Questions tagged [data-recovery]
This tag is for questions about techniques for recovering lost data — e.g., from deleted files and/or damaged or corrupted digital media. Please review the tag wiki before posting a question. Do not explicitly ask for tools or other products; such questions are off-topic on Super User.
2,272
questions
0
votes
0
answers
81
views
Is it possible to recover a zip file corrupted by GnuPG?
I recently started encrypting a zip file with:
gpg --symmetric my_file.zip
It was taking a long time - the archive is about 300 MB - and so I decided to cancel the operation part way through. The zip ...
0
votes
0
answers
96
views
Recovering data from iMac internal hard drive when you can't login to your account anymore
I'm looking for help on recovering data from an internal hard drive on my iMac.
I have a iMac that I purchased online in 2018 refurbished. It had been slowing down over the last few months, but I ...
- 101
0
votes
2
answers
88
views
How to trim allocated space
I used ddrescue and Photorec to help a friend recover files from a dying 1TB Seagate HD from a Windows 10 machine.
I created an img file with ddrescue, and ran Photorec against that img file. I saved ...
- 23
-1
votes
1
answer
443
views
How to access data on an external ssd drive with MBR only?
My old laptop's display died, so I took its SSD and connected it to another laptop with Ubuntu 22.04 externally via USB using M2 SSD case. There should be two operating systems: Windows and Ubuntu on ...
- 1
0
votes
2
answers
129
views
JPEG Corrupted file fixing
I had an old, broken hard disk containing a lot of JPEG files.
I took that hard to an information recovery company.
The company was able to extract part of the files well, But there are many others ...
- 13
0
votes
1
answer
102
views
I have 5 disk partitions from a disk imaged separatly, but did not image the partition table. How can I reassemble them into a coherent disk image?
Like the title says, I have 5 disk images, dev-sdc1.img, dev-sdc2.img, dev-sdc3.img, dev-sdc4.img, dev-sdc5.img. I did not save the partition table, and do not know which were primary partitions, etc. ...
- 1
0
votes
1
answer
469
views
Recovering corrupted NTFS partition on external HDD
I have an external WD HDD with a unique NTFS partition on it that seems corrupted. I wish to recover the data on that disk and the disk itself if it is not physically damaged.
After a huge file copy ...
- 148
0
votes
1
answer
655
views
Can I recover accidently deleted files on an SSD External Drive running Windows 10 Home?
I accidently deleted files from a WD external SSD hard drive. Running OS is Windows 10. I have scanned the drive with two separate on-line file recovery (Stellar & Recoverit) packages and both ...
- 1
13
votes
6
answers
7k
views
If a hard drive has sectors that are corrupt or physically damaged, can those sectors be written over?
I have a bootable FreeBSD drive that I'm using to wipe the contents of a hard drive before donating the PC to my local thrift store. I'm using the following command to achieve this:
dd if=/dev/urandom ...
- 133
-2
votes
1
answer
36
views
How to recover a USB hard drive [duplicate]
On accident I deleted the partition on my moms backup drive and I need to get the data back and I have no idea how to do this. its about 1TB (931GB) and I also don't have one big enough to store that ...
- 9
0
votes
0
answers
24
views
Restore RAW drive back to NTFS [duplicate]
Recently, I have tried to make backup of SSD of my laptop using Macrium Reflect 8 Portable Free edition. However, this process ended in error (which, unfortunatelly, I can't remember, my apologies) ...
3
votes
3
answers
3k
views
How can I recover data from a bitlocker encrypted volume (with the decryption key)?
I have a backup drive that is used mostly for that purpose: to backup data from my computer. I did move data onto it temporarily at some point, but I believe and I hope I've moved it back off in the ...
0
votes
0
answers
289
views
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
...
- 121
1
vote
1
answer
750
views
WD 4 TB My Passport Portable Makes Clicking Sound. After falling not getting detected. Clicks 16 times then rotation stops
Issue: My 4TB WD Passport Drive fell from the desk and since then makes clicking noise.
Video of the issue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cfWMObC...
Video of Clicking: https://www.youtube.com/...
0
votes
1
answer
209
views
How to obtain a lost version of an edited notepad [.txt] file on a Windows 10 hard drive using a SATA SSD to USB dongle
About 1 year ago I had saved some code on a notepad text file (.txt) I was building using a Windows 10 computer. However, I deleted a portion of the code and saved the text file with a new c++ code ...
