Need help restoring files
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Aight so I backed up everything on my laptop cause I had to do a complete wipe cause my harddrive ? up. I backed it up it to my Toshiba Online Backup program. Restored everything to a file last night so now I have a Drive C folder with everything in it and now Im not sure what to do.
Help a brotha out techies
Help a brotha out techies
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open the C drive folder
locate the Files in the Desktop, Documents, and Favorites folders and restore them to their normal location on your hard drive so you can access the data -
Nah that's not how you do it if I read it right.
I would tell yall but hlf deleted the uncut thread in ill pix. So I'm too busy trying to restore that smh -
Don't play me like that chump lol Greg did that ? himself
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If u can see the c drive folder the browse that folder for your files.
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Ok but what do I do with them. Drag them individually to the original location?
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icecoldstew wrote: »Ok but what do I do with them. Drag them individually to the original location?
no delete them then empty then your recycle bin..
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Lol u aint ? bruh
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I dont get it... your back up files are being held within a program, but you deleted your partition and reinstalled windows?
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Yea that's correct. The program that my profiles were backed up to is an online program. After I reinstalled, I restored the files from that program onto a folder that's just sitting on my desktop now named "restored files". Open that folder up and its my backed up C drive
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not sure what your asking...if the files are in that folder on your laptop then just move them to the appropriate place(s) that you want them. Open up two windows, one with the c drive that has your old files and another with the destination you want a certain file to go then just cut and paste. Wont take long at all since your literally just moving it from one location on your hd to another
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aight I dig now. I thought since everything went to a program that it would have been wiped with the rest of your drive. Makes sense now.
As for how to get everything back , i'd do what renegade said. You're going to have to manually put things where you want them. -
Word, ill try that
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lol on a side note, maybe you could try to overwrite your current fresh install drive-C with the back up one
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What's the process to overwrite it
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I was just playin dunny, i wouldn't try that. I'm not 100% but my natural instinct says it wont work
If u willin to risk it and try tho try i'd do it like this:
open up both C drives, the back up and the fresh install each in their own window
you should see all the contents of the laid out like this or something similar:
then go to the back up, copy everything, and paste it into the fresh install.
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if you trying to install programs from the backup that ain't going to work...You needed to clone your hard drive.
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Aight ill get back to yall in a few hours
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MrSoutCity wrote: »if you trying to install programs from the backup that ain't going to work...You needed to clone your hard drive.
never heard of this before -
RodrigueZz wrote: »MrSoutCity wrote: »if you trying to install programs from the backup that ain't going to work...You needed to clone your hard drive.
never heard of this before
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cloning a drive
didnt know it could be done like that -
RodrigueZz wrote: »cloning a drive
didnt know it could be done like that
yes it can. use norton ghost or clonezilla.
