When Backed-up Files To Ext HD, WinXP Decided To Use The WORTHLESS Windows 7 LDM Format?
Mar 20, 2012
Solution Needed: OLD machine was dying, bought a NEW WD 250GB HD, partitioned it into two 125GBs, installed it into an Ext Enclosure & SAVED ALL MY STUFF ... When I backed-up my files to ext HD, WinXP decided to use the WORTHLESS Windows_LDM format, which OF COURSE the new machine cannot see - recognize - acknowledge ... My APPLE sees it as a Windows_LDM Volume, but the G4 PPC MDD 10.4.11 can't do anything with it EITHER: I am NOT PLEASED: Where is the ANSWER FOR THIS?!?!Now running Win7 Ultimate (SP1)on a Compaq, AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 2.2GHz
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Aug 9, 2012
My laptops stuck in a startup repair loop. Start up repair is unable to fix the problem and sends me to recovery manager. However, before I move on to getting my computer back under control (wich will be on another thread on another day)Theres tons of websites and stuff on there that id never ever find again if I lost them now. I used the file backup program in recovery manager to back up stuff like music, pictures, documents, and among other things, internet settings.What I want to do now is go into my flash drive and find where all my favorites are. I went to the only other computer in the house besides my hp, a mac, and plugged in my memory stick. What's in it is nothing I understand.ow Im sitting in front of the mac, typing out my situation on the sevenforums.com and just wishing there was a simple way to get my favorites up on the screen...Or at least understand enough of whats inside the memory stick to be able to extract them once my laptop is fixed.
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Jan 5, 2012
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Jan 20, 2012
I had to completely restore my laptop due to a virus. I have an HP and was able to back up my photos through HP recovery mode. However my three backup discs have tons of .wim files and I cannot open these. How do I convert them back to files that I can actually open and view? I am a newbie to computers but when it comes to converting .wim files- I have NO idea where to begin.
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Nov 7, 2012
Ok, so my laptop pooed its pants and decided to break after numurous half successful attempts to fix it, as i had established it was a harddrive problem, i backed up my files onto 3 disks and system reset my laptop.I automatically backed them up, what i mean is i let the computer do it for me it scanned them and put them onto the disk and what not. So it got reset and i booted it back up did all the hoo haa and eventually got back to the main bit. it never explained to me how to re add all my backed up data and even though it recommends using disks whenever it mentions backing up data, when you look around the help pages all it talks about is internal backing up, so it gives you no clue of how to re-add all this data, which is very frustrating.It has all saved as .wim files, don't know why.
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Apr 18, 2012
the storage disk in my server went bad (after 3 months!) and when I got the new one I copied everything over but some of the files aren't working right now.Specifically the video files that we stream over serviio. They look right, they're still the same size, if you go to properties it still shows them as .avi files, but they won't run.Is there someway that I can repair these files? I tried an .avi repair tool but it doesn't see the files as .avi.
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Jul 26, 2011
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I am having a serious issue as I built a new computer and installed Windows7 64bit Ultimate and can no longer access my Windows XP drive.I have been able to gain access to some files on the partition through the GRANT FULL ADMIN control app: Take and Grant Full Control Permissions and Ownership in Windows 7 or Vista Right Click Menu � My Digital LifeHowever, I am still unable to access files from my external backup drive. The folder is "My Pictures" and has files from 4 years ago I would like to backup. This is the only folder on the drive I cannot access and the error I receive is:You require permission from "X" to make changes to this file.X=the user, I have changed this to administrator, everyone, my user name through:"Right Click" --> Properties-->Security-->Advanced-->OwnerWhen I then go to the main security tab the user has check marks under allow but they are all greyed out.
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May 18, 2012
Started using robocopy to do my backups. In my command lines, i can specify directories on a external drive to backup to.Some directories show up and i see everything. My most important directory " my documents" DOESNT SHOW UP. I have confirmed a backup is occuring, via log file and properties on the backup folder. I edited it down to a backup of only that folder. Log file shows good, external drive shows the "backup" root directory and properties ( size, number of files) match log file. Open up the backup folder, NOTHING LISTED. I have to run the script as adminstrator , my user is admin also, but if i run it as myself, it cant access the folder. I think im dealing with a rights issue, i have edited security on the external drive, even reformatted it , still nothing shows up?
