Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible secondary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Use this tag when you want refer to one of the problems stated up.
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Data recovery of file with special file extension
This question might seem's to be similar but it is not, what I want to ask is as follows,
I have a flash drive. It had files in it which are very important to me. But accidentally it was formatted.
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Recover HDD after creating USB installer
I just mistakingly used the wrong device to create a USB installer for Ubuntu. I wanted to use my flash drive which was disk1 and ended up using disk2 which was my external HD. Is there any way I can ...
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Converted drive to swap drive lost data
I went to install Ubuntu 13.04 and had a dedicated partition for the OS. I was hoping to do a dual boot off a second HDD that I had in the computer. Windows 7 is on its own HDD and when I went to ...
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Inadvertently installed Ubuntu to USB drive, need to recover NTFS FAT
I ran the Ubuntu installer on my desktop PC already running Windows 7. The PC has a 2 TB USB hard drive attached to it that holds pretty much every file I've ever owned.
I thought I was installing to ...
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How to find the device name of an HDD that won't mount?
I have a failing HDD that I want to recover data from, using ddrescue.
However, I don't know how to find the device name.
When I booted Ubuntu with the disk plugged in, Ubuntu seemed to get stuck ...
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How to recover data from logical drive after upgrading from 12.04 to 13.04? [duplicate]
I was having 12.04 LTS with 4 partitions, namely:
1.root partition (ext2)
2.swap space
3.logical (NTFS)
4.logical (NTFS)
The logical partitions had full of valuable data.
I installed 13.04 by ...
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How can I recover data from a corrupted Ubuntu LVM partition?
My first Ubuntu 12.04 desktop got corrupted and would not boot. I would like to recover the files from that PC so I tried to connect the HD to a second Ubuntu 13.04 but it would not mount. Below is ...
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HDD recovery tool
I accidentally unplugged one of my HDD's from power while running. When I boot now, the name of the drive is display as: zzzzzz and some other funny characters. Which is the best recovery tool for ...
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need to recover data from a data hard disk that I used testdisk on in my attempt to repair mbr from a rootkit virus
Before I begin to say what my situation is here, please know i would be FOREVER GRATEFUL for anyone who can help me out with this mess. I have photos on here from years and years of painstaking work. ...
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Save data from Access-Your-Private-Data
I was trying to reinstall my Ubuntu without formating /home and after it I received
Access-Your-Private-Data and README.txt instead of my data
According to:
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Accidentally created two images using ddrescue
DDRescue is doing a fine (albeit slow) job of imaging a failing hard drive. However when I went to resume after a crash, I accidentally created a new image. I used the -C command, so I assume ddrescue ...
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Data/Partition recovery Help Needed
I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 over my windows 7. While installing Ubuntu, I have made some mistake and my all partitions are gone. Previously there were 5 partitions (NTFS) of 200 GB on windows 7. But ...
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Need help to do data recovery on my external hard disk
I was unable to access my WD NAS drive after almost 3yrs of usage. With all the googling, I reckon the ultimate solution is to remove the casing and these are what I have done so far:
Attach the ...
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How do I recover my accidentally lost Windows partitions after installing Ubuntu?
I have a Toshiba satellite A-200 laptop with a Vista OS on it with 4 NTFS partitions
(C:) Vista
(D:) Entertainment
(E:) Work
(F:) Sources
and I wanted to start using Ubuntu instead. So I tried ...
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Recovery Data from failed Raid Disk - NAS
My Western Digital My World Book White Light NAS Drive stopped working.
This has a single 1TB Disk.
At first I started getting the following error:
Volume Status - Volume 'DataVolume' doesn't exist
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Windows will not boot after I downloaded Ubuntu [closed]
So I downloaded Ubuntu on my girlfriend's laptop to make a LiveCD and transferred the iso to a USB drive as well for my own laptop. All was well, until I tried to turn the computer back on after I ...
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Is it possible to recuperate a file overwritten by Ubuntu One?
I had an .odt file which was synced via Ubuntu One. I made changes on the file on my Ubuntu Computer. To check whether the file was synced I opened it on my Windows computer. It was not synced, but ...
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I have lost data but it's not deleted or overwritten
I am a beginner, so I know nothing. I installed lubuntu 12.04 so that I can learn, but I mistakenly installed it on a partition that contains 90 gigabytes of data. However, my data wasn't deleted: I ...
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How to re enable wireless Ubuntu 11.10
Two days before I have disabled the wireless by removing the check mark on "enable wireless"
Now I want to re enable the wireless but when I right click on the network icon on the top of the screen ...
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Folder lost after reboot
So I know there's a lot of info already around about recovered folders and files, but I hope there might be an slightly easier solution for me.
I'd just finished reorganizing and moving photos around ...
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How to restore files from unusable Ubuntu?
My Ubuntu installation got messed up because of an upgrade (on archive manager - which is definitely my fault).
Every time I boot my laptop, after logging in, its background is blue with plain and ...
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Testdisk or gpart for recovering lost partitions? [closed]
Well, my problem is that I was trying to make a Windows XP installer for a USB Flash Drive using WinToFlash. But when it was in the process of formatting the usb, a BSOD occurred and my PC can't boot ...
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Folder Recovery after upgradation
Hi I upgraded my ubuntu 10.10 to 12.04 and I found one folder named 'www' inside '/var' was missing Can you plese tell me how to recocver it .
Thanks..
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Overwriting Very Important Data
Sorry if duplicated, but I didn't find an answer!
12.04 install overwrote 90 GB of VERY IMPORTANT data, and I didn't perform a backup before. Is there any way to recover my data??
If yes, what is it ...
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Recover data from NTFS partition after being formatted to ext4
I understand this is EXTREMELY unlikely, I was just wondering if someone might have a tip or two?
