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Recover truecrypt partition without MBR + recovery disk?

I destroyed my mbr and have no truecrypt rescue disk. However, I do know my password and my encryption setup (e.g. hashing functions and ciphers used). This happened after an upgrade to version 7.0a ...
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Xubuntu system broken after copying files

I was trying to copy files from one directory to another while keeping permissions for the files. The files in question where part of a rootfs built for armhf as I was trying to get 14.04 to run on my ...
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linux - centos won't boot after rebuilding raid

I have a dedicated server with OVH. Yesterday they had to replace one of the HDD because it was about to fail. After replacing the disk, we had to rebuild the RAID and now the server won't boot ...
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I took an image from entire hard disk of a real PC running linux FC4 and try to run it under virtual box but grub freezes all the time

I am trying to run an image which I took from an actual PC (cpu = intel/motherboard=unknown to me/ os = FC 4/ RAID disk controller) and I want to run that image under virtual machine (vmware/...
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Unable to recover BTRFS partition, what to do?

Using btrfs check: $ sudo btrfs check --progress /dev/nvme0n1p7 [sudo] password for repair: Opening filesystem to check... checksum verify failed on 24708644864 wanted 0x00000000 found 0xb6bde3e4 ...
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Centos7 reboots with rescue image

On boot Centos7 system comes up using rescue image. I would like to repair this issue and continue use of this disk if possible. I'm aware of Centos7's June 2024 EOL and Rocky is probably in my ...
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How to fully auto boot CentOS 7 Rescue Mode (Building Custom ISO)

I am building a custom CentOS 7 iso. I want the iso to fully boot into "Rescue Mode" without any user intervention. My goal is to use the finished "Rescue Mode" iso to boot VM's (...
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Grub_rescue . Grub file not found

file normal.mod not found appearing on grub rescue screen. No other files except lost+found appearing on (hd0,msdos7).My system is not booting after I long pressed shutdown button when screen got ...
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How to start SSH in RHEL 6.3 rescue mode

I had a server crash on me, and i'm using Rhel 6.3 rescue mode from a USB. I was able to boot into rescue mode which gives me what looks like anaconda shell: [anaconda root@localhost /]# when I ...
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Cannot log in with VeraCrypt + Windows 10

So yesterday I fall glass of water and a bit of them fall on my laptop. As I realize what I have done, monitor blink twice and I push my turn on/off button, however I have set Sleep function for this ...
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Disable Sendmail from rescue mode CentOS 6 Virtual Server

Hello we rent a virtual server of 1and1 CentOS 6 with Parallels Plesk Panel 12 (64-bit) they have put it into rescue mode as it was "found to be part of a network of compromised machines leading a ...
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Asus X58C running Vista Basic cannot start up after installing Ubuntu and other messing

I installed Ubuntu not really knowing what I was doing. For a while, I could run either Ubuntu or Vista. I wanted to get rid of Ubuntu, but didn't know how. Don't know what I did, but I get error no ...
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accidentally deleted my main partition during ddrescue

I bought a new raspberry pi and followed a turorial to install the system. I worked on my main PC station and I ran this command: sudo ddrescue -d -D --force ubuntuXXXX.img /dev/sda What happened ...
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Get Logical Volumes Group name in legacy grub

I am currently in GNU GRUB v0.97 Restore mode and I have CentOS 6.5 installed with /boot partition separated and rest of filesystem is in Volume Group. But, I don't remember volume group name, is ...
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Can't access BIOS and can't boot from USB when HDD is plugged in

I have a Samsung Ultrabook series 5 notebook (NP530U3C), and recently I've been tinkering with Linux distros. I've had a dualboot setup with Windows 8 and Linux on this computer before, and all went ...
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Rescue data from ext4 ISO image?

so, my SD card got broken and cannot be read completely (escpacially the directory I want to read from has problems). I was able to create an ISO image of the partition using dd but cannot mount it. ...
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Rescue an unrecognized OS with Fedora 14

I freshly installed Fedora 14 and working fine till my 1 TB hard disk suddenly showed "SMART TRIPPED". I brought another 1 TB hard disk and thought about installing Windows XP on it and then copy data ...
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How to create Restoration Partion?

For some time now, when buying new computers (laptops in particular) from big name brands-like DELL, HP, TOSHIBA, etc.-most of them come with a "rescue" or "restore" partion instead of installation CD/...
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