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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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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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TestDisk doesn't find the right Ext4 partition
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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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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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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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