Questions tagged [recovery]
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How can I restore a lost Chrome session?
Computer shut down on me and the restore previous session button didn't work. Is there a file that shows previous session URLs? I remember hearing about this a while ago. Any help is appreciated ...
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Kali linux failed after upgrade
My Kali stopped working after upgrade.
I run it in recovery mode, and it seems that basic communication (http) packages have some problem.
When I try wget or curl I get:
relocation error /usr/lib/...
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Why is this data seemingly gone?
This question is a bit long, but people often prefer to have all the details instead of being required to ask for them, so I've included as much detail as possible.
I received a frantic call from a ...
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MacOS Recovery error: "The recovery server could not be contacted"
"The recovery server could not be contacted" is thrown, when attempting to reinstall MacOS.
Laptop: MacBook Pro 2016, https://support.apple.com/kb/SP748?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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"Move" confirmation dialog in File Explorer?
Windows 10.
I have Tourette's and occasionally when moving the mouse I'll click it. Every once in a while I get unlucky and have a File Explorer window open and accidentally drag some random folder to ...
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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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How to recover unsaved file (Visual Studio Code)?
my VSC crash without saving how to get back the code ?
already tested appdata\roaming\code\backup i dont found the file
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Recovery on an ancient version of my TexStudio file
I am writing both my PhD manuscript and a scientific paper.
Instead of writing the latter in Overleaf, I chose to do it on my TexStudio. I made a huge mistake of copy/paste the template of the paper ...
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How to delete a Folder as if it hasn't existed at all
As the title says, not only I want to completely erase it's bits and bytes from the disk but also it's trace on file system, so NO Undelete software can show that it HAD been there at all.
There are ...
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Is “clean all” in “Diskpart” totally secure erasure method for SSD, HDD, USB flash drives and other storage device?
I found on the Internet that if you use Diskpart with clean all command you can erase disk so that the data won't be recoverable.
And from my experience it is true, because having done this with my ...
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Linux: specify root filesystem with fallback
I know I could use initrd/initramfs to do whatever needed, but I would like to avoid this option, if possible.
I need to have a "normal" working rootfs (on an SD card of an embedded system, if it ...
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Deleting list of files with non-standard file names
I have recently had to rescue files from a bad HDD, and am in the middle of cleaning up the mess. Currently I'm using a duplicate cleaner to delete any restored files that have duplicates on my backup....
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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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Luks header overwritten with dd
I've copy and pasted too fast from a tutorial and overwritten the LUKS header from one of my drives with dd. The used command was:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb bs=512 seek=1 count=100
And now:
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What happens when a file is deleted? Does the disk space decrease or does it stays the same?
I was wondering that if we can recover permanently deleted files using softwares (like Disk Drill, Recuva), then it means that they (files) never got deleted,
Hence the disk space does not really ...
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How can I recover data from "diskpart clean"?
I tried installing Windows to a partition on my Mac but because I'm stupid I accidentally followed an April Fools' tutorial which said that I need to type in clean into diskpart which deleted my whole ...
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What exactly will System Image Recovery do?
I'm planning on performing a clean installation of Windows 10 Pro, and am planning on creating a system image to use to recover all my data after the installation. My question is, will the recovery of ...
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How can I recover 2 LUKS2 partitions formatted by mistake?
I wanted to install a new Linux distro so I deleted the previous partitions used for Fedora install at the beginning of the disk ~120 Gb and I had the rest of the 2/3 of the disk compose out of 2 ...
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How to recover bricked Archer C20?
My router is a TP-Link Archer C20 (US) V5. I installed OpenWRT on it successfully using these instructions (made sure to use the US firmware of course) and it was working fine. For some reason I ...
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Deleting files from a USB drive in windows would still be available to be recovered in MAC?
Im not much of an expert in mac iOS so my question might be a naive one but is more of a curiosity. I had a file copied into a USB flash drive. Then after using the drive I deleted the file from the ...
