Questions tagged [data-recovery]
This tag is for questions about techniques for recovering lost data — e.g., from deleted files and/or damaged or corrupted digital media. Please review the tag wiki before posting a question. Do not explicitly ask for tools or other products; such questions are off-topic on Super User.
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Recovering lost files due to ntfs-3g from an ntfs partition
I mounted my Windows partition on my Mac using the steps outlined here:
https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/NTFS-3G
Then, moved a folder (CMD-OPT-V) from NTFS partition to my OS X partition. It ...
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How can I efficiently recover a permanently deleted folder at once?
There was a folder on my hard drive that I want to recover after I deleted it. How can I restore an entire folder from the file system?
I have tried some tools to recover deleted files listed in ...
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Want to restore Windows 7 from Linux Ubuntu
I want to recover Windows 7 from Linux and I don't have the Windows 7 CD or any previous back up files. Please tell me if there is a way to recover Windows 7 from Linux because I do not want to boot ...
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Where is data written to on a hard drive after a wipe?
I just used the "windows media creation tool" on a 1TB HD, and my drive was mistakenly wiped in the process. I did not read the warnings when using "windows media creation tool," so tried to use a ...
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Corrupted NTFS files (no such file or directory); can I fix them under Linux?
I am trying to copy files to my external hard drive using PartedMagic. My computer won't boot, so we are sending it in to get repaired. I've tried EVERYTHING but can't get it to boot into any desktop ...
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Recover files with ddrescue from NTFS to HFS+
I am trying to recover files from an NTFS volume onto my main HFS+ drive using ddrescue. diskutil list reports the following status:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
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Linux able to read data in my external hard drive while windows can't
I have an external USB hard drive ,recently I connect it to my laptop while windows through USB,windows say say the data corrupted and even can't enter the hard drive through explorer ,I decided to ...
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Hard drive bad - Failed clone
I have a harddisk that was failing. I wanted to clone the disk to an other hard disk, but the program needed the disk to be a mbr disk instead of a gpt disk. So I transformed it to a mbr disk, but now ...
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Recover files from hard drive that has been formatted thrice
I have a situation.
I got married 6 months ago and stored some very important pictures on my laptop which was running Linux. Later I formatted the whole hard drive, installed Windows and a hacked ...
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How to recover folders from formatted drive
I had 500GB portable hard drive. it fell from the table and when i joined it was not showing any data and asked me to format it. i did format. Then again it was not functioning properly so i had to ...
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Rescue data on (dropped) external hard drive
Recently I dropped my 4TB hard drive.
When I connect it to my Mac, the disk utility recognizes it but is unable to initialize it.
I ran ddrescue on it. The log says that all data is "unreadable".
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Need a testing automation program for a Winforms application without source code [closed]
I am looking for (what I'm assuming) is a testing automation program. I need to harvest the data this application uses. I cannot access the database directly. I do not have the application's source ...
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Acer Aspire V3-772G with WIN10 default boot device missing
my 2 years old, out of warranty, Acer Aspire V3-772G with WIN10 is giving me a message ‘default boot device missing’.
I tried to take out the battery for a few seconds, take out the HDD and gently ...
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Is this what optical media data-rot looks like?
First, the CD in question is not data related or “mission critical.” I simply scored a music CD at a thrift shop that was made in 1988; aka: 28 years ago as of this post.
We all know optical media ...
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How to restore partitions and data after diskpart "clean" command?
I was on my way installing windows 7 alongside linux installation that was scattered over 3 partitions, namely: root, home and additional big partition for data files. I was trying to install windows ...
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What software can I use to read vlv & vli disk image file? [closed]
It is a pretty old disk image created in 2008.
There are two files
ST38421A.part1.vlv 5,198,984,607 bytes.
ST38421A.vli 111 bytes
The first 8 bytes of the .vlv file is VLDskImg
The contents of ...
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If I remove one HDD from a RAID0-with-striping, is it impossible to read data from remaining HDD?
I have a laptop with a virtual hard drive composed of two 500GB Hitachi HDDs set up using Intel Rapid Data Storage RAID0 striped configuration.
The Windows installation became corrupted and I haven't ...
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128GB Flash drive ejected improperly, its name has disappeared and also all its content
I had on this 128GB flash drive about 25-30GB of stuff in it, a bit of everything (images, documents, mp3s and much more) and somehow today when inserted in my mac, first it disconnected and then ...
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recovering a (permanently) deleted Outlook task
Last night I accidentally deleted an Outlook 2007 task that was in my deleted folder. this task contains important data that I would like to recover. I tried using Pandora recovery freeware to no ...
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How to recover emails in Outlook 2007
I lost emails in Outlook 2007 due a virus in Windows 7 Ultimate. I followed these steps:
Highlight the folder that originally contained the item. (If you’re not sure which folder, than you have to ...
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When updating, what does Windows (10) do with my user folder?
My computer has an gpt disk with Ubuntu Desktop (for general work) and Windows 10 (for xbox dev) on two separate partitions.
Last night I shutdown windows and left it installing updates. This morning ...
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Can we get the data from the hard disk after performing Disk Sanitizer?
I accidentally press F10 4 to 5 times while the system rebooting and it gone to the Disk Sanitizer option , and the total harddisk data is erased .
When I try to install the OS again , it is showing ...
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testdisk output start/end explanation
What do the 3 columns for start and end stand for?
What's the difference between the last two listed partitions?
TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@...
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Everything on my NTFS partition disappeared
I just rebooted into Windows (I dual boot with Ubuntu), and everything in my D: partition is gone!
First question: How do I best preserve the current state of the hard drive to maximize chances of ...
