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Lost everything on my compact presario c56-219wm notebook pc

THOMPSONK1

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Jan 10, 2016
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Did a restore and lost everything on my Presario cq56-219wm notebook pc was using Windows 10 and was having lots of issues.
 
Hi,

Can you walk us through on how you did the restore with your laptop? There's 2 type of restore with windows a destructive which will delete everything and a non-destructive restore will not harm your files.