Questions tagged [restore]
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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Reset TP-Link TL-WR1043ND from DD-WRT to original firmware
I have installed this firmware since I thought it'll be faster. However sometimes it's just slower than it was, but in some cases things are much worse - for example, even Gmail fails to work.
Is it ...
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How can I undo or rollback an "apt-get upgrade" command on Ubuntu?
Is there a way in Ubuntu to rollback or undo the last upgrade after doing an apt-get upgrade if you don't like the results?
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How can I make Firefox remember my session while still clearing the browsing history on close?
I am aware, thanks to a thread [1], that Firefox doesn't save sessions when browsing history is cleared at close, as effectively the open tabs are themselves cleared from the history before the ...
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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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How to Reinstall missing apps and Packages after backup restored via deja dup backup tool in ubuntu 20.04
Hi all,
I have Ubuntu 20.04 and I made a backup via deja dup tool, choosing main /home directory. and then I wiped the whole disk and partition and re-install ubuntu 20.04 again.
After I restoration ...
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Backing up and Restoring DOS era backups
I have backup files that were made in DOS. They contain many hundreds of hours of work, and unfortunately they're locked away in a format that cannot be opened by anything in the format they are now.
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Norton Backup Image Fails To Restore?
I recently had one of my Windows XP computers die on me. I had it's files set to automatically backup to another PC's hard drive using Norton.
I've tried using Norton to restore on the second ...
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Does Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth change anything if there are no corrupt files?
I ran RestoreHealth instead of ScanHealth-CheckHealth accidentally and now it's taking a while to complete and i think stopping it now could cause some issues.
Will this change anything in my windows?
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How to restore a store application temporary files after uninstalling the app?
I have Win 10 Pro, and I've recently decided to reinstall Drawboard PDF editor application (from windows store ) for some reasons, but I acidentally removed some "temporary files" along with ...
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Can I restore the files of a deleted Windows user account?
I recently deleted a user from my Vista by going to Account -> Settings -> delete.
I have photos under this users, can I restore them?
I don't have any backup.
Thanks.
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Windows Security - Restoring a quarantined file which is not found but exists in the quarantine folder [duplicate]
Windows Security has quarantined a text file containing important information. That happened less that 30 days ago, but I cannot see any files in the Windows Security Protection History ("no ...
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How to make a system disk image of windows 10 (GPT)?
I used to make a backup of my system partition (Win 7 MBR) with drivexml, so when something goes wrong I could restore my image along with progs and settings.
Now I got new ssd and installed win 10 ...
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Unable to clone Windows 10 image from 1TB HDD to 500 GB SSD
I am replacing 1TB HDD on my laptop with 500GB SSD. The C drive (with Windows 10 OS) on HDD is of 119GB. The image of the OS - with all customizations, software and files - that I have created on an ...
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how to restore win 10 if recovery image located in local drive C
i have moved to new laptop using 1tb external drive, there i included all my files and win 10 recovery image so i can restore settings as i was told. image (looks like folders 0_0) is 90gb located in ...
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Restore old Chrome Profile on OSX Mojave?
I spent a week sorting through all data on my Google account a couple weeks ago. Today I looked at the password manager, and it's back to what it was before I edited it. I suspect using Chrome on my ...
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How to create a windows 10 complete restore point?
I need to make a complete copy of my windows 10 so that I can get back to exactly how it was at the time of the creation of the backup/snapshot.
By searching the web it seems that the windows restore ...
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Is there a way to recover the BIOS of a Razer Blade laptop?
I have a Razer Blade 15" (2019) Advanced laptop and I've been having problems with the USB ports. I've tried downgrading its version but the installers for Razer's old BIOS versions won't let me ...
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Restore partitions after CLEAN and MBR2GPT
A kind of a disaster has happened with me.
I had to replace Windows 7 with Windows 8.1 on my laptop, which had 3 partitions (size is approximate):
0 100M
1 100G
2 900G
I wrote windows 8.1 to USB and ...
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How to restore deleted Telegram chat?
One of my chat partners has unfortunately cleared our entire (now almost a year long) conversation history in Telegram. It happened to contain really important info. Is it possible to restore it ...
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Windows 10: Restore hidden application windows
Every once in a while, I mistakenly Hold Alt and Shift while typing 2 or 3 or 4 (but not 1). When that happens, then one of the applications I have open disappears. Note that this doesn't mean its ...
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How to restore opened file after Vectorworks crash?
According to the Console app Vectorworks crashed because of an unhandled NSImageCacheException. For some reason, the file I was working on disappeared with the crash! How can I restore it?
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Point windows 10 file history to a different restore location
I've looked all over and can't seem to find an answer of how to navigate the windows 10 file history restore feature with sufficient control and hoping someone can help. Specifically I would like to ...
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Digikam can't find my photos
I recently upgraded my Linux system from Lubuntu 18.04LTS to 20.04LTS by making a tar backup and restoring it into the fresh install. It did include config files but I opted when restoring to not ...
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Tar restore syntax to only restore UNhidden files
What is the proper syntax for only restoring files that are NOT hidden? I'd like to copy those by hand, as needed, without bulk overwriting anything that's already there. So for example, I'd like to ...
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How to automate restore of veeam backup
we are creating backups with veeam agent for windows.
I would need to restore those backups in an automated fashion. is there any command line client, a way to script the restore process or something ...
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Recover missing dll files
I am currently using MAlwarebytes free version and am getting fed up with the constant pop ups asking me to purchase the premium version.
