data loss

When one re-installs windows7 from scratch, what part of the hard drive does it write itself on? Will it overwrite old data, so to speak starting from the first place on the hard drive or will it rather first write in between un-used space? Would it make a difference if the old data had bean...

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...

Hi all, I'm still researching this, but in the last month or so since I updated 3 of my W10 test machines to W10 CU v1703, (b15036.296) on 2 of those machines, my CrashPlan cloud storage backup stopped working entirely!! I was wondering if any other W10 users who are also using CrashPlan...

Hi guys, I bought two of these (between them about month). but I'm hearing sound of clicking from both (when I use it in some way), I don't know what the problem is. I don't think that both of them are faulty and don't know if the problem from the cables.

Original release date: May 12, 2017 | Last revised: May 13, 2017 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows operating systems Overview According to numerous open-source reports, a widespread ransomware campaign is affecting various organizations with reports of tens of thousands of infections in as...

Hey guys! I am a non tech guy. So please pardon me if my question looks silly. I am currently using a windows 7 laptop. It’s a 3 year old system. Last week it got infected by some virus and malwares and I had to reinstall the OS. A few data including some photos, docs, music and game files were...

We have Windows 7 and use Windows Live Mail for E Mail. Today for no apparent reason our contacts are messed up. My wife had a lot of them separated into different groups. One group that had 43 contacts may have only 8. All the groups have less than they bare supposed to. What could have happened?

Recently made a major housing move - in the process of crazy packing, boxing up, redoing living area, I lost my drive on my desktop to who knows what. Old age maybe. 5 year old desktop. Anyway, I have since replaced the drive and many of the older files that I had backed up on an external drive...

Hi This isn't really a request for help, more curiosity. This morning I deleted a folder that I though was out of date and I emptied the recycle bin. Only after that did I realize that there was another folder in it that I did need. I've never used Recuva but I downloaded it and tried to see...

all my files in the computer are converted to 89D1 files. how to convert them back top normal. is there any default setting that went wrong? Can this happen after the updates and if so whats the solution now? please help..

I always have a folder named 'Temp' at my desktop to keep files temporarily, which later I organise and shift at permanent places. Since yesterday, I have noticed that its get deleted(like vanished!) automatically without my knowledge. It once got deleted, and I tried to recover the data through...

i have found that the problem was on my hdd in my previeus post i told i stucked on the load screen i unplugged my hdd Windows 10 doesn't open it didn´t happen anymore and when i did plug in my hdd back i format it but then the computer was stuck and i was again stuck at the load screen what´s...

I've got Windows 10 Pro 64bit installed on my system and the hard drive is showing me over 60GB of used space. When I open the C drive and unhide all folders and do a Properties, it shows just over 20GB of used space on my system drive. I'm trying to figure out where 40GB of files are hiding...

Backing up on ssd would be safer than hdd because no moving parts correct? So ssd failure rate is lower so just wondering how is it possible to lose data on ssd?

Hi. In the past few days I've been getting errors for my secondary (D:) Drive (HDD) from Windows. So, windows keeps telling me to restart my PC to fix drive errors. But when I restart, it does nothing, so I just ignored it because everything seemed fine... until recently... Ok, so about 2 days...

Hello, I just installed Windows 10 on one of mine disks. Install process ends fine but after that I found out that on other disk are not data, but there is old version of system disk! There are completely copied system disk data. I dont need that old version of OS but I need data which was there...

Hi, So what I'm trying to do is create a backup of my secondary drive and store it in my WD My Cloud NAS. However, my PC loses network connectivity after only a few minutes of the task running. This does not happen when I just copy files using the native Windows copy or TeraCopy. The programs...

I have an old XP machine. An Acer Aspire. I put Win7 Ultimate on it but it hasn't taken. Always gives me an error message and asks for the install disk again - which was a USB stick - but when i provide it nothing changes. So I need to get it off and start again. I have 3 physical disks...

Hi, my computer had many viruses and i could not enter google services like google and youtube and these sites. So, i choosed to reinstall my windows os from the control panel! But, the installation was stuck on 14% in about 8 hours or somethings... Then i turned my computer off, And when i...