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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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