As a result, I made the massive mistake of trying Zemana as ...
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What does Windows 7's Backup and Restore NOT backup?
So my old computer has a Linux partition which I want to remove to create some more space. I also have another partition with Windows 7, which has some important files and photos which I don't want to ...
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Does creating one system restore points everyday damage my hard disk?
I have a habit of creating a one system restore points every day. Will it cause any damage to my hard disk?
System restore points referring to C Drive only, not all drives.
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Getac B300 Locked
I bought this laptop from eBay but when it turns on its says Ctrl + Alt + Del and then it says enter the password and user name. I'm not sure what I should do, I might have to get my money back but ...
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How to prevent a corrupted file from being rsynced to remote server and good/non-corrupted copy being on the destination deleted?
I am using this command:
rsync -avzh --delete --progress source folder remote folder
My source folder contains many video *.mp4 files.
I want all the videos to be rsynced to a destination folder in ...
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Pegasus RAID *missing* a drive
I have a RAID5 Pegasus R6, connected via Thunderbolt. At some point, it started making strange repetitive beeping noises; when connected, one of the drives wasn't showing up at all.
Shortly ...
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How to backup a local Windows 10 user profile and restore it in Windows 10?
Similar to the question How to backup a user profile and restore it in Windows 7? but for Windows 10:
How can I backup a local Windows 10 user profile (including the user files) and restore it on ...
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Successful data recovery but most files are corrupted
I used Recuva and EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard to see if there's any difference in the files they recover. Both software were able to recover files that I want however most of the files where no longer ...
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I uninstalled Intel Optane Memory - The message says my computer won't boot after restart (Have restore point - will that work?)
I uninstalled Intel Optane Memory, believing that would interfere with making a dual-boot system with Linux on a Lenovo Ideapad i7 (based on a guide). There was a warning message about potential data ...
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New SSD and different OS
Last summer, my Lenovo AIO suddenly stopped working; more specifically, I was performing maintenance on it and the next restart gave an error 1962: No Operating System found. Fortunately, this is a ...
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windows 10 restore from backup on a different drive
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During or shortly after the standard windows user log on my computer would immediately power off. I tried reverting software back as best I could with no luck. I've since reinstalled a new ...
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Can't install new OS on 2003 gateway desktop
I'm trying to install Peppermint OS. I made a bootable cd which works for my other computer but I can't get this gateway to boot off it. I've tried everything I can think of in the BIOS (yes I've ...
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Full Linux hard disk backup and restore
I am using Gentoo at work and I f***** it up multiple times by now. I have second hard disk which is not in use in my computer. Is there any way to backup whole hard disk in use onto a second and then ...
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How to reinstall restore Windows Store [duplicate]
A LOT OF PEOPLE ASKING HOW TO FIX OR RESTORE THE WINDOWS STORE.
This is a fix I made after a lot of stuffing around, should work for people on Windows 10.
Download the TakeOwnership file from ...
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Can SysPrep (or anything else) be used to make a Win XP partition from another computer bootable?
I've used Paragon Backup and Recovery Free as recommended to me in my other question, to backup my C: (Win XP) and D: (installed apps) partitions.
Before taking the rather scary step of breaking the ...
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How to copy Cyberduck bookmarks to another MacBook?
Got a new MacBook, how can I copy Cyberduck bookmarks from my old MacBook?
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How to combine two partitions from two disks into one disk clone with two partitions: system and C:
I have cloned my windows 10 pro desktop at work to my desktop at home with macrium. I paid no attention to hardware specs. It worked beautifully. Activated Windows and Office with a new key, renamed ...
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Windows all users erased by Fedora, how to recover users for Windows login?
The Windows 10 directory C:\Users was deleted accidentally from a notebook's system drive (Samsung ssd 850 evo 250GB) when a user booted from a Linux Fedora 30 LiveUSB. I get an error message that ...
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How to recover Windows 10 from C: Partition?
Ok, brother-in-law accidentally put the wrong power cord!
Windows 10 PC no longer boots and the Windows system partitions are foobar.
The C: drive looks completely intact.
So is there a way to ...
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Restore removed files that are on a remote server. Create a restorable image from mounted via sshfs folder
I have a remote server that I can connect to via ssh, I need to restore files from there to my computer (preferably with folder structure or just filenames), ext4magic says that I cant restore it ...
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How do you restore a user from windows.old?
How do I take a user account from windows.old and make it usable on the version of Windows currently being booted? Both versions are Windows 10, though I doubt this affects it much.
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How do I force Firefox to always show the "Restore Session" page after closing (but never attempt to automatically re-open all my tabs)?
Quite often I amass a huge number of tabs in Firefox so I kill the browser processes to recover RAM.
To kill it I use taskkill /f /im firefox.exe.
When I start Firefox again it automatically tries ...
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I've just deleted important registries by mistake - can I somehow fix it?
There was a game which was not working properly. I've found a fix online, but I've deleted the wrong dir. (yes, that was just dumb)
I had to delete this:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software > Microsoft > ...
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How do you backup / re-apply custom (not downloaded) ID3 tags on MP3s?
I've seen various players, song library managers, and other apps strip tags from mp3s. So it's not that hard to mistakenly delete or modify tags in batch.
I've seen a lot of suggestions for ...
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restoring wim files from external drive to hard drive on computer
how do I restore wim files to my hard drive? I saved filed after computer crashed, to an external drive. Now I need to restore those files to my hard drive. Thanks
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