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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Recover Mac Mini

I was given a Mac Mini. It uses only 110 VAC power & has a CD/DVD drive. Don't see a model number. It boots up, but the previous owner's ID and password requirement render it useless. I am using a ...
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Will an OS boot if I simply backup and restore all its files

Can I backup and restore an OS simply by copying and restoring all its files, file by file, rather than copying and restoring the disk partition, byte by byte? Consider: If I have a booting OS on a ...
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SSD suddenly blank

I got a TRANCEND SSD with 128GB ( TS128GBSSD[XXX], I guess 3 years old ). Recently I used the computer running Windows 10 about 2 days ago. After I tried to start the computer yesterday i recognized, ...
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Restoring Windows 10 Image on Original hardware with Retail licensing

I bought a 'mini-PC' with Windows 10 Pro(which I can link if necessary) and I want to be able to do 'clean reinstalls' if something gets mucked up. I pulled the licenses for Windows and Office for ...
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Debian 8.9 restore deleted but locked files

I accidently ran rm -R /home/. My Homefolder contained several disks of virtual machines which were in use at this moment. I also got the error, that some files could not have been deleted. ...
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Windows Update (sorta) bricked my computer. Now I want my settings back

After the most recent Windows Update, I saw this screen. Clicking the button, the computer restarted, and returned to this screen. So then I burnt a copy of Windows and reinstalled it: But that wasn'...
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Steps for (re-)installing Windows 8 (or 8.1) on an OEM laptop

I have to reinstall an Asus laptop with Windows 8 sticker. It doesn't have a license key sticker, and I assume that the key was stored in the BIOS. The OS had probably be upgraded to Windows 8.1 or 10 ...
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Windows 7 Backup & Restore

I manually deleted some backups from my hard drive but they still appear in the Windows 7 Backup & Restore Restore Files list. Does anyone know how I can remove the non-existent backup files from ...
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How to revert Windows 10 1709 to 1703 without Windows.old being directly accessible?

My question is comparable to a former one, but a bit different as well: I'm using 1709 and considering "rolling back" to 1703 because of changes in GDI memory management which introduced a serious ...
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Backspaced and saved in Notepad++

I was cheerfully coding in Notepad++, when someone came up and backspaced it all, while I was doing so good! I naturally save my code, so before I knew it, that's what I did. HOW DO I GET IT BACK?
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Restore a computer to factory settings

I have a gaming computer with the following specs : Intel i7-4770K Asus Z87-A GTX 780 (soon to be replaced by a 1060) 16GB DDR3 500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD I've had the CPU/motherboard/GPU/RAM for ...
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How to recover a deleted DFS namespace

I deleted a DFS namespace to rebuild it in a different way, but it turns out there was a linked folder underneath that namespace that pointed to a share somewhere. Nobody knows where the share of the ...
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Windows 10's backup to restore to a different version of Windows 10?

Short question: Can Windows 10's backup restore to a different version of Windows 10? Like from Home to Pro? Long version, because I want to complain about W10's update policy: Due to the aggravation ...
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Reset Windows 10 to factory state without creating new user

I bought a Dell laptop that I find to slow. I wanted to clean it and return it so I proceeded with the factory reset option. My aim was to remove user account, language packs and return the laptop in ...
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ASUS RT-N18U router - firmware restore trouble

I have an ASUS RT-N18U router, which I need to have the original firmware restored. I follow the instructions of this website: https://byndthwll.com/2016/05/04/revert-back-to-stock-firmware-on-asus-...
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Restore Windows Image Backup file from a live Linux session

I have a Windows Image Backup file created from within Windows. However, the Windows installation media refuses to read the drive it's on (USB 3, Win7, doesn't want to work). Instead, I was wondering ...
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Restore Previous Version not working

Its been around 7 months since I reinstalled the fresh version of Windows 7 on my PC, but the restore previous version is not appearing anywhere: neither on folder nor on any file. whats the Fix?
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Restore previous version of Chrome User Data in Windows 10

one of my Chrome extensions recently lost all its settings overnight, including a whitelist that I very heavily rely on. I'm trying to restore the User Data directory to before these settings ...
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How Do I Restore Chrome Previous Session Tabs from Command Line/Target Textbox in Chrome Properties?

I've tried doing this, and when i open properties for google chrome: the target box says: "C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" the start in box says: "C:\Program Files (x86)\...
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How can I restore Server 2008 disk image to newer hardware, different CPU's, etc.?

Have an older PC running Windows Server 2008. Can I restore an Acronis backup image of this system onto newer hardware with radically different components?
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How to restore the Windows 10 Explorer Ribbon?

I once fiddled a bit with theming in Windows 10, using software like Windows Classic Shell, because the themes used did not support the default windows 10 explorer. Now that I've uninstalled those ...
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TP-Link Archer C7 with LEDE - factory settings restore

I have an issue with TP-Link Archer C7. I installed LEDE firmware on it and experimented with this stuff. One thing I did absently was changing its IP to 192.168.1.0 (I suppose it was its network ...
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Can changed file be restored(old_version) → Currently no previous version available

I had a file on my m/c functions.php until July 10, 2017: the day when the new hard disk was installed, but some how the file got changed and is now of 0KB; there is no previous version available as ...
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File backups when modified

I'm trying to find something to, whenever a file is modified by a program, make a backup either in that or another folder with nameoforiginal-date or something of the like. Anyone know of something or ...
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Retrieve files from a dd-ed btrfs partition

I have dd-ed a btrfs partition (from a Jolla phone), as per some last resort instructions to have a safety copy of it (see: notes in Mer's Sailfish/Backup Device wiki page, ). Perhaps wrongly so, ...
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Window 7 upgrade to 10 then Windows 10 reset this PC

I have a client that is across the country from me that wants to factory reset his PC so as to fix any issues the current OS install has. He currently has Windows 7, which does not have a in OS way ...
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"You need to format the disk in drive" but I cannot access the drive

Whenever I plug in my thumbdrive into my computer, I get: You need to format the disk in drive D: before you can use it. I tried a solution suggested, chkdsk D:/f (and /r) in the command line but ...
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Linux (lubuntu) - How to backup and restore entire system [duplicate]

I'm about to send my laptop (Lenovo U31-70, Lubuntu 16.04) away to be repaired, they could wipe it clean and install Windows 10 on it. I want to backup my entire machine (single physical HDD, LVM), ...
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How do I copy all gnome-keyring items to a different computer?

