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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Where does Clipchamp store temp files during screen recording
I'm trying to recover a screen recording done via Clipchamp (Windows 11). Unfortunately, the computer restarted a few seconds after I stopped the recording after Clipchamp started to process the file (...
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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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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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Windows 10 system image restore destroyed non-system data partitions
Recently I had an issue with my computer caused by a feature that I confused with a virus (the extremely annoying and invasive OSD volume controls).
It had been a very long time since I had last used ...
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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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ddrescue second run, running time: n/a
I am running ddrescue to rescue a Windows 10 drive to a new SSD from a gparted media drive. I ran it successfully the first time with:
sudo ddrescue -f -d -n /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /path/to/map.log.
I ...
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Restore ReFS partition deleted by mistake
I'm facing an issue where a ReFS partition has been mistakenly deleted, and I need to restore it.
I've attempted to recover the partition using MiniTools Partition Wizard, but it couldn't locate the ...
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Data Storage Volume (e.g. HDD) - physical representation, volume and file system [closed]
My primary questions are: what exactly is a volume on a byte level, as opposed to partition or file system? What does it look like in binary? Can I open an HDD (raw) and find volume data structure ...
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How to obtain Chrome complete list of autofill data (for text fields such as username)?
How can I obtain a complete list of autofill data in Chrome browser (not passwords just the other autofill such as username, address, etc for text boxes entered in previously)?
I have attempted to use ...
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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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Why does a DVD-RW with data on it show as empty? [duplicate]
I have an old DVD-RW disk which shows as empty in both Windows 11 Explorer and ImgBurn. However I know there is data on it because the written part is clearly visible on the data side. But I do not ...
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UltraSearch found deleted files, how do I recover them? [duplicate]
UltraSearch has found two pdf files I was looking for. Unfortunately, both have been deleted from the Recycle Bin. Fortunately, UltraSearch reads their contents just fine and displays them in the ...
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Recovering a formatted drive that used to be encrypted with Bitlocker
I'm dual booting Windows and Mint on my laptop and I have a separate NTFS hard drive that I use to store my personal data. The hard drive used to be compatible with Mint, even though it was encrypted ...
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Veracrypt somehow really messed up the bootloader on my PC
So basically I wanted to install windows on a secondary physical drive in my PC so I could have a second bare metal OS for testing stuff. I have 1 M.2 SSD that has my main windows installation ...
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Does encrypting full drive with BitLocker secure-wipe the drive?
Say I have a storage device that I want to use with my Windows 10 machine. I have some sensitive data on the drive and I would like to wipe the drive before using it. Normally I just use dd to fill ...
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Recover files from failed raid 0
I have a client whose laptop (Asus GX502) stopped working, and as I fix the laptop he wants his data from his drives, but problem is that when I connected the nvme SSDs (512 GB each) to my test ...
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Is it possible to recover files from quickly formatted HDD? [duplicate]
I have formatted my hard drive, now I wonder if it is possible to recover the files while I have reinstalled windows on the same drive and been using it for a few weeks and almost filled the hard ...
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How to quickly delete files and folders in Windows 10 so that they can never be recovered or accessed again
I have an application and txt files where the records of this application are kept. When I give a command via CMD, I want these files to be quickly deleted, irrecoverable and inaccessible. Depending ...
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Recovery data from a double (accidentally) formatted HDD HFS+
Could be possible recovery original HDD data from a double formatted HDD?
I have erroneous repeated the formatting on a working disk twice, could be possible recovery original one table allocation ...
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Unable to access data on Intel "fake RAID" after failed Ubuntu update
Recently I did an update of my Ubuntu, it seems to work at first but after restart it shows:
kernell ofset relocation range kernel panic not syncing: VFS
I try to use different older kernel from Grub ...
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WD External Drive Stopped Working - Are there any Non-Destructive Diagnostic Options? What's the Best Course Of Action?
I'm having problems with my Western Digital My Passport 4TB External Drive.
This model, specifically: WDBYFT004BBK-0A
I was in the process of cross-backing-up data between my live setup (laptop), my ...
