Questions tagged [partition-recovery]
Partition recovery is the process of recovering data from a hard drive partition that has been rendered unreadable by normal methods. A problem that is caused by drive failure, accidental formatting, corruption of data. Do not confuse with [recovery-partition].
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Can't find partitions
I have a server with two hard disk - in rescue mode because one of the disk failed and had to be replaced -.
I had to hire a data recovery service, few days later they told me that it was ready, but ...
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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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How to reinstall windows 10 on a partitionned disk properly and avoid duplicating recovery partitions?
My pc recently crashed and I had to reinstall w10. But now when I'm booting on the disk, I get 2 windows installed
Image 1
Here is how I did :
My disk is originally partitioned in 2 :
C : for the OS
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macOS can't boot, shows 'prohibitory' symbol after using Clonezilla
How are you?
I have a MacBook Pro Mid-2012 (A1278) running Yosemite 10.10.5 + Bootcamp (Windows 10).
I mostly use the Windows partition, and rarely use macOS.
THE PROBLEM
I tried to clone the internal ...
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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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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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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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Windows SSD won't boot after I used it in a USB enclosure with an Android phone
I ran into an issue with a desktop folder on my Windows laptop that I can't delete or rename no matter what. I've seen this issue a few times over the years, but the typical ways to get around it just ...
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Corrupted boot partition
Today, after very long time, I started up my old MacBook Pro with dual boot Ubuntu. It booted into OSX which was okay. Restarted while holding Option Key to go to startup manager to select linux ...
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Recover accidentally formatted and deleted directory on CentOS [duplicate]
I accidentally mounted a new drive partition to two directories instead of one.
mount -t auto /dev/sdb2 /var/lib/mysql
mount -t auto /dev/sdb2 /var/lib/mysql_backup
After my first drive was full after ...
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Will macOS internet recovery remove my Linux Install?
I own a MacBook Pro from 2009 and I recently installed Linux on it (with a swap and / partition).
I recently made the stupid mistake of messing with partitions, which caused macOS 10.13 to stop ...
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Windows recovery show disks as RAW, can't run CHKDSK, but Linux sees them normally
My disk is dying (increasing Reallocated Sectors Count) but every time CHKDSK fixed everything untill next time and I'd like to continue like this as long as possible, given that I know all risks and ...
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How to convert a partitioned disk into RAID 1 array in Adaptec Storage Manager
a partitioned disk is running normally in Adaptec Storage Manager, and I have two hard drives of the same size, how to turn the partitioned disk into RAID array, the image is Schematic, Sincerely ...
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Hot Swapped Hard Drives in Windows, Now Windows Reports the Drive as RAW
I have a quick release hard drive bay in my W10 PC so I can easily swap hard drives. When swapping them out, Windows will never seem to recognize the new replacement hdd. I have to open Computer ...
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How do you clone unformatted or unallocated disk with bad sector?
So I have an SSD, Kingston 240GB. The installed OS is Ubuntu, and this has been running for three years. Today, it failed to boot. “Reboot and select proper Boot Device” , that's what I get when I ...
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My main hard drive (the one C:\ is on) is showing as raw
My main hard drive (the one C:\ is on) is showing as raw. I got a bluescreen (wish I had recorded what it said on it before I restarted, but it's probably a moot point now) and tried to restart, but ...
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Recover LUKS partition of flash drive that (should) still have header
On an flash drive with 7.1 GB useable storage, I had a LUKS partition (2nd partition) of around 3.1GB, IIRC. A linux FS flashing using balena deleted that and the 1st partition, with the OS partition ...
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windows partition restored on specific date (unusual)
This is a super unusual issue we have encountered, a PC of our payroll staff displayed an error upon opening today (05/11/2022). --MM/dd/YYYY
see error upon opening the unit
Tried to restart the unit ...
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How to recover partitions?
my partitions are lost and my datas are also lost when I use ntfsfix on my hard drive. For the partition table like this:
sdb disk
└─sdb1 unallocated
└─sdb5 /DATA1
└─sdb6 /...
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Hiren's Boot PE, NVMe & RAID - a RAW deal
On HP laptop Windows 11, I booted into Windows perfectly normally, then I rebooted into Hirens Boot PE, opened Aomei Backupper, did not do any action in that application, then I opened Disk Management,...
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Data Recovery gave me more data than I had
I have a drive with a MBR partition table, and a 2TB NTFS partition.
I performed data recovery on the 2TB partition using Wondershare Recoverit, and when the program finishes, you can recover your ...
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Unable to use USB as a storage device due to balenaetcher
I tried to flash a kali linux iso disk onto my USB using 'balena etcher'. I did this thinking that I would still be able to use my USB as a storage device afterwards but apparently not.
I am using a ...
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SSD - One Partition is not accessible and the other one is ok
I have two Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD installed in my system. Both SSDs have got two partitions each.
No RAID configuration. SSD running in AHCI mode (Tried IDE. did not not make any difference in this ...
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Not able to recover logical partition using TestDisk
I had a dual-booted HDD (Win10 and Ubuntu) (MBR) where the Ubuntu was in an extended partition (that had 1 Win10 logical partition and 1 Ubuntu logical partition).
Few months ago, I deleted that ...
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Raw partition recovery without data loss
I had a dynamic disk and in order to get back to MBR I have used this video but instead of getting back to NTFS, I now have a RAW filesystem. Using Testdisk, I am getting Can't open filesystem. ...
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Recover deleted and possibly overwritten partition using Testdisk -- best practice?
Before using Testdisk to recover a partition, does it make sense to clone the damaged partition in question to another drive (or the whole HDD for that matter), and try recovery on the clone -- or is ...
