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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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How can I do a Complete PC Restore from a bitlocker encrypted drive (Windows Vista)?
I'm running Windows Vista SP 2. My Windows OS drive is bitlocker encrypted. I have a Complete PC Backup of the OS drive on a secondary drive also bitlocker encrypted. I want to replace the OS drive ...
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windows partition restored on specific date (unusual)
This is a super unusual issue we have encountered, a PC of our payroll staff displayed an error upon opening today (05/11/2022). --MM/dd/YYYY
see error upon opening the unit
Tried to restart the unit ...
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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 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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How to automate restore of veeam backup
we are creating backups with veeam agent for windows.
I would need to restore those backups in an automated fashion. is there any command line client, a way to script the restore process or something ...
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New SSD and different OS
Last summer, my Lenovo AIO suddenly stopped working; more specifically, I was performing maintenance on it and the next restart gave an error 1962: No Operating System found. Fortunately, this is a ...
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How to recover Windows 10 from C: Partition?
Ok, brother-in-law accidentally put the wrong power cord!
Windows 10 PC no longer boots and the Windows system partitions are foobar.
The C: drive looks completely intact.
So is there a way to ...
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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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How do I back up Windows 10 installed programs and settings and then restore after update?
I am currently running Windows 10 Pro 1709 and want to upgrade to 1803
I've been hitting a ton of weird errors trying to upgrade (its a hand built PC) and troubleshooting hasn't gotten my anywhere (...
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Backup and Restore Failure [closed]
I am trying to backup using the default "Backup and Restore" in Windows 7 onto a Western Digital Passport and it is never able to complete.
This error appears about a third of the way into the ...
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How to attach VHDX file on Windows 7?
I made a Windows 10 backup, and now I have 2 VHDX files. If I attack that on Windows 10 in disk manager, no problem, but I must attach on Windows 7, and unforunatelly that doesn't work. How can I ...
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Windows 7 Backup & Restore
I manually deleted some backups from my hard drive but they still appear in the Windows 7 Backup & Restore Restore Files list. Does anyone know how I can remove the non-existent backup files from ...
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How to revert Windows 10 1709 to 1703 without Windows.old being directly accessible?
My question is comparable to a former one, but a bit different as well: I'm using 1709 and considering "rolling back" to 1703 because of changes in GDI memory management which introduced a serious ...
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Restore Windows Image Backup file from a live Linux session
I have a Windows Image Backup file created from within Windows. However, the Windows installation media refuses to read the drive it's on (USB 3, Win7, doesn't want to work). Instead, I was wondering ...
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