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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 do I get the HD recovery icon back on my mac?

I partitioned my mac air to be able to use as windows and as a mac. One day prompted my windows partition did not have enough memory. I dont know what I did but now boot camp can not be found and when ...
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Merged partitions show as unformatted NTFS- GPT table recovery

Wanted to merge multiple partitions on my SSD, and added Windows Recovery partition to the mix as it was sitting between other data partitions. (I believe this was my mistake). Used MiniTool Partition ...
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Why Windows can't see USB drive?

I was playing with live boot USB, and somehow it got corrupted. When I plug it into my PC it said it needs to format the USB. But when formatting it spat out an error along the lines of: "Windows ...
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suddenly new external harddrive not detected in windows, Ubuntu machines

I bought new external harddrive Toshiba Canvio Ready 1TB USB 3.2 Gen 1 External Portable Hard Drive (HDTP310AK3AA, Black) and copied all data from my computer to external harddrive. It fills about 900+...
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External hard drive's data+ and data- cables shorted and hard drive is showing unallocated

When I was trying to connect my external SSD to my computer, the usb socket accidentaly shorted while PC was reading data inside and connection to SSD instantly lost. Now when I fix the short circuit ...
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Hard Disk showing wrong capacity and is RAW disk

will write step by step: one day my linux mint Drive stopped responding. i forced re-started the Laptop. On boot screen it showed this screen Then after some time showed : No boot device Present Then ...
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Cannot access drive because it is in raw form? [duplicate]

I have a 30gb USB drive which I have some important data in. When I plug it in the computer, Windows 10 v 1909 for x64, it displays "You need to format the USB drive before you can use it". ...
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clone recovery partition from usb drive to d: drive windows 10

I created a USB recovery drive using windows 10 tool in order to Back up system files to the recovery drive. Then when I was asked to empty D: from my PC in order to recover space I answered yes. But ...
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Is it possible to dissable TRIM on selected partition?

I want to install dualboot Win10+Ubuntu on same 2TB SSD. My idea is to leave each OS 250GB and remaining 1.5TB will be left for media, which both OS will have access to. I want to make the 1.5TB ...
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External disk fatal hardware error [duplicate]

I am trying to get access to my external hard drive and hopefully the data on it. However, my disk is not being recognized by the computer. I have tried opening Windows disk manager and it immediately ...
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Accidentally deleted all partition data, how do I recover?

I accidentally ran sgdisk -o /dev/sda instead of sgdisk -O /dev/sda and deleted all partition data. My computer is still running and I have the output of fdisk and lsblk. How can I use this ...
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Grub doesn't recognize Windows 10 partition after a auto-boot repair of Windows

My PC was unstable and I needed to remove some peripherals. Additionally, I have one SSD (with Debian 9 and Windows 10 - bootloader GRUB) and an HDD (Windows 10). By default, SSD was the first drive ...
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GPT table recovery

I have inducted myself into the ranks of users who can't read and break their own stuff. Last Sunday, while attempting to copy a larger Windows 7 NTFS partition to a smaller one, I blew out what I ...
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(SOLVED) how to recover external hard disk with cmd when it's unallocated

I made a new 30gb partition on my 1 tb external hard disk, used this partition to make bootable disk using win32 disk imager and selected the iso and clicked on write, it said there is a sort of error,...
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