Recovering lost, deleted, or corrupted data. Please review the tag wiki before posting a question.
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Recover deleted disk (diskpart clean) which was protected with bitlocker
I am in big trouble I have a western digital disk with 2 drives which contained all my digital life.
I mistakenly used clean command in diskpart and cleaned the disk one of the drives (900GB) were ...
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Can I recover data from broken usb?
Whenever I put the USB into my PC it says: "You need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it. Do you want to format it?". I press cancel and when I open the drive it says: "Please insert ...
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External hard drive unplugged while running iTunes…Corrupted files
I have nearly 2TB of Movies and TV Shows copied to iTunes on an external hard drive. Last night, I was unplugging a cord behind my desk and I accidentally unplugged my HD. Well, when I plugged it back ...
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Mounting LVM2 volume with XFS filesystem
Unfortunately I'm not able to access the data on my NAS anymore. I can't figure out why this is the case as I haven't changed anything. So I plugged one of the harddisks in my computer to access the ...
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how to restore windows 7 without losing data
I actually was testing something and accidentally changed the serial number of my window 7 64 bit. when that happened, the windows shutdown and every time I turn it on, it gives me some error message ...
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How to recover the contents of a corrupted file? [closed]
I have a JavaScript file that got corrupted after a system restart (Windows blue screen error). Whereas previously it contained some code I had written, now it's showing "null" in Notepad++ and ...
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Files missing after copying from one sdcard to another using Ubuntu 12.04
I have two Kingston sdcards 8GB and 32GB. The 8GB for HTC Sensation and 32GB for my Tablet (Chinese). I soon ran out of space on my phone and decided to swap the data between the sdcards. I copied the ...
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Recover .php files from an accidental partition format
I'm trying to recover .php files from an accidental partition format. I've used a lot of software, but the results are the same, unreadable text that looks:
Download full file.
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How to check consistency of an external RAID1 array in Windows?
I have a Western Digital MyBook Studio II configured into RAID1 (2×1TB) and connected to a Windows 7 machine via USB 2.0. RAID is done through a controller in the enclosure - I've never seen each of ...
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Hard drive corrupted. I have an old clone, how do I restore the partition tables?
I cloned this drive about 6 months ago using dd. Today the partition tables got corrupted. What can I do to restore them using the old drive? I'm currently scanning for lost partitions using testdisk ...
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Remove corrupted files
For some mysterious reason, my computer formatted my 'Data' drive while I was running Windows 7. I managed to recover a large amount of the data to another drive using Test Disk in Ubuntu. Because the ...
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How to copy a damaged file? (windows 7)
I am trying to copy a 1GB .vob file, and in the middle of copying it says "can't copy the file - retry?"
I can open the file and play it (at least part way). I imagine the file is damaged, is there ...
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How do I safely recover data from a compromised Mac OS X account?
One of the non-administrator accounts on my mac-book has been compromised. The password to the account has been reset, and I noticed some suspicious looking activity (the user was logged on to my ...
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Copying from External Hard Drive problems
I am trying to copy some files from my External Hard Drive back onto my PC using Windows 7.
Some files copy with no error or issue, but there are a few files that refuse to copy and I get a cannot ...
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Recovering Deleted Files after Emptying Trash on OS X Lion
I moved a complete folder to the trash, then I emptied my trash.
How do I recover those deleted files which I emptied from the trash on OS X Lion?
By searching with Google, I have found a few tools ...
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Recover Photos from an iPhone in DFU Mode
I have an iPhone 4 that is not jailbroken and crashed when it was updating itself to iOS 5.1. I can go into recovery mode and DFU mode, is there anything I can do to get my photos?
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recover deleted files from other computer
I moved a html file from my computer to another and accidentally deleted it from that computer which I accessed from my computer like this: \name\folder
As a result the file did not go recycle bin. I ...
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Recovering Windows 8 folder C:\Users\my_user
I had a problem with a bug on windows 8 where it is stuck in an automatic repair loop. I tried all possible solutions without success. Many ppl are facing the same problem. I tried many checkups and ...
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Files are hell mixed up after acronis disk director
Good afternoon!
I've got discs D and E - both are logical and physically belongs to one drive.
D is empty, E is full of files.
I tried to run Acronis Disk Director 11 Home and join D to E. After ...
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Repairing hard disk when Windows installation disk won't boot
I'm trying to recover some data from a faulty hard disk with Windows installed on it (on which Windows won't even boot). I have tried so far:
Booting to Ubuntu live USB stick and running ntfsfix ...
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What could I use to recover lost/damaged files from a Mac hard drive? [closed]
We frequently use the software GetDataBack (for FAT32 and for NTFS) to recover overwritten or lost files, sometimes from a faulty hard drive.
But is there something like this for Mac hard drives? ...
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Non destructively Convert offline dynamic disk to basic disk using testdisk tool
I had a 250GB hard disk having several NTFS partitions. The disk was a dynamic disk (created in windows).
Now when I formatted windows (which was in another disk), the dynamic disk is shown as ...
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Create image from RAID images
I have 3 raw images of what was once a 3 disk RAID5 setup. The hardware has been lost and the configuration is unknown.
Does anyone know of some software that can automatically detect the raid ...
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Recover files in windows (NTFS) without actual data copy — ie modify MFT only
I'm looking to undelete some files that I just... deleted. I recall several (10) years ago I used a program than scanned a given drive and undeleted the files in place, presumably by just relinking ...
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how to save an amazing jpeg from the evil grey squares
I just saved over a thousand pictures using the procedure described in this question. However, a few of the pictures have grey areas on them. the thumbnail displays the picture perfectly, but once ...
