Questions tagged [partition-recovery]
Partition recovery is the process of recovering data from a hard drive partition that has been rendered unreadable by normal methods. A problem that is caused by drive failure, accidental formatting, corruption of data. Do not confuse with [recovery-partition].
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MBR recovery - Corrupted MBR after it changed to dynamic & testdisk gives up . No backup sector found
I had a Windows 7 installation on my 1TB SSD laptop with 4 primary partitions. I wanted to install Lubuntu Linux but the process failed with an error which kind of said:
cannot write MBR
It gave ...
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Overwritten my GPT, but files untouched. Can the disk be restored?
So, today I have managed to accidentally overwrite my GPT. None of my files were touched, but the partitions don't exist anymore.
I booted a USB to do an update, but as it turns out, the USB was ...
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Netbook Windows 7 recovery after hard drive format
I have formatted hard drive on my netbook and deleted recovery partition.
Is it possible to recovery preinstalled Windows 7 after this?
(I have some problems with disc and this is the only way I found ...
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How to fix the MBR without overwriting HD and without Recovery CD
My volumes [c:/], [D: Removery] and [E: HP_Tools] have all turned into simple volumes due from trying to delete space from c:// and creating another partition to backup my files, so I can recover my ...
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Recover files from corrupt filesystem
My situation:
I have an older 80GB IDE internal hdd, with a few files on it that I would like very much to recover:
some word documents
some latex documents (text files) and pictures (png, jpg, eps ...
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Broken boot manager bootmgr Windows 10 SSD bootrec
takes a deep breath
My System:
Windows 10 Home Version 1703
OS build 15063.966
Trying to update to version 1803 (KB4340917)
The updates continually failed. I literally had the windows 10 upgrade ...
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Ext4 fs corrupted after shrunken by parted
I was trying to make room for an Arch Linux installation and I ran parted and shrunk my main Ubuntu partition.
I made a new one in the new space but after I rebooted it put me in a grub prompt.
I ...
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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 to recover BitLocker encrypted partition that is now 'unallocated'/'free space'?
My hard drive had five partitions, including one some 4-5 GB BitLocker encrypted one. When I used Disk Management I could view two partitions (24.4 GB and 8.94 GB) in green colour labelled Empty space....
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"Recovery" partition is deleted
I deleted the partition named "Recovery" from my ASUS laptop. How to get it back? If doesn't have this partition, any problem cause to my laptop?
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How to merge empty partitions to main partition without data loss in main in macOS?
I tried to install Windows in my MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) having macOS Mojave. Tried without the bootcamp assistant as directed in the link -
https://fgimian.github.io/blog/2016/03/12/...
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Read data from old hard drive Seagate ST-1239A
I received an old hard drive from which I need to read the data.
I connect it using an AT-Interface to USB connector. (I tried two different ones with the same results). I guess it is about 210-211 MB ...
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OSX Lion recovery
I really screwed the pooch last night and in preparation to sell my Macbook Air, I used GParted to blow out my partitions (I was running a Boot Camp Windows 7). Well, I must have been tired because I ...
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How to reinstall windows 10 on a partitionned disk properly and avoid duplicating recovery partitions?
My pc recently crashed and I had to reinstall w10. But now when I'm booting on the disk, I get 2 windows installed
Image 1
Here is how I did :
My disk is originally partitioned in 2 :
C : for the OS
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Not able to recover logical partition using TestDisk
I had a dual-booted HDD (Win10 and Ubuntu) (MBR) where the Ubuntu was in an extended partition (that had 1 Win10 logical partition and 1 Ubuntu logical partition).
Few months ago, I deleted that ...
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Restore partition. HELP PLEASE
I was having some problems with my bios because I got different hard drives, each in different partition tables, some in GPT and others in MBR. So I decided to convert all to GPT using MiniTool ...
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GPT table recovery
I have inducted myself into the ranks of users who can't read and break their own stuff.
