Questions tagged [data-recovery]
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I have 5 disk partitions from a disk imaged separatly, but did not image the partition table. How can I reassemble them into a coherent disk image?
Like the title says, I have 5 disk images, dev-sdc1.img, dev-sdc2.img, dev-sdc3.img, dev-sdc4.img, dev-sdc5.img. I did not save the partition table, and do not know which were primary partitions, etc. ...
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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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Can I recover accidently deleted files on an SSD External Drive running Windows 10 Home?
I accidently deleted files from a WD external SSD hard drive. Running OS is Windows 10. I have scanned the drive with two separate on-line file recovery (Stellar & Recoverit) packages and both ...
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If a hard drive has sectors that are corrupt or physically damaged, can those sectors be written over?
I have a bootable FreeBSD drive that I'm using to wipe the contents of a hard drive before donating the PC to my local thrift store. I'm using the following command to achieve this:
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How to recover a USB hard drive [duplicate]
On accident I deleted the partition on my moms backup drive and I need to get the data back and I have no idea how to do this. its about 1TB (931GB) and I also don't have one big enough to store that ...
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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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How can I recover data from a bitlocker encrypted volume (with the decryption key)?
I have a backup drive that is used mostly for that purpose: to backup data from my computer. I did move data onto it temporarily at some point, but I believe and I hope I've moved it back off in the ...
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Unable to recover BTRFS partition, what to do?
Using btrfs check:
$ sudo btrfs check --progress /dev/nvme0n1p7
[sudo] password for repair:
Opening filesystem to check...
checksum verify failed on 24708644864 wanted 0x00000000 found 0xb6bde3e4
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