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1. We are told that Rohos Mini Drive creates a "strongbox" on a USB drive (or external hard drive??), so why do we need Rohos Disk Portable? 2. Can I have a "container" on my PC's hard drive too? It's a pain having to plug in a USB drive just to look up a password, I tend to use the USB...

Hello All, I'm using 2 external HDD on my laptop under Windows 10. Both are exactly the same: same brand, same model, same capacity, same format (NTFS). I use 1 for my daily use, the second one as backup which I synchronize frequently with the first one. However I noticed a difference with some...

So, I’m running windows 7 32 bit on my work pc and some new policies come down from corp. headquarters that all the pc’s hard drives need to be encrypted with kapersky and the have to be updated every month with windows updates else the pc will be booted from the network. So, I reboot by pc one...

Hi folks. Been Googling quite a bit and cannot find the practical differences between using two external USB drives as RAID 1 OR as a mirrored Storage Space. Can anyone tell me which is preferred and why? Thanks! ~Bob

In our company, we have some huge very valuable database. Some hours ago, we've started to transfer it from one machine to another. Now we've almost done. But one of the databases on new machine has started to show up a message The header for the file WorkingD.mdf' is not a valid database file...

I manage an online historic archive for a local historical society. We have many documents, pictures, etc., posted in a Dropbox account, and provide links for all who desire. I'm concerned that one of us (me or one of the volunteers who has access to the account/collection) might someday...

Hi all Yesterday i found that my Arcgis server site was deleted and I don't know why, so I shred my services again on new site. and today the problem repeated so I decided to format my server to build every thing again from scratch. the problem is that after I made this, my site was deleted...

I have been working on 3 wordpad files and I just leave the files open and save whenever I add new data to them. This morning I got on my laptop and clicked wordpad and all 3 files are completely blank and they are now just titled "Document" instead of the save name they had. I went to find the...

On one of my (older) computers there is a defect sector on the hard disk. Checking the surface of the hard disk shows a red square for it. It seems to me that all the "usual" reserve sectors are already in use. Every thing else works on this computer. No unusual noise comes from the hard disk...

Running iTunes 12.4.2 under Win7 SP1. Recently, something happened so that selecting any song gives me "The song ... could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" The location attempt inevitably gets me nowhere. Can I recover from this...

I am uncertain what the differences are between System Restore Points and Shadow Copies. Actually I need only System Restore Points. 1.) Can I use SRP without (!) Shadow Copies? 2.) When Shadow copies always necessary: Why are SRP invented? Why not using Shadow Copies only? 3.) Assume I...

Hello, I have asked about my BSOD on a different forum, and thankfully people are helping me by asking for files that display all the processes on my laptop. But, here are my conditions right now - As my condition seem like the only one...or not - I CANNOT boot normal mode AT ALL - Most...

we have about seven computers all running some version of windows from xp to 10. So's I can move files between them at will I habitually share all the drives. And, of course, every time I do I run into Microsoft's warning about sharing root drives. never worried me. but now we have this...

LS, In a pre ReFS era, is it possible to somehow run a process(can be 3rd party software) that scans all disks (minimum of 3) in a mirror setup. If all but 1 disk have the same data then repair that 1 bad data to be similar to the others. If more than 1 disk report some different data then...

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Hi all! I'm hoping this is an appropriate place to post this question. Here is the rundown of equipment: Three laptops, each running a different OS-7, 8 (or 8.1), and 10. Three external hard drives that are used and accessed regularly (and one back up) Currently, I have a Homegroup hosted on...

My office pals are constantly creating lenghy file names and folders that surpass windows limits, which is causing problems when I perform or restore backups. Is there a way to just stop windows from letting a user write or copy a file which exceeds the limits imposed by the OS itself?. I´ve...

Dear Guys, I try to use BACKUP that comes with Windows 10. The BACKUP works well but i have some difficulties using the customization. - When i want to exclude folders from Backup, sometimes it works (the folder that i excluded appear in the list), and sometime does not appear. Question: What...

I saved a windows 10 disk image on my Windows Home Server and created a recovery DVD. Then when I want to check all is well, I found that while the recovery DVD worked fine when I tried to set a path to the WHS disk/file I could not log on to the server from within the recovery program. Asks...

Hi. I've had no luck in Win10 forum so I'm asking here as the answer is probably the same... File History does not backup Desktop or any files on Desktop. Can somebody suggest why this should be? I have turned File History off, turned it back on, reset the backup drive and the only folder to...