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How to recover files deleted / removed by autofs?
I wanted to automatically mount a directory in my home directory, so I attempted to use autofs for this resulting in autofs removing everything in my home directory.
The setup was something like auto....
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How to recover folder deleted with rm -rf from \\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu\home\username
I've accidentally deleted some important folders from my WSL Ubuntu environment using the rm -rf command. The specific path was \\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu\home\myusername\myfoldername. I'm aware of the ...
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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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How to recover Mac OS 9 data off of a failed hard drive
A while ago I used Mac OS 9 and had an external hard drive which failed.
I want to recover my data, but am unsure of the best way to do that.
I got this cable: “SATA/IDE to USB 3.0 Adapter, FIDECO USB ...
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How to recover folder overwritten by `mv` command in ubuntu
How to recover folder overwritten by mv command in Ubuntu-20.04 on wsl2?
I was moving two folders, folderA and folderB from current directory to dest.
Here is what I did:
mv folderA ./dest/folderA
mv ...
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ddrescue --generate-mode produced mapfile for resume, but missing non-trimmed blocks?
I started ddrescue to recover a failing 2TB WD drive from my NAS. Although I specified a logfile, unfortunately I was running ubuntu in trial mode from a bootable flash drive and did not write the ...
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Can't recover ubuntu partition with testdisk
I am trying to recover my Ubuntu partition from my ssd. I don't know why it can't be detected by neither gparted nor the grub recovery shell (unknown filesystem for all hard discs). I tried to recover ...
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Data rescue - general advice & ddrescue output
I have a broken 4TB NTFS Seagate HDD with thousands of tiff images with measurement data:
Ubuntu Disk tells me, "Disk is OK, one bad sector", Contents: "Unknown".
The BIOS doesn't ...
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Drive not mounting in Ubuntu MATE
I have 2 drives: 1 SSD and 1 hard disk drive. I installed Windows on the SSD so I could upgrade the BIOS on my motherboard, this was successful.
I then went and downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu ...
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I accidentally made my laptop unbootable using dd [duplicate]
The story so far...
I was experimenting with Unix's dd program on my Ubuntu laptop, trying to find a quick method to wipe a micro SD card securely.
I set dd in motion, came back a few minutes later, ...
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URGENT - used git clean -xdf, lost everything need something to recover the files
I was doing some coding and working on an environment when I read a command that would help me sort my libraries in a conda environment -> git clean -xdf . Dumb me just pasted on the terminal, lost ...
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recovering data from choregraphe project after a hard restart crash
I am working with Choregraphe to build some robot functionality in a project.
Recently I did something to cause my project to crash not only my Choregraphe, but also my entire system froze until I ...
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deleted ubuntu partition from windows 10. now facing error: unknowm file system; entering rescue mode; grub rescue
I have a system with dual boot with windows 10 OS and Ubuntu 16.04 server OS in my system. after 1 year ... I found no use of Ubuntu and deleted the ubuntu and extended the drives in windows. so I ...
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File recovery on external hd with Testdisk (Ubuntu 18.04)
I was doing some organizing on my Seagate 4 TB HDD when I attempted to cut/paste all of the movies in one directory to a new directory. I received an error message (wish I would've screenshot it, but ...
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CD Accidentally formatter, can I recover data
I accidentally formatted an old CD but wanted to check if there's a way to recover some of the data since i haven't written anything on it.
I'm currently using Ubuntu 18.04 and have tried with using ...
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