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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Recover from disk failure using mirrored volumes
I have a system set up with Windows 11 and two drives. The disks have been converted to dynamic disks and the boot volume has been mirrored. As far as I can tell only the "primary" disk can ...
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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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Is it possible to recover files from quickly formatted HDD? [duplicate]
I have formatted my hard drive, now I wonder if it is possible to recover the files while I have reinstalled windows on the same drive and been using it for a few weeks and almost filled the hard ...
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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 save data from an external disk that died
A little under 4 years ago I bought a Seagate Backup Plus Portable 5 TB external hard drive. It's worked fine for years, but recently it started having problems - it would disconnect and then ...
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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 to recover the files from the merged two drives?
After trying to extend the C: drive to two other drives, E: Documents (79.46GB) and D: Software (50GB), I do not see the data contained in E: Documents (79.46GB) folder, but the data is present that ...
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How to restore data from a Formatted HDD [duplicate]
I was installing Kali linux without knowing that I was using my personal HDD to do so. Now I have formatted the data that was present on HDD.
I want to know, Is there a way to restore the data that ...
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3.5 inch HDD making clicking noise (video included) [closed]
Seeking Advice: Recovering Data from Clicking 3.5" HDD
I have an approximately 10-year-old 3.5-inch SATA hard drive that I'm trying to get old personal files off of. When connected via a SATA-to-...
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Acronis recovery breaks shortcuts in Windows when restored on identical machine?
I'm using Acronis to create recover an disk image to a replacement system.
The image was created 2 weeks ago and is now being restored to a replacement machine(same batch, same vendor, same hardware)
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Mount Qnap drive in Debian
So I have a HDD drive ejected from Qnap (I do not longer have it) and I wanted to mount it in home made server with OMV on Debian machine. There is no way I can do that, it cannot be mounted. I tried ...
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Unable to mount btrfs becuase of because of unmatched "fsid"
I ran btrfstune -u /dev/sdc and it failed, now I am not able to mount this disk.
Errors in dmesg are
[ 46.388877] BTRFS error (device sdc): dev_item UUID does not match metadata fsid: 35f9709d-b959-...
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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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Data-Recovery from External hard disk which has bad sectors
I accidentally pulled out my externa hard disk from my TV without unmounting it. After this the HDD is not working properly. When I plug it in my laptop it says that the USB device is not recognizable....
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Can you successfully clone a Mac OS X boot volume directly to another larger volume with ddrescue?
Can you clone a Mac OS X boot volume (specifically a "Mac OS Extended, Journaled" a.k.a. JHFS+ volume) directly to another, larger volume using ddrescue or even dd, and have the target volume end up ...
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