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Rescue partition from HDD with broken partition table

Problem My external (USB) hard disk isn't detected correctly by the computer any longer. I want to recover its second veracrypted primary partition /dev/sdb2. I know exactly it's size and it's ...
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Corrupted SD Card

I am using Micro SD Card for OS on my Odroid micro-controller. Today I figured out that my Micro SD Card is not responding. I plug into my Laptop ( Linux OS ) and after that in other laptop ( Windows )...
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Recover a Windows partition (under GRUB) and lost files

I am bringing this question and comments here, after feeling stackoverflow wasn't a place for me. I hope, at least, get some help here. Thank you very much indeed in advance. I really need a solution ...
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how can I reintegrate a lost and found pv into an LVM vg?

I recently lost a RAID that was a physical volume of one of my linux LVM volume groups. I ended up doing a vgreduce --removemissing and got on with the business of restoring the data. Well, today I ...
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Accidental Windows to Linux Overwrite

I wanted to install Linux for my system and was expecting it to dual-boot and I would have double OS in my system. But I ended up pressing the "Use Entire Disk..." option thing (Not 100% sure if that'...
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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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How to restore Vista from a corrupted install of Xubuntu?

On my laptop, I've decided to get Xubuntu. During the process, my laptop overheated and shutdown during the installation process. As I turn it back on, it has GRUB, not allowing me to go on Xubuntu or ...
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recover linux partition after failed windows xp install

I have a pc with two hard drives, one runs Ubuntu 10.10 and the other has NTFS with a broken XP. The XP failed after I upgrade Ubuntu to 10.10. I installed virtualbox in Ubuntu so for a while I ...
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HDD with bad sectors, MBR gone, how to recover partitions

The hard drive in my old laptop started returning errors, so I stopped using it (probably a bit too late). It's in an external cradle now, that I've mounted read-only a couple of times. Unfortunately ...
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Home partition recovery

I have a problem with my Linux system, I cannot access anything . So I am trying to boot from a live distro and save my home folder into an external hard drive . I used to have the /home in a ...
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How to recover lost partitions using a bootable pen drive?

I have lost all partitions in my laptop's hard disk recently and its now showing as a raw disk. I have made a bootable pen drive using Ubuntu-12.04 and trying to recover the lost data using TestDisk....
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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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access files in Manjaro partition from Windows partition

I am dual-booting Windows 10 and Manjaro Linux. While running a pacman -Syu on the Manjaro partition, the computer crashed. Pacman stopped working and at first I tried to fix it by deleting the lock ...
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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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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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