data loss

Hello! I just wander id there is some software to find corrupted files existing in a disk (any disk-not system)- I want to get rid of them. Searching one by one is a pain :( Thank you

Hey, guys! I recently transferred about 30 files (around 20 GB) to my portable drive and they disappeared. I'll try to explain what I did because I would like to know if I did something wrong so that I can avoid this in the future. 1. I unplugged my drive (Seagate Backup Plus 4TB formatted in...

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I have a system that refuses to boot to Windows 10 Professional (64-bit), and I think I need to do a reinstall. The advanced boot options is available, but it will not go into safe mode. I can however get the command line, and it recognizes both robocopy and xcopy. Assume that C is the hard...

Dear all, Before you can help me here you must understand fundamentally what Bitlocker is about. Bitlocker: ------------------------------------------------------------------- The idea with Bitlocker is that you do not enter a bitlocker password when you boot up. Your TPM does this for you. As...

I am in the process of cleaning and neatening up my PC. My PC has 6 drives: (C:) - Primary - M.2 - 1TB O.S. Drive - 3 Win Install partitions (D:) - Primary - SSD - 1TB Installation Drive - 1 Partition (E:) - Primary - HDD - 2TB Data Drive - 1 Partition (F:) - Primary - HDD - 2TB Data Drive - 1...

Hello, I had windows7 in my laptop.I tried to install windows 10 with USB flash drive, When I selected drive to install windows it said windows can't be installed on this drive. Later I have deleted the partition 1 under disk 0,but still didn't give me a solution got the same error. Then I have...

Hi, I went to made a new virtual box on a drive which was recently convertde to go from several partitions to just one, and although I can read files I cannot delete them or indeed write a new file to the drive. Not sure how this has come about. How can I get it back to normal? The username of...

Is anyone having issues with Samsung smart switch and outlook 2016. When I go to smart switch preferences and click on update both I get many duplicates and in some cases triplicated and quadruplicates. They are both set to first name first. I have deleted all the contacts in the phone and then...

Hello All, I have windows 8.1 pro, Before 4 years my friend did clean install of windows 8.1pro from windows 7 , I have 5-6 documents which i had encrypted with efs . My friend forgot to take back up of efs key certificate, Now i can't open without efs key certificate, Please help me to...

I recently migrated several thousand files and folders from one external hard drive to another. My backup software (iDrive) failed to back up 5 or 6 folders. When I looked at the properties for those folders, the Security tab just says "The requested security information is either unavailable...

About 2 or 3 years ago, I tried upgrading from Windows 7 to 8. Something went wrong though, and I mistakenly used the Custom option instead of of Upgrade. After that, my files were all gone. Everything. I didn’t know at the time what the deal with the Windows.old folder was. When I found out...

Word 16 suddenly would not open a document I've been working on for a while. I get the error that it needs to be recovered. After I recovered it the file contents were gibberish. My question is how do word documents become corrupt? Can this be prevented?

Hello all, I have used this tool before with no problems. But my last attempt ended in failure as most of my documents were shreaded and not recoverable. But I have a backup and was able to restore most of the files. The problem is some of the files were new and were not on my most...

Hi! I am in a shit siutation: I wanted to create a recovery drive. I plugged in an external drive with an M and an N Partition. Once i started the wizard, it told me to use either the M or the N drive. I took M, since on N there was the backup of quite a lot of pictures. Then the process to...

Hi Guys , I am happy to be part of this forum , This is my new post , i am glad you would help me . Is there a way to find out why cannot find .wave file saved on default Document folder from an application ? Save process done , and you can see that the wave is loaded in the default...

I installed MySQL on my laptop. Then try to write code but it was giving me error. I thought it was the port using the same as the Microsoft SQL server, Kind of regret That I didn't do a little more research. It wasn't storing the admin password. I used command prompt to reset MySQL password but...

Installing any software deletes a partition and says: Then I can reopen installation and it works (after it deleted the partition) After restarting I can find the partition again...

I have been experimenting with another OS and running dual boot. I allocated too much space to windows and wish to decrease it. Can I still do this without losing data in my Window 7 OS? If so what tool should I use and how to go about it. Thank you.

When I used 2.5" portable hard drives, they were connected to the usb hub and it caused the issue. All of them got the logical bad sector and I had to throw them. I began to connect them to the main port of my computer and the issue had gone. I am using laptop now and have several 2.5"...