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Getting "Bad Disk" and unbootable/readable disk after "Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk" (Minitool PW)
I was having my MBR disk with my main OS (Windows 10) and many important files on it.
My disk is Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500GB Sata with good health.
I have run Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk on it and ...
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recover old partition that became Unallocated space after Windows Media tool Use windows 10
I needed to install windows 10 on my laptop that didn't have an OS, so I used my friend's external drive, I created a new partition on his laptop and used the "official" windows media tool ...
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Hard Drive Recovery and mounting
I have an internal hard drive(SSD). This drive is not double booted, but triple booted (Windows, Ubuntu, Kali). It is partitioned in such a way that windows has 60% of the drive, and Ubuntu/Kali have ...
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Format SSD to APFS on Windows
I'm Running Windows from an External Drive on Macbook Air 2019, 128GB.
I Accidentally cleared Macbook Air's Inbuilt SSD.
Whole Storage 128GB, It's currently Blank(Unassigned).
I tried Recovery Mode (...
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Gparted crashed during resize. Can I recover data?
I was using Gparted on a live Disk to resize and it crashed midway. Now I'm booting to see this:
BusyBox v1.38.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.30.1-6ubuntu2) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in ...
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I accidentally cloned my 16GB SD card to my 256 GB pendrive using dd. Is there any way to retrieve back my pendrive?
I have a 16GB SD card, which when I connect to my computer, gives cant read superblock error (in Ubuntu). After searching on internet, I saw some solutions using testdisk tool and decided to try it ...
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Linux - accidentally used dd on a LUKS encrypted drive, is there a way to recover?
I accidentally ran dd bs=4M if=image.iso of=/dev/sda oflag=sync when creating a bootable drive instead of targeting the USB stick.
I am fairly certain most of the files would be fine - the iso is only ...
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Position and type of linux partition in dual boot with windows 10?
I have a mbr partition style and use BIOS system. I shrank volume C:\ to make a new partition for linux. Linux partitions are detected as primary partition by windows and they're on the left side of ...
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Windows Lost Partition Recovery [Emergency] [duplicate]
I accidentally deleted my E drive partition and i did not know. I extended my C drive, hence E drive's unallocated space was extended in the C drive. Now how can i get my files back of E drive?
Its ...
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Hard Disk showing wrong capacity and is RAW disk
will write step by step:
one day my linux mint Drive stopped responding.
i forced re-started the Laptop.
On boot screen it showed this screen
Then after some time showed : No boot device Present
Then ...
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Fix corrupted exFAT upcase table manually
I have recently encountered the error "upcase table is not found" on my SD card formatted with exFAT,
after it worked just fine the previous day.
No tool I tried on Windows or Linux could ...
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Can I clone a partition inside the same hard drive
I'm rescueing a hard drive and I already have a backup of the partition, now I wish to have a copy of this backup in order to safely work with it, problem is that I only have the hard drive where lays ...
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Partition became RAW, TestDisk advice
~3 days ago a 238.2GB NTFS partition became RAW, losing ~170-180GB of data, and I have been trying to fix the problem for about 14 hours.
Potential reasons partition went RAW:
I have dual-booted ...
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Format an SD Card used as Android adopted storage (android_meta and android_extended)
I have this SanDisk 32GB MicroSD card that's ended with two partitions android_meta and android_extended as result of a failed attempt to use the card as Adopted Storage in a Lenovo Phone.
Neither ...
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How to Remove the C:\Recovery\ Folder in Windows 10?
I am using Windows 10 Home (currently, ver 1909).
I would like to remove the C:\Recovery\ folder, which takes 3.61GB on my C: partition.
From what I read on the internet, the C:\Recovery\ folder is ...
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Win10 somehow overwrote a partition file table with an old copy
I've had something very weird happen:
I have a Win10 install on a SSD, with another 4 disks connected. Then I added a new disk where I copied 2 large folders to, then I turned PC off and unplugged all ...
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How to use Linux to Partition and Format a blank external hard drive where the partitions were lost
I need some help rescuing a new and blank 4 terabyte external SSD USB hard drive.
The original partitions were 3.64T and a 0.36 partition labeled "Microsoft Partition"
Using GParted, I ...
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GPT Protective Partition encrypted by Truecrypt
I have a Seagate 4Tb 2.5" HDD.
I partitioned this drive into three and encrypted two parts with Truecrypt.
Sadly the USB 3 micro type b jack broke away from the drive just as I was backing ...
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Partition on hard drive unmountable, unable to recover data
The hard drive in question used to be hooked up to my Raspberry Pi 3, formatted with NTFS and used as a small file server. I have recently dug up the hard drive again to pull the data from it, but ...
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Copying hard drive partition structure
I'm trying to copy the partition structure of a drive that died, all the info I have is that it has an MBR, uses an msdos partition table (not sure if this matters?) and has 9 partitions and looks ...
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Did I just nuke my drive while doing a FAT32 to NTFS conversion?
I got a 2TB external HDD which was pre-formatted as FAT32. I had assumed exFat and did not bother to check until I ran into the 4GB limit error and realized it was FAT32.
As a last stop, I ran a ...
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Recover formatted HDD data to itself
I did format my HDD and lose any data on it accidently.
This happened by to burn a small image to the external HDD by Win32DiskImage so I know that I lost some data but not all of them. Anyway I ...
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EFI Windows Bootloader Recovery
i deleted windows boot loader in efi instead of ubuntu by mistake.
Now i am left with ubuntu without windows. Is there a way to fix the windows boot loader from ubuntu terminal as i couldn't open ...
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