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Post by shaxper on Mar 28, 2015 8:27:52 GMT -5
So Windows 7 tried to run an automatic update on my computer last week. However, since my hard drive was nearly at capacity, the installation failed, and Windows assumed this was because I did not have a genuine Windows OS, so it locked my computer. Fun. Just spent the past day unwinding my computer from the lock up and reinstalling windows. Now I'm desperately trying to restore all my old settings and files. I do regular backups every week, but I still can't figure out WHY my hard drive is full to capacity, so creating enough space to move everything back over is proving quite frustrating. No doubt I'll get it all figured out, and it's nice even to be able to log back in here again, but I hate when all the settings are wrong and my computer just doesn't feel like my computer.
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Post by shaxper on Mar 28, 2015 13:38:34 GMT -5
Ultimately proved impossible to restore my old programs and settings, so I'm doing it from scratch. Not the end of the world. Just glad I didn't lose anything important. Guess I've learned not to do backups on an external hard drive formatted for Macs.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 2, 2015 15:57:48 GMT -5
Is there an easy way to copy a list of file names in WINDOWS to an excel spreadsheet?
I've downloaded tons of CDs thru the years and would love to have an excel printout of my library without typing everything on my own. I have googled this question and saw a few suggestions ranging from installing software to multi-step procedures. But has anyone here actually have done it and recommend their method? |
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2015 13:19:31 GMT -5
from a dos prompt, do dir d:/s/b > something.csv, where d: is the drive of your cd
This will create a full listing of the cd, to a file called something.csv, which you can open in Excel. The location for that file needs to be writable (ie, don't try to send it to your CD!)
Each file will be a full path format like this d:\something\else\something\else\filename.ext
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 7, 2015 21:07:35 GMT -5
So Windows is consistently trying to upgrade my computers to Windows 8.1. And it's consistently failing. At first it was just my laptop. I finally got it to stop. Now it's doing it with my desktop. And I can't seem to get it to stop there.
It gets to between 80 and 90 percent...and stalls. Then it has to revert to the previous setup. The whole process takes a couple of hours. And in the end nothing has happened except the computer is tied up for a couple of hours.
Any thoughts to either get it to finally update or finally freakin' stop.
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Post by shaxper on May 7, 2015 21:08:42 GMT -5
So Windows is consistently trying to upgrade my computers to Windows 8.1. And it's consistently failing. At first it was just my laptop. I finally got it to stop. Now it's doing it with my desktop. And I can't seem to get it to stop there. It gets to between 80 and 90 percent...and stalls. Then it has to revert to the previous setup. The whole process takes a couple of hours. And in the end nothing has happened except the computer is tied up for a couple of hours. Any thoughts to either get it to finally update or finally freakin' stop. It might be that you have too little free disk space. This is what happened with my system when Windows 7 kept failing to upgrade. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 7, 2015 21:12:42 GMT -5
So Windows is consistently trying to upgrade my computers to Windows 8.1. And it's consistently failing. At first it was just my laptop. I finally got it to stop. Now it's doing it with my desktop. And I can't seem to get it to stop there. It gets to between 80 and 90 percent...and stalls. Then it has to revert to the previous setup. The whole process takes a couple of hours. And in the end nothing has happened except the computer is tied up for a couple of hours. Any thoughts to either get it to finally update or finally freakin' stop. It might be that you have too little free disk space. This is what happened with my system when Windows 7 kept failing to upgrade. I don't think so. I can't actually tell right now (because it's in the middle of "reverting" but I know there's well over 50 gigs of free space. |
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Post by shaxper on May 7, 2015 21:18:07 GMT -5
It might be that you have too little free disk space. This is what happened with my system when Windows 7 kept failing to upgrade. I don't think so. I can't actually tell right now (because it's in the middle of "reverting" but I know there's well over 50 gigs of free space. Any chance a sleep or power save mode is kicking in? Maybe the update is maxing out bandwidth or memory capacity? Could there be a firewall or overly zealous anti-virus program blocking the update? Is there anything unconventional about how Windows is set up on your computer (drive partitions, odd directory for Windows, etc) Does the problem always happen at the same point in the update? Has the computer rebooted by this point? Could maybe be a boot device issue (i.e. your computer might be trying to boot from a CD Rom or USB device first and getting confused) |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 7, 2015 22:08:01 GMT -5
I honestly don't know the answer to any of those. All I know is that Windows 8 seems like it's utter crap and it is constantly taxing my limited abilities to keep our computers running.
