Questions tagged [file-recovery]
Methods and tools for the retrieval of information either deleted accidentally or on corrupt or damaged media.
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How to view a jpg file which was recovered after being deleted and it's attribute was checked to hidden before deletion?
I had a photo which I turned to hidden because it was a personal photo which I didn't want others to see. I then deleted it permanently in haste but I needed it again.
I then downloaded Recuva after ...
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How to recover data from a RAW disk C (winows won't boot) [closed]
my disk C:/ is RAW and when I boot, it boots to the installation of Windows.
When I go through with the installation I can access my disks (when I click o then I can access the files) except disk C:/ (...
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How to use Foremost to recover new file types of unknown footer?
How to use Foremost to recover new file types of unknown footer?
For Example:
File types of .PSD and .NEF.
"New file types" of foremost means:
The foremost software does not natively support ...
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How to recover corrupt MS Word file?
I get this error when I try to open MS Word file.
Got this message when I tried the recovery option.
I Googled the error and found couple of recovery software --> Kernal for Word File Repair and ...
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Can't find my files in users after moving [closed]
This morning, when I turned on my laptop, I realised that all my files and folders were missing. Luckily I was able to locate them at users. I moved the personal folders to the already pinned ones to ...
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Corrupted portable SSD, wrong size detected, what to do?
I have a 240 GB portable SSD from Transcend.
ESD230C Portable SSD
Model: TS240GESD230C
SN: F43849-0038
Recently there have been long delays in reading data.
During another such long delay, I ...
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How to access HD contents with Ubuntu Bootable USB
I've got a 16 GB USB with 4 GB persistent memory running 10.04.3 Ubuntu on my T60 Thinkpad. (The Thinkpad is running WinXP if it makes any difference) The problem I'm running into is that I can't see ...
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How to recover a file deleted in WSL from explorer.exe?
I accessed my Ubuntu mount via \wsl.localhost\Ubuntu\home\user.ssh and deleted a private key I shouldn't have.
I wasn't sure if maybe Windows threw the file in the Recycle Bin, so first I tried recuva ...
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How can I recover from an accidental git push -f?
I just ran git push -f by mistake, thus overwriting a remote branch.
Original:
(remote origin:)
branch master -> commit aaaaaaa
branch foo -> commit bbbbbbb
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branch ...
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How can I recover the files from an eUFS in my broken laptop?
My Samsung Galaxy Book S (model "NP767XCM", bought in 2020) won't charge!
When I plug in a charger, the status LED light blinks blue twice (sometimes once or twice more) and the screen turns ...
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Recover directory deleted from C#
I used the following C# code to delete a directory:
Directory.Delete ("C:\TC");
Can I restore the directory C:\TC? Can I also restore the subdirectories?
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Recover WSL files using Linux Live USB?
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My Windows 10 laptop, with a bad battery, lost power during boot, and now cannot successfully boot windows (it tries to fix this with the Automatic Repair utility during startup, but ...
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Recover data from USB turned bootable [duplicate]
I was trying to downgrade from Windows 11 to Windows 10. I installed the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft and connected a portable external hard drive that I use to save my files, not knowing the ...
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How to get files out of all subfolders and move them up to the first folder
I have around 3 TB of recovered data from a broken hard drive. The problem is all the files and folders are completely scrambled and placed into thousands of sub folders.
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Dead USB: Is there a way to recover data from it?
I have this USB stick which seems to be dead.
dmesg -w command:
[ 6283.970828] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 16 using xhci_hcd
[ 6284.123086] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=048d, ...
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Restore overwritten Access DB in Windows
I have an application written in C# WinForms that uses Access DBs with *.temx extension.
My client by mistake overwritten the *.temx file with ~100 records and created 4 new records inside the ...
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I accidentally delete /usr/local/var, what should I do?
I ran this accidentally because I want to remove sql completely:
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/var
What should I do now?
I know the var folder contained homebrew, mysql and run folder before.
I don't ...
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Can you change the Excel Autorecovery location for just specific workbooks?
I have some Excel files on my computer's hard drive that are not particularly important, so the default Autorecovery path %AppData%\Microsoft\Excel (on C: drive) is just fine. I have other Excel files ...
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File Deletion Caused VirtualBox NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
I deleted a large file (1 - 8GB for 4 machines) related to VirtualBox because I ran short on memory, MacOs listed this file as one of my biggest on the file system and I thought this might not get ...
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Linux file recovery after unexpected shutdown
Yesterday, I was using a nano file to take important notes relating to university work. I had not saved the file at any point that day, and was actively taking notes throughout the day. Towards the ...
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How can I recover an Excel file that was deleted and recovered, but won't open?
I did a careless mass delete on my downloads folder a couple days ago, and I'm trying to recover a single Excel file that was among the deleted files. With a file recovery program, I found 2 versions ...
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I have a dual boot on same disk partition, every file goes into 'windows.old' folder
I need to recover all my files and Operating System from windows.old (including Users, Program Files, Program Files (x86) Windows & ProgramData).
Please help.
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How to recover files from a healthy microSD card that is accessible only from an unrooted Android smartphone?
I accidentally deleted important documents (about 100 PDFs) that weren't backed up yet from a 64 GB microSD card, which is used as the primary storage in my unrooted Android 9.0 smartphone. The ...
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How can I find a Python script inside a encrypted and corrupted disk image?
