Minecraft world is gone after resetting windows.

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Hello Josh, I did a quick search on your question, if you haven't completely formatted windows maybe you can still recover your world, see the link below.

https://www.online-tech-tips.com/gaming/how-to-...

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Hello, My name is Jesse. I'm an Independent Advisor and a member of the Microsoft community and I'd love to assist you today.

Hit the windows key + R and type %appdata% and then proceed to find the .minecraft folder and delete it and then open up the launcher again and it will take you to the login screen. Your worlds are gone but you can drag your world files out and put it on your desktop until after running Minecraft again so it creates the folder necessary to put your worlds back sorry for the aneurysm you gained from reading that. (take the world files out first before deleting the .minecraft folder)

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Since the PC was wiped, all locally saved files are gone, so even if you have the Windows 10 version of Minecraft, "restoring previous version" wouldn't work since there is no previous version to restore. (However this could be a solution if you had just
deleted the world and not have wiped the whole PC). Sorry, the world is gone.

Followup question,

If I then buy the game digitally will I keep progress. For example will all minecraft worlds be gone or will they still be there after I buy the digital game?

I only moved the launcher, so the save directory location is the same as it was before, just completely empty. I'm just really confused as to what has even caused this.