My guess is
No
Doubtful
No
Absolutely not
Yes.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 7:47:59 GMT -5
How old are the computers? Could it be a system requirements issue?
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Post by Jesse on May 21, 2015 21:46:50 GMT -5
Okay so this morning I went to save something onto my USB flash drive and it gave me a weird message. Then when I went to click on one of my folders I got a message about it being corrupt. When I unplugged it and plugged it back in again all the files on it were missing except the ones that came with it when I bought it. This is a flash drive I use pretty regularly and have successfully saved artwork to it as recently as yesterday.
Has anyone had similar experiences and were they able to recover any of the files? Would data recovery software be something that I should look into? I've heard of Recuva before but don't have experience using data recovery software. I did notice a tutorial on youtube that recommend similar software.
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Post by shaxper on May 22, 2015 4:51:21 GMT -5
Okay so this morning I went to save something onto my USB flash drive and it gave me a weird message. Then when I went to click on one of my folders I got a message about it being corrupt. When I unplugged it and plugged it back in again all the files on it were missing except the ones that came with it when I bought it. This is a flash drive I use pretty regularly and have successfully saved artwork to it as recently as yesterday. Has anyone had similar experiences and were they able to recover any of the files? Would data recovery software be something that I should look into? I've heard of Recuva before but don't have experience using data recovery software. I did notice a tutorial on youtube that recommend similar software. I've had this issue with external hard drives, but not flash drives. Are you using it on multiple computers? If so, are they using different operating systems? One of my externals recently flipped out because I was sharing it between a Windows 7 machine and a Mac. In that case, the partition on the disc had become corrupted, and I was able to find free software that corrected this. All the data was still there and recoverable. |
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Post by Jesse on May 22, 2015 6:46:04 GMT -5
I've had this issue with external hard drives, but not flash drives. Are you using it on multiple computers? If so, are they using different operating systems? One of my externals recently flipped out because I was sharing it between a Windows 7 machine and a Mac. In that case, the partition on the disc had become corrupted, and I was able to find free software that corrected this. All the data was still there and recoverable. The only times it's been plugged into different machines was one or twice to check that files had been saved correctly. All of which operated Windows. I've only ever saved anything to it from one machine also Windows. Did you use data recovery software and what software program would you recommend? |
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Post by shaxper on May 22, 2015 6:53:22 GMT -5
I've had this issue with external hard drives, but not flash drives. Are you using it on multiple computers? If so, are they using different operating systems? One of my externals recently flipped out because I was sharing it between a Windows 7 machine and a Mac. In that case, the partition on the disc had become corrupted, and I was able to find free software that corrected this. All the data was still there and recoverable. The only times it's been plugged into different machines was one or twice to check that files had been saved correctly. All of which operated Windows. I've only ever saved anything to it from one machine also Windows. Did you use data recovery software and what software program would you recommend? Well the program I used was Mac based and intended specifically to repair a partition. It was Testdisk 7.0. Not sure it will be of use in your situation. |
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2015 8:11:12 GMT -5
The only times it's been plugged into different machines was one or twice to check that files had been saved correctly. All of which operated Windows. I've only ever saved anything to it from one machine also Windows. Did you use data recovery software and what software program would you recommend? Try this: www.piriform.com/recuva - I haven't personally used this, but I know a number of people who have, and who recommend it |
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