Restore refers to making something the way that it once was. Common examples are restoring a backup, restoring preferences, restoring documents, and restoring tabs in a browser.
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Missing partitions after restore windows 7 form restoring point
sorry if this is not the right place where I have to add my question, but I am in a big trouble. Today after installing a program, my windows 7 starts to throw an error, and I decided to restore it ...
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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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FAT filesystem - bad superblock
Last night my android phone said it can't read the SD card and it wanted to format it. I pulled it out, put it in a card reader and tried to mount it on my desktop pc:
$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 tmp
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How can I recover the Windows 7 PATH system variable? [duplicate]
I was installing GTK+ and the installer overwrote my path instead of appending to it. This is my developer machine at work, my path was full with all sorts of developer tools. What can I do to get it ...
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How to recover data on a Mac Pro OS X Snow Leopard
I will probably have to replace my hard drive. I have a disk that will restore files (from a previous HD replacement), but the technicians didn't supply me with the serial number, so I can't use it.
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Win 7/8 Safemode - Repair your computer
Basically, I have a Dell Laptop which came in with pre-installed Win7. The computer had a built-in recovery media: I could access this by pressing F8 on startup and the boot options menu, where you ...
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How to restore a Windows 7 Bootcamp partition
My iMac was one of those suffering from a faulty Seagate HDD, and it failed a few weeks ago. In anticipation of getting it repaired at the Apple Store, I was able to clone the OS X partition easily ...
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How to use superduper to set up a new computer but only copying user files
I have a Mac Mini that I am preparing to sell, and I already have my replacement Mac Mini in my possession.
I have fully backed up Mac Mini 1 using SuperDuper onto an external hard drive.
Mac Mini 2 ...
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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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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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Restore IDM and uTorrent state/settings after updating Windows
I want to change my Windows. So all programs deleted. I have many links in my IDM and uTorrent for download. Well , most of them are in download, for example one of them in 30% download and another in ...
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Everything stoped working after converting simple disk to dynamic
I have mac book pro 15. (if you know what i mean)
Installed Mac OS X Lion
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Installed BootCamp
300gb for mac, 100gb for windows
Installed Windows
Opened mmc and shinked the window volume to 80gb
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One-click system restore from bootable USB flash drive
I want to create the system restore USB flash drive that will restore whole drive (not partition) image with one click - no settings, no questions... Just boot from that USB drive, press "OK" (or ...
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How to recover data from dead hard disk (with tic tic noise)?
I have an HP server with a two-year-old 174 GB hard disk. Suddenly, the server cannot boot from hard disk. The drive makes noises (tic tic tic) and the server says the hard drive should be replaced.
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How to restore default Google search engine in Chrome?
I've accidentaly deleted the Google search engine in Chrome and I can't get it back.
Most sites have simple querystring search like http://mysite/search/?query=%s
- But google has some weird query ...
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If I image a hard drive, wipe it clean, and then restore it, are deleted files really gone?
Assuming I want to make sure all traces of deleted files are gone from a system, but don't want to do a clean install or lose the current system configuration, will restoring an image of a hard drive ...
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Recover Windows with locked NTFS partition
Let me first explain the situation.
I have a laptop with one hard disk. It had Windows 8 on one partition and Windows 7 on another. A third partition was used for the recovery (by default created by ...
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I tried in command prompt this but it failed [closed]
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\War Machine>C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Rocketmelt\Application\Rocketmelt.exe ...
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Restore a backup if Crashplan disappears
I am thinking about using Crashplan as a backup solution. I am planning on making incremental backups of my computer (Daily, Monthly, Yearly). The archive file that Crashplan uses for incremental ...
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Recover Data from formatted Windows 7 OS [duplicate]
Actually my system had dual OS.one is Windows7 and Ubuntu 10.10.
But while installing debian based linux on my system,i formatted both OS.I want to recover all data of my hard disk.
please suggest ...
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Forced TimeMachine backup to a network TM DISK of specified folder following shutdown command for each of 22 networked computers using Mac OS 10.8.x
I have a 22 computer LAN, wirelessly connected.
Each user has their own identity, user name, and unique password. I wish to FORCE a TimeMachine backup of a specified named folder ON EACH DESKTOP, ...
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Restoring Google Drive to a Back-up
So. My Google Drive just died. Their support staff tell me I've got to disconnect my drive and re-install the Google Drive app and use 44GBs of bandwidth to re-download everything. It's their fault so ...
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Striped Volume problems in Windows 8
Recently reinstalled my computer with the final release of Windows 8, and to celebrate this, moved all the important data from my 2 pieces of 1TB HDDs (a Samsung HD103SI and a Western Digital ...
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How should I clean and restore an old Apple II computer? [duplicate]
Wondering what I should know before I start tearing this thing down to clean it. What's a good way to clean and restore it in a safe manner? Especially the keyboard as many keys take many tries to ...
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Restore a system image
I created a system image in a network location on Windows 7.
How can I restore this system image in case of a failure?
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How to restore Video File from Recycle Bin when i cannot open Windows 7? [closed]
I have two windows on my PC Windows XP and Windows 7. I have deleted a file installed on windows 7 in drive C after running an un-installer, and asked me to confirm I wanted to delete the file - ...