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Nov 11, 2011
On Windows 7 Home Premium, I have three external HDD drives as well as the standard internal HDD, where the OS itself is installed.One of the externals is a WD MyBook, which reserves a partition as a system recovery disk for the MyBook. I never access that system recovery partition, which is assigned drive letter F:, and it's been fine for months.Now, suddenly Windows has decided it's a CD drive. When I boot the PC, an autoplay dialog comes up for this F: drive, asking to scan for and launch media files. In software like Power DVD, this F: drive is showing up as a removeable media source for files for Power DVD to play, and there seems to be some general conflict going on that I haven't quite pinned down yet -- for instance, if I'm playing a Blu-ray from my actual optical disk drive, and doing things with files on the G: drive, which is the actual data partition of this WD external HDD, sometimes the Blu-ray disc is suddenly and spontaneously ejected from the Blu-ray drive and the faux-CD drive tries to take over Power DVD and find files for it to play.I'm certain I don't have a virus or other malware. I've been through the system with my virus buster (Avira), with Malwarebytes, and with heavy-duty malware and rootkit detectors like Hitman Pro and TDSSKiller, and found nothing.I tried removing the two partitions of the WD drive completely from my Device Manager, rebooting the PC and letting them reinstall, but Windows just put the F: drive back as a CD drive.
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Sep 24, 2012
files openning in weird format PDF,etc...i have adobe acrobat lattest versions ,.and tried many trouble shooting ,updating,other remedies,PC cleaners,anti virus ,Bitdefender2013. i cannot open any document and read it or send,...
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Aug 2, 2011
What is backed up in the backup program that comes with Windows 7? Also, is it an incremental backup? I can find nothing about the backup online, that gives specifics about the service.
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Sep 25, 2011
How to format pc windows 7 without deleting any file?
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Apr 7, 2011
I have just reinstalled windows 7 pro on my PC, without formatting, because it wouldnt start up, but i needed to keep all the files on there. now i have it started up but i cant find my old user folders, although they must be here somewhere because of the 100gb or so showing up as full. how might i go about finding them? i have lots of work not to mention ALL my recent itunes purchases and hours worth of saved games. i assume they must be here somewhere but on windows i wouldnt know the 1st place to start looking.
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w7 i can format delete en cut file from any external drive or disc?
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Mar 10, 2012
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Apr 26, 2012
I installed a 3TB drive in my WindowsXP64 machine last year. I was having problems seeing all 3TB. I ended up using GPT for the drive and made a 2TB and 1TB partition and things were fine. I'm moving to a Windows7-64 machine now. To my dismay, when i moved the GPT drive into the new machine, Windows7 will not read it and immediately says "This Drive Must Be Formatted". This is driving me crazy because I was trying to avoid large copy sessions across the network (old computer to new computer) so I moved all my inportant stuff to this 3TB drive with plans to just physically transfer the drive. But now Win7 can't seem to read it. From everything i've read, it seems Windows7 should have no problem with GPT. Anybody have any idea what's going on and how to get around.
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When I went to restore the c drive it failed. After numerous tries at restoring my c drive and d drive where erased.
I only have a back up saved of my c drive and would like to restore it using anything but clonezilla. Something very user friendly if possible.
Any recommendations and or guides would be great. Free or paid software.
Doesn't matter.
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Sep 7, 2012
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Jan 9, 2012
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May 1, 2012
is there a way to format a partition on my windows 7 laptop to be able to read a mac osx drive?
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Dec 17, 2012
can i restore formatted files from my laptop?
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Jan 24, 2013
I was installing windows 7 on a mac. Complications arose and i just formatted the hard drive and installed windows. I just realized i left a few files on the mac side that I need. I know that you can recover stuff after deleting them as long as you dont overwrite the hard drive, the problem is, i partitioned it for windows. Can i still get those files back even tho i partitioned it?
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Dec 25, 2009
I have an SATA drive with WinXP loaded. I decided to use a spare EIDE drive to load Windows 7. I have installed Windows 7 with no problems. I never see the Windows boot manager to choose which OS I want to load, but I can load either one by changing the boot order in BIOS. I can see the EIDE drive from XP, but not the SATA drive from Windows 7. How can I get the boot manager to work and let me choose which OS to load?
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Jan 29, 2012
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May 29, 2012
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Mar 25, 2010
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Oct 26, 2011
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Apr 12, 2011
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Mar 23, 2010
It is sometimes required to convert a video or audio file to another format - for example if you want to use it in a Power Point slideshow where you need WAV audio files or you want to play a video downloaded from the internet for which you do not have the right codec. In those cases I suggest you use Format Factory. The program is very easy to use and you can convert in three simple steps.
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Jun 17, 2012
Computer management -> Disk management -> attach VHD The VHD attaches fine, and it is the correct file. But when it attaches I get the message: "you need to format the disk in drive F: before you can use it. Do you want to format it?" I clicked cancel, and then tried to right click -> explore. I then got the message: "F: is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable."Out of all the tutorials I have read, the file should open just fine and let me explore it. Why is it asking me to format the disk? And is it safe to do so?The file system is listed as "RAW" and the status is "Healthy(primary partition)"I don't want to lose everything on the system image! Can I/should I format the disk?
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