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How to restore data after accidentally starting DD on a hard drive but stopping it before it went too far? [duplicate]

Today I've plugged new ssd into my PC and started an dd command for USB drive. It was too late as I recognized, that the drive letters moved around and I started flashing an ISO image over all my data....
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How to copy files into specific offset of a harddisk?

Source harddisk: Size 500G. 210G of data. Used hexdump to check beyond 280G are all zeroes. hexdump -C /dev/sdd2 --skip 280G --length 10G # all zeroes Destination harddisk: Size 600G. Used hexdump ...
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Recover an NTFS filesystem accidentally over-formatted with FAT - getting the filesystem back?

I accidentally FAT formatted a NTFS partition, and now it shows up as an empty FAT-partition. I'm thinking much should be recoverable, since AFAIK NTFS puts much of the important stuff towards the ...
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How to recover contents of an external hard drive with a corrupted partition table?

I have a WD Elements 5TB USB hard drive that fdisk -l now shows as a single partition of Microsoft basic data: Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 9767473151 9767471104 ...
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Recovering external HDD with deleted partitions using Macrium Reflect?

I did something so stupid and I wonder there is a simple way for me to correct it. Here is what happened. I wanted to upgrade SSH of my brother's laptop (512GB -> 1TB) I created an image using ...
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Creating recovery drive stuck on, "Please Wait."

How can I fix this issue and create a Recovery Drive? The wizard has been stuck at this screen for 30+ minutes at the time of writing.
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How can I boot up an old HDD inside another OS?

I found an old HDD while cleaning out the attic and was wondering if it was possible to see what it contains. The drive is a pATA device manufactured in 2002, so I've had to buy a sATA to pATA adapter....
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How to recover partitions?

my partitions are lost and my datas are also lost when I use ntfsfix on my hard drive. For the partition table like this: sdb disk └─sdb1 unallocated └─sdb5 /DATA1 └─sdb6 /...
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Data recovery from my SSD encrypted with Veracrypt is not working having the password

I have one SSD and one HDD. My SSD is encrypted with Veracrypt. Yesterday my SSD just stop to work and I can not do much from my SSD so I have installed Veracrypt on my HDD in order to get back all my ...
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HDD SMART Recovery [duplicate]

I am performing data recovery on a HDD that has SMART failure. I need to get all the data copied off this disk. The disk contains a Windows C partition, that is all. I have many softwares and external ...
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Corrupted files inside a folder; are they all from that folder or could they be from elsewhere?

I found this folder on one of my SD cards: I'm assuming it is corrupted data, but my questions are: The "analytics" folder properties (Win10) says the folder has 70.7GB of data. Could the ...
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Recovering VirtualBox Image after deleting /etc/share/

I'm working on a Linux mint virtualbox image hosted on Windows 10 where I accidentally deleted the /etc/share directory and subdirectories. Now my Image can't boot and I have sensitive data that I ...
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drive failing, dd back failed at 33%, can I partially recover?

An external hard drive had trouble mounting after bootup. So I began to clone it using dd.This was quite a while ago, and so I don't recall the exact parameters. Something rather standard for a ...
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Recover deleted and possibly overwritten partition using Testdisk -- best practice?

Before using Testdisk to recover a partition, does it make sense to clone the damaged partition in question to another drive (or the whole HDD for that matter), and try recovery on the clone -- or is ...
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Drive recovery: zipped image is much smaller than original drive

I have a 1TB SSD that got corrupted. It was the main drive for a Windows machine, but wasn't used very heavily, so I doubt that it failed due to hardware problems. I made a compressed image of the ...
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If a harddisk has format errors, would running disk wipe on it still wipe everything?

If a hardisk is connected via USB to Windows and I attempt to open it, Windows says it needs to be formatted before it can be used. If I ignore this message and run disk wipe on it (like the cipher ...
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Cannot access drive because it is in raw form? [duplicate]

I have a 30gb USB drive which I have some important data in. When I plug it in the computer, Windows 10 v 1909 for x64, it displays "You need to format the USB drive before you can use it". ...
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Any way to restore an accidentally repartitioned drive?

