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.
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How do I repair a corrupted Firefox places.sqlite database?
I had some problems with my RAM (bluescreen several times, Windows XP) and now are my Firefox databases damaged. Firefox is working, but my history is gone and it's reporting several inconsistencies ...
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Recovering text files in terminal using grep on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I foolishly removed some source code from my Mac OS X Snow Leopard machine with rm -rf when doing something with buildout. I want to try and recover these files again. I haven't touched the system ...
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Lazarus Form Recovery for Safari?
I use Lazarus a lot on Chrome and FireFox. Well, not a lot, but it's great for crashing when you're writing something online in a form that doesn't automatically save what you're writing. Plus, this ...
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How to get data out of a Maxtor Shared Storage II that fails to boot?
I've got a Maxtor Shared Storage II (RAID1 mode) which has developed some hardware failure, apparently: it fails to boot properly and is unreachable via network.
When powering it on, it keeps ...
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How does file recovery software work?
How do these file and folder recovery programs work? What is the best recovery software?
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Recover partition table previously saved with cfdisk
Knowing that my external 320 GB hard drive has some problem with the connector, whenever I intend to copy something to it I first create a backup of the MBR and the partition table this way (Ubuntu 9....
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Want to restore Windows 7 from Linux Ubuntu
I want to recover Windows 7 from Linux and I don't have the Windows 7 CD or any previous back up files. Please tell me if there is a way to recover Windows 7 from Linux because I do not want to boot ...
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How safe is DiskWarrior?
My Drobo failed, and on googling i find that i should use diskwarrior. How safe is disk warrior, can it do more unrecoverable damage?
I think the mbr just screwed up
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recover partition after reinstall windows XP
My OS was infected by trojan or virus and system files are corrupted. After tried to reinstall XP several time and failed, I took out the hard drive and prepare to back up files for a clean reinstall. ...
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Will RAID 0 array still work if I replace bad MOBO with identical model?
My motherboard, which is an Abit AA8XE recently failed. I had most of my data backed up but would like to recover the rest. The problem is my drives where set up in RAID 0. If I replace the bad ...
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How recover deleted files from other computer?
I moved a html file from my computer to another and accidentally deleted it from that computer which I accessed from my computer like this: \\name\folder
As a result the file did not go recycle bin. ...
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How does one recover Quicken data from a hard drive without the original computer?
I have a hard drive with Windows XP and Quicken 2008 from an old computer that is not available. Naturally, this drive will not boot on the new hardware. However, I can access the files from the new ...
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Data recovery on an Iomega portable drive
For Christmas, my little brother got an Iomega 500GB portable hard drive. It'd been working well, but last week it flat died, and the company's trying to shirk it, claiming it's not under warranty ...
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Recovering mail from hardrive (broken os)
Friend of mine broke his Windows (doesn't boot). I will probably have to re-install OS. I want to mount his hard drive in my OS to back up some important files.
He said that he uses Outlook express ...
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How do I recover data from a vaulted macbook drive?
My macbook has recently gone up in flames, mostly, and I now find myself in the position of attempting to recover data from its drive.
I was using file vault to protect almost all of my data. How ...
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Recover badly recorded DVDs
A few years ago (2003-2005) I bought a Sony USB external DVD recorder for my Dell laptop and I used it to burn a lot of discs. Much later, when I tried to use one of these discs, I realised that I ...
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Recovering Data once a drive has been formated with windows re-installed
Here is the scenario. A co-worker of mine was performing a migration to windows 7 pro from an xp box. They made a backup of the general user folders, but managed to miss a few critical folders that ...
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Saving (Imaging) Free Disk Space (Unused Clusters) to Recover Deleted Files
Is there an app that can save all of the free clusters on a disk to a file?
In some circumstances, when a file gets deleted, the only way to try to recover it is to scan the disk (or partition) for a ...
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USB improperly removed from a Mac. Not reading on a Mac or PC! [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
flash drive ejected improperly- lost files
Someone I know was in college and they were working in Flash CS3 and their USB flash drive got pulled out accidentally. Now, it is ...
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Recover data from hard drive with partitions (but not most data) overwritten
I have a 500GB hard drive I've been keeping around to recover data from that I removed from a failing NAS drive that got sort of... erratic at the end. I finally got rid of the NAS when during a ...
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Recovering encrypted data from flash drive
I have a Lexar Jumpdrive that came with a program installed on it called Secure II
This program allowed me to create an encrypted "Vault" which is just a dedicated chunk of data that is all encrypted ...
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raid 0 data recovery?
I have two identical seagate 7200.9 500Gb drives confiured as a RAID 0 spanned disk in windows.
One of the drives has lost power and wont spin up at all.
I know this normally means death for the data ...
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How do I export the Browsing History in Firefox?
I lost a load of open tabs in Firefox that I want to recover. The details are in the browsing history but it is not the most friendly area of Firefox to wade through. The Export option there actually ...
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Recover hard disk data after deleting partitions
When I reinstall Windows XP by mistake I deleted all five partitions. I did not format them yet though.
How can I recover the partitions? When I attach the hard disk to another PC it just says that ...
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Expectations for NTFS file recovery
Yesterday I booted my XP system, and as I looked up a minute later I saw the light blue screen and tail-end of that pre-boot diskcheck Windows sometimes does if it finds an error (or was previously ...
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Resizing a partition with gparted resulted in an error, how do I recover the old Linux ext3 partition?
