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Mounting Safecopy Image in Kali (Or any other OS)
I've been trying furiously for about 2 to 3 weeks to get the data off this drive. And I've had lots of learning while I've done it. However I still am with no data. I have used SafeCopy to make a copy ...
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NTFS Partition disappeared after windows chkdsk
I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7, and share(d) a 3TB GUID NTFS partition between the two. This worked fine for ages.
Yesterday I did a large file copy from a suspect (perhaps failing) ext3 partition:
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Can not copy files after installing windows
I am experiencing a weird problem. I was running Xubuntu on my laptop until yesterday that I had to delete Xubuntu and install Windows.
I had a NTFS partition on my Xubuntu that I kept some files on ...
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Repair NTFS Partition
I have an external drive that recently became unreadable. When I run chkdsk I get the following:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
The First NTFS Boot Sector is Unreadable or Corrupt
Reading ...
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External drive not showing after NTFS format
I just refreshed my Windows 8.1 installation, and I wanted to make a system image on my external drive using the native System Image program.
It required me to backup to an NTFS drive, but the ...
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How to fix damaged NTFS partition?
I have an external HDD with one NTFS partition. I wanted to transfer some files between PCs, so I have copied some files from Debian PC to the drive. After then as usual I have chosen safety remove ...
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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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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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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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How to Recover a NTFS-formatted RAID 1 Enclosure with 2 Hard Drives?
I have an enclosure that supports two hard drives in RAID 1 mode. A few days ago I connected the enclosure to my laptop and Windows was giving me errors saying it couldn't read/load the D: partition. ...
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Laptop HDD fail, Shows partition but can not copy data, testdisk MBR code fail
I use 2TB HDD in my laptop with 250 GB partition for windows 10 and rest for data storage. I switched my laptop so moved the HDD from old to new laptop and started the system. Windows logo came up but ...
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CHKDSK made partition a "GPT Protective Partition"? How to set it back?
Background
I stuck a 2TB drive in some Sata-to-USB3.0 enclosure and copied 1TB of data to it. It was 2,5 5300rpm drive, so it took nearly 20 hours. I am one of the paranoid types, so before I copied ...
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How can I recover my files from a broken partition with a negative amount of used space?
Scenario: I was flashing an IMG file onto my SD card for my Raspberry Pi. Or so I thought - it turns out I foolishly selected the wrong device path (D: instead of F:) and flashed the IMG to my WD My ...
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Find list of directories of unreadable NTFS partition
I have a failing hard disk with two NTFS partitions:
C: contains Windows (107 GB)
D: which stores my data (393 GB partition)
I am using an Ubuntu live session as booting into Windows causes a BSOD; ...
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"Undeleting" partition (NTFS) - recommendations?
So I have a drive which either suffered from hardware error or, possibly, got a little shock from badly configured Windows unattended install started on the same PC (the drive in question wasn't the ...
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Best program to restore NTFS partition table
I have a drive that seems to have a lost partition table. EaseUS and Photorec seemed to not know about any partitions, but restored about 1 TB of files from the disk, however they are all useless and ...
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Recover NTFS partition back without formatting
If I try to chkdsk, I get the error
Unable to unable to determine volume version and state
I'm currently running a Partition Wizard Home Edition scan on the drive and it is
finding files and ...
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Rebuild NTFS partition table
At our SOHO we have several 3TB NTFS GUID partitioned hard disks. One of them became unusable. windows did not even recognized it.
Using a hard disk edit utility we found the partition table was ...
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