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I've done exactly that. Some premise. To be doubly sure I had all my data, I cloned and imaged my drive to my external then moved it all back when I could. As you probably guessed, this means I now have a HDD that's twice as full as it needs to be and I'm not sure what to delete, some guidance would be a major help. That's problem one, the other is not all my pictures made it back. I did some digging when I moved everything back over and found the files I wanted, my music, my documents, almost everything made it back. But my picture folders are empty, all of my pictures that were just hanging around in the pictures section, they're fine but my folders (like all of my PAX pictures from 2015 are in a folder named PAX2015. This PC > Pictures > PAX2015, they would be in there) are all empty. | |
That's such a strange thing to have happened. I don't know. It would be strange but possible there was a bad sector that just so happened to corrupt the data Windows uses to identify the bytes on the drive. And it really is only that one folder? | |
Yeah, I know it's strange so I'm not gonna hold you to anything, just thought I'd ask. No, it's not just the one folder, nearly all of my pictures folders. Every Con I went to, a couple of goofy ones that I saved funny pictures to, a couple of vacation folders, they're just empty, the folders are there, they're just empty. Huh, I didn't think of this until now, but maybe they're still on that SD card, I can live without most of my photos but I kinda liked my Con ones. I'll do another dig through the external drive; the way I see it, between the two drives they have to be SOMEWHERE I just have no idea where. Like I said, not gonna hold you to it, it's a weird problem. | |
Does it follow a timeline? As in, pics put in after whatever arbitrary date were gone but before that date stayed? | |
Doesn't look like it, for a second it looked like the cutoff was Jauary of 2016 but there's a couple straglers that prove that wrong. | |
Thanks for The Help | |
Hey, sorry I was out so long. Any update or clue into what happened? | |
Don't worry about it, man, (or not if your... not) I'm not gonna worry about you having a life outside of helping online strangers find their digital pictures. In truth, I haven't looked into it much, I've been pretty much living with it. | |
I don't know if you're still there, old pal, I wouldn't blame you if you got tired of me but I took another look on my external drive and the pictures are there, I just can't see them. The short version (to the best of my knowledge) is that my currently running PC doesn't have permissions to view the pictures and it can't verify the original owner (me) so it won't open 'em up when I go into Security or Permissions or anything like that. We're so close, man, and you've been a big help so far and they're right there I just can't see them. I'm thinking screw it and just getting professional help but I want to see if I can fix it myself first. | |
Hi I'm Having Trouble sending email from my account, when i try to send some i get this error message. Sending of the message failed. what does this mean and how do i fix it? Edit: My email Client is Cox and the Program is Mozilla Thunderbird. | |
Greetings. I'm having a little issue. My 'main hard drive' is an older HDD drive, I recently had an External Hard Drive die on me completely and this made be go 'Ah! What if my main dies next?'. My cd drive is also broken but I haven't had any reason to use it in ages, the door won't open I've no idea why. So here's my question. If I bought a new hard drive to replace the old one, how would I go about installing my copy of Windows 7 to it without putting the disk into the drive? And, would replacing my old drive erase anything on my single other internal hard drive? Would the other internal hard drive need to be reformatted to work with the new replacement main drive under all situations? Currently I'm thinking of just buying a whole new computer but I don't really have the budget for it I think. Here are my current specs. Would anyone be able to steer me towards something that is just one or two steps above what I've got that isn't to pricey as a pre-built package? I don't know if I could build my own from parts. Anyway, thank you, be well everyone. Operating System | |
I have an old acer laptop that has a black screen. I already took out the battery and put it back in, but it still doesn't work. It just shows the logo and the screen turns black soon after. I can still access BIOS, but I don't know what to do. | |
Did you ever work on this any more? The biggest thing to check for is bad capacitors. Like 8 times out of 10 this has been my problem with electronics. It would require complete disassembly, but then it's really easy to check for. Bad capacitors bulge at the top, rather than being nice and flat: If you find some bad, then it's as simple as matching the voltage and capacitance and soldering in a new one, making sure to keep the polarity in the same orientation. You can usually buy a pack of new ones on Ebay for a couple bucks. One thing you need to watch out for is that capacitors can hold a charge after an electronic has been unplugged. They are basically batteries, so you can get a shock if you touch them. I read a story once about a kid dying when messing around with the power supply on his computer, so be careful with the larger ones. | |
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