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Recover Extended Partition
I have a serious problem. I lost my MBR. But that is first of the problems.
My disk layout was something like this (more less);
sda1 truecrypt-os 80GB
sda2 ext4 8GB
sda3 swap 4GB
(sda4) extended
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Use `dd` linux program to save / recover a disk's MBR
I have an Ubuntu OS installed on my laptop. I want to install Windows 7 as well to another disk partition (I will do it by recovering it from a special partition on my laptop).
After installing ...
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LVM volume with corrupt MBR: how to mount and recover data from it?
I am new to LVM and partitioning in general, and so, am in a situation here.
The Situation:
I accidentally overwrote MBR of a Fedora 16-created LVM disk.
Now, everything else on this disk is ...
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How to manually edit mbr to recover lost partition?
I have accidentally deleted two hfs+ partitions.
I know start and end sectors of both of them. These partitions are 100% healthy. I can see them in Raise Data Recovery, but testdisk does not see them.
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Netbook Windows 7 recovery
I have an Asus 1005PE netbook which I installed Ubuntu on as a second partition a while back. Its primary partition is Windows 7 Starter. I've now upgraded to a bigger laptop and am selling this ...
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Corrupted the hard drive after planned write of RAMDisk image to SD card went awry
I was trying to write a RAMDisk image to my SD card but unfortunately I wrote the image to my hard disk instead. The size of the RAMDisk image is about 7 MB (approximately 16000+ sectors) and it was ...
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Reinstalling GRUB on Linux netbook
I have a distribution called Easy Peasy on my netbook, it's Ubuntu-based.
Today when I started it up it told me 'grub corrupt'. On subsequent start-ups it displays 'unknown filesystem.' I'm given a ...
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Unable to boot from LiveCD/USB and even Super Grub Disk!
Basically this morning, I decided to format my Win7 as it was getting really slow and I did so with no problems. I also have a Linux Mint OS on dual boot. Since I was springcleaning my windows ...
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Will a Windows 7 recovery CD repair an XP MBR?
Will a Windows 7 recovery CD repair a Windows XP MBR? Can I run fdisk /mbr or chkdsk on an XP install from a Windows 7 recovery CD?
As far as I know Vista changed the boot scheme.
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Tool for checking boot sector / MBR?
I'm currently trying to recover a friends ATA100 hard drive, that suddenly started giving an 'ntldr not found' error. I've got it hooked up to a ATA->USB converter, and can read the contents.
Can ...
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Need HP recovery partition info
I'm configuring a new HP Pavillion DV4 with a 320 GB disk. I made the recovery DVDs, then did a couple other things (including deleting the recovery partition), and finally decided to restore the ...
