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Linux - accidentally used dd on a LUKS encrypted drive, is there a way to recover?
I accidentally ran dd bs=4M if=image.iso of=/dev/sda oflag=sync when creating a bootable drive instead of targeting the USB stick.
I am fairly certain most of the files would be fine - the iso is only ...
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Copying hard drive partition structure
I'm trying to copy the partition structure of a drive that died, all the info I have is that it has an MBR, uses an msdos partition table (not sure if this matters?) and has 9 partitions and looks ...
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How to recover NTFS partition from Linux?
I've formated partition to empty - only erased information that partition is NTFS.
Partition data haven't been changed. So i think only little change to partition table is required.
How can i ...
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Accidentally ran "sudo gpart -W /dev/sda /dev/sda" – how can I recover my partitions?
I was trying to repair a damaged MicroSD card located on /dev/sdb, however I accidentally ran the gpart tool on /dev/sda instead. (not gparted, but gpart)
I ended up writing one partition and so now ...
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My hard disk does't get recognized
For a few days now I have a problem with my 500GB internal hard disk. I am on Linux Mint 13 but I have the same problem with my Windows installation.
When running fdisk -l I can see my hard disk (...
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F2FS lost data? won't mount and FSCK doesn't work
I was running my system (compiling the 4.12 kernel) when it halted an hour ago. The screen was entirely grey, the keyboard wouldn't respond. Music kept playing for about 1 minute. After waiting a ...
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Bad magic number in super-block / Invalid argument while trying to open /dev/sda12
How can i recover my corrupted hardisk partition ?
I can tried to recover this partition using GParted but GParted see an error message
GParted 0.25.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-...
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TestDisk doesn't find the right Ext4 partition
Situation:
I have a hard disk that originally had some NTFS partitions and an Ext4 partition (besides some unallocated space and a Linux Swap). It lost its partition table. Nothing has been ...
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Weird partition table
I was given a hard disk to repair/extract data from. This hard drive was once the hard drive of a computer that had windows and linux installed (using grub to change between two). Booting from the ...
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Accidentally Formated /dev/sda1
I was messing around with some partitions on a PC that has both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 15.04 installed on it. In gparted, I distractedly formatted /dev/sda1 as fat32.
Upon rebooting, I got the message "...
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How to make my restore partition usable again?
I have an old Samsung X420 in which I had installed Linux years ago, alongside Windows 7.
I gave it to my girlfriend to use and since she didn't deal well with Linux and GRUB, I wiped and recreated ...
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Lost ext4 partition: testdisk lists files, but fails to fix partition table
Summary:
Testdisk finds the lost ext4 partition and is able to list containing files, but trying to write the partition structure to the disk does nothing.
Update: After running e2fsck -f /dev/sdc1, ...
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Can't clone one SD to another with dd
I have:
Broken 32GB micro SD card - cannot write anything to it despite trying to force with (hdparm -r0 /dev/sdc):
EXT4-fs (sdc1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem
EXT4-fs (sdc1): ...
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Recovering filesystem in mangled partition
Accidentally booted the Acer Recovery partition of my multi-boot laptop and despite selecting EXIT when presented with a choice of whether I wanted to recover anything or not, one of my partitions got ...
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How can I recover a partition after luksFormat?
How can I recover an ext4 partition after luksFormat?
It was late one night when I decided to try gnome-shell 3.16 without messing up my Ubuntu box. So, I downloaded an Antergos image and booted it. ...
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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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Recover removed partition
My Debian system hat a default encrypted installation ("use whole disk with encrypted LVM" in setup). Then I used gnome-disks to do something on an microSD card that had the same setup. EFI Partition, ...
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Recover Partition Table After Remove Partition (parted)
I deleted a partition using (parted) rm 3, so I could extend my ext4 partition. Here was my partition table before I removed it:
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
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Gparted crashed during resize. Can I recover data?
I was using Gparted on a live Disk to resize and it crashed midway. Now I'm booting to see this:
BusyBox v1.38.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.30.1-6ubuntu2) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in ...
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Reliably identify a disk (not a partition) in Linux (Debian)
I want to backup the partition table of a disk in a script like this:
sfdisk --dump /dev/sda > partition_table.dump
But
I do not want to use /dev/sda, because it may not be reliable.
/dev/disk/...
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Btrfs volume management for normal home user
Btrfs is by design for enterprise use, but that doesn't stop normal home users from using it. By normal home user, I mean those people who don't use complicated setup like mirroring, or any level of ...
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Windows reporting less space on SSD. Is it the ex-linux partition?
I attempted a Windows 8.1/ LinuxMint dualboot on the same drive. After giving up on Mint, I would like to have my disk space back. I reserved about 20 GB for Mint when I installed it. As a result ...
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renamed home partition volume in osx with diskutil and now cannot login
It's been a long day and I am pretty tired and that's the only reason I can figure that I thought I would rename one of the volumes on this old macbook (running osx 10.6) without worrying about ...
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linux can't read partition table
My laptop has a Hitachi HTS725050A7E, this is 500GB with 4k block size. It shipped with two partitions, a 10G recovery partition on the front of the disk and the remainder of disk space in one big ...
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Recover/reinstall UEFI partition after dd to /null
Has you can guess from the tittle I'm a moron. I got angry against an USB key and try to format it's partitions with a dd and /null , but instead I deleted my sda1 and sda2 partitions.
I realized ...
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Triple Boot macOS Sierra / Windows 10 Enterprise / Kali Linux
I'm running into a problem trying to get a Triple Boot working on a MacBook Pro (256GB SSD) for macOS Sierra, Windows 10 Enterprise, and Kali Linux.
It all started today when I went to size down my ...
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ext4 partition type unknow after restart and cannot be mount
After restarting my pc, I've stuck on error of my /home partition. It cannot be mount. Partition table is unknown.
For this partition I had dedicated Goodram ssd
250 gb drive. On this disk there was ...
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Ext3 drive empty and detected as ext2 after restoring superblock with e2fsck
I have an ext3 disk from my NAS. I took this drive out of the NAS and mounted it under my Debian Wheezy system.
When I ran fsck it told me that the superblock was bad.
I don't haver a full log, but ...
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Gray Progress Bar in Macbook Boot caused by Partition Fault
Here's my problem:
When I try to load my Macbook it shows the gray progress bar. It takes a while to fill the whole progress and after it Macbook just shuts down.
I tried to boot from a recovery ...
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Can't find partitions
I have a server with two hard disk - in rescue mode because one of the disk failed and had to be replaced -.
I had to hire a data recovery service, few days later they told me that it was ready, but ...
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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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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 ...
