data loss

Recently I installed an additional case fan which ventilates directly onto my two hard drives. The temperature decreased from 41°C to 32°C what sounds to be a good thing at first. The downside is that I encounter plenty of errors on one of these HDDs since the mentioned fan installation. More...

Any risk in losing anything by running both an internal and external disk check via this method? Thanks

I did a refresh/restore type thing on my computer and Windows said "You will not lose any files by doing this. You will however, have to re-install your programs." That was totally fine by me. The only thing is I DID lose some files that were within program files. For example I lost all the...

I'm using windows 8.1 suddenly my laptop shut down... When I restart my laptop it didn't switch on. I used windows 8.1 boot cd and checked c drive is not responding. I'm also tried in cmd c: it just not responding it just freezing the command prompt whereas i can get into d: & e:. I just had...

Ok here's the thing, I wanted to install zorin (OS) dual-booted with windows 8. I accidently in the process deleted a lot of partitions that should have been deleted. I want to reinstall windows but I cannot get past the screen that says "a required partition is missing." I have tried all of...

I have a Seagate hard disk drive which has been divided into 2 sections (C drive, D drive) on my PC. Now, the D drive is inaccessible and it says the drive is not formatted. Should I format it? But will I lose everything on the drive after formatting?

Hello, My notebook (xp) has recently broke down, and I moved its HDD to my desktop (xp) to access my data. To work with more or less the same environment as before, I set the home dir of the user on the desktop to the directory on the notebook's HDD that used to be my home. I have the same...

Boy, am I stuck! I conducted a search for a folder and found it deep in a repeated shortcut tree in the application Data folder. The tree was - C/Programdata/applicationdata/applicationdata/applicationdata........ repeated about 15 times. Each subtree "Application Data" folder in the tree showed...

I had a folder full of photos on my external hard drive and moved them to my new computer. I copied the folder over to: "My Documents"->"My Folder"->"Photos" on my laptop's D: partition (C: contains Win7) When I click into the Photos folder I don't see any files and the file counter at the...

I had a video file on OneDrive that has somehow disappeared. Does anyone know who I can contact at Microsoft to get this file back ? I need it to give it to law enforcement, as it's of someone breakinto my bedroom and stealing a few of my item's. The person is on probation and I need the video...

I just performed a Windows update which took over half an hour. When my laptop restarted, all my desktop files and folders were gone, all the contents of the Library (My Docs, My Music, My Videos and My Photos) had been deleted, the desktop and Windows Explorer had changed completely. I...

So, while copying some photos from my phone to computer in a folder which had older photos, I wasn't aware that the phone file names were reseted (starting again from name IMAG0001) and ones with the same name were replaced with new ones. Have I lost them forever or is there a way to retrieve...

I currently have Windows XP on a computer with Outlook Express as the email. If I boot up the computer with the Windows 7 disc and change operating systems will I lose all my folders in express and saved emails? Does Windows 7 use Outlook and not Express?

Hi there: I accidentally deleted a directory from another machine in my network, I don´t see the folder in the recycle bin. Is there any way of undeleting it or recovering? The title of this post is not well formulated, I only want to recover it no matter what machine I use...

Original release date: March 10, 2014 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3) Operating System Microsoft Office 2003 Products Overview Microsoft is ending support for the Windows XP operating system and Office 2003 product line on April 8, 2014. [1] After this date...

Just got in a computer that's used in the field, it runs a program that will realtime record data into a database file, the guys that used it reported back trouble with the computer - among other things they did have to reset the computer by turning it off. They also said that the database...

A friend of mine recently purchased a USB3.0 external 1Tb Harddrive. She made a system backup of her desktop computer and then sent the pc to be restored to factory defaults. in the meantime her daughter was having a problem with her laptop and she decided to do a system backup of her daughters...

Hello folks, This time require your extreme help and knowledge. This has to do with my daughter's computer and her whole life is in the machine and it is messed up. All her data was on a Win 7 computer and i offered to install windows 8.1 on it for her. So I first uploaded some of the files to...

I had to clean install yesterday and rightfully so, i lost all of my date from drive (D). Now, i would like to know how to recover any of this data after formatting? (How do i make my internal HDD become a slave and therefore readable and able to recover data?)

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.1 (December 10, 2013): Updated the Known Issues entry in the Knowledge Base Article section from "None" to "Yes". Summary: This security update resolves three publicly disclosed vulnerabilities and one privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft...