Questions tagged [restore]
Restore refers to making something the way that it once was. Common examples are restoring a backup, restoring preferences, restoring documents, and restoring tabs in a browser.
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How do I rescue a windows 10 system from a failing SSD
Note Before: This is very similar to "Duplicating a system partition from a SSD with bad sectors" however my boot sector is failing and I don't have a valid windows 10 key.
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Dell ...
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How to restore StartLayout from an unbootable Windows?
Is there any way how to restore the StartLayout (icon arrangement in Start menu) from unbootable Windows drive?
I can't login into any Windows account. So I can't Export Layout via PowerShell or ...
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How can I restore a Macrium Image if the image exists but does not show in the Macrium App?
I have a Windows 10 Pro machine and I have created a Macrium RE system drive image on an external drive and want to do a restore. But the MRIMG file does not show in the main application window "...
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Restoring folder names after accidental bulk rename
I accidentally ran a bulk rename command in WSL2 which went below all window 11 folder levels and it started to rename the files to .jpg . I did ran sfc/scannow to correct for any corrupt files and it ...
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Backing up my entire Windows OS and then booting from restored backup [duplicate]
Have just been coming up with a new backup strategy for my Windows systems, as previously i would use the Windows System Image tool very occasionally, however this is quite clunky, and i have heard it ...
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Restore deleted data from a specific partition [duplicate]
I got my laptop formatted and accidentally (full format) so data and files of disc D got deleted and (the two discs C and D are one place) I'm trying to restore it. But it's the first time I've done ...
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How to restore damaged (mp3?) file
I have been given a file at https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Fqr6Ipu2J8yKU_m3-EMzsVj7XeSYEdV/view?usp=sharing. Opening it from https://hexed.it/ shows that it is likely a mp3 file (based on the ID3 ...
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Bootable External Drive Issue on Apple Silicon M2- Need Help Resolving
Note: It is working Fine on M1 machine.
I've been encountering difficulties with my bootable external drive on my Apple Silicon Mac.
I've tried creating the bootable drive using ASR, Carbon Copy ...
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Possible to backup/restore simultaneously with Ubuntu 22.04 on a LAN/cross-over cable?
I have several identical Dell laptops that came pre-installed with Ubuntu 22.04. I need to set these up for a classroom environment with a VMware guest operating system (Solaris). I managed to get ...
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How to actually restore stock Windows file permissions?
I recently suffered from some kind of MFT corruption that caused all permissions on my entire installation to be wiped. This made the disk "unaccessable" from another Windows installation ...
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Efficient way to list files on a backup with non-zero size?
I have an old HDD that crashed during Windows 10 Update, and it's stuck at 75% update.
I'm now trying to extract the User files from the old HDD, but my extraction method is giving me a large ...
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Recovering a Windows XP machine broken by trying to install pcANYWHERE 8.0
I tried installing pcANYWHERE 8.0 on a Windows XP machine, ignoring the compatibility warning dialog, on the assumption that the client would still be usable for connecting to Windows 9x machines and ...
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Chrome Restore Last Session
I had an error, and after reopening Chrome, I couldn't get last tabs.
Using Control Shift T restored some windows, I saved them in bookmarks, just in case that is all I can restore.
Now I copied 3 ...
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Hyper V checkpoints with an Azure VM
Is there any thing in Azure VMs similar to Hyper V checkpoints? I want to preserve the state of an Azure vm, deploy software builds for test and debugging and quickly revert. I do not want or need a ...
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How can I save the BIOS CMOS or the UEFI BIOS settings of a notebook in a file and restore them if necessary? [closed]
Basic configuration settings of a PC are stored in the BIOS CMOS or in the UEFI BIOS. In DOS times there was a software called Checkit and QAPLUS, at least one of them could save the configuration of ...
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