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There's no need to pirate; you can download the ISOs for Windows 7 installation media directly from Microsoft (well, okay, Digital River's hosting the download but whatever), free of charge.
32-bit Windows 7 Home Premium
64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium
32-bit Windows 7 Professional
64-bit Windows 7 Professional
Links taken from here. I can't personally ...
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100 GB isn't that much in a world where 1T drives are becoming commonplace. Given that you know you can read the data, I would just copy it to another drive that had space, then just do a normal format. Why risk an inplace conversion that you already worry might lose your data given that clearly, there's already something odd going on?
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Some updates can only be detected if previous updates have been installed. For example, you will only receive updates for IE9 after you have installed IE9 and rebooted.
There are custom built system images that incorporate all the updates, but they're not for the general public. If you work for a company that is big enough, it is possible they run their own ...
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While SSD's do not have any chance of mechanical failure, short of physically damaging the disk by dropping, etc., you are susectiple to electronic failure the same as with any other electronics. It may indeed be totally lost in an instant.
If there is any recovery possible, it is greatly complicated, and usually beyond the end-user's abilities.
Read this ...
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You will need to reinstall Windows using the same licence key you used for the first install. Usually you will have a licence key sticker that will give you the key. You may have to order recovery discs from your computer manufacturer or borrow a Windows install disk from a friend or a techie.
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As long as you have an eligible copy of Windows 7 or XP for upgrade, you do not need to pre-install Windows 7 (or XP).
Instead of validating your existing copy, you will need to enter your Windows 7 or XP license key as well as the Windows 8 upgrade key during the installation process.
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Formatting a drive neccesarily involves losing the information already there.
I'm presuming that this drive is formatted in NTFS, since MacOS can read from it but can't write to it. If it were in something like Fat32, you wouldn't be having this problem.
I'm not a MacOS user so I have no first hand knowledge of this product, but a brief search shows that ...
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Acer has a recovery partition (1), use that to recover it to like new, see this link....
http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/desktop/0000/Acer/AspireE360/AspireE360faq40.shtml
Using a regular install disc to format/install will damage this partition and make it unusable. Hopefully it did not.
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From the looks of things, you've extended Drive E so that it's about 4 TB in size. The ONLY way you can do this without a RAID controller is to use the technologies Windows makes available to extend the data across multiple drives. (I get concerned about disk failure which would call ALL data on the E: drive to be inaccessible and may involve costly data ...
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Any files you copy into a folder will inherit any inheritable file permissions. In this case, assuming nothing strange is done, any files you copy into new Alice's Documents will be treated like any other file or folder in that directory, and the same is true for Bob.
If we're talking about more specialized permissions (it's not completely clear to me) ...
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First off, if the data is really important, don't do anything with that disk until you've settled on a recovery strategy, ideally after making a bit for bit copy to experiment with.
If all she did was blow away the partition table, you should be able to get the data back. If a quick format happened as well, that will be trickier, but you should still be ...
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You can use tools like:
Recuva FREE
PhotoRec FREE
GetDataBack $79
If all that has been done is the drive has been formatted, then the data may be accessible using recovery tools. If the drive was formatted and then data was rewritten to the drive, such as reinstalling an OS, then any data that lived on area's of the drive that were rewritten are gone.
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I did this very recently with file scavenger(File Scavenger). I believe this now costs money unless you get the free version which only allows you to recover a limited amount of each file. Older versions may be free(I am not sure)
Example: pictures only recovered a portion
However if you can find a download to an older version I believe it may be free.
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Since you installed a new instance of Windows 7, all your programs will need to be reinstalled since they must all write to the new registry.
I will assume that you have only one disk, but with two partitions, but even if you have two disks, I would do the same.
First, backup your data if you have not already. You are doing a lot to your system, and if you ...
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Although there is no guarantee, your best option is to boot a Linux Live CD and mount the hard drive. If you are going to get anything off - that is probably the way (unless you want to take it to a data recovery shop).
Here is a list of LiveCD's. Linux is very good about mounting whatever and getting (at least read) support for most formats.
Quick ...
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Yes! You do have ways to get back your data before the formatting.
Do not write anything new to rewrite the original data, which can make your data gone permanently.
Download a recovery program to retrieve your data back. Since a false or terrible recovery tool may damage your data, you should select a reliable and efficient one.
Save the recovered data ...
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It will only Reformat/erase that particular partition, not entire disk.
There are chances that it will mess up boot-loader and you will have to repair it.
But Before you start, make a backup of your most necessary data, you're going to be formatting drives and installing OS, so anything could go wrong.
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I'd say yes.....Give it a try, I believe there is an option for a fresh install (it might leave your old installation in c:\windows.old which you can delete after the installation).
And of course, secure your computer and don't leave it open when idle. A good password wouldn't hurt either.
Enjoy!
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The best way would be to use a Live CD, both because in this way you don't boot the other OS and because, being usually based on Linux, they are able to recognize pretty much every file system and therefore every partition that you have on your hard disk.
Usually the most suggested distro for this kind of things is GParted, I don't think you can find a ...
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Install Windows on SSD and put old hard disk as second (in boot order). It will be D or the next available letter (if D is the DVD-ROM). Then you can browse to Documents and Settings\username\My Documents (for XP) or Users\username (for Vista and 7) to see your old files. If you had a password in old Windows, it could forbid you to access the files since ...
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You can't have any files that are located in the external hard drive opened when trying to format it, nor any program installed on it running. Try unplugging and then plugging it, then immediately formatting it.
Assuming you're on OSX, if you're still unable to unmount it, you can try forcing an unmount by issuing the follow command:
sudo umount -f ...
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Updates before drivers, because if something doesn't work it might be an outdated driver that is already installed, and an update will fix it, whereas downloading a driver from the internet might cause a conflict with the currently installed one or with your hardware if you download the wrong driver.
Whenever I install a new operating system my monitor's ...
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It could help to go into the BIOS and put the SATA port in IDE (or PATA) compatibility mode. You can then switch it back to Native mode once XP is installed. I don't know how to do this specifically for the Aspire One, but this has worked for me in the past when trying to install XP on other SATA systems.
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The more common failure you're likely to see in an SSD is write exhaustion. SSDs have a spec called "write endurance" which is basically how many times its memory cells can be written to before they're rendered "static." They'll still hold their data, you just can't write to them anymore. So!
It is unlikely that you're going to notice "gradual degradation" ...
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Don't start with the reformat. Connect the DVD drive, put in the DVD, and try to boot the computer from the DVD first. Once you've worked that out, the Windows Installer will offer to format your drive for you, and you can be sure that you can access the DVD drive by this point.
To your second question, a quick Google uncovered this page: Clean Install ...
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If you want to do it manually, here are the locations most software store their data at -
%AppData% -
C:\Users\AppData\Roaming in Vista and Windows 7
C:\Documents and Settings\Application Data in XP
%LocalAppData% -
C:\Users\AppData\Local in Windows 7
C:\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\Application Data in XP
C:\ProgramData in Windows 7.
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