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...
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Well, my nephew dropped his laptop with win 7 (Dell) and their software/recovery stuff is cr*p (you don't get an actual windows disk when you buy the product - thanks Dell!) and it won't boot so I tried to help him recover gigs of music etc from the "bad disk". Using win 8.1 I was able to buy...
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ok, so installed a fresh version of windows to update from xp to windows 7 and all of a suppen my computer wouldnt recognize my flash drive, so i eventualy after trying other stiff that didnt work looked in device manager and saw that i was missing "USB 2.0 Flash Disk USB Device" and "Mass...