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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...

I was wondering something... I have bought a new 1TB SATA hard drive to use in my desktop computer and to replace my old 80GB IDE hard drive currently sitting in there now. I have not long reinstalled Windows on it and installed all the updates. When the new hard drive comes, I want to be able...

Hello again, No matter which undelete programme I try, not one of them will ever find a deleted file. I copy a file to a directory on C: or D:, delete it and then empty the Recycle Bin. Whatever application I care to use, the file, which is very unlikely to have been overwritten, can not...

:)) My Macbook was stolen a few days ago and now it's time to get a new computer. Not certain that I'll get another Mac. Aside from several things that I'm not crazy about with Apple and the Macbook, there's this consideration. I backed up my whole hard drive onto an external hard disk. Whenever...

I know, very old technology (QIC) but please don't tell me to upgrade, this is a hobby of mine. My question, did any company ever make a QIC OR Travan Tape Library/Autoloader?

Hi I have a folder with around 40,000 jpg images, family photos etc. I spend my spare time renaming the images, so for instance an original photo named P01234567 might become P01234567-andy-les-jane, thus showing the names of people actually in the photo. This is great since I can then search...

Help! I have had a master file I have been working on for 2 years. Yesterday I spent all day on one of the sub-files. Today I looked for the Master File and it had completely disappeared along with ALL of the sub-files (including the one I had been working on). So I ran CCleaner and sure...

I do not have much hope left but I'll try some more. So here's the situation: I'm currently trying to repair my father's laptop and loosing hope. What happened was that he had a free version of Panda when it shot all its clients' laptops to shit. Their next update repaired many but not all. My...