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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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Undelete utility for Windows with Sync capability before undeleting
I accidentally deleted a large >200GB folder of files from a USB drive, which given the size of the folder was not put in the recycle bin. Whilst I can undelete this manually using a tool such as ...
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Cannot find file and folder $RECYCLE.BIN in windows 7
I have recovered a deleted file Episode2.wmv. In recovery software it was showing it in folder $RECYCLE.BIN\SOME-STRANGE-LONG-FOLDER-NAME\Episode2.wmv. I recovered it on root c:\ but I am unable to ...
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Saved file1 into file2, how to rescue original file2?
That is the question, accidentaly saved empty file into a good file. It was an adobe illustrator project.
Is there any way to get it back?
I'm on Os X.
Thank you!
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How do I recover files from a RAW-formatted external HDD? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
RAW to NTFS (Data already recovered so not important)
My external HDD suddenly changed to RAW format so i can't access it anymore. Is formatting the disk to NTFS and ...
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Recovering Mozilla Firefox cache
Yesterday, I accidentally deleted my entire cache, and I need to find a video in it. Is there a program that can dig into Mozilla Firefox's cache for .flv files (Youtube File)?
I tried CacheViewer ...
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Undelete records in Microsoft Access
About 600 records in a Microsoft Access File (.mdb) have been deleted. The .mdb file size hasn't changed, being around 20 MB.
AccessFIX (Demo) shows the exact number and contents of the deleted ...
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can I copy the files from recovery partition to another drive partition
Is it possible to copy the files from a recovery partition to another partition on another drive an be able to restore system from the new recovery partition
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Recovering accidental deleted files on Drobo
I have accidentally deleted files on a Drobo FS and am looking for a way to recover these. Does anybody have a clue?
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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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Recover files deleted from Windows 7 with no backup
I accidentally deleted important files, for which I do not have a backup. My thesis files worth four years of sweat is gone and when I tried to go back to a "previous versions" I get the message:
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Recover document.xml from a corrupt docx
I've got a Word document(docx) which is corrupt, when I open it up in Word I am presented with a dialog that tells me that it needs to bo repaird but the reparation fails.
Then I tried extracting the ...
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How can I repair or install startup repair/system recovery after BCD corruption?
How should I go about repairing startup repair?
Installing startup repair onto the hard drive, as if it was not originally there, would also fix this.
In the hope that someone at a Windows-specific ...
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Encrypted Disk + chkdsk = Cannot boot into Windows
Here is the scenario my friend and I have:
Installed Norton Utilities and performed "optimize" (mistake 1)
Upon reboot, chkdsk runs and starts spitting out "replacing invalid security id with ...
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Restore XFS system to a point in time
I've just made the mistake of trying to install the proprietoy ATI drivers on 12.04 Ubuntu. It asked me to reboot, which I did, and was greyed with a kernel panic.
Now I'm looking for the undo ...
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DaRT 7.0 doesn't see my Windows installation
I created bootable CD for Microsoft DaRT 7.0.
And when I boot, it doesn't see my Windows 7 32bit Ultimate installation.
What can I do?
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What is the compaq diagnostic partition?
I have a very new Lenovo notebook but I see nowhere a compaq logo or something else.
What is the compaq diagnostic partition and for what is this?
Why do they use this in very new notebooks?
Where ...
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Copy OS from one drive to other
I forgot my password to my backup file. My main drive is going out. I have installed windows 7 to another drive and can boot from it as normal(I'm not new to installing OS'es BTW). Instead of backing ...
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how to undelete files on btrfs partition?
How do I undelete (recover) a deleted file on a btrfs partition?
I have not taken a snapshot yet, so I can't use that feature. I know there are some tools for other Linux file systems, but google ...
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How Can I recover folder in /tmp?
I have big problem. I just put web services folder into /tmp for some test. After i forgot that and reboot the server, my service folder is gone. :[
So, i tried r-studio for recover but i have ...
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How to fix the boot sequence and/or restore a deleted partiotion
I have a computer with a 250GB HD on which there were installed a few operating systems. When the computer boots, I got the GRUB menu with all these Ubuntu installations (about 10 versions - I don't ...
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Window's can't be configured after a system restore
I've just had to do a complete system recovery, (back to factory settings) on my computer using the recovery discs that I made when I first bought it. All went fine until the end when it said to ...
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Recovered Files with TestDisk, but File Names and Folder Structure is Bad
I used Testdisk to recover files from an internal harddrive which I connected externally to my other PC.
With Photorec all the file names are wrong and the original folder structure doesn't exist.
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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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i accidentally deleted the recovery folder on a partition (win vista home)
i accidentally deleted the recovery folder on the recovery partition (win vista home)
i think it was some sort of scheduled maintenance of some program that i did not configure properly? oops... lol
i ...
