file restoration

I stupidly deleted files from my Seagate backup, OneDrive, and computer. How can I get them back? I have tried Recuva but it does not work. The Windows Recovery does not work. Any suggestions particularly any software that really works? Thanks, srbuckeye

I did it. I was in a hurry and accidentally formatted a 200Gb Micro SD card in my external slot of my Android phone. It had every type of file you can imagine on it. Videos, Pics, PDFs, Word Documents, Rar, Zip & 7z files... and more. About 110Gb of data. There are so many reviews that are...

Windows Server Backup has been running for a couple of years. I see my current backups. It shows the oldest backup date being back in 2018. However, when I click on "Restore" it only shows dates since January 1. Are those backups just gone? Where are they? Perhaps they just don't show up...

I have a few hyper v servers 2012,2016 that have files encrypted on them from a few minutes over night on Dec 17th and Dec 18th. There was no ransom file and I have found no ransomware and don't believe it has happened since and have already restored the files. These servers are in a...

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...

I can only find info on how to recover data from windows.old. This does not help. I need to restore old programs from an old windows 10 install to a new windows 10 install. I realize I could download them again but would rather know how to do it with windows.old. I think it might be usefull just...

I am having trouble using file history. If I accept the defaults by just pressing Backup Now the result is just an empty 2Mb file. If I add Documents and Desktop the result is still just an empty 2Mb file. What I wish is to do is a file backup followed by daily incremental backups of the...

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 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 This morning I deleted a folder that I though was out of date and I emptied the recycle bin.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...

i decided today to wipe my computer because it was acting up and i just wanted a fresh start. before i wiped it, i saved all the pics and files i wanted onto a USB, and then i wiped it. but plugging my USB in now, i see that the folders i saved are only the short cuts... and all my pictured i...

please , I need some help ! my windows crashed , and after many attempts , I succeeded to recover it with windows cd , but the problem is that all my photos and documents has been corrupted , all still in there but empty: 0 bytes. like when I try to open a photo, it says : " windows photo...

If you are asked to format the external hard disk before you can use it, then you mat meet the external hard disk raw error. That external hard disk can not be used before we format it. Some people worry about losing data saved on the external drive previously. We need not to be worried, as we...

I was messing with batch files and accidentally clicked one that I shouldn't have made. Here are it's contents: attrib -r -s -h c:\autoexec.bat del c:\autoexec.bat attrib -r -s -h c:\boot.ini del c:\boot.ini attrib -r -s -h c:\ntldr del c:\ntldr attrib -r -s -h c:\windows\win.ini del...

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...

Hello out there, LostInCyberspace calling for help! I ran a cleaner, System Mechanic to be precise, and lost all my icon images. I know, sill of me, I was warned that it would be a problem replacing the Registry Keys that held the images, since that portion of System Mechanic deleted said...

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...

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...

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...

Suffered a head crash on a laptop's C: drive. Was able to recover nearly all the data using Linux tools, but the boot sector and some critical Win 7 files were damaged beyond recovery, so I have been unable to create a bootable volume using that info. I cloned the data to a new physical volume...

For some reason, I cannot open my library folders (music, video, documents, pictures). I don't know how it occurred, but I think it may be due to the last round of updates that were downloaded from Microsoft. When I click on the folders, nothing happens. I get no errors either. This is what...