Well, gparted crapped on me, and I was dumb enough to not keep the log file.
Basically, I was trying to increase the size of my main (home) linux partition, and in the middle of the gparted operation ...
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External Hard Drive - Data Corrupted
I have a Maxtor 500gb externally powered USB hard drive.
Overnight a lot of the files became corrupt on the drive, upon restart of the computer a ChkDsk was automatically started on the drive.
The ...
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Recover Terminal.app
I accidentally seem to have deleted Terminal.app. How can I get it installed? Google search results led me to install Pacifist.app and recover the app from the boot disk. But I'm unable to locate ...
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Recovering files from laptop with XP that won't boot
I have a laptop with Windows XP installed that won't boot. It gives me a BSoD right before the log on screen. I can't access Safe Mode either. (same error).
Thing is, I need some files that are ...
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Recover Old Settings and Email after family member reinstalls windows without formatting
A family member installed Windows XP over the top of an existing install when it did not boot. They previously used outlook express for email and saved things to my documents. They should be able to ...
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Recover RAID 5 array from failed motherboard
It appears my motherboard has died. I have an Abit IP35 Pro LGA775.
Abit IP35 Pro Motherboard Specification
I have 6 hard drives.
1 independent hard drive used for my Operating System.
5 other ...
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File recover tool for a partially "repaired" drive
An employee here recently had her hard drive corrupted pretty bad. I ran chkdsk /F on it to try and restore what I could, but during this it removed all the indexes for the My Documents folder. I ...
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Decrypting and reading a FileVault sparsebundle in Linux?
My MacBook's HD started failing recently. Fortunately most of the data was properly backed up and most of the other important data could be retrieved by hooking up the drive with the help of an ...
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Recovering Hard Disk
Is there a way to recover data from a hard drive when it's not detected anymore by the PC?
I've looked around and all the solutions seem to assume that the hard drive is still detectable.
How can I ...
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Corrupted the System partition on RAID configuration after a BIOS update, how do I recover data?
Problem:
After an ASUS BIOS update to improve stability for 45 nm quad-core processors.
On the next reboot, got the Windows Loading screen, and then a blue screen. Rebooted again, another blue ...
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Recovering Thunderbird mail after a Windows 7 upgrade
I installed Windows 7 over Windows XP and forgot to backup my emails. I still have the Thunderbird profile folder saved in Documents and Settings though.
How do I go about recovering all my mail and ...
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What to do with a corrupted SD card: reformat it or trash it?
I recovered all the files from my corrupted SD card today.
What should I do with it now?
Reformat and continue using it
or throw it away and buy a new one
Here's the details on the card and how ...
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How to recover a mysteriously deleted folder?
While backing up my data to DVD's Nero suddenly acted a little wierd and it showed like it had burnt and verified my current folder to DVD but it did so in less than a minute (unlike the usual 10 ...
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Does NTFS overwrite file on the same physical location (sector)?
I want to recover an overwritten file on a NTFS partition.
Let's say I have file named A in a directory.
I made another file but I saved this new file with the same name, "A". Will the new file ...
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Missing Outlook 2007 Datafile?
I am using Outlook 2007 on Windows XP SP3.
I am having a problem with my Outlook datafile: Its completely disapeared!
Last night I used Outlook, everything ok, this morning I used Outlook again, ...
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CD/DVD discs protection & recovery methods
I have loads of CDs and DVDs in my archive mostly containing programs, photos and videos. Some of them are either damaged from the edges or scratched.
How can I recover my data on those old disks? ...
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Hard Disk recovery
I have 3 disks of the same type model and year of production. All the disks were used part of a generic solution of an IBM server solution.
My problem is that all 3 disks suffered the same ...
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DriveImage XML - Recover XML Index File?
I'm paying a bit of an idiot tax here, and could use some help. Had windows machine that was virus-laden, so prior to wiping & reinstalling XP, I used Ultimate Boot CD for Windows to get in, and ...
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Restore HDD data from image
I formatted my HDD by mistake, and need to restore data from it.
There is no way to attach an additional HDD to the computer where the mistake happened.
I booted from a Linux CD and copied an image ...
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Differential backup software with DVD burning for Windows? [closed]
Do you know of any tried and tested incremental/differential backup software system, to backup only newly added or modified HDD data to DVDs?
And preferably software which can easily restore all of ...
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HardDisk is recognized but dd copies nothing
I've got an old harddrive (Seagate, 200MB) here which just failed, and I wanted to get an image from it with dd. The hd is recognized as device (f.e. /dev/sdb) but dd does not copy anything from it. ...
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How do I recover files from an USB flash drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
flash drive ejected improperly- lost files
I have a USB flash drive that claims it needs to be formatted every time I put it into my computer (Windows). Yesterday the drive ...
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how to read/recover a udf partition
I need to recover the files inside a UDF partition on my vcr external disk. Which program can I use in (preferably) Windows or Linux os?
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A failed disk (pay for a professional service or SpinRite?)
In my previous post (you don't need to read it, but it is Error “a disk read error occurred” on Windows XP), I said that my hard disk was not booting and is showing "a disk read error occurred". I ...
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Free NTFS partition recovery after disk was formatted in Mac OS X
I have a 1Tb disk which was partitioned into a ~700gb ntfs disk and a 300gb HFS+ (Mac OS X). I've accidentally allowed Mac OS X to wipe the hard-disk and create a single HFS+ partition over the hard-...