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Recover Photos from an iPhone in DFU Mode
I have an iPhone 4 that is not jailbroken and crashed when it was updating itself to iOS 5.1. I can go into recovery mode and DFU mode, is there anything I can do to get my photos?
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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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System Recovery Operating System not listed
I'm using hp that has Windows 7 operating system installed on it. I cannot get to my desktop, so i tried to go into safe mode, but it is taking too damn long to load...not sure if this is normal; it ...
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How to determine why HP DataVault X510 WHS fails to boot?
I have a HP DataVault X510 Windows Home Server that does not appear to boot up any more. It turns on displays all three lights (power, network & health) for a couple of seconds then turns off for ...
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Laptop Recovery Hard Drive Replacement
If I am upgrading the hard drive on a laptop, is it possible to transfer the "hidden" backup (recovery) partition for a Toshiba laptop to the new hard drive ?
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Grub Boot Recover Windows Part
I have installed first Linux than Windows on same system. To be able to recover my grub i mount Linux anyway. Lastly i typed "sudo update -grub"
After that, i am not able to boot Windows.Is there any ...
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Fix a corrupted text file
I had a plain English .txt file. After sending it via Bluetooth, the content is corrupted and has weird characters like : #šh‘÷ÔÈ
Any tips on what I can do to recover the original text?
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Empty non-empty file
Yesterday I was working on one file, it worked great! Today, I tried to open this same file, but it is now empty. Even when I try to open it with Notepad, the file is completely empty. If I look at ...
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Hp desktop system recovery [closed]
I just did a system recovery on my husbands hp desktop computer and everything went fine until it said it was going to shut down. It never did shut down and now it's stuck on blue screen. I tried ...
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HP Recovery options: System Recovery not showing
I am using HP Pavilion dv4 notebook. Previously, there were following options in Recovery Manager(using f11 during boot):
+System Recovery
+Factory Restore
+Minimized Image Recovery
The System ...
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Could replacing an old hard drive's circuit board make it work again?
I have a 12-year-old, 10gb Maxtor drive that died on me around 7 years ago, but I have not had the heart to throw it away. When the computer powers on, it whirrs silently as it tries to spin up and ...
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Retail windows xp prof sp 2 Lost key but have the genuine cd , what to do?
I had recently formatted my system only to find out i have lost the cd key to my original cd.
i had used the option to enter the product key later. Yes, i know its a stupid thing to do but i bought ...
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Windows 7 Recovery Console File Access Denied
Recently by computer crashed and was stuck in a boot loop. So I created a Windows Recovery CD and booted from that.
When I use the command prompt in the recovery console, I cannot see any of my ...
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Fastest way to restore Windows 7's original MBR?
I have removed GRUB's partition, and I wanted to restore the original Windows boot part. WinToFlash failed again to make my pendrive bootable, thus I'm in a bit of a trouble now.
I looked all ...
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Reliable way to check for applications last ran from NTFS partition?
When recovering a broken Windows system, I need to know which applications are actually used, so that I know which of them must be reinstalled and reconfigured (along with user's data) after the ...
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ReclaimMe Recovery of the Table used to identify member disk in RAID 5 array
I have seen this issue posted on many forums with only one possible solution (suggested below) and before I attempt I thought the community could weigh in on this solution and then we can share it ...
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Stop outlook from automatically deleting items
I use the "Deleted Items" folder in Outlook 2010 as an archive, so I want all my deleted items to stay in this folder.
However, every so often (ever 2 weeks, maybe?), I can see some items from this ...
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How can I restore my laptop from Windows 7 to its original Windows Vista recovery partition?
I bought my Acer laptop 4 years ago with Vista Home Premium x86. It has a recovery partition that I have used successfully in the past to format everything and reinstall Windows to factory settings.
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recover gnome-terminal tab that got disconnected from ssh connection?
Is there any way to recover a gnome-terminal tab that got disconnected from ssh connection? Whenever I get disconnected from the ssh connection in a gnome-terminal tab, that window doesn't respond to ...
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Restoring Raid 5 Meta data / Table
2 part question at end of this text
My problem:
My CMOS was cleared, BIOS was set to IDE instead of RAID.
My understanding (from other sites) is that motherboard Intel ICH10R data is stored in BIOS ...
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Recovering data from BitLocker-encrypted hard drive that no longer boots
I had a BitLocker-encrypted drive in my laptop that crashed last night. I have a new hard drive I am building in the laptop but there is some data on the old drive I want to try and recover. I have ...
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RAID 5 Recovery Reset CMOS and drives show up as 2 Member 4 non-Member
How do you restore a raid array (not part of your C drive) after resetting BIOS and installing a new C (Windows) drive.
My setup: (its a LOT of data, i cannot afford to lose it, most of it is ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
