Questions tagged [data-recovery]
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My phone's screen has broke and i cannot see anything and i have important personal encrypted files in my phone [closed]
I need to somehow get remote access to the screen and transfer the files to my computer ASAP. But all i see online is USB debugging and shit. I cannot do that as the screen doesnt show anything.
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How to recovery previous data after reinstalling windows 11?
I asked a technician in my city to fix an error on my laptop, without knowing he performed a Windows reinstall which caused all my data to be lost. I have searched for windows.old on drive C: and I ...
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Ubuntu 23.10 : I lost 6 Terabytes of Data, how can I know which user/process deleted it? [closed]
I have set up a NAS Server running Ubuntu 23.10 minimal and Jellyfin Media Server for my Family in December 2023. We put our whole family files on it (films, photo, music etc), last time I checked ...
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Android dot folder (hidden folder) is not showing in windows
I make a folder in my android device under that i have some files and .private folder ("dot" folder usually hidden in an android) under that hidden folder i have many important files. When i ...
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I need to recover files from a computer that I deleted files from and then emptied the recycle bin on [duplicate]
Work sent me a new windows laptop. I thought I moved all of the files that I needed, but I now need to recover some more.
When I thought I had gotten them all I deleted the files from the old laptop. ...
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Recovering Veracrypt volume on encrypted hdd disk recovery after formating
An encrypted Veracrypt volume on external hdd that is 1-pass wiped (full format) with the Windows format tool. Then some data was written after the format. According to my knowledge, with hex viewer ...
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SATA SSD not detect in BIOS, stuck on loading in computer management, but shows up in Acronis
Brand 1TB: FIKWOT Solid State Drive - This one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B4J9HHW6
I have this SSD SATA drive below. I plugged it into my computer and the bios doesn't detect it. But when I ...
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Storage space with 2 new SSD disks failure after 2 months, how to recover the data back?
I am not sure what happened but after simple reboot the P: drive was not there.
At the beginning both disk where showing OK, but with the ERROR on the pool.
I did some tests and after that one start ...
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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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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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Recovered Files from Deleted Partition Are Empty, How Can I Fix This?
I accidentally deleted a partition on my hard drive and used a file recovery tool to restore the files. The recovery process seemed successful as the files were restored with the correct extensions ...
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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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Recover damaged & luks-encrypted BTRFS partition
Here's my problem:
I have a Virtual Machine that I had to reset because the UI became very buggy after I tried to mount a hot-pluggable virtual disk image to copy some files.
Well that was actually ...
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How to recover exFAT formatted CFExpress Card? Mistakenly corrupted files by Apple Photos and I overwritten files on it
I'm an amateur videographer and bought a Fujifilm XH2 camera and Angelbird CFExpress MK2 card with it. I didn't buy card reader at first.
The situation occurred as follows:
I've shot several solo ...
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