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Dual boot OS recovery using Testdisk
I have a Dell Latitude with an internal storage drive of 500GB. I dual boot Windows and Kali OS. A few days ago, I messed up and wiped the drive using diskpart clean command and now I'm trying to ...
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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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Not able to recover logical partition using TestDisk
I had a dual-booted HDD (Win10 and Ubuntu) (MBR) where the Ubuntu was in an extended partition (that had 1 Win10 logical partition and 1 Ubuntu logical partition).
Few months ago, I deleted that ...
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Raw partition recovery without data loss
I had a dynamic disk and in order to get back to MBR I have used this video but instead of getting back to NTFS, I now have a RAW filesystem. Using Testdisk, I am getting Can't open filesystem. ...
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Recover deleted and possibly overwritten partition using Testdisk -- best practice?
Before using Testdisk to recover a partition, does it make sense to clone the damaged partition in question to another drive (or the whole HDD for that matter), and try recovery on the clone -- or is ...
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I accidentally cloned my 16GB SD card to my 256 GB pendrive using dd. Is there any way to retrieve back my pendrive?
I have a 16GB SD card, which when I connect to my computer, gives cant read superblock error (in Ubuntu). After searching on internet, I saw some solutions using testdisk tool and decided to try it ...
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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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Testdisk: How to recover from "Partition: Read error"
I’m trying to fix an issue with a Seagate 6TB HDD (formatted as exFAT with 3.5TB of data) using testdisk, but I think I made things worse:
I left files to copy overnight and in the morning my Mac ...
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Laptop HDD fail, Shows partition but can not copy data, testdisk MBR code fail
I use 2TB HDD in my laptop with 250 GB partition for windows 10 and rest for data storage. I switched my laptop so moved the HDD from old to new laptop and started the system. Windows logo came up but ...
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How to Recover HDD Formatted by "Create a Recovery Drive" Tool of Windows 8.1? [duplicate]
I have 2 TB USB HDD which had these drives
F: about 1 TB with 750 GB data
H: about 120 GB with 60 GB data
I: about 780 GB with 250 GB data (For TV: It was raw in Windows but visible in the Smart TV)
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How can Testdisk recover more data than the size of the partition which the data is on?
This is going to be a long text because I'm not sure what parts of the back story are relevant - if you want to skip the boring parts, you can just read the two last paragraphs which have the actual ...
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testdisk: "extended LBA" not available in my list of partition types
Windows restore messed up my boot and rendered one of my partitions seemingly "unallocated". So I'm trying to fix it with testdisk. This is the result of the testdisk Analysis:
TestDisk 7.0, Data ...
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How to mount a disk with data (a deleted partition table) from gpart and testdisk
I am trying to recover the ext4 partition table of a 2TB disk, where I have 900.000 files. I have cloned the original HD and now I am working on the cloned HD. And I am running Parted Magic Live CD.
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Unrecoverable partition: is there still hope?
My desktop's motherboard recently died and I decided to salvage its 2 500GB HDDs while I save up for a new mobo. I bought a docking station to use with my laptop. One HDD works flawlessly; however the ...
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How to recover exFat partition?
I'm trying to recover a single 4 TB ExFat partition made in Maverick's Disk Utility.
This single partition on the disk has storage files shared between Windows and Mac.
It became inaccessible after ...
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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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