Restoring an application or attribute(s) of an application to their original state.
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toshiba hdd error: f3-f000-0018
My fiancées Toshiba Satellite computer had gotten a virus which won't allow her computer to start up past the windows flag. I used Toshiba recovery to reset it to factory defaults. After which I ...
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Scan formatted hard drive for ANSI txt file?
Is there any software that will allow me to undelete a text file encoded in ANSI? I know one line of the TXT file (so search would be useful). The hard drive was formatted using a quick format so the ...
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Laptop hard drive replacement: losing Windows recovery?
I might soon have to change my hard drive for a new one
as it is starting to show signs of ceasing to work properly.
I am running Windows 7 and have a recovery partition on the
current hard drive from ...
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Stolen Macbook Pro, want to gain remote access
Hey guys I had a Macbook pro stolen. When I talked to the police they essentially told me there was nothing to do. Since then, I have read more about tracking down stolen macs and just last night ...
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Can someone recover “permanently” deleted files remotely via wifi?
I'm a newbie and I'm concerned about the safety of the files in my laptop. I recently deleted some confidential files, and I'm wondering if it is possible for someone to access my laptop via wifi and ...
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Windows 7 Home Premium recovering from iSCSI target?
I have a notebook with Windows7 Home Premium which unable to backup to a network drive, but can use an iSCSI device. For backup... :(
But... Is there any way to restore my system from the backup was ...
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Version control, file history and versioning for Microsoft Windows 7?
What Software allows me to go into the folder properties and enable file versioning / a file history, so that any overwrite can be undone?
Windows Vista and beyond do provide simple versioning ...
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What kind of image goes on the Recovery partition
I have installed Win 7 Pro on my OS partition and created a windows image file (.wim) after sysprepping my OS with /generalize and a custom unattend.xml file that works well for what I need.
I have ...
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Samsung Recovery Solution - create a custom recovery partition
I've got a Samsung notebook with Samsung Recovery Solution installed. It can create a recovery images for later system restore.
The notebook has a service (factory) hidden partition, which can be ...
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Can I uninstall a program or driver from Windows 7 recovery tools?
I just installed Windows 7. The first thing I did after desktop was run a full system update. Upon reboot, BSOD. The message doesn't display long enough for me to read what it says - it flashes for ...
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malware has infected PC with Windows 7 OS (64-bit), taken over admin account
and given itself inherited permissions. At the same time, the former owner of PC, myself, and the admin account created under my name is denied any services that have apparently been installed by ...
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need to recover bios settings from bricked eee
I'm new in the computer world and.I just bricked my first laptop. I tried to power on the laptop without a cmos battery. Now only the power and wi fi lights are on. No monitor, nothing. Please help ...
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Reset root password of a VM
I removed (distrattament) my "sudo" user from sudo group user, I can't use root because I don't know a password for root.
I have an Ubuntu virtual machine and when I open Recovery Menu is limited ...
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Testdisk. Change partitions, but disk still doesn't open. Recover partitions
Laptop ASUS, if it can help.
Because I'm very stupid in the system administration, I made from NTFS disk the RAW. I connect it to another computer through USB. I need to recover file system, so I use ...
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C:\System Volume Information is taking up 60 GB
I decided to do some spring cleaning on my laptop, and used a disk analyzer to free up some space on my C drive. I've managed to go from about 13 to about 33 GB of space, but I noticed that I was only ...
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recover deleted xbox360 profile from Flash Drive?
I have a 8GB Usb flash drive and I configured it from xbox 360 for 1 GB. SO that I can use Pen Drive in both PC and 360. Accidentally I deleted all files from pen drive now My profile is also deleted ...
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Recover Dell Factory Restory Image on Secret Drive
I have an Studio 17, which has a secret 15 gigabyte partition with the original Windows 7 recovery image. Is there any way I can convert this into a recovery DVD so that I can delete the partition.
I ...
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x:\> drive, but no c drive - master boot unable to access disk.
I have a Vizio all in one which when I updated it to Windows 8 all went south.
Can not boot. Used Norton recover tool, but it can not find the master boot record.
In DOS, there is a x:> drive, no C ...
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Recover data from Formatted & Encrypted Hard Disk with Bitlocker [duplicate]
I have a hard disk with 1.5 TB capacity. I don't care about the music or the movies that take up most of space, but I had some very important files on it.
I had split my drive into two partitions: 1 ...
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Recover data from Formatted & Encrypted Hard Disk with Bitlocker
Thanks in andvance for your time viewing this and thanks again to all stackoverflow members that are helped me before!
I have a serious problem and I believe this problem has been experienced by many ...
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What is the difference of Recovery and Restore partitions?
I have an Asus U38N laptop. It is UEFI enabled and has Windows 8 as operating system.
I noticed that it has both Recovery partition(900mb) and Restore Partition(20gb).
I'm cloning the operating system ...
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1answer
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Yikes!!! Restore windows.old folder after being deleted? [duplicate]
Basically, I used Disk Cleanup utility on a windows 7 Ultimate machine to delete the Windows.old folder only to discover that it contained a critical amount of data in the 'users/JonDoe/' which was ...
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How to start design “Disaster Recovery” plan for my company?
Recently, some disaster happened in my company, server crash, data erased.
Is there a good Disaster Recovery plan that I can follow?
Any suggestion would be great help.
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Here's my backup strategy, how do I enforce it? Software/tools etc [closed]
So here's what I have:
Laptop running Win 8 with 1 TB HDD - only 1 drive in it ("C"). About 80 GB full.
500GB External HDD holding about 200 gigs of media. Rest ~240 is allocated for small backups ...
