Questions tagged [data-recovery]
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PDF with bizarre source code - can anything be retrieved from it?
My boyfriend's brother committed suicide last weekend, and left behind a will... in the form of a damaged PDF. I've tried to repair it using the various online services, to no avail. Looking at the ...
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testdisk undelete not showing up for exFAT formatted partition
I have a microSD card used as external storage on my Android phone and I accidentally deleted a file on it. The partition on which this file resided is formatted with the exFAT filesystem.
Now I am ...
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Should I turn on ignore bad sectors and create and image immediately?
Trying to clone my 3TB HDD to a brand new 4TB HDD. But I get a CRC error
WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0 3TB
NTFS filesystem
Using Macrium Reflect 8 I get
Clone failed - Error 9 - Read failed - 23 - Data error (...
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Windows doesn't recognize a partition as NTFS but recovery tools do
Today a computer of mine with Windows Vista can't boot any more. The message "Windows is starting" shows up and a few seconds later it reboots automatically.
So I took the HDD out and ...
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Recover delted file that Recuva cannot recover [duplicate]
I have accidentally deleted a file, which I want to recover now.
I had Recuva already installed on my system, and it instantly found the file.
However, it couldn't recover the file (didn't say it was ...
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Recover deleted .wav files from Win 11
I've had a couple GB's worth of .wav files removed (with shift+delete) from my Win 11 system. It was last week, and the machine has been powered off since. I've tried multiple different recovery tools,...
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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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CHKDSK - Drive unusable after the scan
Drive is unusable after the CHKDSK scan. Any idea how I can fix this? It shows that the device is a raw device. I want to recover data and then format the drive.
File record segment 1432 is unreadable....
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Is it possible to recover data from a hard disk that was formatted thrice?
I first formatted my hard disk while installing centos. Then again formatted the drive while installing ubuntu. Now, I'm about to format the drive before again coming back to windows 10. Will the lost ...
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Recover data from mirrored drive on HP N40L microserver
My HP N40L Microserver has died and I'd like to get the data off the drives. I had 2 sets of mirrored drives on the server. Pretty sure the drives are ok, was another issue with the server.
I've ...
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Time-machine backup not found
My MacBook Pro died and its logic board cannot be repaired, so I will lose all of my data unless I can recover time machine backup.
Here is what is happening with the backup file. When I first saw ...
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How to add a filesystem to a drive without formatting it? [duplicate]
My hard drive suddenly appeared entirely unallocated in partition manager. I tried asigning a drive letter to it and seeing if it would recognise the old file system, but it did not. Instead it asked ...
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Testdisk can't read the internal disk after reset the mac [duplicate]
Issue: When running testdisk in macOS(Monterey), it does not list the internal hard drives. I used to find the internal disk through testdisk, but can't find it anymore after I reset my computer.
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Recovering files with TestDisk & PhotoRec detected as malware
I have a personal device that has Bitdefender installed. The device is updated and scanned regularly. There has been no malware detected to date.
While running TestDisk and PhotoRec to recover files, ...
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Recover innaccesible USB drive [duplicate]
Long story short, I have a little 100 MiB USB which I have been using for quite a while in which I store lightweight but sensitive information. Suddenly, it stopped being accessible (maybe I unplugged ...
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How do I recover an old version of an excel file?
I spent an enormous amount of time working on multiple sheets in a single Excel file. Now, it's gone and just has an old version. I'm not sure why it didn't get saved (I typically save things way more ...
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Migrate from older Dell XPS to new One?
My old work place let me keep my current Dell XPS 15 9510 (win 11), this laptop is perfectly set-up for all of my work and software dev needs. My new work place have issued me with a new Dell XPS 15 ...
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File Deletion Caused VirtualBox NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
I deleted a large file (1 - 8GB for 4 machines) related to VirtualBox because I ran short on memory, MacOs listed this file as one of my biggest on the file system and I thought this might not get ...
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Why does dd pause for 5 seconds, then continue for 20 seconds and then pause again?
I am creating a copy of a hard drive that has lost data on it so I can attempt to recover data from a copy of the disk and keep the original safe. I am using dd on a Mac and it worked for other drives ...
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Repairing partition table with wrong sector size messed by usb-adapter and with possible block errors
I have a 4TB WD hdd (with sector size of 512e/4096) that was first formatted as GPT/ext4 with an usb-sata enclosure/adapter on a Raspberry Pi 3. Apparently the load was too much for Rpi3, and ...
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Linux file recovery after unexpected shutdown
Yesterday, I was using a nano file to take important notes relating to university work. I had not saved the file at any point that day, and was actively taking notes throughout the day. Towards the ...
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File recovery from FAT32 partition [duplicate]
In a nutshell: I have a broken directory that I believe is now inaccessible because of disconnecting during the middle of a file transfer and I want to rescue files from said folder.
So here's the ...
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Restoring files from deleted users $Recycle.bin
I'm stuck on a problem that I feel shouldn't be so hard to crack, but I can't find a good solution for it.
I was handed a user's Windows 10 VM. For some reason, the original domain user account got ...
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Recover LUKS LVM partition after overwriting partition table
I accidentally deleted the partition table of my hard disk in Gparted. The partition is an LVM encrypted with LUKS. I used "sudo hexdump /dev/sdb | grep LUKS" to find the LUKS header. When I ...
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robocopy /MIR recover deleted files from the destination
While trying to move my c:\users to d:\users (By using a Junction)
I was very careless, and used robocopy c:\users d:\users /MIR /MOVE
it moved some, but then halted on a symlinks...
so I added ...
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Partition/Data inaccessible after using GParted Live to Extend Partition
I had some unallocated Free Space of 260MB on my 1TB HDD. I used Gparted Live OS to extend my HDD's Size. Gparted moved all the data to left side of the HDD and had extended the partition size. Took a ...
