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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format EFI, Recovery partitions windows 10 in clean install?
I'm going to do a clean install of Windows, but during the installation I want to format all the partitions and then delete them, but I have some concerns!
As you can see in the picture below, I have ...
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btrfs: Cannot repair "bad extent [range] type mismatch with chunk"
I currently cannot mount my btrfs parition, even using the tools in systemrescue https://www.system-rescue.org/System-tools/ (btrfs-core v6.6.3.)
The mount command fails with a generic error and dmesg ...
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Recovering from Invalid Container error in APFS volume (macOS)
I have an external disk formatted in APFS. I can see the disk and partitions, but macOS is not mounting the volumen and disktuil and fsck are giving me lots of errors.
Any help recovering the ...
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Recover damaged & luks-encrypted BTRFS partition
Here's my problem:
I have a Virtual Machine that I had to reset because the UI became very buggy after I tried to mount a hot-pluggable virtual disk image to copy some files.
Well that was actually ...
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How to retrieve a partition accidently turned into green "Free space"?
I accidently ran some commands -couldn't specify which, but I assume I did something using 'mountvol' that was recommended online-. After that I found partition 'D' turned into "Free space" (...
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Restore ReFS partition deleted by mistake
I'm facing an issue where a ReFS partition has been mistakenly deleted, and I need to restore it.
I've attempted to recover the partition using MiniTools Partition Wizard, but it couldn't locate the ...
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How to install windows 11 without recovery partition blocking the way
I wanna fresh install windows 11 and then dualboot it with linux, but when i install windows 11 there's recovery partition automaticaly created and blocking the way of extending volume for linux.
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How to mount Windows 11 nvme in Linux
I was given Dell Inspiron 7706 laptop with Windows 11 that got corrupted during upgrade (power loss).
It won't boot Windows anymore (\windows\system32\winload.efi missing or damaged).
I have ...
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External hd acidentally converted to gpt on windows - how to recover lost data? [duplicate]
As my external hd did not show up in disk manager I accidentally clicked gpt when asked. Now the disk results "not allocated". In fedora results "windows reserved".
Now I am ...
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SSD with Windows system has become "Unlocated" on System freezing for 30 minutes and rebooting manually after giving up waiting it unfreeze
So I have KINGSTON SUV400S37120G on which I have Window 11 installed.
The system was working totally fine.
I decided to enable System Restore because it was turned off:
The screenshot from another ...
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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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I need help make sense of TestDisk output
I recently found an 2 TB external drive again which I though I ha lost and when I viewed it with DISKMGMT.MSC it said it had an unallocated section of 638GB.
I remembered that I might've deleted a ...
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Dual boot OS recovery using Testdisk
I have a Dell Latitude with an internal storage drive of 500GB. I dual boot Windows and Kali OS. A few days ago, I messed up and wiped the drive using diskpart clean command and now I'm trying to ...
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How can I recover 2 LUKS2 partitions formatted by mistake?
I wanted to install a new Linux distro so I deleted the previous partitions used for Fedora install at the beginning of the disk ~120 Gb and I had the rest of the 2/3 of the disk compose out of 2 ...
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Can't restore partition table
I wanted to install Ubuntu on my Asus ROG laptop. I previously installed a second NVME SSD and used it under Windows to store stuff. I did, however, leave ~200GiB free for a Linux installation.
When I ...
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