Questions tagged [data-recovery]
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Is it possible to repair this USB device or get the information out of it?
This USB device had only one partition, but now it has two partitions and the second partition has an offset of 8MB, so I assume that there is a problem with the file system or partition table.
I have ...
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Keywords/formats I can look for to find lost chrome/opera 'Recent tabs' file?
The situation: Some time ago i used chrome and was slowly switching to opera to browse the internet. Then chrome updated and in the process wiped out all the tabs i usually used, and i couldn't ...
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recovering data from choregraphe project after a hard restart crash
I am working with Choregraphe to build some robot functionality in a project.
Recently I did something to cause my project to crash not only my Choregraphe, but also my entire system froze until I ...
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Run elevated command prompt on not booting pc
Windows 10 update 1903 crushed the windows installation on my Surface Pro 3. Repair is not working. So I try to backup my files before doing a fresh windows install. For this I use the console ...
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Corrupt SD card
i have a micro sd card (Kingston) that i want to extract data from but it's unknown filesystem and it's impossible to mount i guess. It's from an Android 6 phone. Kernel version: 3.18.19. It's pretty ...
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ddrescue restore image to same disk
Our 4TB drive was failing. I unmounted the principal partition and ran ddrescue /dev/sdb1 /work2/timhay01/work.img /home/timhay01/work_backup.log --try-again --force --verbose where /work2/ is mounted ...
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Recover Permanently Deleted Folder (SHIFT+DELETE) Windows 10 Bootcamp SSD
Accidentally permanently deleted a folder (w/ SHIFT+DELETE) on a Windows 10 Bootcamp SSD: is there any way to recover it? None of the major recovery sofware sees it (e.g. Recuva, EaseUS, DiskDrill, ...
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mdadm RAID 6 drive failed over, then some of my data disappeared
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For 7 years now I've had a personal file/media server running Fedora (initially 21, currently 30). The main storage array comprises 3TB drives in an mdadm RAID6 (originally, RAID5). Over ...
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Windows 10 installation not recognized as bootable?
Full disclosure, I posted about this previously here but received no responses, so I'm simplifying the problem here.
I recovered the primary partition on my Intel RST RAID 10 array, but my computer ...
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Installation of Presto Database on the SQL Server
I install presto on webserver and link it to database server. Database server crash , already build it again and install sql. Shall i need to create all the tables again?
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Ghost external HDD (OSX): nowhere to be seen
I need to retrieve a hard drive, which was used on Mac, but when connecting the drive it boots and lights-up, except that it doesn't mount, in fact it doesn't appear in my USB bus connection despite ...
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Data Recovery on Linux
I recently purchased a new computer so that I could upgrade my old Linux machine. My old machine was running Ubuntu 16.04 Server LTS. The operating system was installed on a 256 GB SSD, while a single ...
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SD card, corrupted, data recovery, file type unrecognized, allocated memory not recognized, all data recovery software fails to even scan correctly
I have a corrupted SD card and need help:
SD card from android says corrupted in phone.
Windows says it needs to be formatted.
Chkdsk says it cannot restore raw file format.
All file recovery ...
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Recovering evince session in Ubuntu 16.04
How can I recover documents which were open in Evince prior to a system crash in Ubuntu 16.04? Ideally, I would like to find a list of files which were open just before the crash. At the least, I ...
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Over 100% objects are degraded, how this is possible?
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Running a really small ceph cluster:
with three nodes (each containing mon, osd and mds)
an admin VM (containing also a mgr-service)
a pool replicating three times
Just to play around ...
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How to monitor an external hard drive for data quality / health
Not knowing anything about hard drives, I am wondering how a cloud service provider monitors their hard drives for problems (data corruption, loss of data, hard drive failure, etc.). Searching google ...
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Recovering lost partitions [duplicate]
I faced a problem: Windows couldn't start at all. After connecting the hard disk to another PC only about 3GB is there, the actual size is 1TB.
