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MBR recovery - Corrupted MBR after it changed to dynamic & testdisk gives up . No backup sector found

I had a Windows 7 installation on my 1TB SSD laptop with 4 primary partitions. I wanted to install Lubuntu Linux but the process failed with an error which kind of said: cannot write MBR It gave ...
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Attempted recovery of data - .swf files

I have an external hard drive which is no longer being picked up/read by Windows (although it appears in Device Manager). It contains mostly media files (.jpg, .mov, .mp4). I downloaded a trial ...
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Restore "Unknown" Partition To ntfs

I'm using Fedora. I don't know why my NTFS (/dev/sda3) partition is changed to "Unknown". I can't read this partition. My important files are located in there and I have to change it back to ntfs ...
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How to recover data from heavily damaged external hard drive? [duplicate]

In the first place I have sent my external HDD to the data-recovery specialist. Unfortunately the recovery cost was estimated to be equal to the value of a new high performance computer. Paying this ...
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NTFS partition is lost, but data (should be) there, how to recover?

Shortly: I've got troubles with a lost partition and Testdisk is not able to solve my problem. Everything makes me think that files are on the disk, but I don't know how to get them back. Also, I'm ...
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What is raw file folder obtained after using data recovery software?

I recently used a data recovery software, Minitool Power Data Recovery, to recover my data from a raw partition drive, drive E. Along with my original files, an additional folder is obtained called "...
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EaseUS Data Recovery works!...But cannot recover files after scanned

so I used EaseUS Data Recovery Tool Wizard as it was the only application that could successfully read my hard-drive. My external hard-drive fell from the table and since then it's converted from an ...
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why PhotoRec recovery file name does not match the name of the initial file?

I used Photorec to recover files from an internal hard drive which I connected externally to another PC. With PhotoRec all the file names are wrong . What the solution?
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My old 8TB drive suddenly asks to initialize. All is lost?

I woke up today to find out that my 8tb HDD cannot be accessed. I restarted Win10 hoping it would fix this but now it won't show up. I am looking at it in disk management, it shows up as not ...
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Data Recovery software is not finding any 'useful' files (recuva, glary, easeus etc)

When I say 'useful' I mean files that one would normally want to recover (pics, vids, documents, ppt etc) I'm trying to recover some videos I accidentally deleted a month ago and for some reason it's ...
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Data Recovery on a Repartitioned SSD

Is data recovery possible from an SSD where the partitions were deleted, and new partitions were created, then formatted? The file system is NTFS. I understand data recovery is generally not ...
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sort recovered image files with exif data to existing files

I managed to recover lots of images (canon cr2 + accompanying jpg) from a failing hard-drive with recurva. It created a lot of files with some sort of hash-filename. So it is a bit complicated to sort ...
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Recovering files on Linux through a directory structure

Like an idiot, I didn't have a backup of my hardrive, and Windows attempted to update several times but failed because, after running a scan, my hard drive is failing. On one of the update attempts, ...
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Accessing Files on an SSD that won't boot

My desktop PC hasn't been powered on for a few months. During this time, the power cord stayed connected to the power supply, which was connected to a surge protector. I recently powered on the PC, ...
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Recovery of windows

Windows does not boot anymore, as shown in the images below the error code 0xc0000185 is displayed. I never did a backup or a recovery disk of Windows, is there anyway to fix this? I assume that that ...
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Recycle Bin on Windows disappeared

I accidentally (and stupidly) wrote the following command: rm -r blah ~ I meant to write the following: rm -r blah "~" Fortunately I managed to stop it at around ".android" as there was a readonly ...
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check disk interrupted, all data is now inaccessible, any way to recover it? [duplicate]

I have a 5TB external NTFS drive thats nearly full. It was exhibiting an odd behavior: I would copy a file to it, the total space free would adjust accordingly, but the file was nowhere to be found. ...
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Accidentally formated external hard drive (2TB) with bootable UBUNTU iso (v.17.04, 64bit,1,5GB), how can I recover my data? [duplicate]

So there's the problem: I wanted to create a bootable USB from an ISO image BUT I accidentally I did that one on my external hard disks instead of the usb. Now that drive is 2TB and it was full of ...
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Recover Windows 10 data?

I installed Windows 10 after Microsoft started getting very insistent last fall. The other day the OS was complaining that it needed to upgrade, so I closed all my programs and said "OK". I came back ...
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How to recover data on PC? [duplicate]

I wanted to reinstall the windows, so I have formatted the C: partition and when I tried to install windows it showed me MBR error. Somewhere on internet I have found the solution for that problem, ...
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Access Data on Lenovo Laptop HardDrive (Not Password Protected)

Background: Lenovo Ideapad Y480 Laptop is not booting to either the hard drive (Samsung HD I believe) or to any Linux Live CD's. The laptop turns off shortly after it starts displaying OS loading ...
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folder for no reason converts into file - why? where is my data now? can I get it back?

I just shut down my PC yesterday and when I started it today the directory, where I saved my important files is not there anymore and instead there is a file with the following content: "AppWorkshop" ...
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Drive has become unreadable, chkdsk reports: "The type of the file system is RAW." [duplicate]

Had an unexpected system shutdown occur at probably the worst possible moment, while a chkdsk /r /f /x operation was underway on a local drive, and now I suspect the boot sector is unreadable, so no ...
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Recover data from hard disk partition

I have a 190 GB NTFS partition which I can't access. When I tried opening it on Ubuntu, I got an error saying "Failed to load $MFT: No such file or directory." Chkdsk on Windows also failed to ...
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