Questions tagged [recovery]
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Tab recovery from a corrupt Chrome Last Session?
Chrome crashed and I lost ~100 tabs. The tabs don't appear in history and I'm not able to restore them by renaming my Last Session file to Current Session in AppData/Google/UserData/Default, it just ...
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Recovery mode or boot USB for an Apple iMac 20" A1224 (2009)
Recently found an Apple iMac 20" A1224 (2009) on the side of the road and want to wipe and reinstall (don't know former user password).
I'm using a regular wireless keyboard (is this the problem?)...
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Data recovery on partition encrypted with Veracrypt - Input/Output error - Possible disk failure
I am trying to recover some data from my backup drive which is encrypted with Veracrypt as I recently encountered input/output error messages when I attempted to copy some of the files from it. This ...
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Fix cloned Windows problems (laptop system-recovery, memtest, Windows recovery environment)
Background/Cause
Several months ago, I upgraded my laptop's hard-drive to an SSD. The SSD is smaller than the hard-drive, so I freed up enough space for it to fit and cloned the drive to the SSD, with ...
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OEM Windows 7 product key missing 1 letter, how can I fill in the blank?
I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre machine I'm trying to refurbish for a friend. I'd like to install the version of Windows it came with, but the Microsoft OEM key sticker is missing one letter near the very ...
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Encrypted luks SSD from dead laptop in another laptop / data recovery
Recently my laptop died, there is no chance to save the laptop anymore. On the laptop i was running Elementary OS. While installing i choose the encryption with LUkS option.
Now i have another laptop,...
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Uneraseable file in Windows 7
We have an old Windows 7 machine that needs to be returned to a client and as such, I need to make sure the free space has been erased. There is single deleted file that is never overwritten. It is a ...
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Imaged windows 7 won't boot
I have a physical windows7 system (HP) and am migrating the user to a new windows10 machine. I'd like to virtualize this machine as a backup. I clonezilla'd the drive and if it was windows 10 I'd be ...
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How to mount large disk image on small hardware to recover files
I have a raw disk backup of a 4TB external drive /dev/sda split into 1GiB chunks, within is a single used partition /dev/sda1 and some other junk. The chunks are being stored on multiple physical ...
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How does Windows 10 "Reset this PC" work?
In Windows 10, the Reset this PC feature says it can "Reinstall Windows from this device".
My PC have the classic following partitions:
MBR
EFI
MSR / Reserved
Windows
Recovery (WinRE_DRV) (...
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External HDD detected but not working
I took out an HDD from my old laptop which was working fine and never had any issues. I bought a casing for it and started using it as an external HDD. After a few months, I plugged in the HDD as an ...
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How to recover/restore lost session in chrome?
So I signed out of one of my google accounts which had all my tabs and it immediately closed my session and replaced it with the session from my other account. Now the tabs from my original account ...
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Using an EaseUS pbd backup with VMWare Workstation - winload.efi error
Hopefully someone can offer some assistance.
I have a Windows 10 pbd backup that was create using EaseUS. Pretty sure something is wrong with the boot settings in this backup, but it is what it is.
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Does a Typical DELL XPS Laptop Feed Enough Power Through its USB Ports to Keep an External HDD Running?
I want to recover my files on my 2.5" 4TB HDD, because I have broken system files that keep me from booting in Windows 10. To do this I bought a SATA→USB adapter that includes both the power and ...
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Updated to Windows 11 insider release (2021-11) and now my WSL2 Ubuntu 18.04 isn't loading. What to do?
My computer just updated to the latest windows 11 insider release and now My WSL2 ubuntu 18.04 isn't loading. How do I go about debugging why it just hangs when I start it up? I even tried going to ...
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macOS partition deleted cannot boot into recovery mode or do anything please help only windows partition works
I installed macOS 12.0 beta and since then it was stuck on a bootloop, then i tried to get to recovery mode, safe boot, reset SMC/NVRAM. And since I did not make a time machine backup I couldn't go ...
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Options for RAID recovery after motherboard dies
The Skinny
Personal home computer with RAID built with the onboard Intel chipset hardware RAID controller has died after a power fluctuation. The system hardware was kind of old. Will the RAID array ...
