file restoration

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...

Guys, I know you are experienced and probably will know the answer. I have problem with laptop and XP. I needed to repartition HDD so I manually made a copy of all files from C:\ (via liveCD so that all of the were copied correctly) repartitioned and restored those files back on C:\...

Describes how to use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files on Windows Vista or on Windows 7. More...

Ok, i accidentally dragged my main folder with all of my stuff in it into a folder next to it. I clicked undo move but here is what happened. I open my folder, every folder within that folder was gone but those subfolder's contents were still there, just completely unorganized. Now every...

Good Link Removed software for formatted hard disk? Dear friends, I accidently formatted my boss hard disk. Is there any good data recovery software for recover datas from formatted partitions. Pls help me? pls help me friends. pls help me friends?

I have Windows 7 Home Premium, 32bit laptop. So this started with my accidentally deleting the 'My Documents'. At the time of deleting, i think it showed, My Documents is too large for recycle bin. That's why i can't find it there. (I have tried 'Recuva' to recover deleted files, but...

HELLO EVERYONE. HELP NEEDED! pc became very slow, so I reboot it. Never came back on. Jams at the opening with "DELL" and does nothing. Removed the HD, connected it on a USB device. When I go to explore it on my other computer, it tells me to format this drive. HOW CAN I GET MY FILES BACK?

I recently recovered my data from a biohd-8 error. Can someone please tell me which files can I copy back to a hard drive in order for my system to start again and make it useable again. I do not know if any of the files were damaged in the recovery process. 1) If I am able to restart my...

Describes how to move files and folders from the Windows.old folder that Windows Vista creates when you perform a custom installation of Windows Vista or of Windows 7. Link Removed

The other day I accidentally deleted the local hard disk partition (contains win 7 OS), instead of the external thumbdrive. Now there are no partitions that exist on the drive at all. The data and files are in there but are in a non allocated space.. what is the best way to reverse this mistake...

A leak Wednesday has uncovered plans for Windows 8 to imitate the behavior of Time Machine in Mac OS X. Nicknamed History Vault, it would use the Shadow Copies feature that came as early as Vista but give it a proper visual interface for restoring older files. The WinRumors shot doesn't provide...

My 160 GB Win7 drive on my laptop failed (single partition), but thankfully I had a backup that I created on a 750 GB drive using EASUS Partition Master COPY. The backup drive is FULLY BOOTABLE, I've been booting into Windows 7 from an eSata external interface with no issues. It has a partition...

So I've been trying to restore my computer fully for days now. I used the Windows 7 Backup method about a week ago to backup 3 drives: C: (SATA-Primary), D:(SATA), and H:(IDE). They were successfully backed up, however restoring them has been a nightmare. I re-imaged the C: drive back to its...

Hi and happy new year! I found some valuable files of mine (suddenly and luckily) using a linux laptop. I want to restore them on windows. I saved them on an external hard disk and moved them on Windows 7 laptop but I have no idea how to restore them. In Linux they were readable and playable...

All my trip photos were on a DVD. I put the dvd in the computer and went to open it from MY COMPUTER. It asked me if I wanted to treat the DVD like a USB FLASH DRIVE and I said ok. Then it started formating the dvd and since usually formating a disk causes all the data to be erased I aborted the...

So I sucessfully recreated my raid as a 250 mirrored instead of 500 striped. windows now seems more stable without the freeze up mem 3 issue prior to the change, I used the win7 maintenence backup utility and made a repair disc, did an image, and backup to my 750gig sata drive now this...

Hello, I've tampered with my hosts file when installing some software, which didn't end up working for me in the end. Are there any big issues with keeping my file in this state? It seems to be ok but I would like to return my hosts file to its original state, and all the tutorials online...