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Is it possible to get back data from a Micro SD which is unresponsive?
I have a 2 GB Micro SD card. It was working very fine before few months ago and when I changed the phone I got a new one with that so I didn't use my Old one for a while. But few days ago I need some ...
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dd_rescue usecase with target hdd size less than orig hdd
I have a 2TB Western Digital Mybook external usb hdd that has gone bad. i cant mount it either on windows nor on linux.
i reserched and found that dd_rescue could help me.In my situation, i dont have ...
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Recover files accidentally deleted file(s) on a Mac system in Ubuntu
I was wondering whether there was a way to recover files deleted on a Mac system in Ubuntu 11.10.
The file systems in both operating systems are different and my hard disk had NTFS prior to the ...
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What are some good OS X data recovery programs to try on an SD card? [closed]
My friend imported a bunch of videos from his GoPro into iPhoto and foolishly let iPhoto delete upon successful import. He claims that iPhoto then quit unexpectedly and all of the videos are gone.
My ...
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Can an inode table on the root partition be-rebuilt or salvaged?
A friend (not technical) has a Linux server running CentOS which will no longer boot. His IT guy looked at it and says the inode table on the root partition was basically gone. Since the inode table ...
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Identifying a recovered back-up file from ProSoft Data Rescue
I recovered some files from a lost backup using ProSoft Data Rescue for OS X, but without any extension or indication of the filetype.
I've tried the file utility but to no avail, all I get is a ...
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Recover possibly dropped table from an SQLite3 database
I have an SQLite database file: the address book (AddressBook.sqlitedb) from an iPhone 3GS of a friend of mine with iOS 3.1.3. I have obtained this file from an unencrypted iTunes-generated backup. ...
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Is there any way to get my data back?
The last time I used my PC, Explorer was acting really slowly, so I called up the task manager and shut down explorer, expecting vista to restart it automatically. Oddly, that did not happen.
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IOMEGA BlackBelt 1TB 2.5" External Firewire Drive won't spin up - Contains 1 big (950 GB) True Crypt Volume [closed]
I've got a 1TB Iomega 2.5" FireWire Drive. The drive contains important data which is contained in a 950GB TrueCrypt volume. Format is MAC OS Extended (Journaled). I'm mainly connecting it on a ...
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USB improperly removed from a Mac. Not reading on a Mac or PC! [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
flash drive ejected improperly- lost files
Someone I know was in college and they were working in Flash CS3 and their USB flash drive got pulled out accidentally. Now, it ...
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Finding a file I hid from myself [duplicate]
OS is Windows 7, 64-bit, although that’s probably irrelevant.
I’m having trouble finding a file I was hiding from myself.
It was an RTF file and compressed into RAR; then I renamed it and removed the ...
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bad sector of harddisk - disk check and recovery
I got a harddisk from my friend, it maybe broken, so I need to save any remaining data which can be saved.
I can see the drives, but when copy some files, the computer said they are bad and ...
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Recovering mail from hardrive (broken os)
Friend of mine broke his Windows (doesn't boot). I will probably have to re-install OS. I want to mount his hard drive in my OS to back up some important files.
He said that he uses Outlook express ...
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Recovering a striped volume
Is it possible to recover a striped volume (6 TB from two 3 TB disks) that has had all it's data removed with sudo rm -rf? Assuming no overwrites. As a last resort (I'm a student with very few ...
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Recover FreeNAS network volume affected by rm -rf
I'm on OS X 10.8.2 and have FreeNAS 8.0 running with a 6 TB volume connected through AFP. 5 TB were recently deleted with rm -rf by a malicious script. The FreeNAS volume has no ZFS snapshots, ...
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Repair Firefox SQLite databases
I had some problems with my RAM (bluescreen several times, Windows XP) and now are my Firefox databases damaged. Firefox is working, but my history is gone and it's reporting several inconsistencies ...
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recover data after using dd command
Hi I have an Iomega HD for mac. I was writing a ubuntu server image to another drive but accidentally selected my 500GB Iomega with my files on it. The command I ran was:
sudo dd ...
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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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What to do with a corrupted SD card: reformat it or trash it?
I recovered all the files from my corrupted SD card today.
What should I do with it now?
Reformat and continue using it
or throw it away and buy a new one
Here's the details on the card and how ...
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How to restore data after repartitioning a drive?
Yesterday night I properly shut down my laptop, but the next morning when I opened my laptop, I found that two of the drives were missing.
I checked Disk Management and it said that there was "90GB ...
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File copying utility like rsync with error handling like ddrescue, for data recovery from a hard drive with bad sectors or hardware failure
I have a hard drive with either bad blocks or sectors that are failing to read due to potential mechanical issues, such as a bad disk head, bad motor, or some other issue that is causing the hard ...
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How can I copy files from a scratched CD/DVD?
I have so far tried the following software solutions without success.
Windows Explorer Copy (default)
TeraCopy
Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier
Unstoppable Copier stops copying as a whole, it keeps ...
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Recover of data on an Apple Mac [closed]
My friend has had a crash on his mac the hard drive still works and we are trying to find a free or cheap program to help us recover the data on his drive. If there is a way of doing this without a ...
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Is there a good resource for comparing tools for recovering corrupted partition? [closed]
There seem to be several/plenty of "semi-professional" tools for recovering data from corrupted partitions (I'm specifically interested in NTFS on Windows XP). The ones I'm aware of include:
Ontrack ...
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What do I need to know to replace the PCB of my WD Caviar Green Hard Drive?
I have a dead 1.5 TB WD Caviar Green hard drive that I'd like to try to fix by replacing the drive's PCB.
The drive was housed in an external enclosure. After a power cycle, neither the drive nor ...
