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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 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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Is there any good RESTORE software for Windows? [closed]
In the spirit of Joel Spolsky's "Let’s stop talking about backups" article, is there any software that's good at restoring a Windows computer?
By "good", I mean it can handle a situation where a ...
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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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Restore complete PC from another computer
I have a few friends which keep on coming to me every month to format their laptops and then reinstall Windows.
This is time consuming.
Is there any way that I can make an image of their full system ...
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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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Windows system restore increase automatic restore points
After 2 days
you can see that the task triggered 3 times (the last one was forced to run by me) but I only have 1 restore point.
I've tried looking for quite some time about this but didn't find ...
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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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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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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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How can I backup my windows XP drivers?
I've got a new (well, used) laptop. I wish to format and reinstall the windows OS on it. On the machine I've got several drivers which I would like to transport to the new machine, but I don't have ...
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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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Restore Bak File created on Windows XP pro in Windows XP Pro 64
I have a situation that I need help with. I backed up my Files on Windows XP using the System > BackUp utility/wizard, and then Installed a new operating system on the machine. Now I want to restore ...
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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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Is it possible to get Windows Repair to restore the latest files at the same time as an image?
Using Backup and Restore from Windows 7 Pro it seems pretty easy to take a an image of a machine and then configure it to backup all files on a disk incrementally. It also seems extremely easy to ...
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