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Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Use this tag when you want to refer to one of the problems stated above.

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Ubuntu deleted files from guest account desktop

I have Ubuntu 12.10 and was using guest account. I downloaded some files on desktop and shutdown my m/c after use. Now today when I logged in to guest account to copy those files but surprisingly ...
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Tool for File Recover | Deleted Files Recovery

Advise me please some recovery tools for File Recover | Deleted Files Recovery | Damaged Files
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how to restore data after running rm? [duplicate]

I accidently ran sudo rm * I thought I was in an unimportant subfolder. The result is that I deleted some very important files. Is there any way to get my data back?
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NTFS recovery software for Ubuntu?

I need a free Linux application to recover some files on an NTFS partition. Please suggest a good one.
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ddrescue: safe to stop while "Splitting failed blocks"?

Trying to clone a failing disk with ddrescue sudo ddrescue -r 3 /path/to/home /destination/ logfile It's been running for about 10 days! Now it's Splitting failed blocks and hasn't read anything ...
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How to recover my list of who's naughty and nice? [duplicate]

This year, I finally made the switch to Ubuntu Linux. * One of my elves (who knows a thing or two about computers) helped me migrate from my old Windows Me computer to a newer machine with Ubuntu ...
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Retrieve files deleted by command rm in terminal [duplicate]

Here's a summary: I was programming using java and accidentally, instead of using the rm *.class command in the command-line, I used rm *.java. It took me a lot of time to finish that code. I hope ...
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How do I recover a BTRFS filesystem with "parent transid verify failed" errors? [closed]

I've got an external USB disk running btrfs. I use it for backups, and each time I do a backup I take a snapshot. However, it's giving me this error now: parent transid verify failed on 109973766144 ...
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How I can recover a previous version of a file?

I modified a .txt file and saved it. When I opened it again, I saw that I deleted one thing from the last version I saved. So I would like to know if I can recover what I deleted? This file is very ...
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Can I recover a deleted file? [duplicate]

I have mistakenly deleted a file via while connected ssh. How I can recover that file or, if ubuntu has something like trash bin or so ?
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Recover files from gedit

I suspended my laptop while writing some files in gedit. When I opened my laptop, it suddenly went off and lost the files I had open in the text editor. How can I recover those files? I have tried ...
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Accidentally moved directories under root

I've accidentally run this command sudo mv /* /applications/minced/ instead of sudo mv ./* /applications/minced/ This is all that's left in the root directory $ / applications/ dev/ ...
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Can you recover previous versions of files?

I know that if I delete a file it won't actually be 'deleted' as such, just marked as 'can be overridden when needed' so that when that space is needed the file will just be overridden, and this means ...
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Accidentally formatted ext4 partition

I have just formatted an ext4 partition to fat32 using gparted. In which directions should I tread in my attempt to recover?
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photorec not asking for file types

I am trying to use photorec version 6.13 to recover data from my formatted hard disk. While I see that, photorec is recovering the files, (I selected the saved file location in a USB drive.) but, it ...
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How to recover from 'sudo rm -rf' command?

By mistake, I ended up executing rm -rf / command from sudo on my laptop which erased many files before it stopped. Now when I restarted my system , it drops to this prompt: GRUB rescue>_ I am ...
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Is there a way to recover a file that I have deleted but is still open somewhere?

This question is related to How to recover deleted files? but it is slightly different in nature. Suppose I have a file named ~/something open in a text editor. Further suppose that I open a terminal ...
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How to recover lost partitions data?

I have a 2TB SATA drive that was being used as file storage on my UBUNTU computer. I was re-imaging my windows box so I used that drive to back up some files to it. I did this by taking the drive from ...
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Did I do something wrong while trying to recover files with foremost?

When I run this command on foremost, sudo foremost -i /dev/hda -o /recovery/foremost I get, Processing: stdin Is this right or did I miss a step when I followed this guide?
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Can you make a bootable recovery partition for Ubuntu?

Okay, there's tons of questions about recovery partitions, but most, if not all pertain to Windows. My question is, "Can you make a bootable recovery partition FOR Ubuntu?" I'm soon going to put ...
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'Unable to mount Filesystem' Error

Trying to extract data from a 'bricked' Western Digital MyBook Live 2tb drive. I came across a forum that advised to use Ubuntu (booted from a CD) on my Macbook. Managed to download and create a ...
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Recover 1TB disk erased with startup disk creator

Hello. I was trying to make a bootable flash drive from the startup disk creator, and when I went to erase the flash drive I accidentally erased the wrong drive, a 1TB removable drive. The operation ...
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Recover accidentally removed files on NTFS partition

I accidentally removed some files on a NTFS partition How can I recover them staying inside Linux without rebooting ?
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How do I to copy files to flash drive in a recovery mode?

It seems like to deleted too much files by rm -r and now I have the error of "the system is running a low-graphic mode" in Ubuntu and I have to work in Windows because of that. However I can load it ...
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Recover EXT4 partition

I was trying to resize my EXT4 partition and something went wrong. I lost it. The space in once consumed is now being represented as Unallocated. How do I recover the partition?
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Deleted /usr/bin/env by mistake, how can I recover it? [duplicate]

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 X64, I deleted my /usr/bin/env file by mistake. How could I restore this? Also I copy a file as /usr/bin/dev, I don't know if I originally had a file called /usr/bin/dev. If ...
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How do I recover documents from a broken Ubuntu installation?

