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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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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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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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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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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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How to rescue Ubuntu from Windows

I deleted the Ubuntu [ 12.10 ] Partition by accident from Windows 8. I tried everything I saw on internet, but still I couldn't make it. Is there a way to rescue Ubuntu from Windows 8 ? Edit after ...
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How to recover encrypted data after a failed upgrade?

Attempted to upgrade my Ubuntu 10.04 installation to 12.04 and it failed. Now when booting, Ubuntu says / is not ready or not available and M is the only option presented that works... So I can get ...
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Recover data from unreadable NTFS partition

I have an Asus laptop with Windows and Ubuntu alongside. When I try to boot Windows, it gets to the Windows logo and restarts automatically. Looks like recovery starts but all the recovery options ...
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How can I create a recovery DVD of my ubuntu installation?

My PC will be repaired, so I have to create a recovery DVD. How can I do this?
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1answer
174 views

Mount an image created from ddrescue

I know this question has been asked before, but following those answers does not seem to work for me. I have created an image of a USB stick this is on my laptop harddrive. How do I mount this ...
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harddisk fail with dropbox how to retreive lost data

My computer Ubuntu 10.10 was upgraded a few days ago. It dropped out while I was working with dropbox. I gues it has nothing to do with that but thought I'd mention it. Probably the power supply is ...
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How to recover data from a drive that was erased during the Ubuntu installation?

Yesterday I had two NTFS partitions on my drive. One on which Windows 7 was installed (C Drive) and the other contained my data (D Drive). During Ubuntu installation I choose to install Ubuntu and ...
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How to recover a webm file in Ubuntu?

I just done recoding a video that's so important to me but by accident when I tried to delete another video I deleted it too with Shift+Delete. I searched the net on how to recover files. I used ...
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1answer
229 views

Recovering a deleted partition

I had a dual boot PC running Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7. About a month back, I deleted the Ubuntu partition via the disk management utility (I do not remember whether or not I formatted the partition ...
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1answer
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Repair ext4 filesystem on USB drive [closed]

Yet another filesystem question. I wanted to use a USB drive that I hadn't mounted for a month or so and was surprised by the fact Ubuntu was unable to mount it. I looked it up in the disk utility and ...
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Deleted almost everything. Recovery methods?

I deleted almost everything on the system except chromium and pdf I guess. No software centre no apt-get. I mean there is nothing. Is there anyway I can restore all the bundled software etc with ...
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1answer
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Depends libntfs10 error while installing testdisk

I want to install testdisk to ubuntu 10.04 LTS but i'm getting an error. Any help? Here is the output: # sudo apt-get install testdisk Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree ...
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File disappeared from NTFS after Ubuntu installation

I wanted to upgrade a very old version of Ubuntu to a recent one, so I made the following steps: I created a large (over 30GB) tar.gz archive containing all data from my home directory Moved it to ...
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1answer
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Error while trying to recover files (Error splicing file: Input/output error) from unbootable windows 7 machine [closed]

I am using the trial CD to recover files from unbootable windows 7 PC, I get an Error while copying files (Error splicing file: Input/output error). Also I can see my windows 7 OS drive and my ...
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1answer
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Help with Swap Partition

(Translated from spanish) I accidentally marked a 136GB partition which has some files in it as swap space during installation. Can I access these files? Can I change the partition type without ...
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undeleting with ntfsundelete

trying to undelete some files using ntfsundelete: sudo ntfsundelete /dev/sda1 -v -S 300m-20g -p 100 -o /mnt/bigboy/ntfsundelete/ but I am getting: You must specify exactly one device. as far as ...