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Testdisk. Change partitions, but disk still doesn't open. Recover partitions
Laptop ASUS, if it can help.
Because I'm very stupid in the system administration, I made from NTFS disk the RAW. I connect it to another computer through USB. I need to recover file system, so I use ...
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Started DBAN on an external by accident - can I get my data back?
I was running DBAN on a laptop HDD and I had an external HDD attached. Without realising that, I ran DBAN in auto mode. Completely stupid, I know.
I noticed it was attached when the operation ...
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Unable to boot into Vista recovery partition on Compaq notebook
I have a Compaq Presario C735ET laptop which is designed only for Windows Vista. There is not any driver for Windows XP or Windows 7 so I am stuck with Vista.
Because I was not very happy with Vista, ...
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Can I reformat an external hard drive to have the maximum amount space that was previously available?
I set up my external hard drive that had 1.5TB of space as a recovery drive, and afterwards it showed that I have 32GB of space. Is there any way I can get my space back?
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NTFS partition busted. How to repair?
have an interesting problem a friend has brought to me but I'm not sure how to proceed...
Setup:
Friend has a 1.5Tb SATA storage hard disk with (originally) a 1.5Tb NTFS partition on, plugged ...
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Way to write a bootable CD to a partition?
Arch-Linux comes with the best recovery CD I have ever come across. Although I don't always have it with me, so I want to have it on a partition.
What I would like to do is have this CD on a ...
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Windows 8 recovery partition on main hard drive
I've recently been having a lot of trouble with my current laptop which has caused me to reinstall my operating system several times, and I'm getting sick of always burning installation disks or ...
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Recover partition table after DD command
I executed the following command from a Ubuntu live cd terminal (dont ask why).
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb2 bs=512 count=1
Where sdb2 is a NTFS partition (third partition) on a disk. Suffice to ...
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Restoring microSD partition table
I just found that my HD2 broke its memory card's partition table at once.
When I insert the card in my SD reader I get only a whole RAW (unformatted) partition in Windows. Linux doesn't even see it ...
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TestDisk - Recovered partition not mountable
First here's my Partition Table reported by fdisk.
Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector ...
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How to access the Windows 8 recovery partition?
I upgraded my Asus UX32VD to a new SSD. Now I want to install Windows 8 again, but that is only on a recovery partition on the old HDD and I cannot acess that. Besides that I am not sure if that is ...
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I get “Your PC needs to be repaired” and “Error code: 0xc0000225” in Windows 8: how can I fix it?
When I boot my Windows 8 laptop (see details below), it displays this message:
Recovery
Your PC needs to be repaired
A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed.
Error ...
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is it a good idea to change a recovery partition from primary to logical? [HP laptop]
I have a new HP laptop, model dv6-6c85la, with 1TB hard drive, and it has 4 primary partitions, like this:
|<- system [199 MB] ->|<- c: [899.8 GB] ->|<- d:(recovery) [27.5 GB] ->|<- ...
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Unable to create disk partition from free space on Windows 7 Home Basic
I had partitioned my computer with two partitions, C: and D:, with D: used as recovery. All was fine until 5 months later, when my laptop (Samsung RV511 running Windows 7 Home Basic) crashed (I ...
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Partition Magic 8 made TrueCrypt partition invisible
Partition Magic 8 took a dump on my TrueCrypt partition... and I let it happen! And now I am left with cleaning up the mess.
In short, my encrypted partition is now invisible. TestDisk analysis says ...
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Is it really impossible to restore the recovery partition on samsung laptops?
I bought a Samsung 900X3C and would like to get rid of the recovery partition since the disk is only 128 GB. But first I want to create a restorable image. However, samsung support says it's not ...
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How to recover deleted NTFS partitions?
Last night I made a terrible mistake. I was reinstalling Windows and I accidentally deleted all the partitions on all my drives. I realized my mistake before I had created any partitions, so nothing ...
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Restoring factory recovery partition (samsung)
I have upgraded the HDD in a Samsung laptop and would like to restore the "Press F4 for recovery" partition.
My new disk has three partitions, System, Windows, and Recovery. I did a dd of the ...
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Unrecoverable partition: is there still hope?
My desktop's motherboard recently died and I decided to salvage its 2 500GB HDDs while I save up for a new mobo. I bought a docking station to use with my laptop. One HDD works flawlessly; however the ...
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Accidentally ran “sudo gpart -W /dev/sda /dev/sda” – how can I recover my partitions?
I was trying to repair a damaged MicroSD card located on /dev/sdb, however I accidentally ran the gpart tool on /dev/sda instead. (not gparted, but gpart)
I ended up writing one partition and so now ...
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How do I safely partition a hard-drive to accept a GNU/Linux distribution in the presence of OneKey Recovery?
I am currently using a Lenovo Essentials G550 Laptop. When the laptop was sold by Lenovo, a proprietary recovery solution created by the same company was bundled with the laptop, taking the name of ...
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How to restore the OEM partition after installing Windows 8?
I installed Windows 8 onto my Lenovo S-10 netbook. I now want to go back to Windows XP so I can give the netbook away.
Previously after installing other OSes such as Windows 7 on the device I have ...
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resizing Recovery partition after a warranty service
I sent my Asus K52Je to the warranty service last month, for a HD issue.
When returned, the HD was strangely partitioned:
Now, the Disk 0 has:
- a first (hidden) and not recognized partition: a ...
