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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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Installed ubuntu over windows vista..cant reinstall windows [closed]

I recently used the "compress hard drive" option within windows. i got the horid "boot mngr is compressed" after the restart. i tried booting my system back to windows vista but it doesnt read the cd ...
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1answer
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Max file size can recover on ext4

Is there a limitation for recovering big files on ext4 like ntfs ( 4 giga max )
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Recovering deleted ext4 Ubuntu partitions using TestDisk (None partition media table type)

Recovering deleted ext4 Ubuntu partitions using TestDisk Question How do I write (recover) found partitions from [None] None partition media table type (unallocated space?) in TestDisk? Problem ...
3
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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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Mounting ddrescue image after recovery (in over my head)

I'm having problems mounting the recovery image. I've tried to mount the image multiple ways. quark@DS9 ~ $ sudo mount -t ext4 /media/jump1/1recover/sdb1.img /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, ...
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recoverying data from ubuntu installed in another partition

i installed ubuntu 12.04lts on a single partitioned hdd, then i crashed the fstab file somehow and it stopped booting ubuntu, then i tried installing it again with the live cd, and ended up with ...
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Recover EXT4 Partition from Interrupted Resize

world! [that's funny, it automatically takes out leading "hello"s] I'm installing Ubuntu on a friend's laptop, and I encountered a problem while resizing the Ubuntu partition. I was expanding it to ...
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Vanished partition recovered, disk still half full but no data to be found! [closed]

I recently had a hard drive partition vanish on me while moving the drive from one machine to another. In an attempt to fix the problem I took it out of my Ubuntu box and put it in a Windows machine ...
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0answers
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How do I encrypt ext4 home folder partition? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I encrypt my home partition? EDIT: Its not a duplicate. "How do I encrypt my home partition?" is old and does not mention anything about EXT4. I have installed ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to unformat an ext4 partition that previously had an ext4 partition on it?

I was having a moment of distraction and accidentally checked the format option and started formatting an encrypted ext4 home partition with ext4 - losing access to files. I stopped it in the middle ...
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Is there any recovery software available for ext4?

Well, I have accidentally deleted my Ubuntu drive. I just want to recover all the contents of /home. Is there a way to do it? I referred to foremost, where I need to specify the extensions of files. ...
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1answer
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How do I recover a .ogv on ext4?

I have very a simple question. How to recover a .ogv file on my /home ext4 partition? I overwrote the .ogv file (I confused input and output in Arista transcoder). I did research. TestDisk can ...
3
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1answer
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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?