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No Internet after restore from a backup

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Lately I have been having problems with not having internet access after restoring a backup from an image. My PC shows a Wi-Fi symbol with an X. Restarting my PC doesn't seem to work. Turning on and off the wireless adapter doesn't work as well.

Thank you for any help

Francisco

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When you recovered, did you also recover the disk signature as well?

I had a similar problem recently, and found that not recovering the disk signature caused a number of programs to malfunction, in turn causing the network adapter to be attempting to use an address that didn't exist.

In my case, performing an IPCONFIG /all resulted in a 169.254.x.x for the adapter and my firewall was showing a completely incorrect IP of 192.168.200.x (should be 192.168.1.x), even my router was unaccessible.

As I mentioned, the only way I could find around this was to use a different adapter (in my case installing a WiFi), or by restoring the original disk signature.