LilWhiteHatHacker
0
votes
0
answers
33
views
Recover Data after windows installation [duplicate]
to sum it up :
Is it possible to recover data after:
deleting partitions>recreating 1 partition as GPT> installing windows?
here is in details:
Accidentally I installed win 11 on the HDD while I ...
0
votes
0
answers
34
views
Recover data from USB turned bootable [duplicate]
I was trying to downgrade from Windows 11 to Windows 10. I installed the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft and connected a portable external hard drive that I use to save my files, not knowing the ...
0
votes
2
answers
213
views
Check that every file is successfully readable on a volume
For the first time since many years, I have a disk (SSD that shows 99% health with DiskInfo!) that has a few unreadable files. I tried to open these files with wxHexEditor, and when scrolling in the ...
- 1,809
0
votes
1
answer
574
views
Corrupt SD card showing as unallocated space on disk management [duplicate]
My SD card showing corrupt on my android phone. I then through SD card reader attach it to pc. When open it in disk management it showing as unallocated space and not accessible at all.
Disk ...
0
votes
1
answer
270
views
How to recover information from hard drive with partitions Windows 10 and linux [duplicate]
I have a hard drive from a desktop PC, which had debian and windows 10 installed. In windows 10 I had disabled automatic updates and the firewall and one day a blue screen appeared, I saw on the ...
0
votes
2
answers
807
views
Reallocated sectors number went down?
So far from what I've read online reallocated sector count can't go down, at all. And yet, my hard drive that recently reported 24 bad sectors seems to decrease it?
Firstly, hard drive via S.M.A.R.T. ...
0
votes
1
answer
118
views
Recovering data from a very old 3.5 inch PATA Hard Disk without a PCB
I have a very old 3.5 inch drive, and the PCB is not on it (must have misplaced it over the years).
Is there a way to extract the data from this drive? It is likely to have some old photos that are of ...
0
votes
0
answers
36
views
Restore overwritten Access DB in Windows
I have an application written in C# WinForms that uses Access DBs with *.temx extension.
My client by mistake overwritten the *.temx file with ~100 records and created 4 new records inside the ...
0
votes
1
answer
220
views
Notepad++ mysteriously rolled itself back, lost preferences and unsaved documents
I opened notepad++ today to find it reset to default settings, all custom preferences are reset (which is not such a problem) and dozens of unsaved tabs with important information are gone.
I ...
0
votes
3
answers
877
views
Can I recover from a corrupted boot sector on a running system?
I accidentally ran a program the overwrites the protective mbr and all the gpt headers as admin, which means my system will die as soon as i restart it. I don't want to lose all my data, so is there a ...
- 11
1
vote
2
answers
210
views
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 ...
- 11
0
votes
1
answer
714
views
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 ...
- 1
0
votes
2
answers
597
views
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 (...
- 33
0
votes
3
answers
1k
views
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 ...
- 3,130
0
votes
0
answers
22
views
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 ...
- 1
4
votes
2
answers
1k
views
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,...
- 143
0
votes
0
answers
139
views
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 ...
- 23
1
vote
2
answers
353
views
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....
- 11
1
vote
3
answers
2k
views
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 ...
- 117
0
votes
0
answers
81
views
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 ...
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
39
views
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 ...
- 1
0
votes
2
answers
348
views
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 ...
1
vote
0
answers
21
views
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 ...
1
vote
1
answer
2k
views
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 ...
- 111
0
votes
1
answer
173
views
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 ...
- 103
1
vote
0
answers
219
views
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 ...
- 11
9
votes
3
answers
4k
views
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 ...
- 429
2
votes
0
answers
2k
views
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 ...
- 21
0
votes
1
answer
465
views
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 ...
0
votes
0
answers
41
views
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 ...
- 11
1
vote
1
answer
2k
views
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 ...
- 11
-2
votes
1
answer
423
views
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 ...
- 11
0
votes
1
answer
1k
views
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.
...
-1
votes
1
answer
446
views
HDD produces grinding noise even when I am using only SSD
Starting Situation:
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 ...
- 99
0
votes
1
answer
172
views
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 ...
