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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How do I recover data from my presumably dead hard disk
I have a Seagate ST3500620AS (Barracuda 7200.11) hard disk:
SATA
500GB
7200 spindle speed
I've used this disk for about 2 years now. But today it happened that my computer wouldn't wake up from ...
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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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Using ddrescue to recover a broken drive. Can I check the progress before the run is complete?
I am currently running ddrescue on a drive that failed on me. It's been running for maybe 16 hrs now and is still in the splitting failed blocks stage but has been running at 0 B/s for sometime now. I ...
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Is there any way to speed up ddrescue?
I had a 500GB drive HDD crash about 5 days ago. I used ddrescue on the important partition a few days ago, and it's been on "Trimming failed blocks" for almost 2 days now.
Original command:
ddrescue ...
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How to connect Western Digital "My passport" using other means?
I have a Western Digital My Passport 500Gb external Harddrive where the USB connection on the drive seems to have worn out. I am trying to retrieve the data for a friend.
Here is an image of the ...
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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 *quickly* get a list of files that have bad sectors/blocks/clusters/whatever?
My wife's Windows 7 (64-bit) box has suddenly developed a SMART "disk is bad" status. I'm attempting to copy everything off (no admonishments about lacking a backup regimen, please, I know already :(...
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Everything on my NTFS partition disappeared
I just rebooted into Windows (I dual boot with Ubuntu), and everything in my D: partition is gone!
First question: How do I best preserve the current state of the hard drive to maximize chances of ...
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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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How do I open the user folder of a hard drive that I transfered?
My Windows 10 notebook died but fortunately I was able to rescue the hard drive and put it into another PC.
Unfortunately, the other PC can't open the C/Users/Joe folder. What do I have to do to ...
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Restoring Windows System Image Backup to a different hard disk
My SSD died. Fortunately, before the crash, I made a System Image backup (to a USB hard disk) using Windows 7's built-in backup tool. The SSD has been replaced (with exactly the same model and ...
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Is it really possible to repair bad sectors?
I have found different and opposite opinions on the internet:
is it really possible to repair bad sectors on a hard disk ?
should I replace the hard disk or just repair it?
I would be glad to read ...
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How to recover data in formatted hard disk and already installed a new OS
Help how to recover formatted hard disk and already installed a new OS but not yet installed applications.
Edit: I have two 500g hard drives lets say HD1 has my personal files and the other is HD2 ...
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SSD stopped working suddenly. Any chance of data recovery?
I have been using a Corsair Force 3 (120GB) SSD since last 1.5 years.
Yesterday, the laptop freezed suddenly and I had to hard reset it.
Then it refused to boot as if no HDD was installed. This has ...
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How does one recover from an internal Hard Drive I/O error?
This is the latest stage in a long running chain of events that has seen me cross the seven circles of HDD hell only to arrive at these depths of virtual inferno.
My Hard Drive is a 750GB Seagate ...
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