I keep snapshots of my home directory using rsync (with --link-dest, fyi). I haven't used my desktop in a while, so I used rsync to 'restore' my laptop snapshot over my desktop home directory. I didn'...
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To what extent can a computer be reset to factory settings?

Our teacher gave us 2 used computers and asked us to format them and we did. Then we installed Windows 10 on both. Now he comes and says "I don't want any OS on them". Of course, when a computer is ...
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Windows system restore increase automatic restore points

After 2 days you can see that the task triggered 3 times (the last one was forced to run by me) but I only have 1 restore point. I've tried looking for quite some time about this but didn't find ...
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Fast restore of a Duplicati 2 backup

I have started using Duplicati 2 to backup my data to an external harddrive. So far, it seems like a very robust and secure way to backup personal data, and it is opensource on top of all ! However ...
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Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Not Restoring

A few months ago My Surface Pro 3 automatically installed the awfully buggy first version of Windows 10 (without my permission, of course). This rendered my screen unresponsive to touch; not even my ...
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SSD Backup Restore

I recently repaired my pc and took a backup of the boot SSD to be safe. I had to uninstall some programs to get the pc working again so files have been removed from the SSD. Now I need to restore the ...
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Restore from a windows 10 File History backup to a new computer?

Updated 27.03.17 This question is very similar to How do you restore from a File History backup to a new computer? but up to now I didn't succeed with the prescriptions given there because there are ...
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How many times I can restore Win10 OS in my laptop

I got new 710S-13IKB IdeaPad laptop and would like to mak esome experiments on it. After each experiment I would like to restore system by using restore Lenovo system. But will Windows be happy to get ...
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Is SSD TRIM deleting your System Restore points in windows?

I've had system restore enabled on Windows 7 with a SSD with TRIM enabled. It would often have a message saying 'Creating restore point' but I never actually saw any restore points in the restore ...
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How do I get Win10 back on my computer after System restore

I did a full factory restore on my computer and now that it is back set up it has reverted back to Windows 8(the OS that it was shipped with) I had Windows 10 before the system restore, and am hoping ...
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Restore Windows 7 without re-installing

Having had a network problem for a couple of months and finding no solution, I am faced with a full re-install of Windows 7. Then I thought, wait, I have a full disk backup (using Shadowprotect) of ...
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recovery data from stand alone docker container after accidentally deleted my vm on azure

I deleted my vm on azure but the disk still exist in resource group I mounted a new machine and attach the disk[vhd] into it I mounted the disk in /datadrive and I can see my docker container can ...
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How can I fix the error preventing MySQL data migration from a dead HD?

I'm trying to restore a MySQL database from a dead HD. I've followed the instructions from here about copying the old files: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40479395/export-mysql-datatabase-from-a-...
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Pressing F8 on startup doesn’t show safe mode option nor restore - Win7

After some power failures, my Windows 7 doesn’t display the common options to enter on safe mode, or restore at startup when I press F8. It shows only: Windows 7 and at the bottom of the screen, the ...
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Whole system backup and recovery

I am currently backing up my Raspberry Pi 3 to a local NAS using this command: sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M | gzip > /mnt/MyCloud/"$(date +%FT%T)".gz This should run daily, using cron job. Is ...
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Restoring Windows 7n Ultimate backup or system image to Windows 7 Ultimate

I've been using Windows 7N via a key from a European friend for some time now, but have recently acquired a Windows 7 Ultimate (non-N) key: I'd like to switch versions, partly for aesthetic reasons ...
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Restore "Unknown" Partition To ntfs

I'm using Fedora. I don't know why my NTFS (/dev/sda3) partition is changed to "Unknown". I can't read this partition. My important files are located in there and I have to change it back to ntfs ...
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Microsoft Word Restore Previous Version of Unsaved File

I was authoring an email on Microsoft Word for 30 minutes. I cut the document with the intention of pasting it into an email and got distracted so I didn't. My computer then crashed and after restart ...
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Macrium Reflect rescue media won't open a backup image file

I am trying to restore a backup created with the free version of Macrium reflect after a disk fail. Rescue media was created for the PC in question (running WinXPSP3) and a backup done which produced ...
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autohotkey - hotkey to toggle between Minimize and Restore for current selected window

I would like to create a single hotkey to toggle between Minimize and Restore for current selected window (explorer window, or program window, or any window), but I need the toggle to min and restore ...
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Restore old Windows backup after Windows 10 upgrade

I have a Windows 10 Home machine that was upgraded automatically some time ago from Windows 8.1 and it now turns out that one of the apps, a CAD type application that renders in 3D, had serious ...
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Restore Windows 7 in cmd?

I need to restore the system to an earlier point using cmd since it freezes, but I only find it using rstrui.exe, I need to do everything from the cmd itself. There's any way to do this?
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