I have an external 500GB HDD that was formatted to NTFS and I (VERY stupidly...) left it plugged in ...
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photorec alternative for scanning ram dumps?
I want to scan some RAM dumps for files. I was hoping I could use PhotoRec, but it prompts me to select a hard drive, and not scan from a file.
Is there a way to do this? Thanks!
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File recovery after reformattig ext3/4 partition — extract old journal/superblock?
I seem to have reformatted my /home partition (previously ext4) as ext3 during an Ubuntu installation. It took me a couple of mounts to figure that out. Which, of course, is a bad thing. I've tried ...
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How to recover the data lost during installation of Ubuntu?
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a 20GB partition with Something else option. It worked fine but when I updated it and rebooted, Windows 7 was not in present in the grub menu.
I tried update-grub and some ...
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I Installed Ubuntu and now my Windows 7 is gone
I just downloaded ubuntu yesterday then i installed it (Ubuntu 12.10
I did not do any partitions just automatic installing it
Is it completely gone?
Uhm i have my games inside the C:\
I wanted to ...
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How to recover from wiping by dd a partition table on external disk?
Yesterday I used dd to write an OS into my Raspberry Pi flash card. Even though all my commands ( I checked history ) were for /dev/sdd which was the flash , when I checked my external drive(500GB) ...
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Lost all my data after changing Windows 8 to Ubuntu
I need some help! I decided to change my win 8 to Ubuntu 12.10. In installation option I select the Change win 8 to Ubuntu. I had two partition C 50Gb and D 450 Gb. On C were the windows, and there I ...
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How can I recover my old windows 7 after Ubuntu installation?
My OS is/was Windows 7, and I installed Ubuntu to lean a bit about Linux systems. After the installation I booted the computer and found I had no Windows access and I fear I have lost all my Windows ...
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Can I recover emptied file?
Carelessly I emptied my text file textfile by the command cat > textfile nonexistfile instead of cat textfile > nonexistfile, so is there any method to get the data back?
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Is there a way to recover encrypted home directory after formatting the partition? [duplicate]
This is my hdd partitions configuration:
/dev/sda1 Linux Swap 10GB
/dev/sda3 Linux ext4 610GB
/dev/sda4 Windows 7 100GB
All of my important information was stored at the Linux ...
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Installing Ubuntu so that it can be removed without trace [duplicate]
I would like install Ubuntu on a laptop in a way that if I was to remove it, there would be no trace that I had installed it. I would dual boot it with Windows 7. Please could someone provide details ...
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getting back my windows data!
Running out the door my foot grabbed the wire and my laptop to the floor. The hard drive ended up being the problem with the boot. Hard drive still spins so I know there's hope! Looking, I didn't find ...
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My hard disk converted from ntfs tp raw. Can it be recovered in Ubuntu?
in my internal hard disk suddenly this message appeared at boot
(A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart ) in windows 7
I have connected it as external hd to another laptop . ...
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Recover disconnected files
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So I recently lost a lot of my files that I had synched with Ubuntu One.However,afraid that Ubuntu one might refresh its synchronization and thus delete my files even in the back up,I ...
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Lost file .xhb with homebank in ext4. It's 0 bytes now. How to restore it?
Today I switched on my laptop and saw the LED of the HDD on for long time. It never went off. Usually it stays on while booting - around 15-20 seconds. This time the laptop didn't boot and the screen ...
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Lost windows xp data by installing 12.04, can I recover it?
This is my first time with Ubuntu, I Installed 12.04 over Windows XP SP3. It chose all the 320GB space and used it. With that I lost the 200 GB data in the hard disk. Some 0.5 GB is critical for me.
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can i recover my windows xp files after ubuntu install?
i installed ubuntu 10.04 on windows xp sp3, it used all the space in the of 320 gb in the hard drive. I had 200 gb data on hard disk on this hard disk under windows xp. is it all lost?
can i get it ...
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lost data on partition
I'm totally new on Ubuntu. Just decided to kick out the horrible windows 8: so I downloaded the last version of Ubuntu available on the web site , tried out the live cd and found it quite interesting. ...
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Does selecting “Remove Windows” option during install remove all my Windows partitions?
I had Windows 7 installed on my laptop, I installed Ubuntu and chosen the option to delete everything. But when I clicked that, it deleted my windows 7 partitions.
C: Windows
E: Documents
F: ...
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Lost my files? I've installed Ubuntu wrong
I wanted to do a dual boot with Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10.
I followed this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNCSbTyUzoM
When I was on the installing Ubuntu part, the free space was not ...
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Ubuntu server - losing vmware network connection
Ubuntu server - losing data
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I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 in VMware.
It worked great untill i did something stupid because my firewall was turned on. So, the problem I think comes from:sudo ...
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How do I recover now zero-sized files?
I had cut a few image files from a memory card to my Ubuntu Desktop.
I then used a software Namexif using Wine to modify the names of the files.
That was when my computer crashed for some time.
When ...
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Extracting data from Mac OS resource forks
I have some data in old Mac OS resource forks/files that I would like to resurrect. What tools exist on Linux that would allow me to peruse and extract individual resources from the resource forks of ...
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How to recover deleted music [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to recover deleted files?
I am using Xubuntu 11.10. I was playing a song with G player and it deleted all of my music mp3 files. Why? I did not even allow it, or ...
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is there any way of data recovery. my hard drive is formatted [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to recover a deleted NTFS partition with data
Data recovery after replacing windows with ubuntu
i recently installed Ubuntu 12 on my system but during installation ...
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How to recover Ubuntu data if it's installed inside Windows?
I want to install Ubuntu inside Windows.
However, if Windows gets corrupted, how can data from the Ubuntu system be recovered?
