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Files & Settings Transfer Wizard Problem

  • 06-10-2010 7:03pm
    #1
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,745 ✭✭✭


    Hey Guys,

    Im not sure if this is the right section for this, Im not usually in this corner of boards! However I have a problem with the FAST Wizard.

    So it all started when I got a virus on the computer. I googled around and it was a pretty nasty one, after getting the computer back up and running with some sort of functionality I decided to just do a fresh install of windows. Before I could do this I wanted to get what files I could off the laptop, but because the virus disabled drap & drop functionality the only way i could do this was using the FAST wizard. So i started that and loaded the files onto my TB hard drive. That created a lot of .dat files, around 2gb in size each, and the total size was around 37gb (which I think is a bit more than the total size of the files themselves for some reason?)

    Anyway, I reinstalled windows, made sure my antivirus was all up to date and that, and the computer is running better than ever. So I went to restore the files from the hard drive, using the FAST wizard again. When I was putting them on the first time it took quite a while so I set it running over night.

    Long story short it took about 14 hours to complete, but when I checked the files it turned out that while it copied back the folders into the same places (ie same hierarchy), they were all empty! About 90% of the files were missing (a few folders still had files in them)

    Anybody know what to do? I could run the wizard again and hope it works this time. Or else is there any other way to extract the files from the .dat files maybe?

    Any help appreciated and thanks for reading the longer than expected post!


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