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Recover missing data from failed HDD in LVM2
I have a raspberry Pi 4 NAS with 4 externals HDDs connected to it, which are formatted using LVM2, and OpenMediaVault installed on the RP4. After moving to a new apartment, I tried restarting the NAS ...
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CHKDSK Error while trying to repair External Drive: A disk read error occurredc0000010
I am having issues accessing a External Drive. I used CHKDSK but, I get the following result. Can anyone please help me. I have accepted that this HDD is failing, but I really need to back my data up.
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HDD produces grinding noise even when I am using only SSD
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I have a 1 TB HDD with Windows 11 that was too slow and produced noises and vibrations. So, I added a new SSD to my laptop and installed another Windows 11, but even when I use the ...
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ext4 disk modified by windows 10 and now lost all files on that drive [duplicate]
I had a 250GB SATA SSD and 500GB SATA SSD. I first used Ubuntu OS installed on the 250GB SSD and used the 500GB SSD to store my other files. Then I decided to dual boot Windows 10 to use Office ...
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How to recover files from a healthy microSD card that is accessible only from an unrooted Android smartphone?
I accidentally deleted important documents (about 100 PDFs) that weren't backed up yet from a 64 GB microSD card, which is used as the primary storage in my unrooted Android 9.0 smartphone. The ...
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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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Is there a tool to get as much data from partly damaged SSD as possible? [duplicate]
I have an SSD, Samsung Evo, 1TB, supposedly not the worst, that was not used in obviously damaging manner and CrystalDiskInfo showed supposedly 99% lifetime.
Still, there are uncopyable files - if the ...
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Best way to crack/remove an ATA password from a HDD without losing data? [duplicate]
I'm looking for advice on the best way to remove (if it's even possible) or to crack an ATA password (bruteforce, dictionary attack etc) since I've got an old HDD from many years back that's protected ...
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File Contents Replaced with 0xFF (and a few 0x7F)
I have a corrupted word document whose data I am trying to recover. It comes from a thumb drive suspected of having virus activity; this is not the only file that has been affected. Opened it up with ...
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Does Easeus Partition Master mark bad sectors or just detect them? [duplicate]
I'm having trouble with an 10 year old WD BLACK HDD, having bad sectors.
I run a surface test with Easeus Partition Master and it found 6 bad sectors.
https://ibb.co/FswXbVJ
I'm planning to use this ...
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Merged partitions show as unformatted NTFS- GPT table recovery
Wanted to merge multiple partitions on my SSD, and added Windows Recovery partition to the mix as it was sitting between other data partitions. (I believe this was my mistake).
Used MiniTool Partition ...
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Recover deleted file that was already overwritten
I'm using Mac OS Ventura on a system with a 128GB SSD formatted as APFS.
I deleted a PDF from the Trash about a month ago.
I used a trial of EaseUS and it was able to recover the file.
However, I ...
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How to install The Sleuth Kit if "configure" file is missing?
I tried installing from source on macOS. The repo does not have a configure file, so I cannot run
$ ./configure
as mentioned in the installation instructions.
The repo has a configure.ac, so ...
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How can I find out which sectors are used by files on NTFS?
I'm recovering data from a failing hard drive using ddrescue. It's a 2TB disk, NTFS filesystem, but only about 200GB or so is actually used, so rescuing it in its entirety would be a big ol' waste of ...
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ddrescue: How to restart from pass 1?
I've been trying to recover data from a 500GB WD Scorpio Blue drive I found recently that was from an old Acer laptop. I ran it for about a day before the read rate had slowed down to about 50KB/S and ...
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What happens to the free space of HDD2 if dd is used to write the smaller device HDD1, to HDD2?
What happens to the space left on sdb in this case? I assume dd will write the data at the beginning, replace the partition table, and the free space will be untouched (not usable).
sda = 10 GB
sdb = ...
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Can you revert the corruption?
I know this sounds stupid, but here it is: I have copied data from shadow copy and exported to the same folder, as the source, which, I believe, resulted in corruption. I don't have any other backups, ...
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Recover/Carve FAT32 file system metadata (file names etc.) without partition table
I have a broken SD card, of which I've taken an image. The image is fairly complete, >99% according to ddrescue, and conventional data recovery tools seem to be able to find most files. However, I'...
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My folders turned into files on my FAT32 usb
I have some very important archives in folders on my USB. I needed to use a program on a computer in my school because i did not have it in my laptop, but when i plugged and checked my USB in the ...
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Cannot open shadow copy of deleted files
I accidentally "permanently" deleted a folder from my C drive. I can see two shadow copies of the deleted folder in Shadow Explorer and was able to export the folder to an external drive, ...
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How can I tell if my SSD is really secure erased, with a huge $BadClus file on it?
Backstory: almost a year ago, I bought a Silicon Power Ace A56 256GB SATA SP256GBSS3A56B25. After 4 months, it suddenly went into Satafirm S11 mode, which meant I couldn't boot a system from it, ...
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Restore AppData overwritten files
History of issue: I was trying to restore my deleted tab history of Mozilla Firefox browser, which I didn't synchronize with my account, and I have made a LOT of mistakes. I tried to restore previous ...
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Restoring/Accessing Synology Raid 1
I was recently asked to try to restore the data from a raid on a synology NAS. The raid consists of 2 disks of 2TB in size. It is a raid 1.
From what I was told, One of the drives has failed and the ...
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How to mount a ddrescue image if no partition is recognized?
On macOS Ventura 13.1, I successfully rescued a corrupt, not mountable disk (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) via ddrescue:
ddrescue -v -f -n /dev/disk3s2 /Volumes/emptyhd/hd.dmg ~/logfile.log
After some ...
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