Issues with Hard Drive

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Okay so, I am currently having my data transferred onto another hard drive (by a computer company) as it has encountered a problem. I forgot to ask and I was wondering if my Downloads Folder would be something that would transfer in the process of transferring all of my other folders such as Pictures, Music, etc. and will they probably work once I load them on the new computer? They are basically going to be on an external and I will be loading everything off of that onto my new blank hard drive installed. Can anyone help me with this?
 
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Okay so, I am currently having my data transferred onto another hard drive (by a computer company) as it has encountered a problem. I forgot to ask and I was wondering if my Downloads Folder would be something that would transfer in the process of transferring all of my other folders such as Pictures, Music, etc. and will they probably work once I load them on the new computer? They are basically going to be on an external and I will be loading everything off of that onto my new blank hard drive installed. Can anyone help me with this?

You'd have to ask them, but assuming they are transferring everything off the old drive to the new, then I'm quite confident that the Downloads folder qualifies as a part of "everything". As for if they will work, so long they aren't corrupted as a result of the problem you had, they should.
 

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