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Tagged with hard-drive-failure data-recovery
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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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drive failing, dd back failed at 33%, can I partially recover?
An external hard drive had trouble mounting after bootup. So I began to clone it using dd.This was quite a while ago, and so I don't recall the exact parameters. Something rather standard for a ...
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Data rescue - general advice & ddrescue output
I have a broken 4TB NTFS Seagate HDD with thousands of tiff images with measurement data:
Ubuntu Disk tells me, "Disk is OK, one bad sector", Contents: "Unknown".
The BIOS doesn't ...
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Recovery of failing bitlocked HDD: RAW partition instead of NTFS
Short story: My new drive ended up having RAW partition instead of NTFS after running repair-bde command. Can't access any of files.
Long story: Had a 2TB laptop HDD as my second drive for data ...
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Seagate Backup Plus portable USB HDD beeps and won't mount
About two years ago, I bought me a Seagate "Backup Plus" Portable HDD, 2 TB capacity. Model: SRD00F1. And indeed, I filled it with some content. It's not critical material, but - it's the only copy I ...
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Ghost external HDD (OSX): nowhere to be seen
I need to retrieve a hard drive, which was used on Mac, but when connecting the drive it boots and lights-up, except that it doesn't mount, in fact it doesn't appear in my USB bus connection despite ...
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Laptop HDD fail, Shows partition but can not copy data, testdisk MBR code fail
I use 2TB HDD in my laptop with 250 GB partition for windows 10 and rest for data storage. I switched my laptop so moved the HDD from old to new laptop and started the system. Windows logo came up but ...
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HDD capacity not detected correctly Ubuntu 14.04
My WD3200BUCT (320 GB HDD) stopped working. It had Win 7 (64 bit) installed. The problem at hand is that there is still some important data on it that I would like to recover. When I plug it into my ...
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Widespread File Corruption - HDD failure, or other components corrupting drives?
Apologies in advance, this will be a long post as I figure explaining everything that's relevant is better than being vague and having a long back-and-forth. The main reason I'm asking here is because ...
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My RAID 10 Array has corrupted, how do I get back my data?
I have a server with 4 drives in a RAID 10 array. Recently my server was down with the Array not detecting the drives.
Only a single drive is currently being seen by the RAID card while a second ...
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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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HDD Painfully Slow, Attempting To Do a Data Recovery
I had a WD Blue 1TB drive in my laptop until 3 weeks ago where it violently froze on me. I have been trying to recover a document full of wedding photos for a family member. Though I am having no luck....
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damaged hdd: recovery possibilities?
I've had a damaged Samsung HM500JJ Rev. A laptop drive lying around for some time but only recently tried to recover any data from it. It died just after a year of use, out of the blue: no indications ...
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How to tell whether the memory chips or controller have failed on an SSD?
I've got an Intel SSD 320 Series 160GB that's suddenly failed - it just wouldn't boot one day. I'd like to have a go at recovering the data by desoldering the memory chips and soldering them onto the ...
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Seagate hdd (internal) unmount/disappear after awhile i plugged in
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Before my Seagate ST1000DM003 (1TB) failed, the disk usage always goes up to 100% active with no transfer rate, this causing my pc freeze randomly. BIOS POST shows up'S.M.A.R.T. COMMAND ...
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Western Digital my passport 2TB
My passport WD 2TB is about 2 years old and was working perfectly on both PC and Mac up to yesterday.
Today when I plugged it in, it whirred loudly.
The power light is continuously flashing.
It ...
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How to save data from a dying hard drive?
I have three drives installed, 1 SSD and 2 HDD. While the system is in the SSD, many program are installed in one of the the HDD. But I think that HDD is failing. I can hardly even boot the computer. ...
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Are there any possibilities to recover data from dead hard disc [duplicate]
I have an Sea-gate 500gb hard disc that is completely dead, i mean when i connect hard disc to my system it is not getting detected.
But i had so much of important data in it, i need those data now.
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Damaged disk, what are my options
I think I have a damaged hard drive, with lots of PRECIOUS data on it. I always had a backup drive somewhere of it, but I needed it so I ordered more hard drives (should be here tomorrow or so) and ...
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Repairing hard disk when Windows installation disk won't boot
I'm trying to recover some data from a faulty hard disk with Windows installed on it (on which Windows won't even boot). I have tried so far:
Booting to Ubuntu live USB stick and running ntfsfix (...
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Recover data from one PV of an LVM mirror
A 1TB disk containing one partition which was the only PV in a VG containing one LV was failing by becoming intolerably slow without reporting any errors. My first thought was to attempt to use LVM ...
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