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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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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Can't access my Ubuntu admin account
It just shows a black screen with words in it for a fraction of a second and then gets back to users screen(where you choose your user).
I tried to enter from another account and removed the password ...
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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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'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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How can I recover my partly destroyed Windows 7 using Ubuntu?
I already asked the guys on the Ubuntu subreddit and one of them brought me here.
So maybe someone here can help me out? Question and some answers are already in this reddit thread: Ubuntu killed my ...
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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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Formatted and lost 6 years worth of photo memories.. any way to get this back?
I usually back up before formatting and doing a re-installation of Ubuntu, it was in the process and then obviously stopped prematurely but I was thinking all my data was transferred.
After ...
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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 can I recover after Kate crashes?
I use Kate for coding and note-taking. Sometimes it crashes - often when I've got a lot open - and unsaved 'real' documents (eg, ones backed by files, that have been saved at some point) usually have ...
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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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How to recover data from old encrypted hard drive?
I am trying to work out how to recover the data from the hard drive that was in my old laptop. It was running the latest ubuntu and I am now running Ubuntu satanic 11.04 as i do not like 11.10. Uhe ...
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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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Recover data from partition overwritten by swap partition
I've just reinstalled Ubuntu, and I chose a partition full of data as a swap area. I didn't realize that the swap area would overwrite my files.
Can I recover my partition or my data now?
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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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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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ecryptfs-recover-private creating unreadable encrypted folders
After months of proper functioning has ecryptfs has become corrupted and rendered /home/ inaccessible.
when running (both via guest account and from live-CD):
root@ubuntu:/media/backup/home/me# ...
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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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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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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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Can I recover my data after deleting the partition?
I got a Ubuntu 12.04 key. It corrupted after a sudden power cut and I was not able to open my desktop session. I then tried using an Ubuntu live CD but it was not able to mount my drive.
I tried ...
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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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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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Raid 5 mdadm Problem - Help Please
My Raid 5 array (4 1tb Disks WD10EARS) had was showing as degraded.
I looked and one of the disks wasnt installed, so i re-added it with the mdadm add command.
the array is now showing as (null)Array ...
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Application Crash cleared the content of the Folder
Recently while working on the LinuxDC++ over the network the application crashed while downloading files. Now my Downloads folder which had at least 60-80GB of data is completely cleaned but the ...
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How to use gddrescue to make an ISO from hard drive?
I am trying to run ddrescue to make an ISO of an old crashed drive. I just don't know how to find the name of the drive to specify when telling ddrescue to run.
If someone could please just tell me ...
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Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive 1TB Cloud Edition failed, data recovery?
I have a Iomega Home Media Network Drive Cloud Edition 1TB that started clicking and then displayed a failure LED code Power LED and Red LED. I removed the SATA drive and inserted in a 'All in 1 HDD ...
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Cannot see my data. All pictures, music ect is gone. even my desktopbackground
can't see all my data . I mean all my pictures ect. aren't in my datamanager.I simply can't see them. But if I want to set up a desktop backgroundpicture i can see the pictures in my folders but they ...
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DATA LOSS V V IMPORTANT [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to recover a deleted NTFS partition with data
Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.10 and while installing, selected erase disk by mistake. Now I am only shown a 500gb ...
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Data recovery after installation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to recover deleted files?
Windows 7 doesn’t boot after Ubuntu install
I am new to Linux. While installing I was being displayed with only 2 drives - Primary and ...
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Ubuntu server - losing vmware network connection
Ubuntu server - losing data
Hi!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