TLDR: Accidentally deleted partition on storage drive and created EFI partition. Drive is now one big EFI partition. Did not quick format. Any ideas on how to restore the original partition? I ...
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Hard drive stops working during ddrescue and is making odd sounds

We have an older HDD (WD Black 500 GB) that was still in use for the data it had but then at some point, Windows wouldn't boot with the drive installed. I checked with a Linux installation and the ...
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Recover Excel Files when failed to save to OneDrive on shutdown

So this happened... When I shut down macOS, I have an unsaved document in Excel. I saved it to my OneDrive account, and then the system shuts down. After I restarted macOS, I opened another ...
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How do I restore a previous version of a file?

I have this file where I keep a bunch of links. I deleted one of the links for a youtube video, because the video got deleted. However, I realized I could use the WayBack machine to view the deleted ...
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Merging Data in Working Windows 10 With Corrupted Windows 10 (Dual Boot)

My windows files got corrupted in a way that have prevented me from recovering the system(my laptop came without any OS so it didn't have a built-in recovery option for me to save Windows). To login ...
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Will photorec copy/restore existing files too? Is that possible to avoid that?

My Environment: Linux (debian) App in Question: photorec Hi, It seems photorec will copy/restore my existing files too. Is this what photorec does? Is that possible to tell photorec NOT to copy my ...
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Win 10 Format vs Delete Partition

I wanted to know what's the difference between Delete and Format on the Windows 10 Setup. I accidentally deleted a drive there and I want to know if this is better or worse than format in terms of ...
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File recovery due to e2image interrupted resize

While resizing a partition inside of gparted live, the kernel hit a GPF, forcing me to reboot the machine. (dmesg here https://pastebin.com/LGqXA3p9). As it so happens, the partition being moved about ...
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how can I recover Dell Inspiron 1300 Internal HDD password?

I have an early 2000s Dell Inspiron 1300. I set a password on the internal HDD, but forgot it. I contacted Dell Support but they said there was nothing they could do. I'm not worried about the data on ...
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HDD with bad sectors, MBR gone, how to recover partitions

The hard drive in my old laptop started returning errors, so I stopped using it (probably a bit too late). It's in an external cradle now, that I've mounted read-only a couple of times. Unfortunately ...
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How to recover a deleted text file that is still open in vim?

I have text file that is still open in vim, but the original text file has been accidentally deleted. How can I recover it? The text file is still open in vim, so its original data is still stored in ...
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How much did dd destroy? [duplicate]

I used dd when I did a very dumb thing. Yes, I did override the wrong drive. I run dd if=file_on_sdb1.iso of=/dev/sdb1 conv=fsync. (Please note: /dev/sdb1/ and not /dev/sdb!) It didn't run completely. ...
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Everything in Finder sidebar disappeared (Macbook air 2019 Catalina 10.15.2)

My history of previous terminal codes: How my Finder looks like: All the things in my finder sidebar disappeared, though nothing is deleted and I can still find my things through the "go" feature....
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Restore linux partition table of one raid0 drive after accidentally installing windows over it

How the problem arrose: So I made a very stupid mistake yesterday. I installed windows 10 on the wrong harddrive (I didn't expect the installation to start right after choosing the drive). After ...
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Recovery of failing bitlocked HDD: RAW partition instead of NTFS

Short story: My new drive ended up having RAW partition instead of NTFS after running repair-bde command. Can't access any of files. Long story: Had a 2TB laptop HDD as my second drive for data ...
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Failing HDD: Should I try to back it up or should I just send it for data recovery?