My encrypted SSD got corrupted, so I took an image of it using TestDisk. This was on a Windows 10 machine.
If I have the password for the encryption, is there any way to recover data from this image, ...
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Recover/Carve FAT32 file system metadata (file names etc.) without partition table
I have a broken SD card, of which I've taken an image. The image is fairly complete, >99% according to ddrescue, and conventional data recovery tools seem to be able to find most files. However, I'...
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Recorded my computer screen with Windows Game Bar when a power outage occured. How do I recover the file?
I recorded a Zoom meeting with the Windows game bar when my home had a power outage. I turned my computer back on, and found the MP4 of the recording sitting in the recordings folder. The file is ...
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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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File recovery: How can I make a non-destructive copy of a (NTFS) partition?
I want to recover some deleted files from a healthy NTFS partition on an undamaged hard-disk.
In order to leave the partition undisturbed, i plan to use dd to clone the partition to a raw image file &...
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How can I recover an unsaved Word 2016 document that wasn't found on a search of the computer?
I am on a Windows 10 laptop working in a local version of Word 2016 that's part of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016. I had created a document on November 9 that I didn't save, although ...
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How can I recover folder removed from /tmp after reboot?
I just put web services folder into /tmp for some tests. After I forgot that, and rebooted the server and now my service folder is gone. So, I tried r-studio for recovery but I have got nothing back.
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Why is this data seemingly gone?
This question is a bit long, but people often prefer to have all the details instead of being required to ask for them, so I've included as much detail as possible.
I received a frantic call from a ...
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Get rid of "Resource Busy" message on Mac OS X
I am trying to repair a lost HSF+ partition table an iMac by running the i command inside of sudo pdisk /dev/rdisk1. Once I try running the i command, I get an error message saying that the resource ...
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Windows File Recovery - winfr - any way to make recovered documents readable?
I'm trying to recover files that my in-law deleted(and emptied from recycle bin) few days ago. I can get some .odt files back but can't check if they are those that we need because no matter what ...
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Recover Data from a Re-writable CD/DVD
I have a re-writable CD/DVD that had a priceless (to me) document on it. When I went to copy the document it was not there. Instead there were three photos of my brother.
I am guessing that due to the ...
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Manual NTFS recovery sanity check
I need someone to please sanity check my manual NTFS recovery process so far because it's lead me to a brick wall.
Background:
I had a 1TB NTFS external drive (WD Elements) which contained mostly ...
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Restore Files Deleted with rm -rf on linux
I accidentally deleted two folders from my home directory and I want to recover them. I don't want to use testdisk or ext4magic (they just don't work for me and are really annoying). Also I have not ...
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How to recover the deleted items in Google Drive?
Is there a way to recover the deleted items (which are shared with me) in Google Drive? They are not in the trash even. A message appears just after the deletion mentioning `Undo' the action. So I ...
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Several important forders missing in SSD with Windows
I've read about missing files due to SSD wear-out, hidden files, accidentally deleted files and such but I thing this problem might be different.
One day a friend's computer was missing a boot device, ...
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advice for data retireval from SD card [duplicate]
Hoping to retrieve data from an SD card. Our story so far:
Inserted a 4GB SD card into a USB reader on a Win10 PC. The computer saw a directory prefaced by a dot (.Spotlight100), which contained the ...
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Fastest and easiest way to recover large amount of specific files from Windows Recycle Bin
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I am using Windows 10. Due to a file sync error I deleted over 11,000 files. They are now in the Recycle Bin. I have tried selecting the files I want to recover and recovering through the ...
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How can I recover/undelete files from an ext4 partition?
Has anyone had success recovering deleted files from an ext4 partition? I've tried various utilities, but none have worked yet. I'd be grateful if someone can share a success story!
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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 to access files on Windows 10 machine/hard drive without password? Can't restore or access from putting the HDD in another PC
My partner has an old work computer she has personal files on. She has been using a new laptop for some time and seems to have forgotten her password to the desktop, or it just won't connect to the ...
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Recover formatted HDD data to itself
I did format my HDD and lose any data on it accidently.
This happened by to burn a small image to the external HDD by Win32DiskImage so I know that I lost some data but not all of them. Anyway I ...
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Is there any way to recover unsaved notepad++ docs?
I had to immediate shut down, and I lost about 20 unsaved tabs, is there any way to recover these?
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Is there a way I can recover my files from a Kingston DataTravler 1GB?
I accidentally started to low format my USB stick, then I removed it in panic, now when I insert my USB stick in my computer, it displays as "USB DISK 30X" instead of "Kingston DataTraveler 2.0" and ...
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Windows File Recovery - 'winfr.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
I just installed Windows File Recovery from the Store.
I'm running build 19041.329
And when I click on it, and enter the admin password, I get the error in the title.
How do I fix this?
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Read (repair) data from broken floppy disc on a linux system
How can I read an old floppy disk under Linux that has some problematic sectors?
In times of DOS people used magic tools like Norton Disk Doctor and others.
Some of these tools read the broken part ...
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Word Document Overwritten With Background Image?
My cousin has called me quite panicked because she could not open a word (.docx) document after a hard reset of her computer. Office 365's Word was giving us the run around, one thing it suggested was ...
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Lost files in Windows 10, but only in one folder tree and timestamped after specific date?
What might cause all files and folders after a certain timestamp to vanish from a folder and its subtree?
My daughter's computer has two disks: C and D. Windows installed on C. Some apps installed on ...
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