Last Sunday, while attempting to copy a larger Windows 7 NTFS partition to a smaller one, I blew out what I ...
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Windows 10 I have two recovery partitions, and one is >10GB. What is this and is it ok to delete?
I am running Windows 10 as my operation system. I started to look into creating a Linux partition and noticed in the Windows disk manager I have a massive 10.61GB disk partition named "recovery ...
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HDD shows up as "no data" on it and can't be initialized in Windows
I have a physically undamaged 2.5 inch HDD (Hitachi 5400RPM 320GB) when I connect it with an sata to usb convertor windows doesn't react on it. When I open the windows disk management software it ...
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Accidentally Formated /dev/sda1
I was messing around with some partitions on a PC that has both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 15.04 installed on it. In gparted, I distractedly formatted /dev/sda1 as fat32.
Upon rebooting, I got the message "...
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Hard disk drive's full capacity is not recognized
I have a HDD (wdc wd30ezrx-00mmmb0 western digital 3gb, Link to HDD specifications) I purchased a while back and it had an original capacity of 3TB. Some unknown error happened to my computer which ...
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How to recover lost NTFS partition on Windows 7
I have a problem with partition. I had one with name E: and I don't know why it has been lost. (look at the screenshot).
I think it is a problem with partition table.
Can I recover my partition with ...
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How to make my restore partition usable again?
I have an old Samsung X420 in which I had installed Linux years ago, alongside Windows 7.
I gave it to my girlfriend to use and since she didn't deal well with Linux and GRUB, I wiped and recreated ...
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LUKS partition recovery
A drive with 2 partitions - 1st is plain ext4, second is encrypted LUKS.
The partition table has been overwritten. I've found the beginning of the second partition , which i need to recover, thusly:
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Recover NTFS partition GPT with TestDisk, gdisk, EasyRecovery
I have broken my hdd file struture. I will not go into details how that happened.
I had several NTFS partitions which have some data I need, and it was in GPT.
I tried several applications for ...
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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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Unable to access external hard disk drive in Windows XP
Note: I can access a flash disk drive formatted as exFAT. Just not my external HDD. So, you can imagine I have installed the exFAT update for winXP.
My external HDD was formatted in Mac OS X as exFAT....
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How do I copy the boot sector from one computer to another?
I have a pair of identical computers. One of them stopped booting the other day (it gets past the BIOS screen then goes black). Booting from a USB recovery stick I've verified that the partition is ...
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File structure corruption after installing ubuntu
I am using Windows 7. When I installed Ubuntu and ran it for the first time, everything was going fine. I booted Ubuntu and accessed my FAT32 and NTFS partitions.
After restarting Ubuntu, I booted to ...
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Windows 7 system drive says it is raw, but System Recovery starts without issues
I have been running Windows 7 RC1 since it was available a couple of months ago and had no issues whatsoever until today. When I start my laptop, Windows does not boot but instead Windows System ...
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macOS can't boot, shows 'prohibitory' symbol after using Clonezilla
How are you?
I have a MacBook Pro Mid-2012 (A1278) running Yosemite 10.10.5 + Bootcamp (Windows 10).
I mostly use the Windows partition, and rarely use macOS.
THE PROBLEM
I tried to clone the internal ...
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Hard Drive Recovery and mounting
I have an internal hard drive(SSD). This drive is not double booted, but triple booted (Windows, Ubuntu, Kali). It is partitioned in such a way that windows has 60% of the drive, and Ubuntu/Kali have ...
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Dual boot computer partitions missing after force shut down during hibernate
I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11s dual boot with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04. On computers where Ubuntu does not come preinstalled, the hibernate power option is disabled because problems can happen. ...
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Lost ext4 partition: testdisk lists files, but fails to fix partition table
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Testdisk finds the lost ext4 partition and is able to list containing files, but trying to write the partition structure to the disk does nothing.
