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How to identify and delete corrupted files
What solutions are currently out there to allow me to search for corrupted files and remove them from my recovered hard-drives?
None.
This is partly because "all major formats" is not a well defined ...
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A few questions about HDDs and magnets
Appleoddity's answer is correct as far as it goes.
But it is extremely unlikely that you'll damage data on a hard drive, let alone damage the hard drive, with anything you'll do with a magnet on the ...
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SSD turned to RAW suddenly - Reliable?
If you value your data, stop using that drive. I had one of those a few years ago that randomly started throwing fileystem corruption. On close inspection, it appeared to be randomly reassigning the ...
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F2FS lost data? won't mount and FSCK doesn't work
I contacted Jaegeuk Kim, lead developer and F2FS maintainer, both personally and via the mailing list. I eventually provided SSH access to a VM containing an image of the failed F2FS partition (after ...
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why my file systems shows -71G and how can i fix it
Your filesystem usually has some reserved space for root. E.g. an 100MB filesystem might claim 10% full with 9MB data, 20% with 18MB etc all the way up to 100% full with 90MB data.
Only root (or uid ...
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ZFS on Linux Insufficient Replicas
I would like to understand what "insufficient replicas" means
It means ZFS encountered an error reading or writing to the pool, then subsequently discovered that there is not enough redundancy in the ...
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Remove broken EXT4 inode without debugfs
It's possible but it's highly dangerous. If you screw it up, you could end up doing more damage. The trick is calculating the offset to the particular inode, given the output of dumpe2fs. Once you ...
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Is there any argument against using dd with bs=10G?
I suspect that you cannot interrupt the program while it writes a block and writing 10GB takes significant time. Performance improvement with block size plateaus fairly quickly in my experience, so I ...
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Repair C Drive without formatting
Sounds like significant filesystem damage. I'm assuming you don't have backups. It's time to start from scratch.
Avoid writing to the disk if possible. Ideally, don't boot from this disk - connect it ...
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How to Fix a Corrupted USB Drive?
You're not even looking at actual files, you're looking at complete garbage data written all over the FAT directory some of which just happens to be recognized as a file.
This doesn't look very ...
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How can I find a Python script inside a encrypted and corrupted disk image?
Repair-bde
Accesses encrypted data on a severely damaged hard disk if the drive was encrypted by using BitLocker. Repair-bde can reconstruct critical parts of the drive and salvage recoverable data as ...
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Data Recovery from a USB with exFAT file system that gone RAW
You can try other software that supports exFAT data recovery to get back files. There are many recovery tools out there on the Internet, thus it's easy to get lost data back if you try sifferent tools....
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e2fsck reports errors on my root partition from terminal window, but not on single-user mode
Sure, it's telling you right there:
Warning! /dev/sda2 is mounted.
See the man page for more info:
Note that in general it is not safe to run e2fsck on mounted filesystems. The only exception ...
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Failed to start File System Check after crash? (Arch Linux)
There are 2 action needed to fix the problem:
find and fix the root cause
repair the file system
While the latter hast been achieved with fsck -f /dev/disk/by-uuid/..., the former is the more ...
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A few questions about HDDs and magnets
The data is encoded with tiny magnetic fields on platters inside the hard drive.
It doesn’t matter if the drive is on or off. A strong enough magnetic field will destroy the data on the platters.
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mdadm raid has unknown filesystem after adding new disk
Preface
I am using mdadm and created a raid-5 with 3x 4TB drives (sda, sdb sdc)
Using raid5 with so big drives is about searching for troubles. You can find many warnings against doing that here ...
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Repairing a corrupt exFat file system
Corrupt exFAT partitions can currently only be repaired under Windows. It can be done by running chkdsk <partition letter>: /r on the exFAT partition you want to repair.
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chkdsk generates undeletable corrupt FILE0000.CHK files on exFAT drive
I had luck dealing with this by using chkdsk with the parameters /f /freeorphanedchains.
This fixed the drive issue without creating new corrupt/unreadable files.
Note that /freeorphanedchains works ...
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IMVFH is compressed - meaning?
The normal error message is:
BOOTMGR is compressed
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
The Windows VBR has very basic support for reading NTFS, in order to load the main boot manager out of \BOOTMGR. It ...
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Corrupted windows file system after upgrading ubuntu nautilus
Shut down Windows immediately.
The more you use Windows on that PC with that partition mounted, the more clusters will get overwritten, so your chance of total recovery is best if you shut down ...
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How can I check Windows 10 driver's health (if they are corrupted)?
Typically, drivers do not corrupt if installed. There may be corrective updates available, or another driver (like BIOS) needs to be installed for the driver(s) to work correctly.
Get the ...
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Is there mitigation for the new NTFS corruption bug?
As of Jan 25, 2021, there is a temporary patch for the recently-introduced NTFS bug from software development company OSR, while awaiting an official fix from Microsoft.
From Bleeping Computer:
This ...
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Is `badblocks` meaningful on compact flash cards?
badblocks is meaningful on any storage device.
It's a very simple program that just reads (and optionally writes)
the entire disk, counting how many errors occurred while doing so.
You have apparently ...
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Bootable but kinda broken SSD -> Cloned SSD is not bootable
UEFI booting relies on registering EFI executable as boot entry into its non-volatile memory to determine what to boot (unless the file is put under the "fallback" path, which is not the ...
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How to recover corrupted btrfs partition that nothing can read
Assuming that you don't have a recent backup to restore: I would dd image the entire drive now, and work on a copy of that image. (If it's hardware failing, then you don't want to be thrashing it.)
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Files were normal and playable, after chkdsk repair, files turned into FOUND.000 folder filled with .CHK files(Fat32 single 256g partition SD card)
The sudden reboot of the phone caused inconsistent file-system tables
on the SD card.
Doing chkdsk then "repaired" the inconsistencies, but destroyed some
files. (The operation was ...
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All NTFS volumes on drive turning inaccessible at the same time
Problem is chkdsk ran and 'repaired' the file system to a 'consistent state'. However to achieve this it sacrificed the directory structure etc. and moved all files to found.000 folders. NEVER run ...
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Hard drive won't work after deleting whole partitions
Plug in the SSD.
Open a drive management tool, e.g.,
Ubuntu Disks
Windows diskmgmt.msc
Third party tool, such as DiskGenius
Remove all partitions on the correct drive.
Some tools ask you to "...
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Can the laptop hardware corrupt the HDD/SSD?
I believe it's coincidence that both your drives failed so close together in time.
The ADATA Ultimate SU650 120 has very poor reviews. Many people report the drive fails within a few months of ...
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After btrfs scrub, how do you get the list of affected files?
Turns out dmesg will list all btrfs checksum errors with file paths after a scrub. Run
dmesg --clear
btrfs scrub start -B /
dmesg
to get a rough overview of the bad files.
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