Questions tagged [filesystem-corruption]
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PC won't boot from flash drive after computer hibernated (grub on hdd corrupt too)
I had 3 OS installed: Windows 7 , Fedora 17 and Mageia 2 in my Acer Aspire 4253 laptop.
I deleted the partition of Mageia and my grub got corrupted.
I didn't have an installation DVD of either Win7 ...
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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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How to fix file system errors in VMware
My VMware server behaves strangely recently. It turned out to be a file system error. I ran the following command:
voma -m vmfs -f check -d /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600508e00000000075b722086590fd04
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After a repair/chkdsk, all NTFS junction points are gone
I've been repairing a Windows 7 64-bit installation. In the process, the Windows partition was subjected to several rounds of automatic repair, chkdsk, sfc, even a volume shrink. Long story. Anyway, ...
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Recover truecrypt partition without MBR + recovery disk?
I destroyed my mbr and have no truecrypt rescue disk. However, I do know my password and my encryption setup (e.g. hashing functions and ciphers used).
This happened after an upgrade to version 7.0a ...
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Why does CHKDSK find file system errors after formatting a disk?
I'm having trouble copy data to a brand new disk. I don't know yet if this is the result of the tools I've used, sequence of events during copying, or some issue with the files prior to being copied. ...
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Multiple files copied to Windows corrupted, each appear to fill HDD free space
I am facing an issue where pictures copied from a Samsung smartphone (Android) to a PC have somehow been corrupted. The pictures are in JPG format, and appear as such in the folder they were copied to....
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Even weirder "Error splicing file: Input/output error"
I know this is the n'th question out there on the "Error splicing file: Input/output error" message, but I'm experiencing some behavior inconsistent enough with the other posts I'm reading ...
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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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F2FS issue - unsuccessful remove, lost access to files
While removing unnecessary files I bumped into an error. with
fsck.f2fs /dev/sda4 -t
I can see
| | |-- Die Ärzte - Manchmal haben Frauen <ino = 0xc11874>, <encrypted (0)>
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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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Recovering Corrupted TrueCrypt Data?
I recently attempted to set up an encrypted TrueCrypt folder (non-hidden) on my USB Flash Drive. Before doing anything I copied all the files on the USB to my computer's harddrive. I then deleted ...
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Repair corrupted directory files
Last time I used my computer, it ran out of battery and turned off while I was working.
Now when I restart it and try to start my web browser, it reports that files were corrupted.
I cannot reinstall ...
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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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Error "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" when accessing my external hard disk
I have Windows XP SP3. I was copying files from my ADATA 500 GB external hard disk (via USB 2.0) when a "Delayed Write Failed" error came up.
Now I am unable to access it and it gives the error:
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Partially corrupted jpg photos on pendrive. Possible causes and how to fix?
After connecting a pendrive to a bad USB1.0 port (bad electrical connection, keeps connecting and disconnecting) and trying to read some of the photos in it and to copy them to the hard drive on ...
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Disk corruption caused by rsync'ing a large number of small files to external HDD with NTFS format
I am noticing a weird phenomenon when transferring a large number of small files (hundreds of thousands pictures, for example) to an external HDD with rsync: It always leads to an IO error as shown ...
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(SOLVED) How can I restore files missing from my Windows\Microsoft.NET folder, other than with a clean install of Windows?
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NOTE: I already tried DISM, sfc, the .NET Framework repair tool, turning the .NET Framework features off and on, restoring from a restore point, and resetting the system.
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How to repair a XFS filesystem with a dirty log?
I had a server crash while its RAID array was running in a degraded state and now the XFS file system is corrupted. I have read up on how to repair the filesystem but most things I have tried have ...
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Partition keeps getting corrupted. How to prevent or boot anyway?
I am running RHEL7, and my audit log partition randomly (not often, but often enough to annoy me) gets corrupted, preventing me from booting. How can I either prevent the partition from being ...
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SSD - One Partition is not accessible and the other one is ok
I have two Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD installed in my system. Both SSDs have got two partitions each.
No RAID configuration. SSD running in AHCI mode (Tried IDE. did not not make any difference in this ...
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How Linux boot UP without /boot?
I have Centos VM on VMware Workstation. I commented the /boot entry in the /etc/fstab for testing purposes. But I found that the system gets boot UP with unmounted /boot file system. How the system ...
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USB SSD drive corruption when moving it between Windows 10 and Windows 7 machines
I have a Samsung Portable SSD T5 (500GB) which has been formatted as an NTFS volume and contains my iTunes music library.
For the majority of the time, I am using it on a Windows 10 system where I ...
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Trying to recover a NTFS corrupt partition
I'm stucked with the fixing of a NTFS partition, which I kind of recovered from the MFT backup using TestDisk 7.2-WIP on Windows 7, even so the partition recovered is corrupted.
