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Restore RAW drive back to NTFS [duplicate]
Recently, I have tried to make backup of SSD of my laptop using Macrium Reflect 8 Portable Free edition. However, this process ended in error (which, unfortunatelly, I can't remember, my apologies) ...
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Leading zeros in the Cluster Chain Run of an NTFS MFT record?
I have an example pulled from a hard disk at my house where the NTFS $MFT file contains zeros in the least-significant places of the Cluster Chain Run. Interpreted little-endian, this doesn't make any ...
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How do you interpret the Cluster Chain Run in an NTFS MFT record?
For mostly academic reasons, I've been learning how to interpret the Cluster Chain Run from the Data Attribute Block from an MFT Record from a NTFS volume.
I watched a video that walks through an ...
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How to recover partitions?
my partitions are lost and my datas are also lost when I use ntfsfix on my hard drive. For the partition table like this:
sdb disk
└─sdb1 unallocated
└─sdb5 /DATA1
└─sdb6 /...
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Unable to locate the physical disk sector(s) a file occupies
Sysinternals Diskview is producing what seems like an unlikely situation. I have a series of files I know exist on an NTFS filesystem (which is on a spinning disk hard drive), but when I try to use ...
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How to Recover a NTFS-formatted RAID 1 Enclosure with 2 Hard Drives?
I have an enclosure that supports two hard drives in RAID 1 mode. A few days ago I connected the enclosure to my laptop and Windows was giving me errors saying it couldn't read/load the D: partition. ...
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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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Is it possible to restore data from a Harddrive after it had been formatted from HFS+ to NTFS and windows has been installed?
Sorry for the long title, but I got a serious problem that I couldnt fix even after hours of search and recovery through recovery software.
At this point I dont even know if its even possible to ...
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My old 8TB drive suddenly asks to initialize. All is lost?
I woke up today to find out that my 8tb HDD cannot be accessed. I restarted Win10 hoping it would fix this but now it won't show up. I am looking at it in disk management, it shows up as not ...
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ddrescue very slow, writing to NTFS – is it worth it to convert to Ext4 now?
Two days ago I began the recovery of a 1TB failing HDD which was handed out to me with the hope that I could salvage most of it for a cheap price.
At first it behaved erratically, often being ...
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My internal hard disk is corrupt and can't be accessed [duplicate]
I was fiddling around with Ubuntu. After restart, the boot menu disappeared. So I tried installing Ubuntu from a live USB.
This is what I get:
I actually had 3 partitions in windows - C, D & ...
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How to recover overwritten NTFS partition?
The first 7GB of a 500GB NTFS partiton was accidentally overwritten with another file. Is it possible to recover some of the data in the remaining 493 GB of the NTFS volume? The partition table is ...
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Recover files with deleted indexes by chkdsk from corrupt NTFS volume?
First off, I realize similar questions have been asked before, but most of them don't actually have any answers from what I've found. I'm hoping that perhaps there might be an actual answer out there ...
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"You need to format the disk in drive J: before you can use it" is shown, disk is not corrupted
I have a 7-8 years old laptop (HP EliteBook 6930p), running Windows XP with a 500GB SATA Hard Drive. The computer is painfully slow and I'm about to give it away as a donation, but first I would like ...
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How to read MFT on USB Hard Drive (NTFS, 1TB)?
I'm looking for a high-level method to read the MFT entries on an NTFS file system for a Seagate 1TB internal hard drive. The platform is Windows 7.
I need to fetch the filename, block size and ...
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