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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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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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Can't access content in secondary drive partition after installing Manjaro Linux
I'm going through this problem for some time now, bit more than a month.
I am not a Linux user, I was installing it to learn it. I have two HD's in my note, I had Windows installed in a SSD and used a ...
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I changed my secondary drive to EFI after a Gentoo install. Can I get my files back?
I'll try to explain the situation, because my setup was really strange and I never bothered to fix it.
Basically I had a main 256 GB Crucial SSD with the Windows 10 OS and all of my main work on it. ...
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Linux: Access Files In Another Partition
I had a LG N1T1 NAS drive that got shut down during a power outage. When power returned, the permissions were gone. I couldn't access the web services and the shared folders wouldn't open. I took the ...
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Recovery xfs partitions (after low space, i think)
I don't really know the cause of that failure. I think, it caused by insufficient free space and hard reboot.
So. We have Centos installed on the HyperV's virtual machine. File system is xfs.
After ...
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How to restore defective FAT32 flash drive?
Recently, my USB memory stick was not detected when I attached it to the computer. Previously, it worked just fine. But then no drive was popping up neither on Linux nor Windows.
I used the dosfsck ...
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500GB only showing 1.7GB in size after swapping it in and out of another PC to transfer files
I wanted to backup a hard disk drive so I pulled it out of PC 1 (Linux, OpenELEC 5) and put it in PC 2 (Windows 8.1). There was only media/data on the hard disk drive, no OS.
Files copied ...
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mount root (/) again after mistake, without /etc/
I think I accidentally mounted /dev/hde1 to / after formatting another disk with
mkdosfs -F 32 -I /dev/hde1
/dev/hdc1 should be mounted on /
but now there is no way to remount it again since /etc/...
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Overwrote startup disk's partition table with gdisk; how to restore?
I installed a new hard drive in my home server today, went to format it in gdisk (larger than 2 TB), set the changes and wrote them. Then I noticed that I had selected the wrong disk, in fact I just ...
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Linux Mint installation and partitions restore
I tried to install Linux Mint and accidentally selected to install over other OS. After that it imediatly transfered me to where I must select my time zone. I aborted install, restarted PC and looks ...
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Recover Hardware Raid Disk
I have an issue with a raid disk and I was not able to find a solution. I have an Asus Rampage IV Extreme with an Intel controller for raid. I was using 2TB disk in raid 1 with multiple partitions, 2 ...
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Recover Linux ext4 partition formatted(erased) to hfs+
I have a Linux partition with ext4 and I accidentally formatted it with Mac OS X Disk Utility to HFS+ (Mac OS X Extended Journaled).
I tried to recover it with http://www.r-studio.com/ on Windows but ...
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