disk recovery

I bought a SATA/PATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter Converter Cable for 2.5/3.5 Hard Disk Drive , off Ebay which has never been used i forgot about it . How do i set it up to use to recover files . Thank you . Trevor Bilton . I'm also no longer a member of Ebay .

Hello all, I accidentally deleted about 700-1000 image files from my Screenshots folder. I tried using this command with the windows file recovery app - winfr C: D: /regular /n Screenshots\ But its not working. It is returning many many files, but the ones that were deleted yesterday are not...

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...

If I create a system restore disk or create a system image whilst backing up, do both take the current system image including all updates installed to the point of time I did the back-up ?

I am running Windows 10 Technical Preview on my laptop currently on build 9926. Whenever I try to run Windows Update it either fails or installs the updates but I get BOSD System Thread Exception not handled in an infinite bootloop. I am able to run System Restore but it fails but it allows me...

How does an image software like Macrium Reflect recognize the partitions on the destination disk at restore? Is it by drive letter, label,size or location?

Hi guys. A friend of mine recently gave me his old laptop (toshiba satellite running win 7 home premium) which had been stepped on and broken. I pulled it apart and saved the HDD and ram for a rainy day. Prior to this I purchased a dirt cheap 15inch macbook pro. After a few months, the...

Hi, I encrypted some files with EFS in Windows 7. Now recently my system crashed, and got corrupted, and so I installed Windows 7 on a new disk. Now, I would like to pick up my old files, and that workd (Disk is ifne, but OS is corrupted), except I can't get to my encrypted files. I have...

Hi Guys. There is another post on here, "Windows 8 Activation Problem" that has me stumped. The user, tried to go back to Windows 7 and then return to Windows 8. In doing so he apparently removed the Recovery Partition on his Asus laptop. The computer won't boot, I think that the only real...

I am a real dummy with this stuff. I bought 2 used computers at auction. They are Dell OptiPlex 760, 3.16 GHz, Core2Duo, 4Gb Ram. They have been sanitized and have no operating system on them. They originally had Windows Vista on them. I have been to EBay and there are a lot of products...

I'm curious why Revo shows 8 less program installations, than Programs And Features does on my computer. Among the missing are all 3 O&O programs I have installed (Defrag, DriveLED & Disk Recovery). Why does Revo not list all of the software in Programs And Feature?

i had a laptop that was working fine but when i restarted it show the samsung logo but then goes black i tried to restore from usb and disk but it doesnt show in bios settings when i try to change the bios settings in the bios boot order it only shows windows boot manager that it nothing else is...

Back Story: I had an issue in the past were my computer would restart overnight (I assume it crashed) and upon trying to start up the computer it would not load Windows 7(W7) most of the time. To get it to load I would have to shut the computer down and leave it off for a while and then it would...

good morning...I am new to this forum, and i appreciate being able to reach out for some assitance..I currently have a friend who is in need of a new computer, which I can provide for him, however it has Linux on it, which he will not be able to use..while I interned at a computer repair shop a...

i have "imaged" my system drive using DriveImage XML I set it as active with windows disk manager. but when I try to boot it tells me that BOOTMGR is missing. however, bootmgr exists on the system reserved partition it is also in windows\boot\pcat and under windows\winsxs\......... so what is...

Hi Guys I need help, this is my first time using Acronis and I don't want to blow it. I'm ready to do a restore to solve my corrupted type and a few related problems. I'm booting from the Acronis Recovery CD. Once I'm in Acronis I have a few questions. I select Recover My Disks. In Archive...

Dell Inspiron 1564 dual boot: Backtrack 5r1 and win7homepremium/8 Started innocently enough with me partitioning a drive to make space so I could test win7starter. I reboot to finalize the partition and I get the grub rescue error. I tried the super grub2 disk thing to no effect. I say screw...

My son's laptop is stuck in the system repair screen and just stays there. Here's the background. His laptop was dog slow when he came home from college. The only way to boot it was in safe mode. I suspected a virus and ran multiple AV checks recommended on the Windows 7 support forum. No...

Hey guys, A while ago, I had a triple boot system, but now, I'm using one of the hard drives for something else, so now it is only dual-boot. However, for some reason, I cannot get Windows 7 to see the new boot file. I constructed the original boot system with EasyBCD. Absolutely no problems...

I hopelessly crashed my computer. I was trying to install the Windows 8 Preview and it did exactly what I was afraid it would do. It started overwriting my Windows installation without asking me where I wanted to install it. The Windows 8 install failed, so I tried the rollback option and...