Applying on Debian ...
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Corrupted data on SSD but tests passed
I am trying to find out why I've got corrupted data on a ext4 partition of LUKS encrypted SSD.
I've run e2fsck /dev/mapper/disk1-root -y, then e2fsck -fcc /dev/mapper/disk1-root with this output:
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Recover secondary drive
I haven't been able to mount my secondary hard drive, and I am unsure as to the error. This happens when I try mounting through Nautilus:
I tried sudo fsck.ext4 -y /dev/sdb1 and sudo fsck /dev/sdb ...
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fsck says a partition is mounted in Ubuntu Recovery Mode
I ran Ubuntu 18.10's Recovery Mode and fsck failed saying dev/sda7 is mounted. I tried unmounting it only to be told that "it is busy". I'd appreciate any hints on solving this.
The partition dev/...
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Corrupted files - all files on drive had their size capped to 64 KB
I have a Windows hard-drive from my previous computer that got corrupted in a very weird manner.
All the files in the hard-drive had their size capped to 64 KB (I connected the hard-drive to my ...
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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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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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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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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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Access corrupted SSD
I installed the latest Nvidia-driver on my SSD 850 Evo OS-Partition running Win10 and after that left the PC and went eating, not having it restarted, because still downloading iTunes.
When returning ...
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USB media that can be safely unplugged while being written to
I did several tests with unplugging USB media while they are being written to. Host system is Linux Mint 17.1 on a Laptop with USB 2.0. For USB hard disks, it appears that after calling 'sync', data ...
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What does fsck mean with “Filesystem has n clusters but only space for n-m FAT entries. (m>0)”?
I started a long time copy action onto my external HD. I went away, and somehow the energy saving mechanism must have realized that the user was idle and suspended the machine. (BTW, what exactly is ...
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Chkdsk gives following output "NTFSNTFSNTFSNTFS"
I have Windows 8.1 Pro N x64 and I got an error saying "This directory is corrupt" so I decided to run a chkdsk on my C: drive. I put in the Command prompt "chkdsk /f C:" but It gave me the output of "...
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Corrupt NTFS filesystem causes ntfsfix to hang
I have a hard drive that became corrupted during a Windows Update. It's possible that the drive became full and the update aborted in the middle, but I'm unsure.
Whatever the cause, the ntfs has ...
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Problems making recovery work on Windows 8.1 EFI - recovery partition in raw (data still accessible)
My problem started with a failed migration from HDD to SSD. I created the copy which should work without problems, but the SSD was somewhat incompatible with my setup (drive visible in BIOS, but not ...
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Linux directory becoming a clear plain text file
Did anyone encounter this before? I have a directory called opt which is working previously. Last few days ago, i tried to expand LVM size by using off-line expand. It show success but with some error ...
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I'm out of ideas how to get my usb drive working again.No solutions on the internet worked
The device is not visible under the section Mount Devices in Parted Magic, nor in my mini-install of Windows XP.
I've tried several things to fix the 16GB flash drive, which is a Kingston Data ...
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Windows 8 copying issues
I recently formatted my laptop and installed Windows 8 Pro (it was Windows 7 Pro before format), now I am receiving a lot of weird issues when copying files onto the laptop.
Issue 1:
When copying a ...
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What would cause an .exe to vanish without a trace?
I have a few computers.
One computer, at home, one day suddenly had its pgbouncer.exe vanish. The antivirus didn't have it in its virus chest [avast]. I couldn't find the bgbouncer anywhere. All the ...
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Best way to try to recover FAT32 corrupted usb flash drive
I've got a FAT32 USB flash drive (Not mine; I would never store critical data on a FAT32 flash device!) with evident signs of data corruption:
When viewed in Windows 7:
All or almost all files are ...
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Linux, corrupted file, ran fsck, file still corrupted
Here's my situation: I have a server running Ubuntu Server 9.04
I copied a file on the server and was able to access the file from a Windows client computer without any problem.
Then recently I ...
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Corrupt file indicative of corrupt hard drive?
I have noticed that two files on my (almost full) 2 TB hard drive have been corrupted. One file has 20 kB (!) corrupted, i.e. consecutive 20 kB have changed, even though the modification date of the ...
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Recovering damaged filesystem/partition
I wanted to increase the size of my /home (originally about 20GB). /home was on the partition /dev/sda9.
There was about 25GB free-unallocated space just after the /dev/sda9 partition. The plan was ...
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I have a corrupt or missing file
windows/root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe. I don't have the XP CD to repair it, recovery mode
just keeps running, picking up no data.
How do I correct this to be able to try and do
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What happens to ReFS if I reinstall Windows?
ReFS seems nice. As far as I know, it is some sort of software RAID. If so, the information is managed by the OS. What happens somehow Windows is corrupted and I reinstall Windows? Is all information ...
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