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windows 7 recovery help please

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  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    edited 1 May 2013 at 5:17PM
    backup your data to two different places, on a different hard disk, and to dvd's. then factory restore it using Dell datasafe - you don't need the discs to do that, it's on the restore partition, but it's handy to have the correct discs available and/or a macrium backup in case it goes wrong
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  • excell
    excell Posts: 24 Forumite
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    Keep seeing reference to cloud services for my photo backup. I have no idea what they are or the cost if any? Is there a popular no hassle free service out there?
    Thanks for all the great advice.
  • NiftyDigits
    NiftyDigits Posts: 10,459 Forumite
    excell wrote: »
    Keep seeing reference to cloud services for my photo backup. I have no idea what they are or the cost if any? Is there a popular no hassle free service out there?
    Thanks for all the great advice.

    DropBox is an example.
  • seems that, if what you want to do is help speed up your laptop, then go through the techie forum sticky "HOW TO SPEED UP A SLOW OR INFECTED PC...", should put you on the right path.
    You should see a factory restore as a last resort thing, imho.
    HTH!
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