Questions tagged [file-recovery]
Methods and tools for the retrieval of information either deleted accidentally or on corrupt or damaged media.
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How to recovery previous data after reinstalling windows 11?
I asked a technician in my city to fix an error on my laptop, without knowing he performed a Windows reinstall which caused all my data to be lost. I have searched for windows.old on drive C: and I ...
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Does the presence of a large `found.000` folder on a Windows machine would indicate a dying SSD?
I found a large folder named found.000, I know this is linked to data corruption and bad-sectors but what it means is unclear to me.
Should I change my SSD? Are the bad sectors not used anymore? If I ...
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Where does Edge store its session recovery site list?
Microsoft Edge web browser crashed while I had hundreds of tabs opened.
Now, I want to know where Edge saves those cached pages, or the list of opened pages, where it generates the list to populate ...
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How to view a jpg file which was recovered after being deleted and it's attribute was checked to hidden before deletion?
I had a photo which I turned to hidden because it was a personal photo which I didn't want others to see. I then deleted it permanently in haste but I needed it again.
I then downloaded Recuva after ...
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How to recover data from a RAW disk C (winows won't boot) [closed]
my disk C:/ is RAW and when I boot, it boots to the installation of Windows.
When I go through with the installation I can access my disks (when I click o then I can access the files) except disk C:/ (...
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How to use Foremost to recover new file types of unknown footer?
How to use Foremost to recover new file types of unknown footer?
For Example:
File types of .PSD and .NEF.
"New file types" of foremost means:
The foremost software does not natively support ...
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Can't find my files in users after moving [closed]
This morning, when I turned on my laptop, I realised that all my files and folders were missing. Luckily I was able to locate them at users. I moved the personal folders to the already pinned ones to ...
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Corrupted portable SSD, wrong size detected, what to do?
I have a 240 GB portable SSD from Transcend.
ESD230C Portable SSD
Model: TS240GESD230C
SN: F43849-0038
Recently there have been long delays in reading data.
During another such long delay, I ...
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How can I recover the files from an eUFS in my broken laptop?
My Samsung Galaxy Book S (model "NP767XCM", bought in 2020) won't charge!
When I plug in a charger, the status LED light blinks blue twice (sometimes once or twice more) and the screen turns ...
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Recover WSL files using Linux Live USB?
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My Windows 10 laptop, with a bad battery, lost power during boot, and now cannot successfully boot windows (it tries to fix this with the Automatic Repair utility during startup, but ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Dead USB: Is there a way to recover data from it?
I have this USB stick which seems to be dead.
dmesg -w command:
[ 6283.970828] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 16 using xhci_hcd
[ 6284.123086] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=048d, ...
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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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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 ...