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HP Pavilion G6 laptop suddenly not allowing Admin functions (and more) [closed]
My wife's "new" laptop (less than 2 months old) was working to her satisfaction... until yesterday. A pop-up informed her she needed to reinstall the Belkin router software from the original CD, even ...
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Copying a Partition-Empty Sectors and All
What's the best way to copy a entire partition empty sectors and all as to recover deleted files, a few have recommended "dd" but I'll be honest I've never used it and nobody seems to know of a simple ...
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If you do a full partition copy, does it copy the “deleted” files as well that can be restored
I was just wondering, if you did a full partition copy onto another hard drive, would it also copy the "deleted" data that can be sometimes recovered with recovery tools or would it just leave that ...
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Recovering Shared Files
I was sent a folder through dropbox that is supposed to contain several deleted files. My job is to restore them. The person who sent them to me can click the trashcan icon and retrieve these files. ...
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cannot create restore point on windows 7 64-bit: “The specified object was not found. (0x80042308)”
I'm trying to create a restore point on my newly built computer, and it fails.
I get the following error:
The restore point could not be created for the following reason:
The specified object was ...
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upgrading from windows xp to 7
1) what is the best way to backup and copy files over? From my udnerstanding you have to wipe the drive.
2) What is the costs and does any windows 7 work or do I want an upgrade key?
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Backup Strategy? [closed]
What is a good backup tool for Linux (Must be in Debian Stable)? that I can script to run as a job.
I have a 2TB USB hdd which I will be backing up too. My HDD is 200gb
I want to back up the entire ...
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Is there any way to restore/recover my file that a rpm package overwrite?
I had some files on a server. Then I installed a rpm package that have same files in it. As a result, rpm package overwrite these files and I lost my newly edited files. I wonder if there is a way to ...
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Firefox Add-on that lists all open tabs urls in one tab as text links
Here's what I'm searching for: let's see if I can explain this...
When firefox crashes and restarts there is a "restore previous tabs" page that opens in a single tab in the freshly restarted window. ...
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In Firefox, I accidentally clicked “Start New Session” after a crash. How can I get all my tabs back?
user1264624 asks on another website:
After a Firefox crash, I accidentally clicked "Start New Session" instead of "Restore". Unfortunately there is no way to get back to the previous session as ...
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Error importing database in Windows Azure
Just to test the MSSQL backup/restore capabilities of Windows Azure, I selected a test database and chose the "Export" option. It prompted me to select a storage location and I chose an appropriate ...
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Forgotten admin password, how to reset/re-install Windows 8? [duplicate]
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Windows 8 locked because the password were lost, how can I change it without needing to reinstall it?
A few weeks ago I set up a brand new Sony laptop running windows 8.
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Cant restore my back up of windows 7 after formatting the disk because of a major crash
i backed up my windows 7 to an external hard drive and about a month later windows crashed so i had to format the drive to get thru all the left over junk. then when i put the cd restore disk i made ...
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Restore Windows 7 backup on XP
I recently had a Windows 7 machine die on me, but fortunately I've been using Microsoft's included backup utility to back up all my important files onto an external hard drive.
I'm now on my backup ...
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Win 7 stuck in restore point at boot up
I had my motherboard or cpu go bad, replaced them the other night.
After fooling for hours trying to get the bios correct, win7 kept asking to do a restore.
I eventually gave in, and it did not work.
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How to Restore ovewritten .txt file
i had a file name goodaccounts it had data , my software overwrote the file goodaccounts.txt so now the previous data is gone can you tell me how to bring back the previous data
i am using simple ...
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How do I create factory restore media for a Dell laptop with Windows 8?
This may have been asked before, but not for Windows 8. How do you create the factory restore media for a Dell Laptop (a Dell XPS 15 in my case) before I go and do something stupid with it.
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How to clone a Win7 boot partition onto the SAME hard drive?
I want to have two or even three clones of my operating system partition on the same hard drive. No I don't want the clones on different hard drives. I want three partitions on one hard drive, two of ...
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Deploy Windows 7 Backup set to Windows 8
Situation:
We have a laptop here that's completely fubar. I.e: The hard drive is filled to the brim with bad sectors. Luckily, backups have been made using the built-in Windows 7 backup feature. This ...
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Restore to a previous backup point with Windows 7 backup
I wonder if it is possible to restore previous versions of files or system states with Windows 7 backup.
Let's assume a backup has been set with default settings. It runs every Sunday at 19:00. Is it ...
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Restore boot sector from a hard disc to another
I have a win7 on my old Seagate HDD. Recently I installed one new SSD and setup win8 on it. So I have a boot table to choose win7 or win8 to startup. Now when I tried to remove the old one (the ...
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Can I restore Windows 8/install Windows 7 from BIOS?
I recently got an ASUS K55A series laptop with Windows 8 on it, and have been trying to load Windows 7 on it for days to no avail, and recently I discovered how to get my Windows 7 install DVD to boot ...
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Backup Operating System with Softwares Installed [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Looking for a software capable of cloning a System drive?
I am using a Dell Laptop with Windows 7 installed,as i have installed softwares like photoshop, Netbeans and ...
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If I split my harddrive, will a system restore delete it?
I split my 1TB HD from C drive and called it A. I put some files there to back up. I have now come to a point where I need to run a system restore with the discs that came with my computer. If I do a ...
