Hard drive recovery infers the recovery of previously lost data from a Hard Disk Drive due to system, user or device error.
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Recover HDD after creating USB installer
I just mistakingly used the wrong device to create a USB installer for Ubuntu. I wanted to use my flash drive which was disk1 and ended up using disk2 which was my external HD. Is there any way I can ...
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Data recovery from laptop which was formatted because of new Windows 7 installation
I want to recovery my data from an Windows 7 Ultimate installation. My laptop got stolen but later I caught the theft. But unfortunately all my data is lost because he formatted my laptop and put on a ...
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lost files on cut/paste to hard drive
Last night, I mounted the main hard disk in Linux Mint 14. And cut/paste a lot of files (about 8GB) from home folder to the mounted disk.
When the operation finished, I suspend my computer, and a few ...
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R-Drive Recovery of a Windows partition on a Mac?
I have an iMac with Mac OSX and a Bootcamp partition with Windows 7. I need to restore an R-Drive image over the Windows partition, but when I try using the Startup Disc it creates, Mac spins the ...
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hard drive raw read error rate 9
My main HDD is about 2.5/3 years old. All that time, it has been running with about 40-45 (temperature).
I have had a HDD failure before and it was really frustrating, I don't want that to happen ...
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Formated and Partition Hard disc and lost data [duplicate]
I have my internal laptop HDD that had several (6) partitions. I wanted to remove one of them and merge with several others unfortunately during the process i forgot and remove one of the partitions ...
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Windows Boot Manager 0xc0000225
Alright, so i tried to start my computer but it suddenly said
Windows failed to start.
A recent hardware or software change might have caused this problem.
To fix the problem.
1. Insert your ...
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My HDD fell from the table (but was saved by the cable). Now it does not spin up. Could it be the PCB? [closed]
I had a external 2.5" 1 TB HDD connected to my laptop via USB3. The HDD was pushed off the table and was saved by the cable (left dangling). However, now the HDD does not spin up.
I've tried another ...
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Trying to recover a deleted .bash_history file
It's for an assignment to practice a bit of forensics. We're given VirtualBox images and told to figure out if a certain user messed up the ssh config.
I mounted the image as read-only, and found ...
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Lost all data after chkdsk on NTFS partition. How do I get it back?
I have a multiboot system with a shared NTFS partition (300gigs) across OS's (Windows7, Debian, Arch).
Recently I booted into Windows and it prompted me to run CHKDSK and after that I can't see any of ...
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How to get data from a burnt hard disk drive?
I have a 320GB HDD which was in a building that burnt down. I need to get as much information as possible from this drive. It probably won't succeed, but it's worth trying.
I tried soldering a new ...
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Recover files from a reformatted drive [closed]
My friend has an HP laptop that recently stopped working. It was trying to run chkdsk but it kept on freezing up, and safe mode would not work.
So he reformatted the drive and re-installed Windows ...
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Photo recovery programs what to use
A friend of mine did some "magic" to his photos and now they are gone. He speaks Polish and I don't so I'm not 100% sure what happened but I have a 160gb disk with 3 partitions and I'm looking for ...
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Windows can't find Desktop path/profile after Hard Drive Repair
My laptop was affected by power shortage. After that it tried to fix the Hard Drive and after three hours, it booted and I logged in, But I see and error message saying that path ...
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HDD Raw Read Error Rate over limit
I've been trying to make a clone of this HDD for a day now, but it's been horribly slow. Someone recommended doing a chkdsk on the drive and then rebooting, but chkdsk was going way too slow as ...
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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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Seagate ST3 1000 340AS hard drive failure
Drive: Seagate Baracuda 7200.11 ST3 1000 340AS
Size: 1000GB
Problem: BIOS fails to recognize drive
Seagate forums suggest that this one is a firmware problem, however once a drive failed then it is ...
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Is my Hard Drive repairable OR can I get my data back (Picture)?
I have an old 80GB Seagate Baracuda Harddisk.
It fell on my toe.
That time it was working fine.
But today as I turned my pc on and this happened.
Can replacing the circuit board will help me ...
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Cannot format external drive as it could not be detected
I have an external HDD. Suddenly, I got the message to format the harddisk in order to use it. I clicked on format. I accidently aborted the format as it was taking hell lot of time. Now that I plug ...
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How to Backup or Retrieve Corrupt usb Hard Drive Data? [closed]
Where should I ask?
How to Backup or Retrieve Corrupt external usb Hard Drive Data?
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Can't restore HDD using multiple programs
Please refer to my original question about this issue. I tried GetDataBack and it doesn't seem to scan or do anything. I chose the default settings from the first screen and then on step 1 I chose my ...
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Hard Drive not recognised by BIOS and no visible damage on PCB
An external IDE harddrive that I have has recently stopped working quite suddenly, when tried in other computers it is not even recognised by the BIOS or by a Linux recovery disk. I assumed that the ...
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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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Recovering a hdd? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I restore a partition without losing the data?
One of my hdd's got messed up when i think i accidently deleted the partition when i was reinstalling windows 8 and ...
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SATA HDD suddenly stops being detected by any computer
So I have a 500gb Seagate HDD that, after powering down my computer one day, stopped being read by ANYTHING. It's not a mechanical error that I could diagnose; it spins up and down quietly and makes ...
