Data Recovery is the process in which data lost, deleted, or corrupted can be recovered. Many techniques are shared with computer forensics.
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Iomega Home Media hard drive shows empty directories after data loss
I have an Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive, 1TB. After a 220V blackout we had during the night and due to the cold weather, I can't access the data on the drive.
The shares (both built-in and ...
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How to recover data from failed HDD w/ ext4 partitions? [closed]
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How to recover files from linux ext4 harddrive
My WD HDD failed (5th failed WD). Unfortunately I had some small but important files on it without backup. It's not ...
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Undelete files on Macbook, trash is empty
long story short: 2am, very tired, in a hurry, deleted all docs from wrong device, emptied trash.
I've been asked to recover files for someone who has mistakenly deleted all documents on their ...
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USB pen drive Defragmentation [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I recover files from an USB flash drive?
My friend got a HP 16GB USB pen drive. The problem is, he defragmented it. Now when we are connecting that device, its ...
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Recover emails from an unfinished archiving process in Outlook
A friend of mine tried to archive his emails in Outlook and now he can't find them anymore. He had about 18 GB of emails in his inbox.
Basically, he started the archiving process, forgot about it and ...
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How To Get Adjacent Data Back? after using “Remove data from the external data range before saving the workbook” -
I have a spreadsheet with an external data table coming from SQL Server with a query that returns data specific to each user. I have put instructions in this file to allow it to download once and then ...
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Recover damaged partition after gparted resize was interrupted on read-only test
I wanted to expand a ext4 (or ext3) partition to the end of the disk with gparted and during the process noticed that it is also moving it by 1 MB toward the beginning of the disk. Since gparted was ...
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Truecrypt partly encrypted
My friend tried to encrypt his external hard drive with Truecrypt in Windows 7, but he realized that he forgot the password, so he stopped the encryption at ~30%. Is there a way for him to at least ...
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How can I read a protected directory? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Take ownership of entire drive?
I've got a computer at home running Windows Vista Ultimate that recently "died". I don't know exactly what's wrong with it, but it gives ...
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Recover data after dban use
I had just finished a reinstall of windows xp and had put all my files back in place, then when I was out my little sister saw the dban disk I used and she thought it was a game....
When I got home I ...
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Is it possible to recover files from an encrypted drive after starting to format it but not going through with it?
Until a few hours ago, I had a pretty large drive that was entirely encrypted using TrueCrypt. I was working on getting the Windows 7 installer working from a USB drive and when it came to formatting ...
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How do I recover deleted e-mails that are still contained in a .dbx file?
Long story short I accidentally deleted all of my e-mails except for about 3. Now, fortunately upon looking at my Inbox.dbx file (from Outlook Express) they're all still in the file, even the deleted ...
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Lost a Gnote in Fedora crash
During a recent crash of my Fedora system, I lost very important notes in a gnote which was open just before the crash. Now after reboot, that note number is not there and another blank empty note ...
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Recovering ext4 data after accidental partial re-image?
I had a CD that automatically starts to image a system with windows XP/NTFS. Accidentally booted from it on a Linux system which has one large ext4 partition (500GB). Interrupted the imaging process ...
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How can I recover my accidentally-deleted Windows 7 boot partition?
I had Ubuntu and Windows 7 installed, but since I never used Ubuntu and it used 130GB of space I decided to delete it. I deleted two partitions and completely wiped the one with the data. The other ...
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Windows 7 secondary drive data still present, but file tree doesn't display
After recovering my system from a malware attack, I restored all of my previous settings, run malware/virus scans, etc. Everything appears to be back to normal, except:
E:\ directory tree does not ...
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Recovering a lost user account
So early in the summer I logged off the admin account on my computer and turned off the screen. I later went back to get on Facebook and instead of having both of the accounts up,(Administrator and my ...
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Should Windows 7's built-in image restore really be so slow that it takes DAYS?
When I restore a ~500 GB disk image made with Windows 7's built-in system image tool, it runs for 8-10 hours with very little progress, and even after 3 days it is still only about 30% done.
Why is ...
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Recover data from two RAID 0 drives in Fedora or Ubuntu
I have an external drive from WD which consists of two separate 3.5" discs which have been used in RAID 0 mode. Unfortunately, a while ago I fed the drive with to high voltage which probably fried the ...
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How to recover data from previous sessions in a CD or DVD
A friend handed my a DVD supposedly having a backup of his kids photos and videos.
The DVD shows as empty in Windows 7, but I can see that data was burned in the disk.
Is there a utility to explore ...
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Migrate unbootable Windows 7 installation
Until several months ago, I had a 64-bit installation of Windows 7 running very smoothly through Boot Camp on my iMac (iMac7,1). I was going to give the computer to my parents, and to spruce it up, I ...
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Data recovery after sudo rm -rf /* on ext4
I sent the following command to my friend:
sudo rm -rf /*
He launched it. Does someone know how to recover data after deleting from ext4 on Ubuntu 10.10?
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lost files, not freed on disk
I had a NAS with 300GB data stored on it. I played around with it and finally broke it - all of the data was lost. I opened the NAS and put the disk into my computer (running Ubuntu). I put new data ...
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Harddrive fell; caught in mid-air; won't spin up
I have a SimpleTech 1TB external USB hard drive. I recently backed up my entire system to it, then formatted and installed Windows 8 Developer Preview.
Before restoring my data from the external ...
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Is it possible to safely get data off a hard drive thats a member of a mdadm-mounted RAID1 array via USB?
I have a RAID1 array of two drives created with mdadm. Is it possible to remove one of the drives, hook it up to a USB SATA adapter, and safely mount it, get the info off of it, and return the drive?
