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System ERASED 2000 files suddenly without any user action. Can recover part of it but some files of importance are corrupted

On a Virtualbox WIN XP SP3 guest machine, the following situation occurred While I was working I had 3 opened windows as usual - Browser, notepad for writing notes in a txt file, and a PDF (thats ...
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How do you usually backup/restore a fresh OS installation (instead of reformat)? [duplicate]

I usually reformat my home PCs regularly after sometime but since it's time consuming I thought I could just restore an entire OS from a backup. How do you usually take a "snapshot" of a fresh OS ...
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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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I'm looking for a software to backup a Windows XP PC and restore it on different hardware [closed]

That's it. I just need to backup disk coming from a Windows XP personal computer (dead cpu and/or motherboard) and restore it (with all applications and settings) on a different PC with different ...
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please help archiving and backing up to an external hard drive

Firstly I know nothing about computers so please bear with me. I have been searching Google but am now mega confused. I have just bought a WD external harddrive 1TB to backup my Windows PC and store ...
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How to back up the system to mobile hard disk?

How do I back up my system to a mobile (external) hard disk, and then recover from it when necessary? I'm using windows XP Also, does most ghost software back up only C: or all disks?
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Backup and restore

I have a Thinkpad T60 with a 150GIg internal hard drive. XP Pro SP3. I also have a similar hard drive that used to be in another laptop connected via USB. It contains only data. I have cleared out a ...
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