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Backup and restore only C:\ Drive from boot?
Is it possible in Windows 8/8.1 systems to back up the entire C:\ Drive and restore it from boot without erasing your other data on hard drive placed in e.g. D: or E: drives? So that you only restore ...
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Windows 7 System Image Restore Error 0x80042412 (No disk can be used...)
SSD main drive died in a computer. Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit. Had a weekly Windows Image backup on one of its hard drives. Replaced the SSD with a newer, bigger SSD.
Booting from the Windows ...
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clone bootcamp with windows 7 and install windows 8 then restore
I have mac mini (2012) in which i have installed mac os 10.8.2 and windows 7 using bootcamp. Now that i want to try windows 8 (as long as it can remain active). I decided to install windows 8 in same ...
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Windows 8 restore point behavior
I've just installed Windows 8. I added all drivers needed, changed My Documents location (different partition). I also installed some most necessary applications. All in all, I have a system ready for ...
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upgrading from windows xp to 7
1) what is the best way to backup and copy files over? From my udnerstanding you have to wipe the drive.
2) What is the costs and does any windows 7 work or do I want an upgrade key?
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How to clone a Win7 boot partition onto the SAME hard drive?
I want to have two or even three clones of my operating system partition on the same hard drive. No I don't want the clones on different hard drives. I want three partitions on one hard drive, two of ...
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Restore to a previous backup point with Windows 7 backup
I wonder if it is possible to restore previous versions of files or system states with Windows 7 backup.
Let's assume a backup has been set with default settings. It runs every Sunday at 19:00. Is it ...
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Error 0x800703F1 while starting Windows 7 Backup utility
This started some time ago. I'm making backup to my Apple Time Capsule drive. How to fix this ?
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Reinstall Windows on mass computers
At work there are about 40 DELL PC's - half of them are Windows Vista and other half are Windows 7. Some of the DELL PC's are 220s and 230s model.
If I want to re-install Windows then I can use a ...
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Backing up difference in windows system
I have various systems with windows xp installed. After fresh installatios I installed some softwares like visual studio etc. Now lets call this IMAGE1 of the computers.
I give out these pcs to users ...
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Restoring an Windows system image to a smaller drive
I recently had two 320GB HDDs on Raid 0 running on my main computer, and decided to split it in order to use one of the HDDs on another computer.
A windows system image of about 150GB was made on a ...
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How to mirror a hard disk and restore it later without OS installed?
My windoes 7 has been installed on a 128gb SSD drive C:. Unfortunately I screwed some programs that now I require to reinstall windows again.
But before formatting my OS drive I want to make a mirror ...
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Backup and Restore Windows on Virtual Machine [closed]
What if I make backup of Windows XP (say, with Acronis) on VMware and store it on shared folders with original Windows and after restore this backup on my Windows XP installed on hard drive? Thanx.
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Is it possible to restore a Windows 7 installation from a Windows backup?
I bought an HP laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium preinstalled. It has a label with Windows serial number. However a Windows Installation DVD was not provided. I want to repartition the HDD to install ...
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Restore Windows disk image to virtual machine?
I'm currently looking into (image based) backup solutions for Windows (XP, Win7).
One problem I have is that I'm not sure how to verify that the backups can really, actually, reliably be restored ...
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