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Using an encrypted external disk to restore windows backups (system image)
I have an external hard disk that I have encrypted it using windows
bitLocker
and I have made a backup of windows 7 using system image in
windows backup and restore and saved it to that hard disk.
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can I restore only the system files with time machine (revert from 10.7.4 to 10.7.3)?
I am having crashes with 10.7.4. I have time machine versions of 10.7.3 obviously. Can I just restore the system without restoring the entire harddrive, and if so, how? How can I be sure I include ...
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Can I delete a file file from _restore-{uid} folder?
I installed a password cracker and my virusscan triggered alerts for it. So I uninstalled it, but now the scanner triggers alerts for its presence in _restore folder.
If I let the virusscan delete ...
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Del button stopped working in MS Outlook Express 6
I have this older XP machine that I use mostly to check emails and play Pandora in Firefox. I don't browse the internet on it or open any emails that I don't know the source of. (I'm more than what ...
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How to repair xp corrupt registry file?
I have an instalation of windows xp. It has corrupt registry hive (SOFTWARE). I am able to access system32\config folder but I have no registry backup. System Volume Information folder contains only ...
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Will I lose all previously installed programs if I reinstall Windows?
I want to know – before I go ahead and reinstall Windows 7 – whether previous programs and files will be there or not.
I only have a restore point for an old date about six months ago, so I'm ...
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Migrate TrueCrypt system volume to a new drive (Windows, SSD)
The only good advice I have seen so far was to decrypt system drive, then migrate using Acronis or whatnot, then encrypt it back.
This advice works, except with SSD you could have as well just left ...
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Can I perform a Windows 7 non destructive System Repair without the Disks, my OS is on a partition on my HP HDD?
I own an HP G-62 laptop. My Windows 7 OS is on the Recovery partition, D. I have no Win 7 Disks.
I am wanting to perform a non destructive repair of the system files without losing my data or ...
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Is there a shell script that helps identify the non-system related files to backup?
Is there an application or script that will identify all of the distribution/system files?
My ultimate goal is: I would like to automate backups to a secondary/alt sec Linux machine, but I would like ...
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How to save Windows Hibernation image
I'm using Vista in my laptop and I want to save the file created when I hibernate the Laptop so that I can reuse to quickly get into same old state of my slow laptop.
Is there any utility for save ...
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Re-install Windows 7 to a smaller hard drive on a laptop that I just bought
I just bought a new laptop with Windows 7 pre-intsalled.
It has a 500GB hard drive. I would like to remove this hard drive and then re-install Windows 7 to smaller 256GB SSD that I have.
My issue ...
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Using a Windows System Repair Disc to restore a System Image on a blank HDD
I got a simple question that I unfortunately can't find a simple answer for anywhere. This is the scenario: I made a System Image of my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit PC on an external HDD. I've also ...
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How do I change the location where system restore points are saved?
How can I change the location (drive, path, etc.) where system restore points are saved on Windows 7?
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How to Create “Factory Reset” Image on Partitioned Drive
I'm building a computer. How do I create a "factory reset" (recovery/re-install) image on a partitioned drive? Is it just a matter of copying the Windows install DVD to the drive?
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Cannot boot my system, stuck at Windows 7 updates
I have a HP ProBook 4520s, I have installed Windows 7. I updated it from internet and on system shutdown, it said,
Please do no power off or unplug you machine , Installing update 36 of 47.
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System restore from NAS drive using system restore disk
I have a seagate flexdrive, on to which I save my backup windows 7 images. To test that system image restore worked I tried a dummy run. When I booted system restore disk up, It said that it could ...
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Dig a couple of files from the restore partition
I got a couple of system libraries corrupted because of bad sectors on my Windows 7 Packard Bell laptop.
The libraries are present, but exactly 4Kb in each is garbage now.
They belong to certain apps ...
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I keep having to System Restore
Sorry the question title isn't very helpful.
Anyway, every so often (week or so, irregular intervals) my computer just stops working properly. I get a program claiming to be something like "Win7 ...
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Windows 7 secondary drive data still present, but file tree doesn't display
After recovering my system from a malware attack, I restored all of my previous settings, run malware/virus scans, etc. Everything appears to be back to normal, except:
E:\ directory tree does not ...
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After XP SP3 System Restore Point Used Reboot Stalls
About 1.5 hours ago I set an XP SP3 box to reset to a system restore point. This appeared to go as usual until the "Windows is shutting down" screen appeared. THe machine has not continued the ...
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Editing the age of System Restore point?
Hi all I was wondering why are there contradictory info for the age of a system restore point?
http://windows.microsoft.com:
Restore points are saved until the hard disk space System Restore ...
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Does system restore restore desktop files and folders
I have a user profile which has files moved from the desktop to the network and deleted. Will system restore restore user profiles as well such that my desktop files will be back?
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Dissect System Restore snapshots
Is there any way to map the A000????.??? filenames in the System Volume Information to their original names, without restoring them?
The reason I ask is that several files in one user's System Volume ...
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Can files be recovered from an encrypted linux disk, if it gets formatted to ntfs?
I sent in my laptop to gateway for a LCD repair, with instructions not to format the hard drive. They saw that I had ubuntu installed and formatted it, installing windows 7. My hard drive was ...
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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 ...
