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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 recover files from a healthy microSD card that is accessible only from an unrooted Android smartphone?

I accidentally deleted important documents (about 100 PDFs) that weren't backed up yet from a 64 GB microSD card, which is used as the primary storage in my unrooted Android 9.0 smartphone. The ...
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Several important forders missing in SSD with Windows

I've read about missing files due to SSD wear-out, hidden files, accidentally deleted files and such but I thing this problem might be different. One day a friend's computer was missing a boot device, ...
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Creating recovery drive stuck on, "Please Wait."

How can I fix this issue and create a Recovery Drive? The wizard has been stuck at this screen for 30+ minutes at the time of writing.
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HDD old deleted data still visible in recovery software [duplicate]

Hi How can i completely wipe old deleted data from hard disk i am trying with ccleaner and cleaning the /w Free Space (35 Pass) after cleaning the free space i scanned my laptop with easeus data ...
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Recover formatted HDD data to itself

I did format my HDD and lose any data on it accidently. This happened by to burn a small image to the external HDD by Win32DiskImage so I know that I lost some data but not all of them. Anyway I ...
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Lost all files after windows installation became damaged

Last week, my laptop hung for a while, I couldn't do anything then it went into automatic repair, then it tells me it was unable to repair the pc. I had to reinstall windows, I found my files in ...
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Recover paritition hard drive after being formatted to W10 install drive

I accidentally set my external 5TB hard drive that I use for my photo, movies, and music storage to use as an installation drive for W10. I did this over a year ago now and have had trouble recovering ...
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Recovering only deleted partition(not formatted nor overwritten)

I have an external hard disk and by mistake I only removed its partition. But after that I understood my mistake and stop doing anything on that. I ejected it immediately. It has 1TB capacity. It is ...
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I have a dying HDD, how can I back up my data?

As the title says, I have a dying HDD and I've made a mistake of keeping some of my important files on here whether than on my C: drive. When my computer boots up it greets me with a "S.M.A.R.T ...
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Manual NTFS recovery sanity check

I need someone to please sanity check my manual NTFS recovery process so far because it's lead me to a brick wall. Background: I had a 1TB NTFS external drive (WD Elements) which contained mostly ...
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Will deleting a disk volume corrupt my lost data?

I'm trying to recover some data from a hard drive that a friend attempted to format without making a backup. The drive is currently not recognized in "My PC." In disk management, the only option is "...
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ddrescue: Retry failed blocks after first run

I backed up a failing harddrive with ddrescue. The command I used was # ddrescue -vv -d -J /dev/sda /mnt/rescue/winxp.img winxp.map The program completed with around 60 errors. I wanted to retry ...
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Recovery of files from a Windows failing drive

A 1TB NTFS-formatted disk on my Windows 10 machine started crapping out. Following advice in other questions, I downloaded a System Rescue CD ISO, booted from it and ran ddrescue as suggested here to ...
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HDD Data Recovery - Windows disk check removed backup folder but space still occupied

(Backup is defined as simply copying the folders that I needed / wanted to "back up" to transfer to my new installation of Windows and Fedora. This was done in Nautilus, Fedora's default file manager) ...
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