Questions tagged [data-recovery]
This tag is for questions about techniques for recovering lost data — e.g., from deleted files and/or damaged or corrupted digital media. Please review the tag wiki before posting a question. Do not explicitly ask for tools or other products; such questions are off-topic on Super User.
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drive is not accessible chkdsk raw [duplicate]
So I have this D drive on my Dell laptop having important information, and it said first it's not accessible, then I did the chkdsk D: /f /r and it said the drive is RAW, thus no chkdsk, what the best ...
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Confused source with destination with ddrescue
I was about to recover second out of five failing RAID disks with ddrescue, and sudden peculiar twist occurred in my mind, and I typed
sudo ddrescue --verbose --idirect --no-scrape -f /dev/sda /dev/...
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BTRFS after multiple power outages bad checksum
After multiple power outages, btrfs have bad checksums, is it possible to recover it?
Outages were on Dell R740xd with PERC H730P Adapter looks like the cache was unwritten.
now trying to recover in ...
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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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I have a 4 TB WD Green Drive. It clicks 4 times, then a pause, then 1 more click, but it won't mount
I have a 4.0 TB WD Green drive. It was in an enclosure as part of a WD My Book or something like that. It failed on me so I took it out of the enclosure and put it in a new one. I plugged it into my ...
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Mount & Access DATA in RAID1 configured HDD outside of Synology Box on Linux [mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock]
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My Two-Disk Synology DS14+ won't power on and I want to access the files stored in the HDDs on my Ubuntu computer. I tried following the official guide on Synology's FAQ but I always get ...
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Data-Recovery from External hard disk which has bad sectors
I accidentally pulled out my externa hard disk from my TV without unmounting it. After this the HDD is not working properly. When I plug it in my laptop it says that the USB device is not recognizable....
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Restore 20TB Harddrive after installing 2GB Operating System [duplicate]
Here's what happened:
I ran the Fedora Media Write from here (https://fedoraproject.org/fmw/FedoraMediaWriter-win32-latest.exe) and selected my hard-drive, not by accident there was just no warning it ...
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Recover Pendrive
I accidentally made my pendrive (Sandisk) bootable with windows 11 on which I had kept important backup files. Is there any solution to recover data on that pendrive. I think (but not sure) previously ...
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How to recover lost data through transfer?
I have made a terrible mistake when transferring photos from a microSD card to an external HDD.
I connect the microSD card and the external HDD to my iPad. I could see all the photos from SD card. I ...
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Is it possible to recover a zip file corrupted by GnuPG?
I recently started encrypting a zip file with:
gpg --symmetric my_file.zip
It was taking a long time - the archive is about 300 MB - and so I decided to cancel the operation part way through. The zip ...
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Recovering data from iMac internal hard drive when you can't login to your account anymore
I'm looking for help on recovering data from an internal hard drive on my iMac.
I have a iMac that I purchased online in 2018 refurbished. It had been slowing down over the last few months, but I ...
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How to trim allocated space
I used ddrescue and Photorec to help a friend recover files from a dying 1TB Seagate HD from a Windows 10 machine.
I created an img file with ddrescue, and ran Photorec against that img file. I saved ...
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How to access data on an external ssd drive with MBR only?
My old laptop's display died, so I took its SSD and connected it to another laptop with Ubuntu 22.04 externally via USB using M2 SSD case. There should be two operating systems: Windows and Ubuntu on ...
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JPEG Corrupted file fixing
I had an old, broken hard disk containing a lot of JPEG files.
I took that hard to an information recovery company.
The company was able to extract part of the files well, But there are many others ...
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