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Is the Windows.old folder compressed to save space? What files does it contain?
I want to upgrade my system from Windows 7 to Windows 8. However, I am currently using more than half of my disk space. I read that Windows will create a "Windows.old" folder with a full ...
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Is it possible to view saved wifi passwords without a wireless interface installed (Windows 7)
I have had a network interface installed on a old hard drive, but I can't access them because I don't currently have a adapter installed. Is there any way I can access the passwords?
It keeps ...
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URGENT - used git clean -xdf, lost everything need something to recover the files
I was doing some coding and working on an environment when I read a command that would help me sort my libraries in a conda environment -> git clean -xdf . Dumb me just pasted on the terminal, lost ...
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Gitlab Repository Recovery Issue
I am so confused and don’t know what to do.
I configured my Gitlab locally on ubuntu 18.02 and upload my projects there.
Now, I got a problem in my ubuntu O.S, so I needed to fresh install Ubuntu.
In ...
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Recover Permanently Deleted Folder (SHIFT+DELETE) Windows 10 Bootcamp SSD
Accidentally permanently deleted a folder (w/ SHIFT+DELETE) on a Windows 10 Bootcamp SSD: is there any way to recover it? None of the major recovery sofware sees it (e.g. Recuva, EaseUS, DiskDrill, ...
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How to recover unsaved notepad++ file in windows 10
I haven't configured backup path.
I am using version 5.9.8.
I was editing a new file which was not saved even once and my laptop crashed. Is there a way to recover it?
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Accidentally overwritten Macintosh recovery partition when installing Ubuntu
About a month ago I ditched macOS for Ubuntu on my iMac Late 2009. During the installation I explicitly told Ubuntu to leave the Macintosh recovery partition alone. It did not. I now wish to go back ...
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Data Recovery on Linux
I recently purchased a new computer so that I could upgrade my old Linux machine. My old machine was running Ubuntu 16.04 Server LTS. The operating system was installed on a 256 GB SSD, while a single ...
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SSD not working anymore and windows not opening
Windows suddenly stopped working when I connected the HDD with rack on my laptop. I’ve tried almost everything, so later on I have discovered after reinstalling the HDD and placing the SSD in the rack ...
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Windows System Image Restore mixes up drives
So to upgrade my internal SSD, I created a system image, swapped the drive (new one is larger) and booted from an USB drive. But for some reasons one of my external drives seems to be part of the ...
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How to use Recuva on a .mrimg Macrium Reflect image?
I'm trying to recover deleted data for a friend.
They accidentally formatted their hard drive (I'm hoping it was just a quick format).
The drive is currently in an external case accessed by USB.
When ...
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How can I delete at least some data from an external HDD with write/read problems without physically damaging the drive?
I'm seeking advice on how to handle a faulty hard drive that I need to return to Amazon.
There are many articles suggesting ways to wipe or physically destroy a drive, but these options aren't viable ...
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Wiped my HDD with Proxmox 8. Can it be recovered?
I was using Proxmox 8, I have a bunch of HDD's to setup. One is a secondary HDD for my Windows - the Windows OD is on a SSD, but I use the HDD for bulk.
In Proxmox I clicked "wipe disk" - ...
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No such file or directory error in macOS in recovery mode
I am using macOS Catalina (10.15) and I'm trying to backup my Mac home folder to my current SSD drive through recovery mode. I am planning on saving data and then cleaning the drive so that my Mac can ...
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Can't boot into Kali after an update. Still learning how to parse these logs...can anyone lend a set of eyes and help me sort this out?
I recently did a:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
And have been unable to boot since.
Fortunately, I can boot into recovery mode but I am having trouble diagnosing the issue. I've ...
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windows 10 How to enable automatic recovery mode without user interaction?
Sometimes during loading windows 10 I have message that windows is not loaded properly and I have to either to reboot or try advanced setting where I just press Continue and windows 10 loads properly ....
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WinRe.wim is in wrong place
Windows 11
I had trouble enabling the Windows recovery environment and it turned out that the WinRe.wim file was not in the default location of
C:\Windows\System32\Recovery
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C:\...
