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Is there any way to recover unsaved notepad++ docs?
I had also lost my one notepad++ file but I was able to recover that file from following location:
C:\Users\myUserName\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\backup
I am using Windows 7.
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Is there any way to recover unsaved notepad++ docs?
In case if Notepad++ was not able to create the backup file and had crashed, it tries to create the *.dump files that could be found at the following path:
C:\Users\<windowsusernamehere>\AppData\...
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Get rid of "Resource Busy" message on Mac OS X
try this:
diskutil unmountDisk force /dev/disk0
(replace /dev/disk0 with whatever your disk is)
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Get list of files affected by bad sectors
This question was asked several months ago, I hope you have found a suitable answer in the meantime. Still, here's one that I used with great success recently on a failing 1TB HDD that someone handed ...
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How can I recover/undelete files from an ext4 partition?
What worked for me was given by arch (only applies to text files):
grep -a -C 200 -F 'Unique string in text file' /dev/sdXN
Takes a little while, but worked when I accidentally deleted some source ...
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How do I make sure that everything I have previously deleted on a PC is unrecoverable?
If you have a mechanical drive
If your hard drive is a traditional rotating disk (i.e. not flash-based SSD), you can use the Microsoft SysInternals Secure Delete (SDelete) utility. According to the ...
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Why is this data seemingly gone?
Very little time had elapsed since the deletion (thus if TRIM was enabled, it may not have had much to reallocate).
Time elapsed is irrelevant, for two reasons:
By default, NTFS issues discards (...
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Windows File Recovery - 'winfr.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
I'm guessing you're not logged in as an admin since you had to enter the admin password. The scenario is you're logged in as Joe, a regular user, and you have to use, for example, AdminJoe when doing ...
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Dead USB: Is there a way to recover data from it?
Often it's possible but the question is, is it feasible as a DIY project?
If I read it correctly the physical capacity of the pendrive is 0 bytes, it is however detected. In general it means the ...
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Is it possible to recover overwritten files on an SD card?
Unfortunately, the most likely answer is no. The data restore industry may tell you something else, but if the files in question have been (fully) overwritten, they are not recoverable. This data ...
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Need to read a Windows 98 DRVSPACE.000 file in Windows 7
Again, the question is really old but I currently had a similar task as I wanted to recover some unknown contents from a DoubleSpaced 3.5" floppy.
Like Techie007 already suggested, 7ZIP is able to ...
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.exe file randomly deleted
Check the log file and quarantine folder of any antivirus software like Windows Defender, ans also anti malware software.
You can upload the file to an online analysis service like this one. This can ...
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Recovering files from old internal disk without windows authentication
If I get an adapter and connect it to my PC running windows 10 will I
be able to simply access the drive as if it was a new drive and browse
the files?
Yes. Assuming the drive is functional and ...
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Windows File Recovery - 'winfr.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
On my computer it works, and it looks like winfr.exe is the actual file recovery app itself. It should be located in the following path after installation:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\...
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I have a dying HDD, how can I back up my data?
The accepted answer Is not great. If you highly value your data and willing to pay heavily, certainly stop using it and go to a data recovery agency.
If not, DONT do file by file recovery at this time....
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Do par2 files have inner redundancy for bitrot on recovery blocks?
Each PAR2 file contains 0 or more blocks of recovery data. Each block has a checksum. Only the good blocks are used.
(The first PAR2 file of a set usually doesn't have any blocks. It just contains ...
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How can I find a Python script inside a encrypted and corrupted disk image?
Repair-bde
Accesses encrypted data on a severely damaged hard disk if the drive was encrypted by using BitLocker. Repair-bde can reconstruct critical parts of the drive and salvage recoverable data as ...
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Put files deleted over the network into a Windows trash can?
Dump from Othniel Cressy links.
A few years ago I discovered how redirected user profile folders in
Windows get Recycle Bin protection, even when the folders are
redirected to a ...
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Does cancelling the deletion of a folder restore files in the folder that were deleted?
Jonno's answer is better than mine, but in case anyone else is wondering, if you cancel it while it's still "Preparing to delete", then it did not delete anything. (However, that conclusion is just ...
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Get rid of "Resource Busy" message on Mac OS X
I had a similar issue to the OP so I thought I would share what I found. My scenario was different in that;
1) I had bought a brand new Sandisk 32GB USB Stick which I needed to use on a different ...
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Accessing Files on an SSD that won't boot
"Unallocated" means the OS sees no partition on the disk - it either got damaged or the SSD is faulty.
You will not be able to access the files without recovering the original partition. Search for "...
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Why can't I open a specific rar file in a specific computer, but it opens on other computer?
Try running memory diagnostics on the computer in question. I had this exact same issue on win 7 x64 with WinRAR. It wound up being a bad ddr3 memory module.
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Why can't I open a specific rar file in a specific computer, but it opens on other computer?
The answer was that @ng80092b had less available RAM than the size of the archive he was trying to open. The solution to this problem was re-creating the archive split in to smaller chunks. I ...
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ddrescue: Retry failed blocks after first run
You need to use the same map file each time - this is where it records the regions which have been tried and whether they succeeded or failed.
You typically do not need to change the command from run-...
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How to get files out of all subfolders and move them up to the first folder
Batch Script Solution
You can set the parent folder that contains all the files within the structure you need to copy up to the parent folder as a variable. You can then use a for /r loop and some ...
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Will deleting a disk volume corrupt my lost data?
Deleting the volume doesn't affect the data. With proper tools (not DiskMgmt), the volume can be recreated at exactly the same spot and will have exactly the same contents.
But the problem is that ...
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Excel on Windows 10: Recovering old file version accidentally overwritten and saved over?
If you didn't recover the deleted temporary files right away (see solution to recover previous versions from temp files below), restoring your previous version most likely won't be possible unless ...
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