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How can I install Windows to my new hard drive if I lost my recovery cd that came with my pc?
The hard drive on my pc died and I had to replace it. My pc originally came with Vista and I upgraded to Windows 7. My pc is a Gateway and I can't find the recovery cd anywhere. I have the Windows 7 ...
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Saved my excel spreadsheets in a USB and lost the USB without backup?
I lost my USB as mentioned above which contains crucial information but I lost it without backup in my desktop. Now that I had open the file before in Excel and it still has the path saved. I'm ...
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How do I recover Windows 7 after a rash Ubuntu install?
I rashly installed Ubuntu 11 on my 30GB recovery partition on my Windows 7 PC in an attempt to dual boot. Now, Ubuntu works perfectly, but my boot loader will not let me load Windows.
However, I can ...
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Why can I only create one factory backup from my Lenovo ThinkPad?
Yesterday I mistakenly made a factory backup on my external hard drive from my Lenovo ThinkPad T-420. It wasted my whole empty space on that hard drive.
Now I want to make another Lenovo factory ...
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Recovery Console Does Not Find My Windows Installations
Hi i have a BSOD when booting into windows.
I want to perform a chkdsk to fix any bad sectors etc.
I insert win xp cd and boot from cd, i press r to access the recovery console.
The harddrive....
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Better codes to undelete files [closed]
What are those other free and open sourced software to undelete files. Just want to have a closer look to some of there called classes. Google shows a gazillion of them, but I'd like to hear about ...
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Cannot undelete accidentaly deleted files Vista
I have accidentally deleted some folder (with many files) on my NTFS Windows Vista Home Basic. I tried many undelete tools like "recuva" and many others and non of them helped. I also performed the ...
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recover files from 'empty' usb flash drive [closed]
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How do I recover files from an USB flash drive?
I copied a few files on a flash drive, and later when i wanted co copy them to another PC, the flash drive shows the ...
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Is it possible to create an image of a corrupted HDD?
My hard drive is corrupted but recovering it bit by bit, takes ages as its a USB2 portable HDD.
But I need my portable hard drive for uni/college. Is it possible to copy the entire hard drive ...
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Corrupted hard drive. Want to format it, but want to copy a image (of the corrupted) as a backup
My hard drive just corrupted again (think it because i didn't eject via Windows because it wouldn't let me, no programs was using files on the drive either).
I've recovered some files but got a lot ...
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How to recover my data lost when installing new OS? [closed]
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How to revert formated partition?
My desktop has partition Local disk C and D. The OS Windows XP SP2 installed on local disk C.
When I was Installed new fresh copy of ...
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Can I determine if a Grub menu.lst is valid on a virtual machine without rebooting?
There's a problem with Ubuntu running on my hosted VPS. All I have access to is a recovery console which allows me to mount the devices.
I've narrowed the problem down to a messed menu.lst. I have ...
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Windows 7 BSOD: Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers
The motherboard in my old system died, so I moved the hard drive over to my backup system and now I'm receiving this error. I'm able to read the drive perfectly fine in the Recovery screen and it ask ...
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How is the computer able to save things before it crashes?
I was under the impression that when a computer has crashed, something went wrong and it can't perform anymore.
I was wondering how is the computer able to save things before it crashes?
Is the ...
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Lost recovery partition
I have a new asus windows 7 laptop. Using the "AI Recovery" tool, I deleted the 8 gig windows recovery partition.
Now the Disk Management utility is showing my disk to be 111.79 GB rather than the ...
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Need advice with TestDisk output
I have a 1.5tb NTFS storage hard drive (1TB data), it was accidently formatted fat32 bootable, the format utility only ran for a few seconds before the drive was disconnected.
Using Test disc from ...
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How to recover a stomped file? [closed]
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How to recover a removed file under linux
When I was trying to unpickle an object, I accidentally opened a file in write mode
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How to manually edit mbr to recover lost partition?
I have accidentally deleted two hfs+ partitions.
I know start and end sectors of both of them. These partitions are 100% healthy. I can see them in Raise Data Recovery, but testdisk does not see them.
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What are the best free/paid softwares which recovers deleted photos from SD cards/samsung galaxy s2 phone internal memory?
the question says it all.. what are the best available free(more priority) or paid softwares which are best at getting deleted photos back from a phone internal memory (samsung galaxy s2) or sd ...
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Restore complete Mac OS X from bootable software and external HDD
I searched a lot for backup software for my Mac (Snow Leopard), but they all backup the data of the Mac, but not the operating system.
Does there exist any software that has a recovery CD that I boot ...
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How do I recover deleted e-mails that are still contained in a .dbx file?
Long story short I accidentally deleted all of my e-mails except for about 3. Now, fortunately upon looking at my Inbox.dbx file (from Outlook Express) they're all still in the file, even the deleted ...
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How do I access a recovery partition after installing a new OS?
I want to install another OS on my Lenovo laptop, but I don't want to lose the recovery option. This system uses Windows 7's built-in recovery capability, which is accessed by F8 as an additional ...
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Recover slightly corrupted Windows XP drive with Linux
I installed Linux and that involved shrinking a Windows NTFS partition. I didn't move it, just shrinked it a hair. When I rebooted windows, it said "Disk can not be read". I booted my Lubuntu and ...
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Recovering a lost user account
So early in the summer I logged off the admin account on my computer and turned off the screen. I later went back to get on Facebook and instead of having both of the accounts up,(Administrator and my ...
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Formatted hard drive, forgot to back up a text file. How do I get it back?
I have already had the same problem before. On that occasion, I found a program that could scan my entire hard drive for string pieces so I could recover it. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of ...
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Formatted HD, forgot to back up a text file. How do I get it back?
