Restoring an application or attribute(s) of an application to their original state.
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Boot mac from DVD. Recovery data
I've messed up my mac running OSx 10.4. I could recovery it if I can access the CLI (I've accidentally moved some files from root directory to another one --> this lead not to booting anymore, keeping ...
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Recover Lost NTFS Partition With Corrupted Boot Sector
Is there a way to recover a lost NTFS partition with a corrupted boot sector ?
The backup boot sector is also corrupted. I know that the NTFS partition used to start in sector 551585791.
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Free Windows equivalent to .snapshot directory (from Linux)?
I'm sure there's demand for the simplicity of .snapshot-style recovery in Windows (of arbitrary directories, not just the registry). Is there any free software that does this? Or even paid? How about ...
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Possible to Restore VirtualBox Saved State?
I am running VirtualBox on Windows 7, and my question pertains to a virtual disk I have been using with Tiny Core Linux installed.
Since the distribution doesn't save files in the home directory ...
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Best tool to recover lost data [closed]
I need a software to recover an entire partition lost (about 200GB), could you tell me which is the best?
The filesystem of the partition is NTFS, and my data was there 'till five minutes ago..
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Anyway to restore an unbacked file deleted from network share? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to undelete big file in NTFS?
As title states, a file has been deleted from a network drive on an end user terminal - is there any software that can be installed ...
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144 views
Missing music after failed renaming with eyeD3
Most of my music is missing after I attempted to organize my music library with eyeD3.
eyeD3 has a function described as thus:
--rename=PATTERN
Rename the file based on PATTERN which may contain ...
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315 views
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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External hard drive spins up then goes off all of a sudden
I have an old seagate 750gb with about 350gb of data on it. Its been lying a cupboard for well over a year and I decided to see what was on it and if I could recover the files. I find that there were ...
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Detect corrupted files after unformating the drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Automating the scanning of graphics files for corruption
Successful data recovery but most files are corrupted
I tried to recover data from a 'accidentally' formatted ...
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MS SQL Recovery Tool [Recommendations] [closed]
Can anyone recommend any tools for MS SQL recovery? Basically I had a master.mdf go bad on a system I don't manage and need to repair.
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Is there a way to backup the windows recovery partition or recreate it on a sony vaio laptop?
My friend got a Sony Vaio laptop. Soon, I will install him Linux. But I want to back up the Windows 7's recovery partition that came pre-installed.
But on laptop, normally, when we boot up, they ask ...
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Windows 7 bootrec “Element not found.” error
When I enter "bootrec /rebuildbcd", my windows os appears as D:\Windows I answer yes to add installation to boot list, and I get "Element not found." error. Same with "bootrec /fixboot". I do not need ...
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Recover Data from a External Drive Formatted with Truecrypt volume
I was formatting a hard drive (160GB) with encryption to be used for backup using Truecrypt. My computer went to sleep while this was happening and the operation got canceled. I just clicked "Back" ...
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Accidentally erased rpm package, how to recover?
Yesterday I planned to erase all wine related package, first I queried with:
rpm -qa | grep wine
and it showed 6 or 7 packages, then I typed:
rpm -qa | rpm -e
After one or two minutes waiting, I ...
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Turn of video driver in recovery command prompt
I have a hp dv2000 and my video card has stopped working. I disabled it in safe mode so I can use my laptop. I am going to reimage it again and when I reimage it will enable the video card again. If ...
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Mac Book Pro “Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions” process
I have a MBP 13 inch with OSX Lion on it (late 2011 model).
Since a few months now it's been slower than when out of the box even though I didin't really start using it differently since then, except ...
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Recovering deleted photo's original name from SD Card
I know that many tools to recover deleted photos from SD Card exist but does anyone recover also the original photo ID like DSC000754.JPG?
Thanks.
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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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Will my Lenovo One Key Recovery work if I install Ubuntu on my Ideapad U410?
I own a Lenovo Ideapad U410. Being a game developer the first thing that I wanted to do is install Ubuntu. But I don't want to lose the Windows 7 that ships with the laptop.
So, I wanted to know if ...
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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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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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Restore SQLite DB from WAL
Is it possible to restore deleted rows or dropped tables provided the WAL and shm files are still intact and contain the data you want to restore?
Example scenario where vast swathes of content have ...
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Windows 7 Recovery Media to HDD without re-partition and Extraction
I want to Restore Windows 7 to HDD without re-partitioning the Hard-Drive. I have a HP Dv6 6115tx laptop. I have upgraded it to 8GB ram and Windows 7 Ultimate (anytime-upgrade). When I restore my ...
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How to reset sony vaio laptop to factory settings if OS is corrupted and Recovery partition not visible in BooT up? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
reset Sony VAIO to factory settings with no recovery disks and inaccessible recovery partition
I have a laptop which was formatted by mistake.I dont have the recovery ...
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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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I have a bunch of CHK files on my USB Drive that used to be my stories that I saved on there. How do I get them back?