Update: After running e2fsck -f /dev/sdc1, ...
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Can't clone one SD to another with dd
I have:
Broken 32GB micro SD card - cannot write anything to it despite trying to force with (hdparm -r0 /dev/sdc):
EXT4-fs (sdc1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem
EXT4-fs (sdc1): ...
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Bad magic number in super-block / Invalid argument while trying to open /dev/sda12
How can i recover my corrupted hardisk partition ?
I can tried to recover this partition using GParted but GParted see an error message
GParted 0.25.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-...
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Troubleshooting a dead-ish ssd
I have a dead-ish SSD drive. BIOS can't read it, Linux and Windows can't read it.
It seems like the controller is not completely dead (it does identify itself).
Is there any hope of recovering the ...
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Restore somewhat broken volume on the disk in-place?
After a power outage my laptop fails to boot. I investigated the matter with a bunch of disk utilities and live CDs. The data is intact, and I made a backup copy of it. Nevertheless I'd like to ...
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Recovering filesystem in mangled partition
Accidentally booted the Acer Recovery partition of my multi-boot laptop and despite selecting EXIT when presented with a choice of whether I wanted to recover anything or not, one of my partitions got ...
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How can I recover a partition after luksFormat?
How can I recover an ext4 partition after luksFormat?
It was late one night when I decided to try gnome-shell 3.16 without messing up my Ubuntu box. So, I downloaded an Antergos image and booted it. ...
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NTFS Partition disappeared after windows chkdsk
I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7, and share(d) a 3TB GUID NTFS partition between the two. This worked fine for ages.
Yesterday I did a large file copy from a suspect (perhaps failing) ext3 partition:
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partition moving crashed mid-process - what damage have it done / what to do ? (AOMEI app used)
I used AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro (5.x) to "Align" an NTFS partition with about 170GB of data. (Cca 800GB partition on standard (non SSD) 1TB hard disk).
The app started after reboot in "PreOS" ...
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Recovering HDD partition table using Testdisk
I have a total of 4 operating systems installed on my notebook. I use a WD Blue 1TB 2.5" internal HDD. The installed OSes are Win XP, Win 7, Win 8 and Ubuntu.
Of these, Windows XP only boots when I ...
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Can not copy files after installing windows
I am experiencing a weird problem. I was running Xubuntu on my laptop until yesterday that I had to delete Xubuntu and install Windows.
I had a NTFS partition on my Xubuntu that I kept some files on ...
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Recover lost 5th primary partition
I recently decided to enable bitlocker on my Windows 7 computer.
Little did I know that this meant the setup wizard would chop off a 300MB piece of my C: partition and create a primary partition from ...
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Recovering multiple partitions with testdisk in a multiboot configuration
I'm facing this kind of problem for the first time.
Two of my three partitons got corrupted. In searching for a solution, I found testdisk. I've read the tutorials and feel confortable to use it, ...
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Recover partitions with both Windows 7 and Linux installed using TestDisk
I need to recover my partitions using TestDisk. I used deep search and the result is as follows:
Disk /dev/sdc - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 60801 255 63
Partition Start End ...
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Repair raid after bad suspension (Error Occurred 0)
My Zenbook after a standby problem in Xubuntu 14.04 is not booting anymore, neither Xubuntu nor Windows want to boot.
This screen comes up after BIOS:
Pressing Ctrl+I I obtain:
Option 1, 4 and 5 ...
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Repair Windows 8.1 UEFI booting messed up by Easus Partition Manager? Error Code: 0xc0000225
Laptop Toshiba Satellite (Model will post but not super critical as the info posted below).
Pre-Installed OS: Windows 8.1 Bing as C: Drive
Default booting is/ was UEFI
Wanted to create another ...
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Recover Partition Table After Remove Partition (parted)
I deleted a partition using (parted) rm 3, so I could extend my ext4 partition. Here was my partition table before I removed it:
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
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