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Tagged with partition-recovery partitioning
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How to retrieve a partition accidently turned into green "Free space"?
I accidently ran some commands -couldn't specify which, but I assume I did something using 'mountvol' that was recommended online-. After that I found partition 'D' turned into "Free space" (...
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How to install windows 11 without recovery partition blocking the way
I wanna fresh install windows 11 and then dualboot it with linux, but when i install windows 11 there's recovery partition automaticaly created and blocking the way of extending volume for linux.
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I need help make sense of TestDisk output
I recently found an 2 TB external drive again which I though I ha lost and when I viewed it with DISKMGMT.MSC it said it had an unallocated section of 638GB.
I remembered that I might've deleted a ...
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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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Can't restore partition table
I wanted to install Ubuntu on my Asus ROG laptop. I previously installed a second NVME SSD and used it under Windows to store stuff. I did, however, leave ~200GiB free for a Linux installation.
When I ...
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How to Extend C drive from D: drive (SSD with NTFS bitlocker) and also there is Recovery Partiton in between two drives?
I am using a HP fq1089AU laptop running
Edition Windows 11 Home Insider Preview Single Language
Version 22H2
Installed on 04-07-2023
OS build 23493.1000
Experience Windows Feature Experience ...
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How to reinstall windows 10 on a partitionned disk properly and avoid duplicating recovery partitions?
My pc recently crashed and I had to reinstall w10. But now when I'm booting on the disk, I get 2 windows installed
Image 1
Here is how I did :
My disk is originally partitioned in 2 :
C : for the OS
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Merged partitions show as unformatted NTFS- GPT table recovery
Wanted to merge multiple partitions on my SSD, and added Windows Recovery partition to the mix as it was sitting between other data partitions. (I believe this was my mistake).
Used MiniTool Partition ...
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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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How do you clone unformatted or unallocated disk with bad sector?
So I have an SSD, Kingston 240GB. The installed OS is Ubuntu, and this has been running for three years. Today, it failed to boot. “Reboot and select proper Boot Device” , that's what I get when I ...
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Data Recovery gave me more data than I had
I have a drive with a MBR partition table, and a 2TB NTFS partition.
I performed data recovery on the 2TB partition using Wondershare Recoverit, and when the program finishes, you can recover your ...
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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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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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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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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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