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Files recovered with full size but unusable
About 3 weeks ago, I have accidentally used the "clean" command in diskpart in DOS.. And every thing in the hard drive was removed even the drive letters, it became unallocated space (465.8 GB).
I ...
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How do I recover data from a HD? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I recover lost/inacessible data from my storage device?
Today I tried to read an external HD, and it was dead. The only way it could be re-detected by the system ...
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How to recover whole HDD after format twice?
Accidently formatted hard disk, then saved some files and again formatted, But now using icare, cant find the previous formatted files.
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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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Repair or recover drive from Mac OSX recovery mode
My main HDD is failing to boot. (Neither Normal nor Safe mode). Single User seems to work.
I can only boot from Recovery Mode or DVD.
The scenario was the following:
Computer was asleep (lid down).
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What is a trustworthy backup/recovery scheme for Windows Vista? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Software to backup data and files on a Windows computer
The title is the question: How can one implement a backup/recovery scheme on Windows Vista (laptop) that is ...
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Cannot access disk, partition table broken
I was so dumb, to turn of the power on my Readynas Ultra 4 when it was installing the disk (3TB WD Green), I had no time to wait for it as I was going to return it (It was to damn noisy) The disk ...
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How can I fix the MBR after cloning a Windows XP installation?
I have a dual boot system on a 320GB HDD that contains 3 partitions. The first partition contains a Windows XP installation for tests, the second partition holds another XP install for daily use. The ...
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Cant read from an external HDD [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Bad Sectors on Hard Drive
ISSUE:
I have an external HDD that I recently lent to my cousin. He has this problem that whenever he connects a flash drive or a memory card ...
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Recover partition tables/bad hd
I had a some problems in my Hard-drive and now the hard drive seems to be corrupted.
Its Seagate 500GB Hard-Drive
The hard drive started doing problems when i copied files to it, and started to shut ...
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CHKDSK freezes at stage 2 for 3 days now
Last week on my laptop fair few files got corrupt. I cannot rename them, copy them or delete them. Files belong to visual studio so I cannot compile some of my projects, which I need to finish by ...
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How can I restore an OEM hidden disk partition (PQSERVICE) on disk0?
Acer Aspire 4720Z Laptop, Windows Vista SP2:
I have a 111.79MB SATA/AHCI hard disk with the following partitions:
The first partition, used for Recovery, originally had a logical name of ...
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File recovery that keeps folder structure?
I somehow wiped the partition on my external 3tb hard drive. I've been using filescav to try and recovery the files. I have had some luck getting back the files, but they are coming back as Unknown.
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SATA HD suddenly disappears
I am trying to recover files from a harddrive which is probably slightly damaged. It's a 3.5' SATA harddrive, connected via USB adapter to a macbook. When plugged in it shows up in the finder as ...
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Recover mac-formatted harddrive on Windows
My girlfriend's harddrive crapped out on her Macbook. I've replaced it with a new one, but I want to see if I can scavenge anything off the drive. I've plugged it into my Win7 machine...but I need ...
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Regaining access to a partition
My friend recently formatted his computer and after installing Windows 7 again the system does not allow access to his backup HDD anymore.
Opening it in Computer triggers the "The drive is not ...
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Copy all contents of an Amiga harddrive to a PC
I have an old Amiga hard disk drive (CP2088 Conner drive). It is a 2.5" IDE drive (see bottom).
How can I connect this to a PC, what software is needed, and how can I convert the entire disk to a ...
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SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.11 HDD not running
After a huge research, I'm stuck at the beggining of getting my HDD data back.
Whats happening to me is that in the moment when I plug the power wire to my external 1TB SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.11 ...
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Could HDD recovery require more than one donor drive?
When my HDD started corrupting data I took it to professional drive recovery service. I was told that it was hardware failure and donor drive is required. Donor drive would be used for parts to ...
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Is my EIDE hard drive busted?
I bought a NexStar SAT/IDE to USB3.0 adapter 2 months ago to recover an old Dell EIDE hard drive. The hard drive engaged with the adapter 2 months ago and I was able to view the files on it. However, ...
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WD Elements External HDD not showing up its drive even though its recognized?
I've got a 320GB WD Elements HDD that when plugged in shows up in device manager but it doesn't show its drive in 'MyComputer'. I've tried on several computers and still no luck. Any ideas as to what ...
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Is there any way to speed up ddrescue?
I had a 500GB drive HDD crash about 5 days ago. I used ddrescue on the important partition a few days ago, and it's been on "Trimming failed blocks" for almost 2 days now.
Original command:
ddrescue ...
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How do I recover a RAID 1 volume on Mac OS X (10.7)?
I have a Synology NAS that I've set up with RAID 1. The device is set up with two drives, both the same size (i.e. 500 GB each), formatted in ext3, as a RAID 1 volume (i.e. even though the total ...
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Any way to recover a file with bad blocks (CRC error in Windows)?
What I see is this:
Windows complains when reading a file because the CRC for it mis-matches its calculated CRC.
This means NTFS has a CRC for the file.
I expect the offending block/sector can be ...
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Hard disk error, damaged Master Partition Table
My Hard disk just shows "Master Partition Table Corrupt" after I merged two partitions into one.
CHKDSK is not able to repair (MPT mirror is also damaged), TestDisk also is not able to repair. It is ...
