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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How do I import/recover/repair an Outlook 2013 .ost file into a new instance of Outlook 2013?
Note: This is not a Microsoft Exchange problem, but an Outlook 2013 one, and even though it might seem as a duplicate of a previously asked one, please pay attention to the end of the post.
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Reading data from a 23 year old IDE harddrive
I have a 200 MB Western Digital 2.5" IDE drive, originally from an Amiga 1200, that I would like to try to get an image file of, so I can keep the data that is on it.
Since the drive is very old, and ...
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What causes this HDD sector damage pattern?
Out of curiosity, I ran GNU ddrescue on a Seagate ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB hard drive with known bad sectors, and then I visualized the ddrescue mapfile with ddrescueview.
When I zoomed in, this ...
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Will data remain intact when flashing the firmware of a “bricked” Intel SSD 520 Series SSD drive?
My Intel SSD 520 Series 240GB SSDSC2BW240A3L SSD featuring the SandForce SF-2281VB1-SDC controller spontaneously died and does not show up in BIOS. Presumably, its firmware has been corrupted by a ...
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Recover files from "partition" with DCF file system but without disk letter
I'm trying to recover lost data from a complete blackout on my photo camera (strictly not a superuser question but I'm trying to solve the issue with my laptop).
So I have a camera (Canon 7D, compact ...
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Why is my 500GB hdd not readable after dd'ed on a different 500GB hdd?
Accidentally formatted an important external 500GB hdd yesterday. Not an SDD, 2.5".
(Quick) formatting occured while installing windows xp on it. I had the wrong usb drive plugged in. ~600MB are ...
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How do I repair/recover "RAW" usb drive partition?
Something happened to one of my USB drives. When I connect it my computer, Windows thinks that it's "RAW", and asks me to format it. But it should be FAT32, and chock full of files.
I looked in ...
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Undelete records in Microsoft Access
About 600 records in a Microsoft Access File (.mdb) have been deleted. The .mdb file size hasn't changed, being around 20 MB.
AccessFIX (Demo) shows the exact number and contents of the deleted ...
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How can I tell if my SSD is really secure erased, with a huge $BadClus file on it?
Backstory: almost a year ago, I bought a Silicon Power Ace A56 256GB SATA SP256GBSS3A56B25. After 4 months, it suddenly went into Satafirm S11 mode, which meant I couldn't boot a system from it, ...
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Can you recover deleted files on Windows Subsystem for Linux?
I have Kali Linux installed on WSL. In its bash I have accidentally overwritten a file in its file system (i.e., not under /mnt/) by a mv command.
Is there any way to recover it?
I have tried to ...
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Analyse allocated space in Ext4 partition to improve data recovery efficiency
I'm trying to use Lubuntu to recover as much data as possible from a failing 4TB hard disk drive.
According to GParted the main partition, formatted in Ext4, contains only 553GB of data. I attempted ...
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External hard disk showing unknown, not initialised in Disk Management
I removed my 1 tb external hard disk (Seagate) directly from a windows system and now it is not working anymore. I'm trying to fix it via ubuntu now, and when I try to check it in Disks (gnome utility)...
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How can I recover an autohotkey script that has been over-written
I have an autohotkey script that is continuously running on my computer. I inadvertently saved a blank script over it, but the original is still running in the background.
I tried to recover the ...
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Attempted recovery of data - .swf files
I have an external hard drive which is no longer being picked up/read by Windows (although it appears in Device Manager). It contains mostly media files (.jpg, .mov, .mp4).
I downloaded a trial ...
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TestDisk doesn't find the right Ext4 partition
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I have a hard disk that originally had some NTFS partitions and an Ext4 partition (besides some unallocated space and a Linux Swap). It lost its partition table. Nothing has been ...
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