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Photos are gone. File structure and thumbs remain
We use a Buffalo NAS at our office. yesterday someone noticed that the file full of folders was missing the images. The Folder structure remains and some random pictures remain but most folders just ...
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Can Windows XP Recovery Console load drivers from a USB thumb drive?
Must the drivers be provided via a floppy diskette?
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Recover accidently deleted synergy.dll [closed]
One of my clients was accidentally moving some files from his desktop and he moved with it the desktop interface of the synergy application and he cannot get it back. How can I recover this file?
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startup repair fails - os drive letter changed
Yesterday my PC gave me somewhat of a heart attack when it prompted a BSOD while I was fiddling around with a midi device selection. Anyway, when I rebooted the system, startup repair showed up and ...
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Recover File System
I was recovering my windows 8. During recovery system shut due to power failure. Next time when I start windows 8 and try to open the D: drive then windows prompt me to format drive if I cancel prompt ...
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2answers
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Stuck with spinning gear (NOT beach ball) after OSX login
Running latest OS X Mountain Lion. I shut down hard (held power button until power off) after an application froze and rather than doing force quit I got frustrated and just shut the system down.
...
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How do I add email accounts in Windows 8
I upgraded to Windows 8 and chose a new msn account when setting up email. I cannot determine;
If my old emails and addresses still exist from Outlook express;
If they do can I setup a new ...
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1answer
339 views
A display driver has stopped working and has been recovered issue
I got this issue today where the computer first began to 'hang' and then the screen momentarily turned black and came back again with a pop up saying that the display driver stopped working and has ...
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Why is Windows claiming Vista is counterfeit after installing updates?
We've purchased a Compaq Presario CQ60 Notebook PC from a local Wal-Mart a few years ago. Upon our first boot, we were asked to create recovery discs of Windows Vista because the manufacturer did not ...
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Create Recovery Console disk
I am trying to fix someone’s computer, and I came across instructions that said to use the "Recovery Console".
I started the computer with F8, however I do not see option for the Recovery Console, ...
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1answer
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I deleted dropbox and all files from my computer. [closed]
I still can see it all my files in my dropbox.com, but I don't know how to reload DropBox. I do not want all the files put back, just DropBox. I deleted it because it was downloading a huge file by ...
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Trying to recover data from external hard drive that was saved from my Mac; trying to recover from PC [duplicate]
I have to reformat my external hard drive because my pc does not recognize it. Before i reformar i am first am trying to recover the files I saved from my Mac computer on the hard drive. Does anyone ...
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1answer
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Sudden hard drive crash, won't boot or mount consistently, need data retrieval
My hard drive suddenly crashed today. I run SMART monitoring software, but there was no warning. I wouldn't be so worried about it if my backup wasn't five-days old (my backup software is supposed ...
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How to get data from a burnt hard disk drive?
I have a 320GB HDD which was in a building that burnt down. I need to get as much information as possible from this drive. It probably won't succeed, but it's worth trying.
I tried soldering a new ...
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1answer
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SSD is detected, but Computer doesn't boot from it anymore
Suddenly, without making any changes to my hardware, my notebook doesn't boot anymore.
After the BIOS, the screen goes blank and the system just reboots with no error message. I have multiple OS ...
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1answer
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Windows forces me to format hd
When I mount a harddrive to my computer, then it tells me I've got to format it, before using it.
I know that I once used it as a normal hd and it still contains data. As I've found out, the mfr could ...
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Windows 8 - No OS files found on disk
I had a working version of Windows 8 but yesterday my notebook was crashed and became unresponsive so I had to make a reboot by its power switch.
After that, I wasn't able to reboot the notebook: the ...
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1answer
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How do I copy emails out of corrupted pst file?
I accidentally overwrote a pst file. Pst file records show no files in them; and no ability to recover from within outlook. I can find the emails by doing searches in windows. But scan pst.exe, ...
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Mounting a complete disk image rescued by ddrescue
I've recovered a complete NTFS disk with ddrescue in Linux. The catch is I didn't just rescue the partition (sdX#) but complete disk (sdX) with partition table.
It's really easy to mount disk ...
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2answers
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Reinitialize USB pendrive that was used to boot linux
I have a pendrive that was used to boot a linux image (created using dd if=... of=/dev/sd4 bs =1m on a mac)
Now I would like to use it again as regular pendrive. Unfortunately I just have a windows ...
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1answer
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Recover files from a reformatted drive [closed]
My friend has an HP laptop that recently stopped working. It was trying to run chkdsk but it kept on freezing up, and safe mode would not work.
So he reformatted the drive and re-installed Windows ...
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1answer
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any way to mount partial raw ntfs images?
I have a raw image from ddrescue which is a partial image of the complete source NTFS partition, simply because the target drive is smaller then the source.
I cant mount this partial image so as to ...
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Recover files in windows (NTFS) without actual data copy — ie modify MFT only
I'm looking to undelete some files that I just... deleted. I recall several (10) years ago I used a program than scanned a given drive and undeleted the files in place, presumably by just relinking ...
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Window 7 Bad Driver BSOD, How Can I find out which driver it is?
So I have probably looked at every resource I can on Google - I have spent the last 15 hours looking and testing.
I am experiencing a BSOD loop. After investigating further it would seem it is a Bad ...
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Started DBAN on an external by accident - can I get my data back?
I was running DBAN on a laptop HDD and I had an external HDD attached. Without realising that, I ran DBAN in auto mode. Completely stupid, I know.
I noticed it was attached when the operation ...
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What are some good OS X data recovery programs to try on an SD card? [closed]
My friend imported a bunch of videos from his GoPro into iPhoto and foolishly let iPhoto delete upon successful import. He claims that iPhoto then quit unexpectedly and all of the videos are gone.
My ...
