data loss

Hello, I just accidentally deleted 4400 text files (1.5GB) on an NTFS volume that's probably heavily fragmented, although these files were created in a particular sequence. The files contain long columns of numerical data. If the undelete program takes one cluster from one file and another from...

Hi guys & gals, I'm going to try my hardest to explain this but basically is there a way of find out what I have done previously or what happened when I did a particular action... For example: a friend of mine plugged in a USB stick with some pictures in which they wanted to transfer. For...

Storage. It's not a sexy topic. But everyone uses it in some way or another. You have iPhones, you have computers. Everyone knows how important a person's data is. But it doesn't just "disappear." Or does it? New research suggests that newer solid-state hard drives, which are faster and offer...

Dear everyone, I've tried to explain my problem as good as I could, please do not be afraid of asking for more informations :) I hope you guys can somehow help me out. TLDR My external harddrive randomly removes files after installing new motherboard + processor. Some of the files can be...

I hope I'm in the right place. A while back I was copying some family files over from some (a few ancient, like 1990s) hard drives on my Ubuntu rig over to a new external 1TB NTFS HD formatted in Windows 8, nothing special. I was using the Ubuntu rig cause a few of them wouldn't initialize in...

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...

Hi, I am running Windows Visat on my HP laptop. I have backed up my hard drive to an external hard drive using the Control Panel. But when I tried to use the Restore option in the Control Panel, it instructed me to restart my computer and click on the F8 key. But when I did that I didn't see...

Hi there, folks. I am running Windows 8.1 64-bit on a Dell Inspiron 660s Desktop. This morning when I tried to sign-in to my computer, I used my password and got an error reading: "The Group Policy Client service failed the sign-in. The universal unique identifier (UUID) type is not...

I had 8.1 on my laptop but suddenly wouldn't boot "not recognised", online forum said change the "secure boot" and change the boot mode to "CSM boot" would fix it. This didn't work so download a recovery disk as I couldn't even boot my separate recovery drive on the laptop. I created a bootable...

Hey guys, I got a problem with my laptop. My old laptop crashed some weeks ago. It doesn't work anymore if I press the power button. So I took the hdd and connected it with desktop-pc to rescue the data. I had to get the rights for the user folder and windows got it automatically for me. But now...

If i download Windows 10 Preview do it delete my Windows 8 OS ? And do it effect my files or OS ? Please reply ASAP

Am I the only person who has been bitten by this "feature?" In Windows File Explorer I have chosen the single-click option rather than double click. I have also chosen to use a check box to select multiple files (rather than using control-click). I can select multiple files by clicking a check...

HAPPENED TODAY. I haven't switched the laptop off since this happened (in case that helps find it!!). I was working on a Doc and decided to put it into a different folder, which I did. I also happened to empty the Recycle Bin. So the original was deleted! When I went to work again on the...

I lost power during a printer software install and had to use startup repair to get back to normal. Although I was using the Admin password (no other accounts present) windows would create a temp user for each login. I was not able to use my desktop. Using Windows explorer, I could see and open...

I have 2 hard drives one is my drive C with windows and a 2nd hard drive drive F where I put all my game, steam, origin ect. I was always able to create a system image of drive C and uncheck drive F All of a sudden now when I try to create a system image of drive c I cant uncheck drive F...

Original release date: December 19, 2014 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows Overview US-CERT was recently notified by a trusted third party of cyber threat actors using a Server Message Block (SMB) Worm Tool to conduct cyber exploitation activities recently targeting a major entertainment...

HI, I used last year my new TOSHIBA vb63700-A 500GB external HD to Backup the 6 partitions PC using " Paragon Backup and Recovery 2014 Free ". Today tried to familiarise myself with it again, opened Paragon, clicked on Restore & Add an existing archive, went to Toshiba HD and found the two...

I'm trying to wind down my days on my old XP. I had its original hard drive die. I replaced it with a refurbished one and got professional recovery from DriveSavers. On their advice I'm backing up the 500 GB Touro hard drive they sent me with the recovered data (which I've whittled down to about...

I took some videos on my iPhone 4S which I wanted to transfer to my Windows 8.1 laptop. I did it in the usual way where I connect it to USB, go into the device on My PC and drag/copy the videos over to another folder. The videos won't play, however. Whenever I try to play them (default through...