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Where does Edge store its session recovery site list?

Microsoft Edge web browser crashed while I had hundreds of tabs opened. Now, I want to know where Edge saves those cached pages, or the list of opened pages, where it generates the list to populate ...
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This folder(every folder in C drive) is empty after WIN10 update. But it occupies several hundred GB [closed]

After win10 update on last Friday, my computer didn't turn off, so I turned it off. After rebooting, the below line on the black screen occurred, it says fixing HDD some %, eventually it was checking ...
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RAID 5 (not failed) corrupted data recovery

My question is not about failed RAID, but RAID data corruption Recently I have been given an interesting problem to ponder. A friend of mine has a RAID 5 NAS (Western Digital MY CLOUD EX4100 8TB) and ...
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File Management in Mac Recovery Mode

I tried to update my mac to OS Big Sur, however, it's failed. I checked the storage and there was only a few MB storage. So it might happen because of the lack of storage. After I found that I tried ...
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External HDD unexpected failure, ddrescue not working

Today I connected my external HDD to transfer a file. Everything seemed to be working fine - it wasn't slow, all files were showing up. In the middle of transfer of the new file, it suddenly ...
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Recover formatted HDD data to itself

I did format my HDD and lose any data on it accidently. This happened by to burn a small image to the external HDD by Win32DiskImage so I know that I lost some data but not all of them. Anyway I ...
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How do I install a program on an external drive while using it on my computer?

I'm looking to recover files from my laptop. I don't want to install the recovery software on the internal HDD, and instead on an external drive (like a USB flash drive) and operate the software on ...
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I have a dying HDD, how can I back up my data?

As the title says, I have a dying HDD and I've made a mistake of keeping some of my important files on here whether than on my C: drive. When my computer boots up it greets me with a "S.M.A.R.T ...
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Recovering files from old internal disk without windows authentication [duplicate]

So I have an old hard drive which ran Windows XP. The rest of the computer was scraped. I can't recall the login password for the user on that hard drive. I want to recover files from this hard drive. ...
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Undeleting NTFS file - Found last cluster - Need to find others - Marked as free space

I am trying to recover a chrome extension's data. Undelete programs aren't showing it. Windows 7 64-bit. Using WinHex, I was able to search the disk and find the end of the file I need. (The end ...
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Access rights of files from an old laptop's HDD [duplicate]

My old laptop died because of battery issues earlier in the year, and I've managed to get the HDD out before trashing it. I've bought a new laptop and a USB/SATA plug, and I can access and see the ...
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Are some files that show up in the Windows Recycle Bin of a fully formatted secondary drive linked to another drive or physically present?

I have a primary (boot) SSD and a secondary HDD (via a SATA-to-USB adapter) connected to my computer. My goal is to sell the secondary HDD without exposing any previous data that was stored on it. I ...
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Accessing Files on an SSD that won't boot

My desktop PC hasn't been powered on for a few months. During this time, the power cord stayed connected to the power supply, which was connected to a surge protector. I recently powered on the PC, ...
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self recovery of failed RAID10. Can I clone the drives to attempt myself before I make use of a professional?

just yesterday I was doing some BIOS work on my computer, and accidentally loaded a saved configuration from my BIOS that changed the SATA mode from RAID->AHCI. I have a RAID10(0+1) composed of 4x3TB ...
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Get list of files affected by bad sectors

Cloned a disk with pending sectors to a new drive with Clonezilla using -rescue, then plugged the freshly cloned disk into a working system as a USB drive (I have a USB-to-SATA dock) and ran chkdsk. ...
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