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user profile is corrupt; seemingly with no possibility of recovery
This is my last resort, I've contacted my IT guy and hes not seeing a solid solution other than me sending my drive out to a place that can do low level data recovery besides some shot-in-the-dark ...
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TestDisk - rebuild NTFS partition on dead WD Elements [from macos]
I have a 5TB WD Elements external USB disk, which was formatted as a single 5TB NTFS partition without about 4TB of files. It's not a bootable disk. It stopped mounting, so I pulled it apart and ...
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How can I recover lost partitions?
My primary SSD has its boot sector erased, thus all partitions are not recognized by the computer. I can't boot the operating system on it, and I am currently using a spare HDD with bad sectors, and ...
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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 corrupted NTFS partition on external HDD
I have an external WD HDD with a unique NTFS partition on it that seems corrupted. I wish to recover the data on that disk and the disk itself if it is not physically damaged.
After a huge file copy ...
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Restore RAW drive back to NTFS [duplicate]
Recently, I have tried to make backup of SSD of my laptop using Macrium Reflect 8 Portable Free edition. However, this process ended in error (which, unfortunatelly, I can't remember, my apologies) ...
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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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How can I find out which sectors are used by files on NTFS?
I'm recovering data from a failing hard drive using ddrescue. It's a 2TB disk, NTFS filesystem, but only about 200GB or so is actually used, so rescuing it in its entirety would be a big ol' waste of ...
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All NTFS volumes on drive turning inaccessible at the same time
On Windows 10 I was browsing one of three NTFS partitions on an external USB drive. After a reboot none of the NTFS volumes on the drive are accessible, as in "can't even run chkdsk/damaged file ...
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Recover an NTFS filesystem accidentally over-formatted with FAT - getting the filesystem back?
I accidentally FAT formatted a NTFS partition, and now it shows up as an empty FAT-partition. I'm thinking much should be recoverable, since AFAIK NTFS puts much of the important stuff towards the ...
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Cannot mount image of NTFS partition recovered through ddrescue
The hard drive on my laptop has been giving me read errors, so I decided to back up the data on it.
I decided to use ddrescue to recover the data on the main NTFS partition. I first created a ...
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How do I recover data on a usb drive that was partially overwritten by the linux dd command?
I was trying to burn an iso image to a DVD with the command:
sudo dd if=/path/to/iso.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k status=progress
However, I ended up overwriting about 1.4 GB on my USB drive which had ...
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restore data on external disk after windows repair
Here is an issue my friend faced:
He has an external hard drive NTFS formatted. First he was putting photos to it using MacBook. Then he was putting photos using Ubuntu laptop. Then he moved to a ...
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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 files from HDD with partition type unrecognized and boot sector that can't be read [duplicate]
I was trying to retrieve data from an old (9 year old) HDD, which was working fine a month ago, after leaving powered off for a month. When I turned on my Windows PC on, it took a long while to boot [...
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