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  1. Windows 7 Guarding Your High-Priority Files

    Critical Data - A Safety Net
  2. Windows 8 USB Devices Not Being Recognized

    I have discovered a strange issue with my USB ports. My external hard drive was reporting that it encountered an error and needed to be checked. I allowed Windows 8 to automatically fix the error. The wizard got about 70% done and then reported that it had failed. I then entered the...
  3. Windows 7 Suddenly there is lots of extra hard drive space!

    I have an extra logical drive (separate from C: ) that holds my personal data, you know, pictures, home videos, personal documents etc. This drive, E:, has for the last year or so always shown up in explorer with red a red disk space indicator bar. (There was about 20GB of free space left)...
  4. Windows 7 Lightning Strikes Again: Seeking Help for Computer Malfunction After Power Surge

    Hi everyone Well disaster has really struck this time. for the second time this year we have been struck by lightning! Last time it only fried my router. This time it zapped our satalite dish, our phone system, our heating system, our router, our heated outdoor cat shelter, and our electric...
  5. Folder Redirection functionality "Move Content to new location" can lead to dataloss

    When Folder Redirection is used in combination with the option "Move Content to new location" loss of data may happen if the storage where the redirected Folder are stored does not change. Link Removed
  6. Windows 7 Need Recommendations for Reliable Backup Solutions for Multiple Computers

    I have 5 computers to backup including one network drive. Ihave Acronis true Image 2010 which crashes my computer with the Blue screen ofdeath. Acronis true image 2013 wants you to pay for each computer and after2010 giving me the Blue screen of death I'm not so sure I trust it. So doesanyone...
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    Windows 7 How to Create a Recovery Disk for Your New HP Laptop

    Just bought new HP laptop. We like to have a recovery disk but don't know how to do it. Because windows is OEM microsoft won't help neither HP. Staples wants to get paid. Can I make one myself and how?
  8. Windows 8 I am going crazy over Windows 8 Storage Spaces

    What is going on here? Total madness? Link Removed Link Removed First, please let me apologize for the mass of wires, general techno geek junk, and other no-no’s like a can of diet Pepsi right next to my StarTech 4-port USB3 drive bay. Once I did some extensive reading about Storage...
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    Windows 7 Is there any way to get Win 7 backup to use multiple backup devices /partitions?

    I finally gave up on Backup My PC and went to Win 7 backup, but my external drive does not hold more than 2 backup cycles' worth of data. I'd like to use excess space (in a separate partition) on a 2 TB internal drive to offload some backups, but I can find no way of doing this. Any ideas...
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    Windows 7 system image backup failure in Windows 7 error code 0X8007002

    I have a DEll XPS 8500 with Windows 7 64 bits. I am trying to backup the data to an external HDD (WD 500 GB) connected to USB 3.0 using W7 backup function. The USB 3.0 is based on intel drivers.My whole C disk contains approx 110 GB data (should fit in my external HDD without problems). W7...
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    Windows 7 XP: Physical to Virtual Machine & Share Boot Drive w Host? Best way?

    XP: Physical to Virtual & Share Boot Drive w Host? Disk2VHD vs VMWare P2V? XP: Physical to Virtual & Share Drive w Host? Disk2VHD vs VMWare P2V? Physical-to-Virtual - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia My Thinkpad X61T with recent 8GB DDR2 Upgrade: I have an XP Pro 3 instance on a HDD able...
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    Windows 7 Looking for a reliable local backup solution for Windows 7

    Hello: Let me say right off the bat that I'm not a fan of Windows. It just happens at the moment that I need to set up a Windows 7 system, and namely to set up a local backup. Let me give you the specs: - Windows 7 Ultimate desktop - Internal HDD: 932GB - External HDD: 1.18TB Initially I set...
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    Windows 7 Lost Desktop Files After Reset: How to Recover Them?

    Please help. I come home today to go on my computer, my sister was already logged into her profile so i go to log into mine. When i do i see Prepareing Desktop, it logs in and my desktop is fully reset, ealier on my mother was on i believe she mustve done this because she doesnt know much about...
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    Windows 7 copy/transfer of data

    I want to copy/transfer data from a hard drive removed from a laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium to my PC running Windows XP. This is because the Windows 7 OS on the laptop is badly corrupted and I want to reinstall the OS, the drivers and utilities and the programs. When I examine the...
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    Windows 7 Bitlocker without TPM (Encryption key on SD Card instead of USB Drive)?

    I'm interested in using Bitlocker on 7 Ultimate to encrypt the entire main hard drive...but the laptop doesn't have TPM. Which as I understand it, ordinarily means that one MUST use a USB Flash Drive at every boot to supply the key. But what I'd very much prefer instead is to use the internal...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Ultimate does not recognize Bitlocker encrypted SATA hard drive connected via USB

    Dear all, recently, the motherboard on my ThinkPad laptop died and I was left trying to access the data that is in my Bitlocker encrypted SATA Hard drive (Crucial, RealSSD C300 1.8) via USB. I bought the adaptor, plugged the hard drive into a different machine running Windows 7 Ultimate, but...
  17. System Restore points are deleted after you restart your Windows 7-based computer

    You set Windows 7 to create System Restore points but notice that your system restore points have been deleted when you restart your computer. You can create new system restore points successfully but those restore points are also being deleted when... More...
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    Windows 7 Protecting Recovery files in W7

    I have recently acquired a new Toshiba laptop. The HDD is divided into: C drive D drive (Data) SYSTEM RESERVED (not sure what this means - only viewable in defragmenter) Q drive (Office 2010 Click to run (protected)) E drive (DVD) The D drive has the files: HDD Recovery R16067NH.tag I was...
  19. Windows 7 Partition Re-size with Acronis. Major Catastrophe.

    I've had a major crisis this morning using Acronis to reclaim an empty 8gb partition. The hdd from left to right, in disk manager was: 8Gb Empty (formerly page file) || D:\Data 210Gb Data || R:\Recovery 80Gb Recovery Using Acronis I expanded the 210gb to include all the 8Gb so now it would...
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    Windows 7 How to recover lost data

    By a mistake today, a partition (400 GB) containing important data was deleted. The partion is now restored to NTFS format. Please advise me how to restore some of the lost data. Thank you.