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How to recover data from a RAW disk C (winows won't boot) [closed]
my disk C:/ is RAW and when I boot, it boots to the installation of Windows.
When I go through with the installation I can access my disks (when I click o then I can access the files) except disk C:/ (...
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Mapping ddrescue and data from a particular head on a hdd
I'd like to clone data from a particular head of a HDD. Can I do a ddrescue and then divide the rescue image by the number of heads to get multiple images, each with data from one head/surface?
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Recover Linux Mint HDD
I have an HDD that doesn't work anymore. It was working fine, but the OS was lagged and the user turned off the computer using the power button, after that the bios doesn't recognize the HD anymore.
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How to use Foremost to recover new file types of unknown footer?
How to use Foremost to recover new file types of unknown footer?
For Example:
File types of .PSD and .NEF.
"New file types" of foremost means:
The foremost software does not natively support ...
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extract VBA userform from corrupted word docm
I have a userform in word built over 10+ years. Today Word chose to crash the normal.docm file and the VBA project became unreadable.
I have used python scripts to extract the code, but I don't have ...
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Safest way to back up old, failing drives?
I have a number of old hard drives (some IDE, most SATA). Some years ago I powered them up and attempted to restore all files through an undelete program, and got some files. I'm not convinced I did a ...
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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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Able to unlock BitLocker drive, but unable to obtain the 48-digit recovery key
I'm trying to obtain the 48-digit BitLocker recovery key from a failed drive. Here's what happened:
Windows 10 Professional was installed on a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB drive. The login was a local user ...
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Can't access my data on old HDD, the USB adapter shows only Windows and program files [closed]
I have an old 2.5 ATA/IDE HDD, since my PC had problems with the motherboard I bought a ATA/IDE USB adapter.
It does connect to the PC from the adapter, but I can only access the Windows installation ...
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External hd acidentally converted to gpt on windows - how to recover lost data? [duplicate]
As my external hd did not show up in disk manager I accidentally clicked gpt when asked. Now the disk results "not allocated". In fedora results "windows reserved".
Now I am ...
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Robocopy from corrupted SD Card hangs on some files despite /R:0 /W:0. Manually adding each to /XF list and reruning is too slow. How can I automate?
I'm trying to recover thousands of photos and videos from a corrupted SD Card.
I've tried to recover the SD Card with chkdsk /F /R /X . Here is the relevant output:
"Corruption was found while ...
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MacBook Air (2012) Toshiba SSD enclosure / connector
Recently, my A1466 MacBook Air (2012) suffered some water damage. Since then, it can’t boot up anymore. I pulled the hard drive with the hope of transferring the files to either an external hard drive ...
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ddrescue 0% recovered - is the external hard drive dead?
I assume my external exFAT hard drive is dead. There are many questions about ddrescue but typically the poster manages to recover something. I just want an analysis of my results.
ddrescue shows:
I ...
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Read data from a raid1 disk, superblocks erased
I have a disk that used to be inside my qnap NAS (it was in raid1 with another disk, which I still have). The NAS died and I mounted the disk on my ubuntu machine using mdadm to create the raid array ...
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Bitlocker suddenly activated on my machine, prompting for recovery key that I don't have
I've run into a very strange problem with my Lenovo laptop (Windows 10 Home) and although people say it's not possible, it still happened.
I have been using my laptop for over two years and have not ...
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Corrupted portable SSD, wrong size detected, what to do?
I have a 240 GB portable SSD from Transcend.
ESD230C Portable SSD
Model: TS240GESD230C
SN: F43849-0038
Recently there have been long delays in reading data.
During another such long delay, I ...
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How can I recover vbaproject.bin from my corrupt powerpoint.pptm file
I have a .pptm file with 70 hours of code work in it. It has become corrupted and I have no backup (very stupid I know!). What I do have is the .ppam which was generated from a slightly earlier ...
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Backing up Outlook files (.pst)
I have scrolled through all the related questions to this problem. In short, I have emails from 2012 that need to be recovered; supposedly I have the back-up .pst file. However, this error reoccurs:
[&...
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