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Does the presence of a large `found.000` folder on a Windows machine would indicate a dying SSD?
I found a large folder named found.000, I know this is linked to data corruption and bad-sectors but what it means is unclear to me.
Should I change my SSD? Are the bad sectors not used anymore? If I ...
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Degraded four-drive RAID 5 with missing superblock on single drive
I'll start with the question: Based on the following information, is there a mdadm command I can make in the readyNAS to reassemble all four drives in the raid 5 in a working state where I can pull ...
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Data Storage Volume (e.g. HDD) - physical representation, volume and file system [closed]
My primary questions are: what exactly is a volume on a byte level, as opposed to partition or file system? What does it look like in binary? Can I open an HDD (raw) and find volume data structure ...
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Is it possible to recover files on NTFS after writing to the same directory?
I've accidentally deleted a couple of .tex and .pdf files. The files were stored under C:\Users\Name\Desktop\notes on my laptop's SSD. I'm using a Windows 11 Pro. It seems like this happened about a ...
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Recovering files form failing hard drive on Windows
I have a failing hard drive, I need to recover the remaining files. Some are listed in windows explorer, some are not but the drive hangs when I try a bulk transfer.
What is the best way to recover ...
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How to obtain a lost version of an edited notepad [.txt] file on a Windows 10 hard drive using a SATA SSD to USB dongle
About 1 year ago I had saved some code on a notepad text file (.txt) I was building using a Windows 10 computer. However, I deleted a portion of the code and saved the text file with a new c++ code ...
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Repairing partition table with wrong sector size messed by usb-adapter and with possible block errors
I have a 4TB WD hdd (with sector size of 512e/4096) that was first formatted as GPT/ext4 with an usb-sata enclosure/adapter on a Raspberry Pi 3. Apparently the load was too much for Rpi3, and ...
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My folders turned into files on my FAT32 usb
I have some very important archives in folders on my USB. I needed to use a program on a computer in my school because i did not have it in my laptop, but when i plugged and checked my USB in the ...
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pyspark deleted directory due to ill-formatted save - recovery of data possible?
I am new to hadoop and spark. When I was running a test in pyspark after installation, I wrote a test file out to a directory using an ill-formatted save command. Instead of saving to a specific file, ...
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Data repair for a FAT32 drive that failed dynamic conversion to NTFS
I used this command
"CONVERT F: /FS:NTFS".
where F: is a 1Tb FAT32 formatted drive. Process hung and had to close it. After that my files sizes remained same but they were corrupt & ...
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Recover data from encrypted disk, extundelete Error
I am trying to recover files from an encrypted disk on ubuntu. I used rm -rf in the wrong dir. And killed the commnad a few seconds when realising my mistake.
These are the steps I did so far:
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How do I recover files from ext4 with "discarded blocks" and rewritten superblock
I have resized an ext4 partition using parted, and found online that, to resize it without data loss, I need to run mke2fs -S /dev/sdxx -t ext4 ; fsck.ext4 /dev/sdxx -p. I took a look at the commands ...
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Erasing filenames from a hard drive's MFT space?
I have recently erased and overwritten a 3 TB hard drive using
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb bs=4096
multiple times. The data should be unrecoverable by now.
Unfortunately, tools like Recuva (for ...
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Restore found.000 files to their original location in Windows 10
I have an external disk which has received some power cuts due to power failures in the office and not having power backup.
The disk for now works correctly but I have noticed that there are some ...
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Proper/alternative method to recover lost directory (ext4)
Disk / Filesystem structure:
Seagate 1TB > LUKS > LVM2, Ext4
Scenario:
While running a script which uses youtube-dl to download a complete channel, disk become full and base directory ("/...
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