Recovering lost, deleted, or corrupted data. Please review the tag wiki before posting a question.
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How can I recover folder converted to file by check disk?
After restarting my computer, check disk checked my pen drive and converted a corrupted folder to a file. This is the message I found in bootex.log file on my pen drive after conversion:
One of ...
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Can Windows 7 hibernation files be recovered? [closed]
As curiosity, according to my knowledge, hibernation basically moves memory data from memory to hard disk. First of all, is this true? And if so, is it possible to recover the deleted hibernation data ...
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Part of my hard drive just died… anything I can do to get my data back?
One of the most important folders on my hard drive just died. It is no longer there at all. I got a few errors about files being corrupt before it disappeared. Anything I can do to get my data back?
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Creating recovery drive in Windows 8 - Factory backup v/s current system backup
I bought a Lenovo Ideapad Z500, with Windows 8 pre-installed. I want to create a recovery drive before tampering the partitioning for obvious reasons.
Now, I've got two options for creating a ...
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How to recover lost source code when typical recovery software does not show Java files?
I had just started doing a lot of Java development off of one of my thumb drives for portability and constant access to my most recently worked on version of some piece of software and things were ...
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LVM woes - is it possible to recover data from LVM?
I think I've cocked up a smidge, so asking for some advice.
I have 4 drives in my machine:
sda - OS
sdb-d - sdb1, sdc1, sdd1 - swap
sdb2, sdc2, sdd2 - LVM
Total logical volume size ...
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Backup entire data and migrate
I have been given promotion in the office and hence given a new laptop. Now I have to move from my old system to the new laptop. I am currently working on many projects and have many dependencies ...
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Windows 8 unformatted drives data recovery
My system recently crashed and I have to re-install Windows. I had 4 drives and 100GB each and system drive of 30 GB.
Now when I was installing it did not let me install on the already existing 30 GB ...
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Why is my 500GB hdd not readable after dd'ed on a different 500GB hdd?
Accidentally formatted an important external 500GB hdd yesterday. Not an SDD, 2.5".
(Quick) formatting occured while installing windows xp on it. I had the wrong usb drive plugged in. ~600MB are ...
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USB Stick, how to minimize risk of data corruption or data loss
I have encountered several USB sticks with a corrupted filesystem in only 2 years. In a Windows-only environment (Vista and newer), what can be done to reduce the chance of filesystem corruption and ...
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I'm getting a popping noise and read errors from the hard drive during a partitioning work with GParted
I'm trying to move a partition from a GParted live disk, but two things started happening:
The disk is making a popping/cracking noise, almost like a Geiger counter.
GParted says Read error on ...
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restore files from previous ext4 filesystem (ubuntu) after windows installation [duplicate]
I had Ubuntu installed until last week and forgot to backup one important document before I formated the disc as NFTS and installed windows 7. I there any change I can get my document back?
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MPEG files damaged over time. How to fix?
I have a strange problem with a few MPEG files (.mp4 and .mpg).
These files have been living on my hard disk for quite a long time. I also have recently copied them into a new disk, not having the ...
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Recovering files from a Windows account on an internal drive
I was wondering would there be problems if I tried to recover my files from my Windows 7 account on an internal drive that I took out of my laptop and then hooked up to my other laptop?
Will I have ...
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How to recover .json files on Windows 7? [duplicate]
Ich have accidently formatted a hard drive, where my Firefox bookmarks were. They are in .json format. I have tried software like Recuva,Magic Partition Recovery, PC Inspector File Recovery, R-Studio ...
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SOLVED - data loss on a external HDD? [closed]
I use an external 3TB HDD to store some documents and either a) I don't know what's real and dream anymore, b) someone sneaked into my room and deleted some files or c) some files actually disappeared ...
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how to restore public_html folder in cpanel?
I have accidentally deleted public_html folder in cpanel. I don't have
local backup of public_html folder. How can I recover my files?
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My HDD fell from the table (but was saved by the cable). Now it does not spin up. Could it be the PCB? [closed]
I had a external 2.5" 1 TB HDD connected to my laptop via USB3. The HDD was pushed off the table and was saved by the cable (left dangling). However, now the HDD does not spin up.
I've tried another ...
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Word 2003 crashed and I've lost my file
I was working with a document located on USB. Suddenly word 2003 crashed and I've lost my file. only in the folder "recent" there is a trace left by which seems to contain less information. I've tried ...
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Fixing a corrupt partition? (RAW data)
Apologies for misusing some terminology here... I'm attempting to fix a friend's laptop (Dell Inspiron 1545) which was suffering from the error "disk error press any key to restart" on every boot, ...
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Testdisk. Change partitions, but disk still doesn't open. Recover partitions
Laptop ASUS, if it can help.
Because I'm very stupid in the system administration, I made from NTFS disk the RAW. I connect it to another computer through USB. I need to recover file system, so I use ...
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Why can Linux systems sometime recover data Windows can't? Any concrete reasons?
Background:
Earlier this year I had a problem with a SSD drive that Windows would recognize anymore. But eventually a bootable Parted Magic 2012-10-10 did the trick. See this solved thread. One ...
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Recover data deleted due to rsync --delete ubuntu [duplicate]
I was trying to copy the data from my office desktop to my laptop which is updated time to time. I have the previous backup with me in my laptop. I was trying to copy on the new and modified data. But ...
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Is it possible to recover deleted data from a clonezilla image?
Since foremost/sleuthkit seem to require a disk image, I created one using clonezilla.
However, I realized afterwards that it "saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk".
Does that mean it ...
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Replace disk electronics in HDD Password Protected hard drives
I have HDD password protected hard drive (Seagate ST320LT007) which dies recently, most probably because of damaged electronics.
