data loss

Last week we paused the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) for all users as we investigated isolated reports of users missing files after updating. Given the serious nature of any data loss, we took the added precaution of pulling all 1809 media across all channels...

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Original release date: July 20, 2018 Systems Affected Network Systems Overview Emotet is an advanced, modular banking Trojan that primarily functions as a downloader or dropper of other banking Trojans. Emotet continues to be among the most costly and destructive malware affecting state...

Our office department uses it every day. Only some days ago, we got a problem. Database at opening showed us...Unrecognized Database Format 'General.mdb' (Error 3343). We applied Compact&Repair function to Repair Access database, it opened but part of data disappeared. Now we scare to do...

I had this machine wouldn't start, wouldn't repair, wouldn't reinstall, nothing... had a thread about it.. Well I took the drive out of that machine - we're talking Win10 - and stuck it in another machine as the system drive just to see what would happen, would it run or mainly would it cause...

Hello. I helped a family member do a Windows Refresh on Windows 8.1, and thousands of her personal files have been removed. According to Microsoft, "you can refresh your PC without deleting any of your personal files or changing your settings." This was not the case for her. I have searched...

Original release date: May 25, 2018 Systems Affected Small office/home office (SOHO) routers Networked devices Network-attached storage (NAS) devices Overview Cybersecurity researchers have identified that foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office...

Seems to be several opinions on this as I Google, so thought to ask you all here as well for your thoughts. Lenovo P51S with Ultradock. Two USB hard drives attached to the dock. Both set for "Quick Removal" in Device Manager. Do I need to "safely remove" these drives before hot undocking and...

hello, after latest forced windows update i noticed issues with my secondary HDD drives. when ever i shut down the pc, my screen goes black for a few sec, then HDD's need a bit more time and spin down resulting in whole PC to be shut down same second. now after this update, my HDD's spin down...

Hello, I lost all my torrent download list on the Bittorrent torrent client because i had to format Windows. Is it a way to reload the download list (batch) or store it so i can recover it before Windows become faulty?

Morning all , I bought a new 8TB Hard-drive online , I installed Windows 10 on it and it's only showing 1.99TB on my computer . I thought windows only showed 3TB as the largest size , but the bloke in the local computer shop said windows 10 had solved that problem . (Meaning I wouldn't have to...

Hello, I made an image of everything on my computer on a external drive on 07/06/17 and now I discovered that a file is missing in my computer. I suspect this file may be on the external drive. So If I restore the contents of this external drive, what happens to the existing software...

I moved files onto an external disk. During the move, the data suddenly vanished. It was nowhere. Not on the target drive, not on the origin. What happened? How do I get the data back?

Last week i posted about slow boot time. I was asked to check free space and had about 300gb left. Well this morning, my laptop had a warning message saying 0 bytes free of 909gb. I checked and sure enough, 0 bytes free. Wtf is going on? Thanks Sent from my SM-S920L using Tapatalk

I'm scared of partitioning D: drive to install Linux. My most important files are backed up in the cloud but have loads of stuff i don't want to loose. The process went fine for my C: drive which already had windows 7 in it. Should i expect a similar scenario for my D: drive?

Hi, Can anyone please help me on this :- I had mistakenly added a encryption to my one of the folder in D drive in Windows 7 and then had my Windows formatted and installed fresh again. The user from whom the encryption was initiated, is no deleted (as windows is formatted). Now when I access...

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...