I've just had the dreaded BIOS message of an imminantly failing HDD. It was not my boot drive (luckily) but my other internal HDD that I use for storing all of my photos (oh no!). I have partial ...
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Use find to delete all images under given dimensions

I just used Recuva and Photorec to recover some data off an accidentally-formatted drive. Naturally, the result is every intact file that ever existed on the drive during its lifetime. This means tens ...
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Is there a way to raw read or write sector/block to insert or copy a "CRC"⁽¹⁾ error with Linux?

A friend of mine told me that Linux kernel raid (mdadm raid5/6) wasn't reliable, because he tried once to overwrite sectors on one of his physical volumes and it caused file corruption. I replied him ...
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Howto recover corrupted videos from a SD card?

I had some videos that I deleted with a CTRL+Z. I added the video files on my computer, took my SD card out of computer and I wanted to do CTRL+Z on an APP, but it did it on my desktop. Then the ...
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Rejoined Active Directory but No Data Restored just shared folders

My clients computer crashed and I installed a new hard drive and Windows 10 Pro. I rejoined the computer to Windows Server 2008 domain. I know I'm connected to the domain because I see two shared ...
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How can I attempt to read bad sectors from the end of the disk, using ddrescue?

How can I attempt to read bad sectors from the end of the disk, using ddrescue? I have dynamic volumes and the LDR is kept at the end of the disk, unlike MBR. I remember that I've tried --reverse but ...
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Is it possible to recover data from a VM after running “rm -rf /” on it

Just used an rm -rf / command on my VM and somehow it just destroyed my data on my physical drive. The question is: What does rm -rf do in terms of deleting data (I mean does it work just like a ...
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Windows 10: keyboard save all command? [closed]

Occasionally I have some program that locks up in such a way that I cannot get other open programs to respond. Although I could just restart my machine, I often have ten or more documents, ...
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Recover files deleted from Dropbox cloud long ago but only deleted recently on local machine

I have a few files that had been deleted on Dropbox's cloud 6 months ago. So they won't be available on the cloud anymore. However, they were on one of my local computers that had not been synced for ...
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For professional hard drive data recovery, what hardware/software tools are essential? [closed]

I'm "gearing up" to start a computer repair business, but hard drive data recovery is my weak point that I haven't explored much. I am preparing to give myself the ultimate "crash" course in HDD data ...
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Disk data recovery after partial format – TestDisk and PhotoRec failed to find anything [duplicate]

So I was trying to create a bootable USB to reinstall Windows for a friend, but mistakenly started partitioning the wrong disk (probably the dumbest mistake I could have made). This disk is a 1 TB WD ...
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Creating a .pfx or PKCS#12 file from PFX or other external

Reading the fine manual, I can copy and/or export all the required credentials to another Windows machine for import after exporting: Figure 1: Exporting the Encrypting File System key Right-...
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Recover Windows user folder

Someone's Windows install decided to continuously fail to sign in, and long story short, I made a change to the registry that should have worked, or at least should not have deleted their user folder ...
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Understanding data recovery [duplicate]

I recently learned an amazing fact via CompTIA Security+ Certification Guide, Meyers and Jernigan, 2nd edition. "A good forensic examiner can recover the original data from a hard disk that’s been ...
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Recuva software mixed the content of files

I'm trying to recover my folder (Java project) which contains some classes that contains Java code.I'm using Recuva software (free edition ).The problem when I recovered my files ,I found that have ...
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Is there any chance to recover data from a clicking HDD? [duplicate]

I've experienced HDD failures a few times already... Usually, my system was first starting behaving strange, or was even becoming inoperational, then I was doing a full HDD scan, which was reporting a ...
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Accidentally deleted torrent on uTorrent

So I've been downloading this torrent for 3 days now, its 180GB and instead of pause I somehow clicked delete torrent+data. The data and torrent is in the recycle bin still. How do I get them back to ...
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Data Recovery from a Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 Hard Drive

My desktop computer died today. I have important work saved on my desktop. I got the hard drive which I believe is in working condition. My hard drive specification is as follows: Seagate Barracuda ...
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