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Recover Windows 7 partition overwritten with Linux installation
I installed Linux Mint over my Windows drive, that was supposed install on my external hard disk.
In Windows 7, that drive is invisible and is showing as Linux when I enter fdisk -l.
How can I ...
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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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Disk Management Hidden Partitions - PTEDIT32
Apparently PTEDIT32 can edit partitions, making partitions that are hidden, visible. My purpose is to take a hidden partition on a toshiba laptop (the recovery partition) and copy it as my hard drive ...
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Would interrupting a partitioning process cause my Hard Drive to become bad? Can I fix it with a full format?
I was trying to partition my hard drive to install windows 7 without losing data, but I thought the process had locked up so I stopped it and restarted my computer. I tried again and it worked, but ...
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Unbootable Windows 7 Enterprise partition
Can my partition with Windows 7 Enterprise become bootable again after making it "active" in my Windows 8 Customer Preview Partition.
The errormessage I get when trying to boot it is:
Remove disks ...
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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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Accidentally Repartitioned Hard Drive, Possibility of Restoration?
This was using OS X's Disk Utility. I accidentally repartitioned my 2nd Windows drive (to Mac OS Extended [Journaled] and GUID Partition Table). It seemed pretty immediate, so I'm assuming there was ...
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Lost recovery partition
I have a new asus windows 7 laptop. Using the "AI Recovery" tool, I deleted the 8 gig windows recovery partition.
Now the Disk Management utility is showing my disk to be 111.79 GB rather than the ...
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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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Only able to recover few partitions at a time
Currently recovering a drive that had it's partition table messed up by some malware, and I have been able to successfully recover all of the partitions, just not at the same time. There are three, ...
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Replace an OEM recovery partition from Windows Vista, with one from now-upgraded Windows 7?
I have a recovery partition from Windows Vista, and I upgraded my laptop to Windows 7. Can I create from Windows 7 a new recovery partition?
Also, would this be legitimate (legal)? The laptop only ...
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Format Lenovo Recovery Partition on SSD After Making Recovery Discs
I have a Lenovo T520 notebook that came with a Q: drive labelled "Lenovo_Recovery". I created 4 recovery discs from this partition on DVDs. Now that I have the discs created, can I format my Q ...
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How to repair SD card without reformatting? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Recover data from SD card
Is it possible to get back data from a Micro SD which is unresponsive?
Something happened with my SDHC card in my phone - after restart it ...
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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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How to recover NTFS partition from Linux?
I've formated partition to empty - only erased information that partition is NTFS.
Partition data haven't been changed. So i think only little change to partition table is required.
How can i ...
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Dell XPS 15 L502X hard drive Partition
I have a situation here. I got my new Dell XPS 15 Laptop.
The configuration of hard drive is as below :
Volume 1: (OEM Partition): 133MB
Volume 2: OS (C:): 685.25 GB
Volume
3: Recovery : 13.25 ...
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Deleted an encrypted partition in windows 7. Anyone to undo the deletion?
I had a virus on my windows 7 laptop and had to reinstall windows 7. I had a seperate partition (D:) that I had encrypted with truecrypt and I had it set up where the partition wouldn't immediately ...
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How to mount a disk with data (a deleted partition table) from gpart and testdisk
I am trying to recover the ext4 partition table of a 2TB disk, where I have 900.000 files. I have cloned the original HD and now I am working on the cloned HD. And I am running Parted Magic Live CD.
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How to make a partition if I have a partition.img file?
I have an Acer laptop I've been toying with, at some point I backed up the 'Acer recovery' hidden partition using dd.
iirc I used a LiveCD and something like:
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/mnt/remote/acer.img
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Retain recovery partition after installing new OS?
This question pertains to an Acer AOD255 netbook (N450, 2GB DDR2, 250GB) with Windows 7 Starter as the original OS.
I'm looking to switch over completely to Windows XP. I attempted to do a dual boot ...
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HP 3130 - Recover Windows 7 from Recovery WIM
Got a new PC, HP 3130 and didn't get to create the recovery disk. I did save the recovery partition using imagex to an external hard drive. I was planning to use a previous image I had and that ...
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Recovery partition does not start, and windows does not start
I have an ASUS N53JQ with Windows 7 x64.
My problem started when I used the recovery DVDs from my laptop. Put it in, run the set-up and went to 95%, after that it went to 0% and then to 5%. I got an ...
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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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Delete previous partition after reinstalling XP
I was trying to boot my system using USB drive. It formatted my system and reinstalled Windows XP but deleted all the previous partition.
Now in my system there is only one partition and that is C: ...
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Truecrypt volume header damaged after each reboot
I am currently setting up my new Dell XPS 15 notebook and created a truecrypt volume (partition) on my harddisk, the OS is preinstalled Win 7 Home Premium.
After reboot, Truecrypt wants to auto mount ...
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How can I make a recovery partition using my Windows 7 Installation disk?
Similar to how HP or ACER will create a partition on the hard drive which you can boot from using F10 or something similar if your computer crashes. What do I have to do to my windows 7 installation ...
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recover linux partition after failed windows xp install
I have a pc with two hard drives, one runs Ubuntu 10.10 and the other has NTFS with a broken XP. The XP failed after I upgrade Ubuntu to 10.10. I installed virtualbox in Ubuntu so for a while I ...
