Questions tagged [filesystem-corruption]
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USB Drive Corrupted and Write Protected [duplicate]
So my USB drive fell out of my Mac whilst I was saving some stuff. I plugged it back in but I was told that 'MacOS could not fix this device'. I plugged it into my windows machine and attempted to do ...
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Recover data of hard drive possible? [duplicate]
I took out my harddrive (WD 2TB) out of an external casing and put it into an other via usb reading sata docking station which changed something so Windows asks me to format the disk. I got no real ...
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Best filesystem for (slow) usb key
I made a home video player with Kodi on a RaspberryPI. I plugged in a 128GB USB key to store movies on it but found it to be dead slow. I formatted it with FAT and other than the file size limit it's ...
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Chkdsk taking almost two days
I used chkdsk /r on my 32GB SDHC card but it has already taken almost two days.
While I was listening to music, which was in the sd card, on my smartphone, suddenly it told me the sd card is ...
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Contents of Pictures, Music and Videos folders keep getting mysteriously deleted from Windows 10
A few weeks ago I noticed that these folders that had over a decade's worth of media stored in them were completely empty. Totally emptied out. And those were the only folders this happened to (that ...
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SSD turned to RAW suddenly - Reliable?
My laptop with Windows 10 fall creators update (installed one week ago) is running on a laptop with the main disk SSD OCZ Vertex 128GB + a secondary internal disk Samsung SSD 512GB, the latter as a ...
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Corrupted drive and can’t boot after Windows 10 update
I have (had) 2 computers (Lenovo laptop, dell tower) running windows 10. Although normally they sleep, this last week they were both rebooted. When they tried to load windows, they failed to load and ...
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Windows Defender made all my documents "corrupt and unreadable" (0x80070570)
I read some stuff online about cryptocurrency mining and wanted to give it a go, so I downloaded a miner which I know to be trustworthy called XMR-Stak. I downloaded it from the official GitHub page, ...
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Lenovo T450s bricks SSDs - what could be the reason?
I have a strange problem with my Lenovo T450s. In December, the SSD that was build in to it started acting up. I noticed it when my /boot/initramfs-linux.img file was corrupted and could not be ...
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Unnacesible SD CARD after making gold card
I made gold card by this guide from my Samsung EVO plus SDHC. I formatted my card to FAT32. Then I inserted it into my Android Phone and through GoldCard Helper I got mmc2 reversed CID (SD Card Serial)...
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Possible scenarios of a flash drive corruption for FAT32 filesystem
I have an SD card which seemingly stopped working few years ago. Recently I tried recovering some data from it, and I was able to recover very little (I used Gparted). Most of the data was lost and I ...
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Directory can only be accessed with explorer [duplicate]
This is a strange situation that I don't really know why it's happening.
Let's say I have these directories (names are fake but the structure is real):
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+- b
| + file1
| + file2
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+- c
+ file3
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`e2fsck -n` + how to know if need to run e2fsck in order to fix corrupted blocks?
We want to check the filesystem on the disks as /deb/sdc ... /dev/sdg on each Red Hat Linux machine.
The target is to find what are the disks that require e2fsck ( as e2fsck -y /dev/sdb etc.)
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How to diagnose and repair this NTFS volume
I have a Windows Storage Space that is an 8-drive array configured for parity and formatted as NTFS. Yesterday I was performing maintenance on some files using the security tab from the properties ...
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Bitlocker wrote header to volume but didn't actually encrypt drive?
I was attempting to configure Bitlocker on my laptop which has two volumes: a boot SSD (C:) and a larger spinning disk (D:). When I first tried to encrypt the entire C: (boot) drive, it told me that ...
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RAID-1 corruption: Possible to apply catalog data from one disk to another?
More details can be provided, but here's the basis for the question. I just had a RAID-1 hardware failure which has resulted in an unusual situation:
Disk A, containing the file catalog data, but no ...
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Corrupted sudoers file on long running Raspberry Pi
I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 as a home server to run my scheduled scripts from. For the past few months my scripts have run fine, but yesterday I got a database paging error which seemed strange.
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3TB HDD detected as 746GB, then CHKDSK severely corrupted the file system
So I have two 3TB HDDs, one being the backup of the other, almost full (containing mostly videos, TV documentaries and whatnot), with no hardware issues (SMART parameters are all fine). I plugged one ...
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Failed to start File System Check after crash? (Arch Linux)
Could this be a hardware problem?:
Recently my computer crashed. I was editing something in vim, next thing I know I can't save my changes because the filesystem is read-only. I was forced to reboot, ...
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Widespread File Corruption - HDD failure, or other components corrupting drives?
Apologies in advance, this will be a long post as I figure explaining everything that's relevant is better than being vague and having a long back-and-forth. The main reason I'm asking here is because ...
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Lost files taking up a lot of space on HDD
I was unzipping a big folder, like 10+ gigs onto my HDD. Unfortunately I ran out of space so it canceled. But being stupid, I quickly x'd out of what it was doing, only to realize it was in the middle ...
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How to prevent disk corruption on Virtualbox
I have a btrfs filesystem with redundant metadata in a virtualbox image. After a host system crash the btrfs partition experienced some corruption, which is counter to the guarantees of the filesystem,...
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How to re-use a corrupt drive
How can I put a corrupt drive into good use?
One of the hard drives in my desktop has some invisible bad sectors. Windows 10's "scan and repair" feature says that it has no errors. Glary utilities "...
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How to identify and delete corrupted files
I've recently recovered a few hard-drives using partition and data recovery software. Most of the recovered data is intact, but amidst a total of 3TB of data, even a small percentage of corrupted ...
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SD Card readable only on my Android
Do you have any hints on understanding what's the reason for this?
