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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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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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Copying WindowsImageBackup in command line

I often restore Windows 7 system from a WindowsImageBackup folder from drive d: using a Windows installation disk. I also keep incremental backups on external HDD. Provided that I formatted d: how ...
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Downgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 7

I have bought Windows 8 online, and since then upgraded first to Windows 8.1 and now Windows 10. There seems to be some misconfigurations with my OS. I have tried formatting serveral times, but it ...
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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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Restore(?) generic USB keyboard driver from command line in repair-mode

As the title says, I'm experiencing some troubles with a dead keyboard (and mouse, for that sake) at the Windows 7 (enterprise) login screen, and I can't find a way to fix it. Earlier today I decided ...
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overinstall/reinstall/repair Windows 7 and keep old programs and data? [duplicate]

I have a broken Windows 7 system which does not fully boot. The system restore is not working. I am inexperienced with Windows systems. Question: Is it possible to use a Windows 7 install CD and ...
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How to windows 7 restore if error 0x8000ffff appears? Not able to boot into system [duplicate]

I have a computer with Windows 7. When I boot it, I get the usual starting animation, the harddisk LED blinks but then the screen gets black and nothing more happens. No sound, so activity, no changes ...
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