Questions tagged [testdisk]
testdisk is a versatile open-source partition and data recovery tool that runs under multiple operating systems.
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TestDisk - rebuild NTFS partition on dead WD Elements [from macos]
I have a 5TB WD Elements external USB disk, which was formatted as a single 5TB NTFS partition without about 4TB of files. It's not a bootable disk. It stopped mounting, so I pulled it apart and ...
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Dual boot OS recovery using Testdisk
I have a Dell Latitude with an internal storage drive of 500GB. I dual boot Windows and Kali OS. A few days ago, I messed up and wiped the drive using diskpart clean command and now I'm trying to ...
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Can I continue an interrupted partition move?
I forgot to plug a charger to my laptop before starting the parition moving process. The partition I tried to move was 97 GB. It was almost at 80% and then the laptop powered down. Testdisk didn't ...
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RAID5 failure but drives are OK. 2 of 5 drives "failed" simultaneously. How to restore? Windows 11, Intel RST
I have two drives in my RST RAID5 drive registered as "unknown" and thus the RAID5 array with 5 drives reports as "failed".
Windows 11 Pro 23H2, Intel RST (Intel Optane Memory and ...
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Using testdisk, how to extract the whole directory tree and filenames (deleted and good) only in ext4 partition?
Using testdisk, how to extract the whole directory tree and filenames (deleted and good ones) only, in ext4 partition without saving the file itself in linux debian?
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testdisk undelete not showing up for exFAT formatted partition
I have a microSD card used as external storage on my Android phone and I accidentally deleted a file on it. The partition on which this file resided is formatted with the exFAT filesystem.
Now I am ...
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HFS+ Hard Drive not booting anymore recovery using TestDisk on macOS
I've had a broken external drive: Western Digital - WD Element 4To, for a long while and I finally took the courage to do some research to fix the problem using TestDisk.
But, I think I hit a wall.
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Testdisk application does not list all the internal hard drives in MacOS Monterey
Issue: When running testdisk in macOS, it does not list the internal hard drives.
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I had a video file on the internal Hard drive that was deleted and mistakenly cleaned the trash, which I ...
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Can't recover files from a crashed SD card although there are no I/O errors
I have a SD card that was in my Android phone. Unencrypted. With app data and pictures on it. Then one day it was not recognized anymore and it was empty. I wasn't worried because I have backups but I ...
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How to recover overwritten partition table for Windows Dynamic Disk?
I had 2 drives in storage set to Dynamic Spanned in Windows.
I took one of them, converted it to Basic, and only then did I realize I needed access to the data on these drives as it wasn't yet backed ...
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Faulty formatting leaves sd-card unusable. How to clear partitions?
I have a sdxc with 64gb capacity, that was supposed to be re-purposed. And with some really bad luck, the machine formatting the sd card crashed mid-process.
I now have an sd card with 2 partitions:
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testdisk live with btrfs support
I have a Fedora Silverblue 36 on btrfs
I accidentally erased some files and I'd like to use testdisk to try to recuperate them, at least partially
if I create a container with toolbox, it won't get ...
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Recover files from HDD with partition type unrecognized and boot sector that can't be read [duplicate]
I was trying to retrieve data from an old (9 year old) HDD, which was working fine a month ago, after leaving powered off for a month. When I turned on my Windows PC on, it took a long while to boot [...
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Can't recover ubuntu partition with testdisk
I am trying to recover my Ubuntu partition from my ssd. I don't know why it can't be detected by neither gparted nor the grub recovery shell (unknown filesystem for all hard discs). I tried to recover ...
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testdisk reports an invalid disk size. What is causing this and how to fix it?
I erased by accident the NTFS partition of my archive disk connected on my Ubuntu computer.
As suggested by many online tutorials, I used the program testdisk to recover the erase partition.
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