I have an SanDisk SD Card that exhibits a strange behavior:
Has data on it and the content is read by my HTC One M9.
From time to ...
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F2FS lost data? won't mount and FSCK doesn't work
I was running my system (compiling the 4.12 kernel) when it halted an hour ago. The screen was entirely grey, the keyboard wouldn't respond. Music kept playing for about 1 minute. After waiting a ...
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My Mac has no recovery partition to boot from
On my late 2009 iMac, Disk Utility tells me my internal HDD is corrupted, and to boot from the recovery partition to repair it. I am running the system off the external HDD right now and holding ...
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e2fsck reports errors on my root partition from terminal window, but not on single-user mode
I discovered some corrupt user files in my home directory, which is part of the root partition.
When I run e2fsck -nf /dev/sda2 I get the following:
e2fsck 1.43.3 (04-Sep-2016)
Warning! /dev/sda2 ...
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chkdsk Corrupt master file table
I booted up my computer and i when into recovery mode on further inspection running
chkdsk C: /f
gave the following error
Corrupt master file table
and was unable to recover or even write to the ...
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Burned CD has 'shifted' file boundaries
Many years ago (around 2003 I think) I burned a CD with mp3 files on them as a data disk. Every mp3 file is perfectly readable, however every song ends with the last few seconds of the previous song ...
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How to do a clean install of windows 10 using cmd?
My HD is starting to get corrupted, and some system files are gone. But Windows still works.
The problem is that now the usual method to reset Windows is not possible for me.
My taskbar, start ...
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How can this weird file corruption have occured?
I took some photos, put the SD card into my Windows 10 PC, copied the images to my primary drive (an SSD), then as I'm generally paranoid and as these were important family photos, binary diffed the ...
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ZFS on Linux Insufficient Replicas
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One of my ZFS pools can no longer be imported due to the following message:
status: One or more devices contains corrupted data.
action: The pool cannot be imported due to damaged devices or ...
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Remove broken EXT4 inode without debugfs
I have broken filesystem inside qnap. When I'm trying to fsck, it going into endless loop on one inode. Unfortunately qnap haven't debugfs command. Is this possible to remove (clear) inode via dd?
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Computer keeps deleting mbrs on all drives
I'm having problems with a computer that, for some weird reason is breaking the boot on my HDDs, I tried using another HDD I had to install windows and fix the other hard drives, but after install, it ...
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2 drives down in a few months, What should i replace?
I've recently had 2 7200RPM SATA Disk Drives go in the span of about 2 months. The first i put down to an old drive so i removed it and took the hit. The second was not so old.
After inspecting the ...
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Windows 10 - Remote access failed error. Start Menu, Action Center, Cortana, cannot be opened
After receiving some updates from windows, right when i'm clicking one of the Start Menu, Action Center, Volume , Battery, LAN Button in the taskbar here is the log that i receive from event viewer.
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Files on my secondary hard disk keep disappearing and can be recovered with CHKDSK /F, but CHKDSK /R and SMART find nothing wrong
My desktop has an SSD (840 Evo) as my boot drive and a 3TB WD Red as my data storage drive. I recently reinstalled Windows 10 on my desktop because it was becoming pretty bloated, and since then I've ...
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The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable
When I open a folder in my computer, I saw the message
"C:\Users\John Smith\Dropbox\myfolder1 is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable."
Fortunately, all files in this ...
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why my file systems shows -71G and how can i fix it
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ada0p2 1G 624M 302M 67% /
devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev
/dev/ada0p4 503M 20k 463M 0% ...
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How can I recover my files from my computer with corrupted hard disk drive?
My HP 250G3 computer can't boot and instead says:
Boot Device Not Found
Please install an operating system on your hard disk.
Hard Disk (3F0)
F2 System Diagnostics
For more information, ...
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Scan this USB for errors constant popup
Whenever I plug in my USB stick on a Windows PC, I get the message that my disk is corrupt and if I would like to fix it.
Note that choosing to fix it brings up this window (I'm using a Dutch system):
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Graphics Corruption even during Boot, then after 2 failed reboots it says BOOTMGR is missing
I'm encountering a very frustrating and confusing problem with my desktop and I am really hoping someone has experienced either a similar problem or knows what I can do to fix this.
To start off, ...
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How to recover damaged video file on an External hard drive
So I have a lot of video on an external HDD and most of the videos run fine. However, with some during the video it becomes very laggy and skips over some bits. When I have tried moving the files or ...
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Files on my system renamed and file types also changed automatically [duplicate]
Files on my system renamed and file types also changed automatically on Windows 10. When I reasearched online I found that CTB Locker, ransomware are some of the viruses that do that. But I ran my ...
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Repair an error:read-only efi partition
Again stumbling from one problem to the next.
I recently installing OpenSuse13.2 parallel to win10. Worked nice. Then I decided to reintall, but Suse Leap, deleting the old Suse installation.
At the ...
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How to intentionally corrupt an ext4 filesystem?
I want to intentionally corrupt a file on an ext4 filesystem for testing. Is there a way to corrupt it by, say, leaving a file open and then rebooting?
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File (image) only exists when searching for it or in "Photos" app
Here's a weird thing that I've never seen before in any Windows version. I'm using Windows 10.
I'm using the stock "Photos" app to view some pictures that I've been editing, and when scrolling ...
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Repairing an old Windows computer without install disks
I am trying to fix an old HP Pavilion dv9000.
I think the system got corrupted, after different people tried to fix it.
When I start it up the HP logo shows up then this:
then:
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Unable to format USB due to old file corruption
I accidentally corrupted some files on a 4GB USB when I tried to install extensions and apps to a portable version of google chrome. I tried to format the USB, and it failed partway through the format....