Recovering lost, deleted, or corrupted data. Please review the tag wiki before posting a question.
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Data Recovery using testDisk failing
Continuation of this question:
I am trying to recover an accidentally formatted partition using TestDisk.
After selecting the partition and selecting Undeleted, it says, No deleted file found.
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How to recursively restore older folder version in Windows 7?
While working on the computer (Windows 7 - HP Laptop), I tried to move a large folder and the system/operation froze. I tried to kill the process from the task manager, then restarted the computer. ...
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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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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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Recover with disc image without a blank disc?
I used Windows 7's built in backup software to create a disk image on a portable hard drive, and now I want to restore the computer from that image. So far so good, but I don't have a blank disc on ...
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What does “Updating Boot Support Partitions for the volume as required” mean?
I have used GNU ddrescue to copy a crashed WD external disk over to an identical one. ddrescue told me that 9 MB out of 2TB could not be rescued, so I think that's pretty good.
Anyway, being a Mac ...
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Recover partitions with both Windows 7 and Linux installed using TestDisk
I need to recover my partitions using TestDisk. I used deep search and the result is as follows:
Disk /dev/sdc - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 60801 255 63
Partition Start End ...
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Recover data from Dynamic Disk (MBR) bigger than 2TB
Here is the situation: Promise Array FastTrak TX4310 with 3 disks (750 GB each) in RAID5. This comes to around 1500 GB of data.
Last week I had the idea of expanding the RAID with an additional 750 ...
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Recovery of accidentally repartitioned HDD
I have a USB HDD that had been repartitioned (two times), but no data was written to it and only quick format was used to initialize the file system (from Windows 7).
It's a LACIE 500GB,with SAMSUNG ...
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Accidently deleted folder using Unlocker, how to restore it?
My bad! I accidently restore an important folder with Unlocker today.
I can see it in Recycle Bin but I can't restore it. It reports
Error Copying File or Folder: Access is denied. Make sure ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Start testdisk from specific point or sector
Recently, a malfunctioning program cleared all but one partition entries inside of an extended partition. I was going to just run a deep search with testdisk, but by my calculations, this will take ...
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Merely chainloading an Acer Recovery Partition deleted all data
I was starting a backup of Acer's factory restore partition located inside of an extended partition to determine whether or not it still worked. I clicked "take no action" once I saw that it had, in ...
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extundelete does not finish its work
I need to restore a file on sda7 so I remounted ro und startet extundelete
manuel@P5KC:~/recovery/RECOVERED_FILES$ sudo extundelete --restore-all /dev/sda7
WARNING: Extended attributes are not ...
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Recovering drive via boot to Win7 setup command prompt
I am trying to recover data from two old IDE drives. Drive1 has been successful, but something is wrong with Drive2. It does not appear as a drive letter.
Due to limited legacy hardware, the only way ...
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fsck did not recover all files - anything else to try or fresh install?
yesterday a server of mine (debian) went into read-only mode because of problems with the main device (ext3). I contacted the hosting support and the guy told me to boot into rescue and do a fsck on ...
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How can I recover data from a dmg that cannot mount?
I backed up a hard drive in a dmg, then reformatted the hard drive. (I had deleted the efi partition before which was preventing me from reinstalling the operation system). When I tried use the ...
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Data recovery from a single RAID1 disk
I extracted the disk from a Mybook World 2 (White Led).
The device has only this 1TB SATA disk, and it is using RAID1. Yes, it is bizzarre, but WD enabled RAID even for a 1-disk configurations.
This ...
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Recover truecrypt volume
I have a truecrypt volume saved as a file on a disk that windows one day decided to overwrite the NTFS index on. Some files was lost while others remain. In the case of the truecrypt volume it still ...
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How to recover a corrupted Parallels 7 hard disk image?
I have a Parallels virtual machine that has recently started to refuse to boot, with this error message:
Operation failed.
An error occured while reading the disk.
Support information: Problem ID: ...
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ddrescue'd an ntfs partition, can I chkdsk it?
I have a hardisk that is failing (windows wouldn't even boot off the recovery disk). I was able to make an image of it in linux using ddrescue, but linux can't mount the thing. In linux I get the ...
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What are my best options to recover data from a faulty SD micro card (used in an Android cell phone)?
My wife is having troubles while syncronizing the data from the SD micro card of her LG android phone to her portable pc. It keeps remaining stuck forever at a given photo (#21).
I tried to access it ...
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How to change hdd read error timeout?
I'm recovering data from an hdd using ddrescue. With "retry" disabled, it takes roughly 30 seconds for every unreadable sector. The hdd has tens of thousands of bad sectors and the process is taking ...
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How can I recover a huge folder that's been converted to a zero kb file on an NTFS partition?
I have a 1TB drive with two 500GB partitions. One of them is being used as a Mac OS X Time Machine back up drive and the other one was NTFS and being used for storage. I had my entire 'iTunes Music' ...
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No partition on USB Flash Drive?
A friend gave me a corrupted USB memory stick to try recovery data from. But I've had some unusual results, so thought I'd share to see if anyone is familiar with this problem...
First off I just ...
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testdisk to recover formatted external
I accidentally reformatted a 1TB external hard drive from FAT32 to HFS+ Journaled (Mac OSX Extended Journaled). I've been looking at data recovery programs such as VirtualLab's Data Recovery and ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How do I import/recover/repair an Outlook 2013 .ost file into a new instance of Outlook 2013?
Note: This is not a Microsoft Exchange problem, but an Outlook 2013 one, and even though it might seem as a duplicate of a previously asked one, please pay attention to the end of the post.
A little ...
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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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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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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 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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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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OS X - recovering lost Knotes data
For the last year or so, I've been using the K-Notes app to write down ideas in my OS X dashboard. It was handy to just flip over and jot ideas down as I had them and then flip back.
After a while I ...
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How to restore data from a damaged HDD?
I have dropped my laptop accidentally. It had Windows and Linux installed along with GRUB, with Windows located at the beginning of the hard drive and Linux near the end.
After that I couldn't boot ...
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OSX 10.7 HFS file system b-tree recovery possible?
Is there any possibility to repair the b-tree header of an HFS+ file system?
My hard drive died. I was at least able to create an image to an external drive. During checking out this image the Disk ...
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How to find as much video/audio stream(s) from a recovered wmv file as it is possible?
I have a big 300 MB .wmv file recovered after it had been deleted.
That file cannot be played. It might contain garbages etc.
I have downloaded several programs which seems to correct corrupted ...