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I have a MacBook Pro 2016 just updated to Sonoma then it went into Bootkicker.efi Openshell.efi Reset NVRAM I’ve tried everything nothing has worked
My MacBook Pro has the update Sonoma before the update there were absolutely no problems.
But since the update I can’t get it to boot in recovery mode it keeps going to BootKicker.efi.
Then when I do ...
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Fixing broken USB drivers when upgrading from Windows 10 LTSB 2015 to LTSB 2016
I recently upgraded my computer from Windows 10 LTSB 2015 to Windows 10 LTSB 2016. I forgot, however, that Windows 10 1607 (LTSB 2016) uses USB drivers which are not compatible with my computer, which ...
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Missing recovery partion and unable to start boot/startup manager on macbook pro mid 2012
my mid 2012 macbook pro with intel icore7 is in need of some attention. it's been running slugish for a while now.. I cleaned the hd as much as I could but since the os is not longer getting supported ...
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I have a 4 TB WD Green Drive. It clicks 4 times, then a pause, then 1 more click, but it won't mount
I have a 4.0 TB WD Green drive. It was in an enclosure as part of a WD My Book or something like that. It failed on me so I took it out of the enclosure and put it in a new one. I plugged it into my ...
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Is there a way to know when Track Changes was turned off in Word?
In a shared Word document (stored in SharePoint) that multiple users are editing, someone has turned Track Changes off and it would be useful to know when it happened so that we can double check the ...
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WINLOAD.EFI CORRUPTED - Can't boot into OS normally, or via Safe mode and system restore won't work Windows 11
I can't boot into windows after a serious crash. Each time I boot, I get a critical process died or BSOD reporting different error codes around the BCD configuration file or winload.efi not being able ...
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Recovering inode connection on ext4 fs
I faced some non-standard behavior in ext4 partition on my external drive.
After i disconnect my disk from laptop and reconnect again i witnesssed something odd: i somehow lost some of my files... Or ...
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recovering previously printed files from many years ago
I am using Windows 10. I am trying to get a copy of a file I printed out in around 2016 or so. It was a page/document accessed from a website, and I don't think I specifically saved the file before ...
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Thunderbird deletes mails after recovering on OWA
By mistake, I deleted all my mails in the inbox in thunderbird. Unfortunately, they didn't show up in deleted items nor in trash.
But I found all mails on Outlook Web App under recover deleted mails. ...
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Lenovo B490 BIOS Recovery
Has anyone successfully recovered/flashed B490 laptop without removing the flash from board?
I tried:
Download Phoenix Wincrisis on another computer, then click on WINCRIS.exe and choose CREATE ...
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In VSCode remote ssh, how to change the right-click delete action in File Explorer from permanent deletion to moving files to the Recycle Bin?
I connect to remote server by ssh on vscode.
The right-click delete action in File Explorer will permanently delete files of remote server.
How to change the right-click delete action in File Explorer ...
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Why can't I run this portable exe from my USB drive? "Cannot access the specified device..."
I'm trying to use R-Undelete which has a portable installed on a 16GB PNY usb drive. When I try to start anything on the drive it returns this message :
So I was trying to update the drivers for USB ...
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How can I recreate an email folder from online web archives?
For reasons, I have misplaced a mail folder with a bunch of messages from a mailing list. Luckily - this list has an online archive:
https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/
is there any ...
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Is my Windows 10 installation reusing the system and recovery partitions of other installation?
In my desktop PC I have an SSD where I installed Windows 10 many years ago. Later I purchased an nvme ssd, where I also installed Windows 10, and I can choose which Windows 10 to launch at boot. Both ...
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Does this journalctl log look like my SCSI HDD is well and truly dead?
My old 2TB SCSI External HDD has died. There was a clicking sound when I tried to mount it. I was able to recover the important data, so the issue is mostly to do with if this journalctl entry looks ...
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Windows not booting after changing EnableVirtualizationBasedSecurity setting in GroupPolicy
Today I wanted to disable the Microsoft Defender Credential Guard on my Windows 11 workstation to allow my remote connections to use stored passwords again (LAN only, no domain login). I did, however, ...