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Does an .img image of a single (logical) partition have partition type "Intel/PC partition" or "Non partitioned media"?
I have an ext4-formatted logical partition /dev/sda8 and an image file sda8.img of it created with ddrescue (following the procedure at https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/283009 for similar reasons). ...
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Recover data from corrupt NTFS drive - TrueCrypt
Background: Visual Studio 2017 was release two days ago, 2017-03-07, and to get a clean install I decided to format and reinstall my OS, Windows 10.
For my storage disk, I use TrueCrypt 7.1a. After ...
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Accidently dd a whole disk with Iso file. Can i recover it ?
Here is the story buddies :
I dd'ed the wrong disk because of fdisk.
By disconnecting an reconnecting Usb and External HDD fdisk did not refresh results. The consequence is as you can see :
fdisk -...
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MBR recovery - Corrupted MBR after it changed to dynamic & testdisk gives up . No backup sector found
I had a Windows 7 installation on my 1TB SSD laptop with 4 primary partitions. I wanted to install Lubuntu Linux but the process failed with an error which kind of said:
cannot write MBR
It gave ...
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Recovering a Hard Drive with TestDisk
I have an approx. 10 year-old Maxtor (acquired by Seagate) DiamondMax Plus 9 (the 160 GB model) that I'm trying to recover. It died awhile back and I've been making attempts to recover photos and ...
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Correcting tree from messed up file tree in NTFS partition
It's a real messed situation, but I'm quite at the end of my options.
It's my personal hardrive, so it's very important for me, and yes, I have no backup =(
The short story:
I have two discs. One ...
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Recovering deleted/overwritten partition
Short: By mistake I overwrote my partition table using the tool testdisk. I would like to recover my data and operating system. Using the tool testdisk I have located the lost partitions on my disk. ...
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Cut off a ntfs partition and repair it later
I have a semi theoretical question regarding ntfs partitions.
Assume we create a ntfs partition inside a file
dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img count=40960
mkfs.ntfs -F test.img
for testing ...
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Why can I view my data in TestDisk but not otherwise? How can I recover the hard drive?
A few days ago I was working on my computer and my hard drive decided it was time to say goodbye; the screen froze, and when I tried booting my computer it failed.
I take the drive out, put it into ...
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Recover files from corrupt filesystem
My situation:
I have an older 80GB IDE internal hdd, with a few files on it that I would like very much to recover:
some word documents
some latex documents (text files) and pictures (png, jpg, eps ...
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Recover NTFS partition GPT with TestDisk, gdisk, EasyRecovery
I have broken my hdd file struture. I will not go into details how that happened.
I had several NTFS partitions which have some data I need, and it was in GPT.
I tried several applications for ...
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Recovering HDD partition table using Testdisk
I have a total of 4 operating systems installed on my notebook. I use a WD Blue 1TB 2.5" internal HDD. The installed OSes are Win XP, Win 7, Win 8 and Ubuntu.
Of these, Windows XP only boots when I ...
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windows 8.1 preview to pro version all programs deleted [duplicate]
After the update from Windows 8.1 to Windows 8.1 pro all programs were deleted.
At the update dialog they said that you have to reinstall all apps. I understood this to mean only the apps in the ...
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Lost all data after chkdsk on NTFS partition. How do I get it back?
I have a multiboot system with a shared NTFS partition (300gigs) across OS's (Windows7, Debian, Arch).
Recently I booted into Windows and it prompted me to run CHKDSK and after that I can't see any of ...
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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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