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Tagged with hard-drive-recovery windows
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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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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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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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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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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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Can Windows backup an entire drive?
I want to make a full backup of the entire drive in Windows, without third party tools. I looked at the 'Backup Image' feature, but it requires me to select the partitions, and it does not list my ...
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How to recover files from a corrupted recycle bin without 3rd party software?
Somebody asked me for help with recovering data from a drive. I'm not exactly sure what happened to it, but the person I got it from told me that the only thing they did was running file system error ...
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Replacing Ubuntu w/ Win10 using USB - Can't Boot from Win10USB @ Asus Laptop
Summary: I can't boot a Win10 installation USB from my Asus Vivobook Laptop with Ubuntu Linux currently installed.
I have a new Asus VivoBook 14 that came stock with Windows on it. Out of the box, I ...
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How to restore my hdd?
My 1TB HDD sudenly dissapeared from my laptop, bought in October. It is not visible from Disk Manager screen. Reseting computer and deleting last Windows 10 update did nothing.
Lately, it wasn't ...
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Format failed- now I can't see the disk
I was using Windows 10 to format an external USB 3 1tB drive, and it failed half way through (the message was only "format failed" - nothing meaningful).
I had been able to access the drive just fine ...
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How can I retrieve folder structure in Windows?
I had a Windows 10 installation on a 4 SSDs RAID 0 array which I lost 3 days ago. I have rebuilt the array and reinstalled Windows right after the incident.
The thing is that I had some files and ...
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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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Formated 2TB external harddrive by mistake [duplicate]
I formatted my 2TB external hard-drive thinking it was my memory stick. I lost everything, wedding photos, graduation...a lot of memories, nothing in the cloud.
I have tried a post on Toms-hardware ...
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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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Can I just copy Windows from one SSD to another and use it?
To upgrade my windows SSD, can I just use a linux live version and copy the whole content over to the new (and bigger) SSD?
Or are there easier ways? I fear that the boot-sector (and whatever else ...
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