I would like to buy new one and replace demaged electronic with ...
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Restoring files on ntfs [duplicate]
So I was using gparted to extend my NTFS partition, but the linux desktop went to sleep and caused gparted to close before it was done.
I ran chkdsk /f /r on the drive and it seemed to repair it; ...
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Recovery of disk with intermittent errors
The hard disk drive (Hitachi HTS547575A9E384) in my laptop (Samsung NP300E5A-A07PL) has failed... again (it was once replaced by warranty)! Lubuntu 12.10 noticed disk errors and switched '/' to ...
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Create from bash an image from a Windows / Linux partition
I want to make an image with existing Linux tools from the bash console. Can somebody tell me how to accomplish this task?
Let's assume /dev/sda including its master boot records need to be backed ...
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Damaged disk, what are my options
I think I have a damaged hard drive, with lots of PRECIOUS data on it. I always had a backup drive somewhere of it, but I needed it so I ordered more hard drives (should be here tomorrow or so) abd ...
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Mini PCI-e to USB adapter for Netbook SSD access
My old Asus Eee PC 1000 Linux netbook laptop finally kicked the bucket. It now frequently halts at random times, including immediately after pressing the power button. After some tests I concluded ...
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How to recover data from damaged hard drive?
I have a hard drive which seems to be damaged. I took it out of the notebook and plugged it into another one with no result. Now I am trying to get the data off of it with a SATA-to-USB adapter.
The ...
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Western Digital My Passport 1TB HDD Failed - Any last ditch things I can do?
So two days ago now my USB 2.0/3.0 external hard drive would not come up in Windows. When I plug the drive in it spins up and Windows recognizes that a USB drive was plugged in (I get the sound, but ...
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HDD fails to show properly
OS: Windows 7 (32)
Okay, I have two HDDs, the primary a 160Gig with installed OS and general software and another secondary with a 500gig Capacity. Now the problem is after a recent freak power ...
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Windows PE Recovery CD with explorer shell
I am trying to create a recovery cd using winpe so that I am able to boot with a minimal set of disk recovery tools. I have noticed that there are a few tutorials for pe 1 (winxp based pe) One looked ...
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How to copy files in Terminal without writing failures?
I have an external HD that has crashed, and is badly corrupted. I want to copy whatever is intact off of it, which means doing so in Terminal as the Finder will of course give up at the first ...
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How to Read Old DVDs? [closed]
I'm wondering what should I do to read old DVD-R disk written 3-10 years ago.
I have to put my old data archive to a hard disk. I've tried several DVD-drives, but none of them helped me with this ...
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Can I somehow repair my recovered GoPro HERO3 video files? [duplicate]
Recently I lost all the videos which were on my card when the camera froze up while copying to my computer.
I've used Photorec to recover the files. It found every single one of them, and the sizes ...
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Recover broken exFat drive
So I'm an idiot
And last night, half-asleep, in an attempt to mount a .img to my exFAT-formatted external drive so I could boot Ubuntu from it, I ran
dd if=foo.img of=/dev/disk1
like the Ubuntu ...
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How to recover data from dead hard disk (with tic tic noise)?
I have an HP server with a two-year-old 174 GB hard disk. Suddenly, the server cannot boot from hard disk. The drive makes noises (tic tic tic) and the server says the hard drive should be replaced.
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Trying to recover a deleted .bash_history file
It's for an assignment to practice a bit of forensics. We're given VirtualBox images and told to figure out if a certain user messed up the ssh config.
I mounted the image as read-only, and found ...
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Empty folders after NTFS file system recovery
I used TestDisk to restore a "quick formatted" drive. When the software asked something about differing MFTs, I selected to copy the MFT backup. Now I've realized that whole directory branches are ...
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Ubuntu Deleted /var/logs
Is there a way to restore /var/log ? I don't really care about past logs I at least need the dir structure so programs can write to their logs.
For example I went to start apache and it failed ...
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Where does Windows 7 store documents saved in the temporary profile?
I'm asking on behalf of a friend of mine.
Here's the situation:
My friend logged onto a Windows 7 install and ended up logging onto a temporary profile (he made it so it does this intentionally). ...
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Trying to rescue data from WD My Book Studio II, raid 0
For a friend I'm trying to recover data from a Western Digital My Book Studio II external disk drive enclosure in raid 0 mode.
At first I tried to rescue the data under OSX, the OS used by the ...
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Broken hard drive
I have a tower PC that recently had a boot error stating that the hard drive could not be read. When the computer starts up, you can hear the hard drive spinning up normally, just as it had in the ...
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Can't mount SSD
I have a bit of a problem. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my laptop, and about 2 years ago I replaced the aging HDD with a 32 GB SSD. Today I tried to boot my computer, but it couldn't.
So I've put ...
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My LapTop Internal Hard Drive is Not detecting
I am using HCL Leap top model Laptop. It is 5 years old one. The internal 160gb hard drive is not detected. I enquired nearby data recovery agents for data recovery and they informed me that head part ...
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How to recover data from a formatted hard drive? [duplicate]
I am pretty much new to Linux. I have given my hard disk for someone to install ubuntu. He formatted my entire hard disk. I would like to recover some of images that I lost. Previously my hard disk ...
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How to undo a modification in Linux if Linux won't start due to the modification?
I created a .bashrc file in the /home directory and then rebooted Linux
but now it wont restart.
I am now on a Live CD version of Linux.
Why are many folders not accessible?
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Any way to unlock drive locked by BitLocker?
My wife's laptop loads straight into a prompt asking for a BitLocker password.
The encryption is on our Win7 boot drive so no way to boot into safe mode or something similar.
If I quit out of this ...
