Questions tagged [windows-7-restore]
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How to find the date of last restoration (Windows 7)?
I am currently working on a old Windows 7 machine.
During a long time (~2 years) the owner did not realise that the backup disk on which Windows was making automatic backups was full. I have deleted ...
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How can I install Window 7 if if there is not a single driver to install?
When installing Windows 7, the following dialog appears:
However, the list of available drivers is empty.
What can I do to populate this list with available drivers for my hardware?
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Windows 7: Create Restore Point timeout
Restore Point creation fails with error 0x81000101 (timeout).
Command "vssadmin List Writers" shows timeout results for:
Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-...
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Please help me restore windows and windows data after intervention of "Windows 7 Boot Updater" program (preferred without load drive)
Today I wanted to decorate the system(Windows 7 x64) a little.
I found in the Internet that can change the animation of loading Windows by Windows 7 Boot Updater program(I downloaded it here; FOR ...
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How to restore a System Image VHD to a new harddrive?
I am upgrading the hard drive, from disk A (120 GB) to disk B (500 GB), in a laptop with Windows 7 professional.
This is what I did:
Made a system image of A using the built in backup tool, saving ...
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System image to restore windows 7 on new 2 in 1 laptop.
Recently, my old lenovo L440, running windows 7 64bit had some damage to the motherboard leading to a replacement computer. I purchased a Lenovo Yoga 730 2 in 1 with the i7 8550U processor which runs ...
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Shadow Copies are properly created, but in Explorer I can’t access to “previous versions” (reported as not available)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit: I always utilized the shadow copies, not only to restore the OS to a previous version: I mainly use the shadow copies to restore single files, by using the "Previous ...
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How to create recovery media for Windows 10 (Legacy)?
I've created a backup system image of a Sata SSD using Windows, that has been through a few upgrades. Taking another backup of that drive is now impossible, but I have a recent system image taken with ...
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How to do a clean install WINDOWS 7?
My other Laptop has issues, i took out the hard drive and paid for a usb/sata cable - NOW i can connect that drive to my working computer.
I've backed up my data. I want to do a clean install on the ...
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Trying to fix Windows 7 PC after deleting a registry key for a class experiment
I'm in a computer tech class where everyone is working towards CompTIA A+ certification. After discussing troubleshooting problems in Windows, we were turned loose and given the opportunity to break (...
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Exclude some files from Windows system restore
In my Win7 machine have a local MYSQL database with all its data file under c:\mysqldata
If I try a system restore this restores all database files to restore date like a huge rollback. How can I ...
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Can changed file be restored(old_version) → Currently no previous version available
I had a file on my m/c functions.php until July 10, 2017: the day when the new hard disk was installed, but some how the file got changed and is now of 0KB; there is no previous version available as ...
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Where can I find Windows 7 drivers for this laptop?
I recently bought a laptop, Acer Aspire E5-575G 77ze http://www.acer.com/ac/ro/RO/content/model/NX.GDWEX.055
(http://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/NX.GHGAA.002 I can't find the English site)
My ...
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Mac [Sierra] recover Bootcamp [Windows 10] through VHD
Recently using Windows' built in restore from image is failing for me when restoring from a recent image I have. Which leaves in a bit of a sticky situation where I can't boot into Bootcamp [windows] ...
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Need assistance with understanding the use of many recovery partitions
I am on a Dell Inspiron 15R 5537 machine that had Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 dual booted. The hard drive malfunctioned and I had to get it replaced.
I thankfully had a system image backup created (...
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