I have already had the same problem before. On that ocasion, I found a program that could scan my entire HD for string pieces so I could recover it. Unfortunatelly I don't remember the name of the ...
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Restoring Corrupt TrueCrypt Volume/Container (broken MFT)
My hardware doesn't seem to like me anymore :-/
I have a 500 GB external HDD (NTFS) which contains a "standard" (= not hidden) TrueCrypt container of 400 GB of which about 100-150 GB are actually ...
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Only able to recover few partitions at a time
Currently recovering a drive that had it's partition table messed up by some malware, and I have been able to successfully recover all of the partitions, just not at the same time. There are three, ...
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Inadvertently entered a password into the BIOS and now I can't use my laptop
I was trying to fix my computer and I was doing all sorts of stuff in the BIOS when I ended up putting a password on my system. Now when I turn my laptop on, it asks for a password right away before I ...
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Any way to get bootable Vista image from recovery partition of bad HD?
I have an HP Pavilion box running Vista and the HD failed this morning. Safe Mode will not boot, and when I try to boot regularly, it hangs with a cursor on a black background at the point where it ...
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Recover Visual C# 2010 Project
I have spent a lot of time writing a project in Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Express. While creating it i used multiple computers and opted to store the files on a external hard drive. While finishing my ...
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Deleted file recovery [closed]
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I need program for recover deleted files in windows
I need a good and free deleted files recovery program.
I tried few of the first hits on Google, but they found no ...
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How do I recover old versions of a Microsoft Word file?
My friend was working on a Microsoft Word file and made some changes in it. Suddenly Word crashed and closed. When he opens it again there was no data in the file and only one line in the header:
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Recovering Word document that was mistakenly replaced
I worked on a Word document and also saved the file on my flashdrive. When it asked me to save, I pressed the Replace document option by mistake.
I can see the missing work under the Properties ...
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Accidentally deleted a folder from a NAS drive (My Book Live) – is there any way to recover this?
I accidentally deleted a folder from a NAS drive (My Book Live). Is there any way to recover it?
This is on a Mac. I know this may be a stretch, but I'm just hoping to find a solution.
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Recovering data from two partitions, one NTFS, the other ext4
I have an external HD, and it had three partitions on it. One was a 4GB ext4 filesystem ,and two others 120GB NTFS and 120 GB ext4.
I created an image on the 4GB using the Linux utility dd on Fedora ...
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Messed up System Files on PPC Mac
My buddy deleted her System folder from her PPC Mac wanting to get that space for something else. She first copied it to another drive (she had a partitioned disk). She hasn't emptied the Trash Bin ...
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NTFS disk hardware fail - recover files
I looked at most questions related to this, but most of them are when somebody accidentally formatted the HDD. So I'm asking again.
Dell Laptop with 70Gb HDD crashed. Windows XP is not bootable, ...
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Microsoft Word Document Recovery seems unresolvable
We work on a server (Windows Server 2003 Enterprise) that a bunch of us developers remote in using Remote Desktop Connection, and now every "other" time I open up word I get this Document Recovery ...
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Mac osx recover deleted files?
Is possible to recover deleted files in mac osx?
I putted files in the basket then cleared basket but i accidentally deleted important file :/
Any script/free app to recover it?
thanks.
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RAID5, Can you clone the drive and access the media from Windows?
So my server is about to die and all of a sudden my RAID5 isn't accessible anymore.
Is it possible to access the files on those drives some other way? Like maybe plugging them into another comp, ...
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Netbook Windows 7 recovery after hard drive format
I have formatted hard drive on my netbook and deleted recovery partition.
Is it possible to recovery preinstalled Windows 7 after this?
(I have some problems with disc and this is the only way I found ...
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Replace an OEM recovery partition from Windows Vista, with one from now-upgraded Windows 7?
I have a recovery partition from Windows Vista, and I upgraded my laptop to Windows 7. Can I create from Windows 7 a new recovery partition?
Also, would this be legitimate (legal)? The laptop only ...
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Accessing the recovery partition on a Vista machine that won't boot?
I've got a Dell Vista machine - Inspiron 1720 laptop specifically - which I'm 99% certain came with no media, just the recovery partition.
It's now refusing to boot, saying the system registry is ...
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ASUS UL30VT - starting recovery partition through console/command
Is there a chance to use or start the recovery setup through the cmd.exe?
I booted with a windows 7 pro usb stick and entered the cmd. I can switch into c:\, which is the recovery partition.
The ...
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Format Lenovo Recovery Partition on SSD After Making Recovery Discs
I have a Lenovo T520 notebook that came with a Q: drive labelled "Lenovo_Recovery". I created 4 recovery discs from this partition on DVDs. Now that I have the discs created, can I format my Q ...
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How can I move my mail from an offline folder to IMAP?
I have tried to setup an IMAP account in Outlook 2010. However, by mistake I made it POP and now the inbox folder is empty.
I now have the mails in an offline folder.
How can I move them back to my ...
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Recover an old version file from HDD
An Excel file replaced with an old version. Is it possible to restore old version?
I tried to use Windows System Restore, but nothing happened!
a.xls (8kb) from Desktop replaced a.xsl (120kb) on ...
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how to resurrect unbootable windows 7
My wife's windows 7 is dead (sony vaio VPCEA3L1E). It cannot even allow the recovery console or safe mode. When the computer starts, it tries to boot windows and stops at a lovely blue screen. I can ...
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How to fix Windows 7 when System Recovery Options hangs?
The battery power ran out on my HP G60 laptop and it shut down. Even after recharging, Windows 7 will now not start up. After any attempted startup, it bluescreens and takes me to the "Startup Repair ...
