HP Recovery is ****

In short - does anyone know how to open files with the .fbw extension. This is one for the real techies but I don't hold out much hopes as, having Googled the problem I find myself with, loads of people have encountered the very same problem and no-one has come up with an answer that works.

Story. Old HP Pavilion laptop running Windows Vista. My hard disk was corrupt and couldn't open the Windows files. Like a twit, I ran the HP Back Up and Recovery program to save all my files. Then like an even bigger twit, I ran the factory reset program to set my laptop back to the state it was in when shipped.

Doh. Big mistake. When I tried to run the Recovery part of the facility it couldn't read its own ****ing files. Now, all my files are on a removable disk in a format that no-one can ****ing well read. HP haven't a clue and the company that wrote the software for HP don't seem to want to know. Apparently people have been searching a solution since Vista came out but I only hit the problem a month ago.

The only proposed solution I haven't been able to try is to get a laptop running Windows XP Pro and try that.

By now one would have thought that someone, somewhere, would have discovered how to open these files.

It's all very frustrating so I thought, I know there are some intelligent techies on here so why not give it a go.

Crash helmet on


Advice
If any one has a similar problem DO NOT USE HP BACKUP & RECOVERY. Drop into MS DOS and manually copy your important files to an external device

 

TOO LONG DIDN'T READ.

 

McAfee i think m8

 

Put it in a chest freezer overnight and it will unbuckel.
Had the same problem with my Shwinn Superstock.

 

Is there an executable among the backup files to unpack them?

 

Have you tried turning it off then back on again?

 

Vista? XP?

Stop living in the early noughties and buy a new ****in machine ya cheap ****.

 

And yes I have Windows 10 (which I don't like much) and K

That's why a put the short version (one sentence) first Ciaran. I tried

 

Yep. And it doesn't work. That is the annoying thing. HP program can't read it's own bloody files.

 

Prefer tea B-C. I have the latest version of Norton 360 but a virus checker doesn't help much when there is no virus. Just that the executable that is meant to read the back up files can't read them. Clever eh

 

You know, I might even try that

 

M8 I haven't a ****ing clue.

 

You tried running it under different compatibility modes?

 

PM me a pic of Amanda's tits and I'll consider helping

 

This fella goes into a shop and asks for a bottle of brown sauce,
"HP" says the shopkeeper,
"no I'll pay for it now"says the fella.

 

I wonder what I was going to say there ............ ........................ No idea - ah well, it's my age you know

 

I'd go here

 

#tina soaking for rons underage son

 

You stay classy now, trev.