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windows partition restored on specific date (unusual)

This is a super unusual issue we have encountered, a PC of our payroll staff displayed an error upon opening today (05/11/2022). --MM/dd/YYYY see error upon opening the unit Tried to restart the unit ...
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Prevent Creation of "System Volume Information"-folder for Specific Partition

I have a NTFS-partition that is shared with my Linux installtion. When i'm on Windows, it doesn't bother me that the folder is there because i don't see it. However, that's not the case on Windows. I ...
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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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SSD with Windows system has become "Unlocated" on System freezing for 30 minutes and rebooting manually after giving up waiting it unfreeze

So I have KINGSTON SUV400S37120G on which I have Window 11 installed. The system was working totally fine. I decided to enable System Restore because it was turned off: The screenshot from another ...
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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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Windows doesn't recognize a partition as NTFS but recovery tools do

Today a computer of mine with Windows Vista can't boot any more. The message "Windows is starting" shows up and a few seconds later it reboots automatically. So I took the HDD out and ...
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My main hard drive (the one C:\ is on) is showing as raw

My main hard drive (the one C:\ is on) is showing as raw. I got a bluescreen (wish I had recorded what it said on it before I restarted, but it's probably a moot point now) and tried to restart, but ...
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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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EFI Windows Bootloader Recovery

i deleted windows boot loader in efi instead of ubuntu by mistake. Now i am left with ubuntu without windows. Is there a way to fix the windows boot loader from ubuntu terminal as i couldn't open ...
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Recover files from a USB that was used as a Windows 10 bootable flash drive?

I used a USB flash drive that had about 59/64GB worth of files on it to make a bootable USB device for a fresh Windows 10 install on a new PC. Halfway through the validation it occurred to me that I ...
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storemi / enmotus - how to recover data in this tier

AS Rock B450 Pro 4 Ryzen 2600 I had a storemi setup with a bootable tier. SSD1 (fast) HDD1 (slow) something odd happened to my windows, not sure what, causing it to become unusable. I pulled ...
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Recovery Drive - Do Not Change Partitions

Lenovo laptop, Windows 10 Home 64-bit, 1TB HDD. I created a USB recovery drive that includes system files. My partitions: EFI System Partition 260MB Microsoft Reserved Partition 16MB Windows (C:) ...
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Windows : 6 partitions, winRe, RecoveryBoot & RecoveryImage

My HDD (with windows 10) have the current partitions : Partition 1 System 300 M 1024 K Partition 2 Recovery 900 M 301 M Partition 3 Primary 279 G 1329 ...
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Repairing the master boot record of an external HDD that is in RAW format

I have an external HDD that has somehow become corrupted and as a result I cannot access any of the files that was on it because it's now in "RAW" format. However, if I use a data recovery program ...
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How can I get my 2nd hard drive (that disappeared from Windows Explorer) back?

I have a Dell XPS running Windows 8. My C Drive is 120GB SSD, for windows and programs, then I have a 1TB D Drive for my own files. The other day it disappeared from Windows Explorer and I cannot get ...
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Data Recovery on a Laptop

I am trying to recover data from HP laptop that is running Windows but does not start up anymore. I am able to start it up with Knoppix. $ fdisk /dev/sda Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 ...
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Delete Windows-RE partitions

After an upgrade to Windows 8.1 in my dual boot system with Arch Linux, my Partition Table contains three partitions of type "Windows RE" (numbers 1, 6 and 11, see the output of gdisk -l /dev/sda ...
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Many files are corrupted after restoring deleted partition

My hard disk had two partitions but due to an accident during partition resizing my second partition got deleted. After, using a partition recovery software I was able to recover the partition but ...
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How to undo 'create partition primary' command of diskpart

I was trying to recover my pendrive as it was showing 0 bytes allocated space, and I came across some information about using the diskpart command to format it. For the worse I selected a wrong ...
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