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Data Recovery software for Mac hard drive that does not display on desktop
Is there a data recovery recovery software that works for hard drives that do not display on the desktop?
This is a laptop. It is booting from an external drive. The internal drive does not ...
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Ghost / Drive Clone Software [closed]
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How do I easily copy or clone a Windows boot partition onto a new hard drive?
Not actually a question per-se but what cloning software do people use?
I will personally ...
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I think I broke Kubuntu; boot from USB, mount FS, then install what I uninstalled?
I am booting #! Linux from a USB drive in the hopes that I can either
Install what I uninstalled to get Kubuntu working again... (see Installed KDE in Ubuntu, removed lightdm, cannot boot) OR
Copy ...
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How can I restore a lost file in Ubuntu?
In Ubuntu 10.04, there is a file that appears when I use the ls command with ~ right next to its name, like:
file.c ~
I can't open it, rename it, or copy it.
When I try to access it, I get the ...
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Recovering DATA from HDD pulled from failed NAS
I pulled out a HDD from the My Book Live (Western Digital) NAS because it doesn't connect anymore.
Product info: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=280
I am trying to recover data from ...
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Mac failing (failed?) hard drive - is all hope lost?
It's a 500 GB Seagate laptop hard drive that came with my Macbook Pro. Apple partition format.
Already replaced and now have it external, connected via SATA/USB adapter. Trying to get just a few ...
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How can I mount my camera's SD card as a disk using the camera?
I had a minor photo related mishap yesterday, I deleted files from the SD card on my Canon 550D without importing them onto my PC first. I've connected the camera up and pointed PhotoRec and some ...
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Accidentally deleted a folder from a NAS drive (My Book Live) – is there any way to recover this?
I accidentally deleted a folder from a NAS drive (My Book Live). Is there any way to recover it?
This is on a Mac. I know this may be a stretch, but I'm just hoping to find a solution.
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IOMEGA 500GB hard disk data reccovery
Last year by November I bought an IOMEGA 500GB Prestige hard disk. Yesterday, unfortunately the hard disk fell down from my table. After that incident, when I connect my disk, Windows asks me to ...
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Mac osx recover deleted files?
Is possible to recover deleted files in mac osx?
I putted files in the basket then cleared basket but i accidentally deleted important file :/
Any script/free app to recover it?
thanks.
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Recovering a corrupted SDHC card which shows its full with data [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
SDHC 4GB -lost data / photographs
I went to a conference, got a lot of photos and videos, came back home and tried my Card Reader. It was perhaps buggy and went into a ...
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Data recovery after user profile corruption on Windows XP
I'm away from home for college, and my computer back home has been having some issues. My dad took it to a computer store, and apparently the user profiles somehow got corrupted, so they're locked out ...
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RAID5, Can you clone the drive and access the media from Windows?
So my server is about to die and all of a sudden my RAID5 isn't accessible anymore.
Is it possible to access the files on those drives some other way? Like maybe plugging them into another comp, ...
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Recover Windows Encrypted Files
Today my harddrive had some kind of mid-life crisis and got itself in a state that no amount of dskchking or "Startup Recovery"ing could resolve, so I attached another disk, installed windows on that ...
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Recover data from Dynamic Disk (MBR) bigger than 2TB
Here is the situation: Promise Array FastTrak TX4310 with 3 disks (750 GB each) in RAID5. This comes to around 1500 GB of data.
Last week I had the idea of expanding the RAID with an additional 750 ...
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How do manually mount hard drive on mac?
My mac recently gave up and I'm trying to salvage whatever data I can from the hard drive. I was able to boot using the OSX Installation CD and fire up Disk Utility that basically told me that the ...
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Restore files after a reformat
A couple of friends of mine had problems with their computer (OS crash) and let a friend fix it.
The problem is that he did a reformat and a fresh install of the OS without asking. They had all their ...
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How to recover deleted file? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to recover deleted files?
OS: Ubuntu
I deleted a file on a NTFS partition.I reinstalled Ubuntu.
Is it possible to recover that file?
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Fixing a malformed Partition.(Mac or WIn7)
My brother messed with his hard drive partitioning and now can't access his partition.
I've used a SATA-to-USB to connect his hard drive to my mac, Used diskutil list and got the following
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Corrupt, but working HDD
I struggled to describe this, so excuse the ambiguous title. I have an old Western Digital Caviar 120Gb HDD I found out - I suspect it's the contents of an old PC of mine so it's bound to have photos ...
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Folder Disappears on CD-R after accidental save to it from Firefox
I had a CD-R that has folders A, B, and C directly on the drive. I opened a .drf file in Firefox from folder An on the disc. While tying to save an image to my computer I accidentally selected folder ...
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Mistakenly setup a Time Machine disk, how to recover the data?
I have a NTFS external disk used by a Windows PC and there were lots of important data on it.
My friend took the disk and plugged in to my Mac just now and mistakenly setup it as a Time Machine ...
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Recover an old version file from HDD
An Excel file replaced with an old version. Is it possible to restore old version?
I tried to use Windows System Restore, but nothing happened!
a.xls (8kb) from Desktop replaced a.xsl (120kb) on ...
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How can I recover a file that was overwritten by the download manager?
I was using blader to download an RTMP stream with FLV extension. It downloaded a file which was about 5 GB in size.
The file was working, so things were good until I restarted the download and it ...
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Input/output error and fsck
recently I couldn't mount my hard drive so I booted with a live cd and doing a fsck on that partition. it said Deleted inode 992193 has zero dtime. Fix
i entered y and another one it showed me this ...