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Would it be possible to swap system restore points on different brands of computers?
So I have a ThinkPad computer that I've installed a program called "Deep Freeze" which restores your computer to the "Frozen" state. I also have a Toshiba computer with no Deep Freeze on it.
My ...
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How can I view the contents of a System Restore Point in Windows XP?
I found a way of listing the System Restore Points, but now I want to view the contents of a system restore point.
Is there a way to do that?
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Restore VHD image in a specific partition
I'm having a similar issue described in this post.
I have a Windows 7 VHD image and want to restore it, but I cannot let Windows Restore format the whole HD and destroy other partitions. I don't want ...
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System restore point file location in Windows 7 [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Where are the Windows 7 System Restore Points stored and how to preserve them?
I just wanted to make sure that Windows don't delete just created system restore point ...
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Do different disks have different system restore points?
I was wondering if I install programs in both C:\ drive and D:\ drive, are there separate system restore points for each disk?
For example if I run cleanmgr.exe I can select either C:\ or D:\ drive:
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System Restore Obsolete data Stores
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301224:
If you start the Disk Cleanup utility and you click the Disk Cleanup tab, a System Restore: Obsolete Data Stores entry is available. These are files that ...
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What does Windows System Restore exactly back up and restore?
I just had to do a system restore on a Windows XP machine infected by some malware or virus. Among other things, the virus had hidden all files and folders on all drives, removed all shortcuts in the ...
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CD/DVD player stops working after restoring Windows
I have a Sony VAIO VGN-NR498E running Windows Vista Home edition. After restoring the system to the factory state, my CD/DVD player stopped working. It does not recognize any CD/DVDs. The drive is ...
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System Restore Problem
I want to fully restore my laptop to it's original settings but I can not do it for some reason. I have done this twice before by pressing the F11 button at the start up screen but there is a ...
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System Restore Error 0x490 (WinVista)
I have a friend who's having problems with their Vista box (yes the same friends as this question) and they gave it to me to fix.
So, here's the problem. On boot, you get the black DOS-like ...
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Windows 7 restore system caused personal data files to be reverted
After an unexpected crash, windows 7 booted up into a mode that I'm not familiar with where it asked to restore the system to a previous save point to correct some problem. After saying OK to it I've ...
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Open system recovery causes bluescreen 0x00000050 with ntfs.sys
Since yesterday my computer crashes with a bluescreen 0x00000050 as soon as I do something with the system restore.
For example (tried to translate from german to english so the exact programname ...
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On system start, chkdsk corrected errors and all data lost
Today when I turned OFF my PC, all was well and System Restore was also enabled on all critical partitions. In the evening when I turned ON my PC, chkdsk took control before Windows could start. It ...
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Restore windows XP or boot in virtual environment
I would like to have some kind of setup where I install some thin OS and install Windows on top of that (via virtual machine), so that I can restore Windows at any point.
Is that possible?
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NetBook's system recovery related to saving data
When I try to boot my net book Eee goes into windows pre instalation environment and gives a message that I may lose all my data during recovery. It suggests to back up data before recovery. I can not ...
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Is there any solution to Process1_Initialization_Failed on Windows 7?
I have a BSOD problem that I cannot repair. I would be so grateful if someone could provide a solution. I have Windows 7 OS installed on the computer.
The stop error message resembles the following:
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How do I restore my Thinkpad W510 back to the factory image?
I have been scouring Google and the Lenovo forums and looked through various PDF documents and documentation on ThinkVantage tools and I am unable to get a clear idea on how to restore my Lenovo ...
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THe best windows backup/snapshot image making software [closed]
What are the best software for making windows image - like symantec ghost does. But the last the time I used ghost, I remember it being very slow, because every time it made an image, it wasn't ...
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Unable to do system restore, no XP CD
I have a Balance PC with XP which I bought second-hand. I had a freeze-up recently and then Windows started running unpredictably on me – reboots when shutting down, utilities not working ...
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How can I dump hard disk with selected partition in DVD and restore it when needed?
I want to dump hard disk with installed Operating System and all other Software with their configuration into DVDs. Definitely requires more DVDs. Is there any free tool which can manage to dump in ...
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Windows 7 System Image Restore to SSD - SSD not detected?
I recently bought a new SSD (OCZ Vertex 2 120GB) as a replacement for my laptop HDD . I created a System Image on an external drive using the Win 7 backup and restore tool and then restored this image ...
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Restoring an HP Pavilion dv6 to factory after Linux install
I have HP Pavilion dv6-2150us laptop. I recently installed Linux on it and now want to go back to Windows 7 (which came pre-installed). In order to take it to the factory default I used my recovery ...
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Can I restore my Macbook? [closed]
I was using my Macbook perfectly and suddenly when I restarted it, it went off forever and I had no choice but to re-install via DVD which came with it. I lost my data
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System Image restore crashes consistently while trying to access external media
I am trying to restore a System Image from an external drive to the only disk drive mounted in a brand new MacPro. Whenever I try to launch the System Image Restore, I get a crash in BMRUI with an ...
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Upgrading hard drive while saving existing system data, and allowing for a dual OS boot
I know this has been asked in individual parts, but I'm looking for a way to do this with the fewest steps and least pain.
I have a laptop with Windows 7, and I want to make a move to a larger hard ...
