that your user data is still intact. You can use the live session of the install medium to make a backup of that first.

I would also advise you to create a separate partition for /home , if you don’t have one. If you then ever need to start all over again, then you can tell the installer not to format /home, and then your data won’t be at risk.