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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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File recovery on external hd with Testdisk (Ubuntu 18.04)
I was doing some organizing on my Seagate 4 TB HDD when I attempted to cut/paste all of the movies in one directory to a new directory. I received an error message (wish I would've screenshot it, but ...
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External hard disk showing unknown, not initialised in Disk Management
I removed my 1 tb external hard disk (Seagate) directly from a windows system and now it is not working anymore. I'm trying to fix it via ubuntu now, and when I try to check it in Disks (gnome utility)...
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Accidentally formated external hard drive (2TB) with bootable UBUNTU iso (v.17.04, 64bit,1,5GB), how can I recover my data? [duplicate]
So there's the problem: I wanted to create a bootable USB from an ISO image BUT I accidentally I did that one on my external hard disks instead of the usb.
Now that drive is 2TB and it was full of ...
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Lost ext4 partition: testdisk lists files, but fails to fix partition table
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Testdisk finds the lost ext4 partition and is able to list containing files, but trying to write the partition structure to the disk does nothing.
Update: After running e2fsck -f /dev/sdc1, ...
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Do I need to format/partition ddrescue destination drive?
I am trying to recover data from a failing hard drive using GNU ddrescue on Ubuntu. I used the following command:
sudo ddrescue -f /dev/sda /dev/sdb [path to mapfile]
So far it is working speedily ...
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how to recover all erased data from my Hard disk [duplicate]
i was using Windows 10. I had 3 partitions before.Then one of my friend tried to do dual boot in my system with ubuntu14.During this process instead of dual booting he Accidentally deleted my windows ...
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booting from live device space probelm
I am trying to perform data-recover recovery using extundelete (which didn't help) and ext4magic on a live USB and it requires me to update, upgrade and install the packages. (and some times apt-get -...
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How to recover data from ubuntu when unable to load
Recently, I upgraded my desktop hardware to i3 4th gen processor, ram, motherboard and new SSD. I had ubuntu installed earlier on 320GB HDD and I've installed a fresh windows 8 OS on new 120gb SSD and ...
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windows 8 data lost while installing ubuntu 14.04
I had windows operating system. I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 operating system by over writing windows 8. But I lost 5 GB of data which was very important.
I tried test disk tool to recover data but ...
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Recover data from drive with broken partition table
I have a laptop with Windows 7 installed in it. Recently it started showing corrupt windows installation, so I formatted the boot drive. But thereafter Windows installation itself showed that it could ...
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Recovering Windows 8 folder C:\Users\my_user
I had a problem with a bug on windows 8 where it is stuck in an automatic repair loop. I tried all possible solutions without success. Many ppl are facing the same problem. I tried many checkups and ...
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My ext4 partition became unreadable
When I boot up my PC (duel boot with Vista, which works fine) and go to ubuntu in the grub menu I get an almost immediate kernel oops. Errors include (from memory)
/dev, /proc & /sys doesn't ...
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Recover files from deleted partition
Somehow one of my partitions disappeared (I didn't even have the disk manager open, so I'm really not sure how that happened). The volume was simply deleted. It was an NTFS partition, created under XP ...
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