well at 9pm last night it happened,its been acting funny for the past month,and last night it got the blue screen of death,,yes i backed it up but now after restoring every is in the wrong places and every pic and vid is relabled[just numbers] and ive lost all favorites,,what did i do wrong
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computer crashed/virus
- Thread starter dmaxx3500
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I tried looking for a previous post from you on the same topic but could not find one. Did you get the BSOD during boot up from BIOS before Windows starts loading, when Windows starts loading, or after Windows has loaded? How did you back it up? Or, did you just create a restore point? How did you restore from backup? Or, did you just apply a restore point? It could be a virus/trojan or corrupt registry or both. It could be a failing hard drive or incorrect setting in your PC's BIOS. It could be a corrupted video driver or some other device driver. It could be a recent automatic update that requires a flash BIOS update. Restoration/repair procedures vary. Curious, is it a laptop or desktop?
i used a remote hard drive,and got most things back after formatting the laptop and re-installing win 7 pro/64bit,but after restoring everything from the back-up remote drive ,but no internet favs and all pics are just in a big folder[not in each of their own ones like before],did i not back-up things right?
What backup software did you use?
From your description of how the pics are all in one folder and not in each of their own, the backup (or restore, it's one, the other or both) of the main folder did not include the option to "recurse" or include the subdirectories (subfolders).
As for your internet favs, how was it saved? You should use the import-export feature from the menu bar of Internet Explorer:
File / Import and Export / (select) Export to a File / (select) Favorites / (select the folders) / (select destination file)
You should use the same feature to import the file to replace the current IE's fav settings.
If it was saved to another location, simply import the file.
If it was backed up, restore the file to, say, your desktop, then import the file.
From your description of how the pics are all in one folder and not in each of their own, the backup (or restore, it's one, the other or both) of the main folder did not include the option to "recurse" or include the subdirectories (subfolders).
As for your internet favs, how was it saved? You should use the import-export feature from the menu bar of Internet Explorer:
File / Import and Export / (select) Export to a File / (select) Favorites / (select the folders) / (select destination file)
You should use the same feature to import the file to replace the current IE's fav settings.
If it was saved to another location, simply import the file.
If it was backed up, restore the file to, say, your desktop, then import the file.
If you want to restore your PC/laptop to exactly what it was before you backed it up and you have another internal/external hard drive to back it up to, you should consider creating an image of your hard drive using freeware like Partition Logic. You will, then, just need a bootable CD (downloadable freeware from Visopsys with Partition Logic embedded), or bootable USB if your PC/laptop's BIOS supports it, and access to your other internal/external hard drive.
Since you will be overwriting the primary hard drive, you cannot boot off it, hence, booting off the CD or USB. When you boot off the CD or USB, the booting operating system and Partition Logic will/should recognize the primary and other hard drives. Use Partition Logic to select the source drive/image you want to copy, select the destination drive/image you want to overwrite, then let 'er rip. When completed, shutdown, remove the CD or USB, power up and you are there.
Considerations:
-- At the moment of boot up of a system that was restored from an image, ALL changes to your system since you created the image will be non-existent. From the perspective of the restore process, the changes never happened
-- You could periodically create backups of your data (using Windows Explorer or cmd/XCOPY), then, after a complete system restore from saved image, copy back the saved data
-- You could create images of your hard drive after major system changes (installation of applications or major operating system updates) and use them to completely restore the system, but still periodically create backups of your data for copy-back after complete system restores
Since you will be overwriting the primary hard drive, you cannot boot off it, hence, booting off the CD or USB. When you boot off the CD or USB, the booting operating system and Partition Logic will/should recognize the primary and other hard drives. Use Partition Logic to select the source drive/image you want to copy, select the destination drive/image you want to overwrite, then let 'er rip. When completed, shutdown, remove the CD or USB, power up and you are there.
Considerations:
-- At the moment of boot up of a system that was restored from an image, ALL changes to your system since you created the image will be non-existent. From the perspective of the restore process, the changes never happened
-- You could periodically create backups of your data (using Windows Explorer or cmd/XCOPY), then, after a complete system restore from saved image, copy back the saved data
-- You could create images of your hard drive after major system changes (installation of applications or major operating system updates) and use them to completely restore the system, but still periodically create backups of your data for copy-back after complete system restores
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