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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Internal HDD not showing up anymore
One of my internal hard disks(out of 3) stopped showing up in Disk management(Windows) or Disks(Ubuntu). Its showing up in BiOS.
These are what i could find from ubuntu terminal:
"sdc is the one ...
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Retrieving data from HDD (WD Green)
I am getting crazy retrieving data from an old hard disk.
I had a WD My World II NAS with 2 x 1 TB HDD WD Green hard drives RAID 1.
Now I am moving to a different configuration and I want to retrive ...
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How often is HDD data completely unrecoverable?
My question is simple. Let's say I'm an average desktop PC or laptop user. My hard drive fails. I take it to an expert to recover lost data.
How often is the data recovering process absolutely and ...
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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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Hard drive not detected
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but I am desperately in need of finding the solution, so here goes.....
Back story :
Yesterday I dropped my phone on my laptop keyboard ...
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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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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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WD External Harddisk turning on and off repeatedly
It's a 5yrs+ old 3TB external harddisk running fine until a couple of months ago when I had a power outage.
After that, it stopped functioning properly. It stays on (with all the data intact), and ...
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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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How to recover corrupted SSD firmware from Linux
I have a PNY "CS1111" 240 GB SSD which I was using in my old laptop. Then suddenly the laptop stopped booting. The drive shows up in the BIOS as a "0.0GB Solid State Drive", when ...
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Copying the good portions of a half-dead HDD in reasonable time
Recently my HDD started failing and I replaced it. The first thing I did was save the really important data, so that part is already covered. I am now trying to copy the bulk of the rest for the sake ...
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What's the usual direction of bit-rot on a hard disk (from inactivity)? [closed]
I opened 2 copies of the same file from around 6 years ago. There was a hash mismatch and I found a single bit difference between the two files when I open the file up in a visual hexadecimal file ...
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How to delete bad saved files from external disk?
I have a external USB hard disk (Seagate if matters) of 1TB with 350GB of free space. I copied aprox 270 GB from computer to external disk. All looked fine, the free space then was aprox 70GB and data ...
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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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