Is there any way to recover lost partitions ?
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Recover data from formatted SD card
I have confused SD cards and formatted the one with my data on it and taken 2 pictures with my camera until I noticed.
I have never recovered an SD card before, so I am completely new to this topic. ...
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Recovering data from Lacie 500Gb External Drive (2x 250GB IDE internally)
I have some LACIE External HDD's and G-Drives, one of the oldest drives is a 500GB external drive with 2 250GB drives inside of it.
Can i remove these 2 drives and dock them with an IDE type dock ...
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How to restore a HP backup with unreadable SWM files
I backed up my laptop to an external HDD using HP backup & restore tool. It has compressed the files and saved them into several files with an SWM extension.
Now it seems as if the external HDD I'...
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Are some files that show up in the Windows Recycle Bin of a fully formatted secondary drive linked to another drive or physically present?
I have a primary (boot) SSD and a secondary HDD (via a SATA-to-USB adapter) connected to my computer. My goal is to sell the secondary HDD without exposing any previous data that was stored on it. I ...
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Cypher command din't wipe my deleted data
I used Recuva and got a list of deleted data that can be recovered, then applied the Windows command Cypher to wipe the partitions D and C, 3 passes were made.
cipher /w:D:\
cipher /w:C:\
Finally I ...
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Recovering data from RAID 0 after reinstalling Windows
I have the following setup on my system:
4 SDDs in RAID0 with Windows 10.
1 standalone SSD
The RAID was created on BIOS using Intel's Rapid Storage Utility.
In my attempt to setup Ubuntu on the ...
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How to Recover Encrypted Hard Drive Data with System Rescue CD Over LAN
I would like to know what would be the best way to proceed with cloning my hard drive to the point that I can simply insert the cloned drive into my PC and seamlessly boot from it as I currently do ...
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Can I re-initialize a disk changing between MBR/GPT without losing data?
A Windows 10 PC started today with a black screen "Preparing automatic repair" on loop. Then somehow Windows started but one HDD was missing.
From Disk Management I can see the HDD, but as an ...
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Laptop PC stuck at startup, formatted, now data unrecoverable, looks encrypted
Someone asked me to recover data from a laptop computer (Sony Vaio), after a Windows reinstall (Windows 8) through the startup recovery procedure.
Prior to that, the computer was malfunctioning : it ...
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Unreadable Hard Drive Partition
A couple of days ago one of my hard drives stopped being recognised in Windows. It was still recognised in the bios so the actual drive appeared fine and after a bit of investigation I figured that it ...
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Did I just lose my Storage Spaces (RAID 0) array? How can I recover it?
I am an amateur photographer and recently decided it was time to stop using external hard drives and move to a custom built storage server. This build was mostly for fun and learning.
I started by ...
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power went off when merging two partitions
While merging two partitions the power went off. now the partitions are damaged. Is there any possible way to retrieve even some of the data if not all(no back-ups were made)?
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Access old laptop HDD from PC
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Laptop HDD was designated C, is at least 10 years old and runs XP (I believe), password protected at login (not boot)
My computer is very new, runs windows 10
I am attempting to recover ...
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How to explore a ddrescue image manually / interactively?
I have a ddrescue image containing data from a Btrfs partition whose first GBs were overwritten. Therefore, the filesystem cannot be mounted, so the files cannot be accessed through any filesystem as ...
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Notepad++ file has been changed, would you like to reload?
I pressed YES, but I have made a huge mistake. Can I get the state before I press "reload"?
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Bad Truecypt External Drive- how to recover
Under Windows 10. TC 7.1a
After correct password entry, external WD drive shows up as a Y drive as follows:
Volume: \Device\Harddisk2\Partition 1
Size 223 GB AES
Type Hidden
But when clicking on it ...
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Manually Restore GUID Partition Table on Mac
Recently I plugged my HDD with one partition formatted in HFS+ into a Windows PC as an internal HDD, it somehow ruined my GUID partition table and turned it into 3 partitions (unformatted/unallocated) ...
