Questions tagged [hard-drive-recovery]
Hard drive recovery infers the recovery of previously lost data from a Hard Disk Drive due to system, user or device error.
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Recover from disk failure using mirrored volumes
I have a system set up with Windows 11 and two drives. The disks have been converted to dynamic disks and the boot volume has been mirrored. As far as I can tell only the "primary" disk can ...
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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 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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How to save data from an external disk that died
A little under 4 years ago I bought a Seagate Backup Plus Portable 5 TB external hard drive. It's worked fine for years, but recently it started having problems - it would disconnect and then ...
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I need help make sense of TestDisk output
I recently found an 2 TB external drive again which I though I ha lost and when I viewed it with DISKMGMT.MSC it said it had an unallocated section of 638GB.
I remembered that I might've deleted a ...
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How to recover the files from the merged two drives?
After trying to extend the C: drive to two other drives, E: Documents (79.46GB) and D: Software (50GB), I do not see the data contained in E: Documents (79.46GB) folder, but the data is present that ...
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How to restore data from a Formatted HDD [duplicate]
I was installing Kali linux without knowing that I was using my personal HDD to do so. Now I have formatted the data that was present on HDD.
I want to know, Is there a way to restore the data that ...
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3.5 inch HDD making clicking noise (video included) [closed]
Seeking Advice: Recovering Data from Clicking 3.5" HDD
I have an approximately 10-year-old 3.5-inch SATA hard drive that I'm trying to get old personal files off of. When connected via a SATA-to-...
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Acronis recovery breaks shortcuts in Windows when restored on identical machine?
I'm using Acronis to create recover an disk image to a replacement system.
The image was created 2 weeks ago and is now being restored to a replacement machine(same batch, same vendor, same hardware)
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Mount Qnap drive in Debian
So I have a HDD drive ejected from Qnap (I do not longer have it) and I wanted to mount it in home made server with OMV on Debian machine. There is no way I can do that, it cannot be mounted. I tried ...
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Unable to mount btrfs becuase of because of unmatched "fsid"
I ran btrfstune -u /dev/sdc and it failed, now I am not able to mount this disk.
Errors in dmesg are
[ 46.388877] BTRFS error (device sdc): dev_item UUID does not match metadata fsid: 35f9709d-b959-...
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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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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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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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If a hard drive is dying, is it a bad idea to use a backup created by its (Windows 10) OS?
I believe my hard drive (let's call it C1) is dying: chkdsk /f on my C drive freezes/locks the process at a certain %. A few months ago I ran this process successfully and it found and fixed errors. ...
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