Ok, so I am not sure why, but my USB flash drive isn't showing all of my stories that I typed and saved.
It might be because I removed the USB flash drive without ejecting it safely.
All of the ...
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Linux format hard disk, the data should not be recoverable
i am new to linux can any one give me a suggestion on how to format hard disk that is i need to clean the data,data should not recover again it should be permanently deleted.
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How to restore a windows 7 system from a secondary drive
I have a stationary computer with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. The primary (SSD) hard drive seems to have stopped working completely, it is not even visible in BIOS.
The computer has a secondary hard ...
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How to recover a file overwritten with another in Linux?
I did this on the command line (Ubuntu 12.04 , ext4)
mv some_arbit_file required_file
Is there any way I can recover required_file? I had put so much work into this. I usually backup files but I ...
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Updating windows xp hard drive controller from ubuntu live disk
The problem:
When booting, I get a blue screen shortly after the Windows XP logo splash screen. The error code is 7b, and the second hex number is 0xC0000034. Based on this link (item 7) it appears ...
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How to reboot Ubuntu in Recovery Mode from SSH terminal shell?
I have Ubuntu 12.04 Virtual Machine running in cloud and the only way I can connect to it, is via SSH using Putty. If I want to boot Ubuntu in recovery mode, is it possible to create some kind of ...
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All application passwords lost on Windows 7
A couple of days ago I changed my Windows 7 login password. My laptop is on my company's domain, so password changes are done over the internal network.
Since changing the password I noticed that all ...
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ownership of hard drive recoveery of files Windows 7
Here is the issue. I have an old laptop that died that was running xp. I now have a win 7 laptop. I need to get the files off the old drive. Win 7 will not let me take ownership of the drive. I can ...
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Windows Server 2008 wont start and didnt write ntbtlog.txt
One of my server wont start normaly or in recoverymode. It ist Windows Server 2008 R2, I try to copy the files from folder \windows\system32\config\RegBack to \windows\system32\config and try to ...
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USB Flash drive corrupt files - Help needed
I have a 16gb usb flash drive with 8gb worth of data that I can't afford to lose. When I inserted it into my pc, inside the folder that I was storing the data I saw unintelligible characters and ...
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How can I make a non-destructive copy of a (NTFS) partition?
I want to recover some deleted files from a healthy NTFS partition on an undamaged hard-disk.
In order to leave the partition undisturbed, i plan to use dd to clone the partition to a raw image file ...
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GPG and SWC files off a damaged drive
I managed to salvage a bunch of files off an old toshiba sata drive for a friend. He says there were movies on there but all I've gotten off the drive are .gpg and .swc files.
I really have no ...
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Files missing after copying from one sdcard to another using Ubuntu 12.04
I have two Kingston sdcards 8GB and 32GB. The 8GB for HTC Sensation and 32GB for my Tablet (Chinese). I soon ran out of space on my phone and decided to swap the data between the sdcards. I copied the ...
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Mac localhost website deleted using PHP unlink function. Need to recover them
I really need help!
Some very important script files e.g. .php and .js have been deleted with the php unlink function (on a mac), i need to recover these files. I tried a couple of programs but I ...
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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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TrueCrypt: Open volume without mounting
I have a corrupt TrueCrypt volume. When I try to mount it, the password is fine but I get an error: hdiutil attach failed no mountable file systems.
I just need to open it without TrueCrypt trying to ...
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1answer
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How to efficiently restore Library folder partially deleted on OS X
I am using OS X Lion, and trying to delete some files I did accidentally (from home directoy):
rm -fr Library
I realized about this some 15 seconds later and did
killall rm
Some folders have ...
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ASUS Recovery DVDs does not “INSTALL” windows
My ASUS R500VM has UEFI and GPT scheme disk. Earlier, I tried to resize the default partitions using EaseUS but it failed and couldn't boot anymore. It showed the message that I have to insert the ...
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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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Different BSOD messages every time I turn on the computer
Every time I turn on my computer I receive a different BSOD. I can't even give info about my computer because I haven't been able to stay on it long enough.
The following are the BSOD messages that ...
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Running iconized application unreachable?
Some applications like Privoxy start iconized, and sometimes, the app is running but is no longer displayed in the icon bar (XP).
Task Manager only includes an "End Process" button, but no "Bring to ...
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I have recovery issues in my Gateway nv series laptop
Helo
i wanted to restore os from my recovery drive. but because of some issues i could not do that.
so i had my recovery dvds which i made when i bought laptop. these are three dvds. so i inserted ...
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recovering a (permanently) deleted Outlook task
Last night I accidentally deleted an Outlook 2007 task that was in my deleted folder. this task contains important data that I would like to recover. I tried using Pandora recovery freeware to no ...
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Find out who deleted certain data
Someone deleted data from my windows 7 system. I want to find out who.
The data is shared.
Are there any logs that could help me?
