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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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how can i mount partitons in recovery mode

I am unable to login to my account and I want to back up my data from Documents folder so I need to know how to mount other partitions from recovery mode. How can I do this? mv ...
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TestDisk Help - Ununtu N0Ob

I am new to linux and while installing it I formatted my partition.As happened with many of users. Testdisk is able to detect my HD. Would like to ask following questions? Can I save them to my ...
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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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What are the best Recovery softwares for ubuntu 12.04?

What are the best Recovery softwares for ubuntu 12.04? Is there some of them that has a GUI? What are the softwares that work with other file systems like fat.ntfs,hfs,...etc i need tools working on ...
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I cancelled gparted operation ,what to do next?

I cancelled gparted operation by mistake .Now one of the partition became corrupted ,what to next? Should I format it? Data is important to me ;( Edit1: I tried to recover partition using testdisk ...
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How To Recover All Ubuntu 12.04 System Files? (From Live CD)

Last night I succesfully installed Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, and then I tried to install Mac OSX Theme from this site But after and after I followed I don't know what's going on terminal, after I installed ...
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My Ubuntu Server filesystem just crashed. Need some help! How to recover files or filesystem?

None of my sites worked, saying that the /tmp/ folder was not writeable. I ssh-ed into the server, and indeed, everyting was read only. I restarted with the fsck flag, and now I get a grub error. ...
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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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Cannot see my files but I see a Lost_Found folder and cannot boot Ubuntu 10.04 [closed]

I shrunk my Ubuntu 10.04 drive and didn't format it. Now, my Ubuntu can't boot and when I try booting with Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD, I cannot see anything. I can only see the LOST+FOUND folder. I have ...
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How do I recover a BTRFS partition formatted by mkfs.btrfs?

I've accidentally formatted one of my partitions with btrfs 0.19 filesystem, on 11.04, kernel 2.6.38-8-generic. The command issued was: mkfs.btrfs -L EADS-old /dev/sdd2. After this I didn't write ...
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Did I lose my RAID again?

A little history: 2 years ago I was really excited to find out that mdadm is so powerful that it even can reshape arrays, so you can start with a smaller array and then grow it as you need. I've ...
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How to find corrupted files?

Some files on my hard drive are corrupted (no worries, nothing system-related, just a junk of data files, mp3 etc.). I found that out when I tried to burn them all to a DVD, the burning application ...
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recover LVM after hdd crash

Yesterday, one hdd of my LVM crashed (smart-error) The Machine has the following setup: - 4 hdds - 1 Partition Raid10 (System, 4*50GB) - 1 Partition normal (/boot, 200MB, sda) - 1 Partition LVM2 ...
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Recover data using Photorec onto an External Drive

I lost my Windows Vista while installing Ubuntu. Few people suggested me to use Photorec to recover the data. I already installed testdisk. The place where I am confused is: I attached an external ...