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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 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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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't restore windows 7 to a hard drive even tho the computer can find the hdd
So in Windows 7 / System Recovery Options I click on System Image Recovery. The image is loaded from a DVD (last disc of the DVD per the instructions) and I can see the HDD when I click on the "...
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Want to get rid of KB3004394 but used up all my restore points?
This question is related to my earlier question : crypt32.dll is broken for Virtualbox since patch Tuesday 9-Dec-2014? .
I need to restore back to a point before KB3004394 but that point is no longer ...
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how to system restore windows 7 with clean boot
I want to restore a computer running windows 7. My goal swipe it clean and then re-install windows 7 with the same product key.
To do I understand that I need to create a recovery drive (on USB ...
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Why did System Restore wipe out a complete desktop, and a lot of files on the primary partition?
The PC was running unusually slow so I thought I'd restore it to a few days back and see what happens. I put up system restore point to 2 days ago, that's 11th of May.
And when I loaded Windows again ...
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Restore only some volumes from a multiOS system image
I have two Windows installations on different drives. System Restore won't let me make a system image of only the one I use most (Win7), I had to make a system image for both drives.
I recently had ...
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Windows 7 System Restore Failed
I need to restore Windows 7, because I installed some software which ruined my PC. I see the error above.
I tried running the restore tool using administrator privileges, and disabled my antivirus, ...
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Is registry restored after a system restore?
This one is straightforward. After restoring a system using system restore, are registry keys and data get restored as well?
Interested in Win7 only.
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Windows 7 secondary drive data still present, but file tree doesn't display
After recovering my system from a malware attack, I restored all of my previous settings, run malware/virus scans, etc. Everything appears to be back to normal, except:
E:\ directory tree does not ...
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Restore VHD image in a specific partition
I'm having a similar issue described in this post.
I have a Windows 7 VHD image and want to restore it, but I cannot let Windows Restore format the whole HD and destroy other partitions. I don't want ...
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System Restore problem
I'm looking for System Restore software for my company. I want software that can run on multiple systems, around ten Windows 7 machines.
Can anyone suggest something good and affordable?
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How to do a Windows 7 Image restore to an external drive?
I have a system that I have done a Windows 7 Image restore on. I would like to migrate that image to a different hard drive. Is there a way to restore the image to an externally connected hard drive?...
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