I installed Ubuntu on a hard drive that had Windows XP installed so I could dual-boot the two operating systems. Everything was fine but now I can't boot into XP or Ubuntu. I had some important ...
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How to recover files after deleted my Ubuntu partition?

I normally dual-boot with 12.04 and Win XP pro sp3 on a Thinkpad R60. I needed to reinstall windows because of problems piling up, so I ran the computer's built-in hard-disk recovery software. I ...
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Back up the whole ubuntu system or system image creation [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to make a disk image and restore from it later? In windows back is very easy with Norton ghost. Run it and forget it, What is the same type of software for backing up the ...
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I accidentally formatted my drive. Can I use a backup .img file to recover it?

I have accidentally formatted my drive. Attempts at data recovery have been unsuccessful, but I had created an .img file of the drive with dd if=/dev/sd<x> of=filename.img before that. So I ...
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How to recover data from a failing hard drive? [duplicate]

An external 3½" HDD seems to be in danger of failing — it's making ticking sounds when idle. I've acquired a replacement drive, and want to know the best strategy to get the data off of the dubious ...
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testdisk is showing wrong size of drive [duplicate]

I'm trying to recover the data of a damaged hard drive using testdisk. I did all good, did the quick search, the deeper seach, and then, after confirming that my files had been found by testdisk, I ...
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How to create a complete recovery Image for my new netbook

I just got a new acer netbook, it comes with windows 7. I wanted to know how I could create a recovery image using tools like dd. I want to know what command creates the exact backup of the hard disk ...
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Recover ext4 file system after quick format

I accidentally formatted one of my drives and I'm hoping that I can recover a major part of my file system as I 'only' did a quick format. After installing a second identical hard drive, I quick ...
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Mount error special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

This is related to my thread askubuntu forumlink Right now i am stuck in recovering the data part. I just rebooted through a live usb of 13.04 (My original OS was 12.04LTS). But can't seem to be able ...
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NTFS partition becomes read-only after system upgrade?

I was using ubuntu 11.04 on my Laptop. While installing it from a DVD, I have created a 10 GB NTFS partition at the beginning of the hard disk, as primary. All other partitions ( swap, a ext3, a ext4 ...
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Wiped data, and duplicated folders into files

Something weird happened today, and I dont know how. Within a folder, all folders have a file by the same name, with a colon appended to it. And all the files from the most inner-most directory in my ...
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Save video which is playing in vlc

Weird question, but here's the context. I was playing a video in VLC on Ubuntu 16.04. I accidentally deleted the video while I was still playing it. I can still move to any point on the video ...
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Make formerly encrypted hard drive usable normally again

My old laptop died last morning, but the hard drive is still working. When my brother made the Ubuntu installation, he chose to encrypt the home folder. So, whenever I try to use the hard drive on ...
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Recover files from NTFS drive with bad sectors

A few nights ago I have created a backup of my data on an external 500 GB NTFS USB hard drive. I have then formatted my computer, reinstalled Ubuntu and started transferring back the data from the ...
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I lost Unity desktop when I uninstalled nautilus. How to get it back?

I did something silly I think. I wanted to use dolphin as default file manager. So I used package manager (synaptic) to remove nautilus file manager (because Ubuntu makes it so hard to change the ...
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How do I recover Joplin notes if they were never exported?

I have an old Ubuntu machine that no longer works, but I can still access its drive through a live USB. None of the notes were ever exported; though, I was expecting to recover them by some other ...
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How to recover files from a given directory using photorec

I want to recover some files using PhotoRec. Although I've used it before, I am not familiar with making it look only in one given directory. Any idea how to do it?
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How to mount root filesystem read-only - 16.04

In the past when I entered recovery-mode, the root filesystem was read-only and that was perfectly fine. But now. after pressing enter at the prompt to drop to shell, it is mounted read-write. It is ...
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How can I save my data in my HDD from a Ubuntu Flash Disk?

It's already some time that my HP250G3 computer didn't want to start up, so I installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on my flash disk to recover some data before resetting the hard disk (hard reset + reinstall of ...
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Partitions disappeared after power loss while installing

I had Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installed on my Laptop. After a while I had some troubles starting it up. I decided to reinstall Ubuntu. I had 3 ntfs partitions, 2 ext3 partitions the mount point for the ...
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Booting system without full network configuration

I was trying to solve internet problems, and seem to have made things worse: Now when I start the computer it gets stuck on "Booting system without full network configuration". Does anyone know how ...
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How to repair corrupted JPEG files that still have their thumbnails?

I've got a bunch of photos that were on an SD card. Most of them are corrupted now and I cannot open them in any program (Gwenview, GIMP, same on Windows...). But every file browser can still ...
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How to find reasons for journal recovery

Recently, when I've been starting my computer I'm informed that it is recovering the journal for one of my ext3 partitions. One might expect this behaviour if the computer shutdown improperly, but, ...
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is it necessary to delete the recovery partition?

I have Windows 7 on my HP laptop and I want to install Ubuntu. I tried to shrink my boot and system partition, it does not allow me to shrink the partition more than 97 MB. Is it necessary to delete ...
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