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Recover deleted files that were stored in userprofile with profile encryption on Windows having only hard drive
A friend of mine gave me physical hard disc that contained some files in My documents that were deleted (by Move to Trash -> then Empty Trash) and wanted me to recover them if possible.
I've plug in ...
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Word file saved to hard drive "not found"
I am using Word 2007. I modified a version of the file which was saved to my harddrive and saved my changes. When I wanted to open the file again, I went 'Recent Documents and clicked the file. ...
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Moving data from a MS Surface with burnt out power jack
I have a Microsoft Surface 3. Due to what I think was a power surge, the power jack no longer works. (Symptoms: the port smells of burn plastic, and it won't charge anymore when tested with a variety ...
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How to get back the deleted folder and its content on a linux server?
I am using a linux (red hat) server and contents gets updated using CVS. A folder was not in CVS and it got deleted/replaced by another content after I run an update. How can I get the deleted content ...
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Data Recovery Via SATA to USB Cable
I am trying to recover the data off a hardrive from a computer that the graphics card broke on. Its an HP Pavilion Slimline. I don't remember the exact model number but the connectors for the ...
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Primary GPT is missing, and FileVault volume too
There was an iMac with a single HDD with full-disk FileVault encryption enabled. Some "sysadmin" with a questionable proficiency tried to access data without neither a FileVault password, nor a ...
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Recovering data from a fried external hard drive
I've got an old Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive, 500 GB. It’s the kind that needs an AC adapter to power it. It has been sitting in storage for about 3 years when I pulled it out to get the ...
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Recover files from "partition" with DCF file system but without disk letter
I'm trying to recover lost data from a complete blackout on my photo camera (strictly not a superuser question but I'm trying to solve the issue with my laptop).
So I have a camera (Canon 7D, compact ...
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Unhide disk partition that was hid on previously installed Windows system
so I needed to hide a partition on my external HDD. In Windows 7 Disk Manager I simply removed the letter assigned to the partition and that was it (exactly like here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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My laptop erased entire hard drive
I own a Toshiba Satellite laptop L305D and it runs Windows Vista 32-Bit.
So my laptop was starting to catch a virus and I figured that it would be easier to install an antivirus software if I restore ...
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Recover data from old machine and external hard drive
that is long dead. Motherboard issues, not worth repairing
I want to salvage what I can, so I pulled out the hard drive, popped it into an enclosure, and try look at it from my laptop.
The problem ...
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Recovering a Hard Drive with TestDisk
I have an approx. 10 year-old Maxtor (acquired by Seagate) DiamondMax Plus 9 (the 160 GB model) that I'm trying to recover. It died awhile back and I've been making attempts to recover photos and ...
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OSX El Capitan / disable System Integrity Protection, csrutil is unavailable (to setup ntfs-3g)
Goal: write to NTFS on El Capitan (following these instructions)
Problem: csrutil is not accessible so I can't disable System Integrity Protection
Question: is it possible to create a boot disc with ...
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How to rescue usb stick / probability of recovery
My partner is mourning over a broken usb stick and hopes to get some of the data back. What happened was that the usb was plugged into the MacBook, the cover was shut and the battery drained fully ...
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Recover license for Photoshop CS3
At the company I work at, an employee was let go. His laptop was a company laptop with Photoshop CS3 installed on it. Photoshop was deactivated so it could be installed on another computer. The ...
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damaged hdd: recovery possibilities?
I've had a damaged Samsung HM500JJ Rev. A laptop drive lying around for some time but only recently tried to recover any data from it. It died just after a year of use, out of the blue: no indications ...
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Recover LVM to single drive
The situation
I have a volume group that spans four 1TB drives with six logical volumes. Three drives have full-drive physical volumes (no partitions), while the fourth drive contains /boot and a ...
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Recover files from fried Macbook - receive access denied
I have a friend that has a Macbook that no longer works, however the hard drive is still functioning properly. I took the hard drive out of the laptop and installed it into a desktop PC, and then ...
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Blinking blue power button on a HP tower
My computer was on when the power went out and now has a flashing blue power button. We tried removing ram to reset then the battery then dusting it out and lastly removing all components and plugging ...
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Is there any way to figure out which file is changed by chkdsk to replaced bad cluster?
I already posted similar question, but until nobody replied as solution of it. so i am trying to change the question as more detailed.
This is the last screen just before exiting chkdsk. There were ...
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Computer won't boot up: "hal.dll is missing or corrupt"
I'm hoping that someone will be able to help me out. I'm in desperate need to recover my data, and I really do not know where to begin.
This is my old PC (HP Pavilion M7480N media center, Windows XP)...
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Creating an image of an unallocated flash drive (Data Recovery)
I've got a flash drive given to me by my teacher to "fix", since plugging it into a windows Machine didn't do anything for her. It has some assignments and basically text-based data.
Partition ...
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Recover Clipboard Screenshot on Win 10
I took a screenshot with printscreen, pasted it to mspaint, and didn't have chance to save it, since my computer crashed.
Is there any way to either recover that image from mspaint, or recoved the ...
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Malware from TPB(piratebay) infected my pc. I need to transfer my data into external hdd before wiping my hard drive
OS: Windows (Primary), Ubuntu (secondary). Few days back I was using TPB(piratebay) obviously for educational purposes,even though I have ad-blocker at the time of browsing some advertisement did pop-...
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Windows 8.1 Files missing after transferring to a newly created folder and pressing Ctrl+Z
I had a few video files in a folder. I wanted to transfer the videos into a new folder, so I created a new folder just before I made the transfer.
I selected all of the videos and dragged them to the ...
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Troubleshooting a dead-ish ssd
I have a dead-ish SSD drive. BIOS can't read it, Linux and Windows can't read it.
It seems like the controller is not completely dead (it does identify itself).
Is there any hope of recovering the ...
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