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Fastest and easiest way to recover large amount of specific files from Windows Recycle Bin
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I am using Windows 10. Due to a file sync error I deleted over 11,000 files. They are now in the Recycle Bin. I have tried selecting the files I want to recover and recovering through the ...
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Recover Win Pro product key after installed Win Home
My case is a bit special.
Normally when I re-install Windows as the same as the previous it would automatically activate Windows for me.
But this time, I have Windows 10 Pro (OEM), have to install ...
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Recovering Greenshot open image editor screenshots after reboot
I know this is a longshot, but I'm wondering if there is any way to recover unsaved Greenshot image editor images.
I had about 10 images open in various image editor windows. Before I could save them, ...
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Bitlocker wants recovery key after system update
I use Windows 10 with my laptop. I made a Windows update which lead into a system update for my laptop.
After that when I start I get prompted for the Bitlocker recovery key. But I do not have one, ...
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Can I recover RSA-keypair by generating them at the same time and date?
I would like to generate a rsa keypair with openssl. For security reasons - for example loss - I would like to ask, if it is possible to regenerate these using openssl and executing the same genrsa ...
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Macrium Reflect 7 Free on WinXP - Replicated Nonfunctional Macrium Recovery Boot Menu Entries
I had a failing HDD on an old WinXP SP3 machine, and used Macrium Reflect 7 Free (plus SpinRite 6 and Beyond Compare) to salvage the OS and data and clone/copy them onto a new HDD. Multiple steps ...
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Tweak Nemo so that Delete key doesn't delete irretrievably (NTFS)
OS: Linux Mint 18.3
It appears that on a Linux-type partition pressing the Delete key sends a file or directory to Trash (called "Rubbish Bin" in my system, maybe because I'm in the UK).
But if I ...
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Recover from accidental folder move
I use Windows 7.
Because it is so easy to accidentally drag and drop a folder inside another folder situated below or above it - and to not notice this, is there a way to tell Windows to listen to ...
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External Hard Drive lost after Making a Windows 10 Bootable USB
I have two issues; 1st: I lost all my data on an external hard drive after creating a bootable USB for windows 10 installation via windows media creation tool
2nd: I only can see 30 GBs out of my 1TB ...
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I forgot my sudo password on Debian
I need my root password to get allegro installed. I can't boot Debian neither I don't know what else I can do. Please, send help.
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Windows 10 v1809 use custom WIM for "Reset this PC"
In Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, after capturing a well-audited image as OS restoration image, I use run this command in my running OS to instruct WinRE to use this image when resetting:
reagentc.exe /...
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Recovering automatically encrypted BitLocker drive
This is not a case of a forgotten password or lost recovery key.
I have a Dell Inspiron 5378 laptop with Intel PTT and Windows 10 Home. Bitlocker shouldn't even be available in Home, but the drive ...
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Windows 7: boot to Windows recovery environment without the original install CD?
I installed a new disk to my system that dual boots windows 10 and CentOS, I wanted to add the original disk that boots windows 7 to grub, Grub detected an error, I unplug the other disk and attempt ...
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Does it matter if there's a gap in partition offset numbers when resizing the Windows 10 recovery partition?
A PC was set up for me a few years ago at a company for which I do some part-time consulting work, though they expect me to take care of doing the Windows updates for it. It has a gap in the ...
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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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I keep being asked for an Administrator password in ubuntu 23.04 [closed]
I'm on ubuntu 23.04 and I keep being asked for an Administrator password (not a root, Administrator). I don't have it... I never set it, and it's not the root password. Can anyone help me with that?
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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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Windows 10, how to recover deleted files that were deleted from a search in the file explorer?
In Windows 10, I have searched a folder for files containing a certain name and deleted it.
Afterwards, I reconsidered and wanted those files back; I then went looking into the recycle bin, but it was ...
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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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Is there any way to fix undeleted files? [duplicate]
I accidently formatted a hard drive and then I used a recovery software to undelete the files.
I managed to get most of the files back, they're all with their respective sizes and folder structure, ...
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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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