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Hello everyone,
this will be a rather lengthy post. Please bear with me, as I don't know what information is pertinent to my problem and what isn't.
I have a Dell Latitude E6410 laptop which has been running 64-bits Windows 10 satisfactorily for quite some time now. However, its original 250 GB...
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I recklessly changed the name of my computer in win7 enterprise 64 bit when I reinstalled after new HD so it didn't match the name used in previous install. Result is that i dont have access to some folders after reinstall and restore from backup. Need some step by step instruction on how to...
Just installed Windows 10 preview. I like it very nice indeed. I did a clean install so was left with no data or files except the new OS.
I then had the bright idea of using my Acronis True Image to recover my files and programs.
It was such a perfect recovery from a stored backup on another...
Hi everyone, first time here. I made the *huge* mistake of updating the People, Mail, Calendar, Messaging app from Microsoft and now my calendar doesn't sync with my Google calendars as it used to. I'm aware of the Google/Microsoft fight on this, but according to Microsoft's own support page, if...
I made a few months back a backup of my machine(windows 7 64bit edition). The size was like 25gb's so I saved it on my external hard-drive(I bought a case and put a hard drive(Seagate I think) in it).
I know want to use this to restore my computer. So I made a system repair disk and loaded...
I currently have 3 SATA drives. 1.5TB x2 and 1TB x1
Drive partitions as following:
C: 499GB
D: 897GB
E: 499GB
F: 897GB
G: 931GB
I am installing a new 2TB SATA 3 drive, but on SATA 2 mode for now.
New config of drives will be quite similar except for that I will be merging the partition of the...
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I am having a problem accessing files. I was running vista til my had to do a fresh install of windows 7. I had been backing up with nt backup and still have those files. They were under an administrator account. When I attempt to restore them I see the files transfered but am unable to see them...
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saving NTUSER.DAT is easy, but how to restore it into current user account without restarting computer and having to create another account, login into that another account as administrator and copy file to that other account i am trying to restore NTUSER.DAT for ?
There must be easier way to...