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Correct command on 'gddrescue'
I'm using gnu ddrescue by Antonio. I have a broken, but not dead (checked by the photorec utility - it found and saved many files on it) a 1 terabyte usb-HDD and the goal is to create its RAW-file. ...
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64gb USB Drive data suddenly lost after OS upgrade - showing "EFI" and 200mb capacity and no data
I left my USB drive plugged in during a Windows OS upgrade.
I backed up all my data on this drive, and now in the new OS (Windows Server 2016) it is showing no data (.Trashes folder only) and 200mb ...
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how to recover a big NTFS partition that's missing the first 4kb?
I have two external USB3 HDD drives (2.5", both from Toshiba) that have a bad sector. One drive is sized 500GB, the other is 1TB. Interestingly, both show exactly the same problem:
The partition ...
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How to recover a corrupted 3gpp record audio file?
So I made 5 audio records using the default recorder in Android 4.4. All of them seem to have information because they have a size between 100MB-150MB. The problem is that some metadata was deleted, ...
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Can't unlock Bitlocker Encrypted Drive
I have a BitLocker encrypted external HDD without any OS installed in it (have 2 partitions one NTFS other one BitLocker encrypted). I plugged it to pc with usb then i unlocked my drive on Win10 with ...
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Trying to recover encrypted partition, getting very confused
I have a LUKS/cryptsetup encrypted disk from a friend's Debian machine which would not boot. I'm trying to mount it on another Debian machine, using a USB enclosure, to recover the data or get some ...
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SSD appears in BIOS and Device Manager but not in Disk Management or any other tool
After a crash a few days ago, my SSD wasn't detected in the BIOS (or anywhere) anymore for a while.
After trying everything, I decided to try to put it in the oven to re-flow the solder before ...
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Accidently dd a whole disk with Iso file. Can i recover it ?
Here is the story buddies :
I dd'ed the wrong disk because of fdisk.
By disconnecting an reconnecting Usb and External HDD fdisk did not refresh results. The consequence is as you can see :
fdisk -...
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Fix corrupted files after recovery
I recovered my projects files: html, css, js, php, jpg, png, txt.
When I check the files all of them seem to be in good condition except .txt and .php.
Is there's anyway to fix them? The .php files ...
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How recovery cut and paste lost data?
1. Steps to reproduce
(I'm not sure, that I remember my steps 100%)
I wanted to move from folder A to folder B my photos (~20 photos). In Windows Explorer Right_Click to folder A → Cut → I move in ...
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Steps for fixing/rescuing data on external-storage
A friend gave me his "broken" external-usb-hard drive which contains important stuff. So I plugged in the usb into my (linux-)notebook and ran dmesg.
The output shows, that the OS wasn't able to ...
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Recover hard disk damaged by overwritten with dd
My hard drive with GPT format was overwritten by accident. I ran dd over it when I tried to write an .iso to an USB memory.
$ dd if=Ubuntu.iso of=/dev/sda
Then I tried to fix my partition table ...
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How to recover data from an encrypted 1TB WD MyBook drive that was formatted?
We accidentally formatted an external hard drive with extremely important files on it and we're desperate to find any solution. We had it encrypted with a password using Western Digital's software. ...
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How does Windows 10 access files to which it has no pathway?
So this is certainly not the best way to phrase this question but here is my situation:
I tried the upgrade to Windows 10 on my main machine roughly a year ago and quickly decided it was not for me, ...
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Filevault recovery issue on dead Macbook OS X Yosemite
My daughter spilled rum into her MacBook, and it has died. No screen, no proper boot, just a ping when first turned on.
The harddrive did survive, but when I attach it to my Mac mini, there are no ...
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Is it possible to recover files from a linux scp that combined the files?
I accidentally typed this command when getting files from a server:
scp username@host:/data/* *
Which copied all the files from the directory on the server to a file * on my machine. Is it possible ...
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