Questions about recovery from failure. This includes file corruption or deletion and broken software components after an update. For lost data, "data-recovery" may be a better tag.
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I can't boot into a usable system after updates. What should I do?
Due to updates, my machine can no longer boot properly. I am no Ubuntu guru. I do not have a week to spare diagnosing the issue. I just want to retrieve important data from this machine's hard drive ...
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How to recover deleted files?
Are there any tools, methods, incantations to recover recently deleted files on Ubuntu?
If it makes any difference, I want to recover a Keepass 2.x database file. But would be better to have a ...
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How do I add myself back as a sudo user?
I clean-installed Ubuntu 11.10 today, and then installed VirtualBox. This required me to add myself to the vboxusers group, and since 11.10 seems to no longer have a graphical app to add users to a ...
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Best tool to recover removed files [duplicate]
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How to recover deleted files?
Using Ubuntu 10.10, I have a startup script that automatically removes my 'working directory'. This is a simple folder on my Desktop where ...
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Is there a way to recover files from a storage device partially overwritten with dd?
I'm an idiot, I was writing an image to a USB drive using dd when instead of typing /dev/sdb I typed /dev/sdd and wrote the 135mb image to my 750gb External Hardrive full of files. Is there ANY ...
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Recovering grub after installing windows 7? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I repair grub? (How to get Ubuntu back after installing Windows?)
I installed windows7 after it crashed and now i am unable to boot ubuntu. ubuntu partitions are ...
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How can I recover my data after replacing Windows with Ubuntu? [duplicate]
I have migrated from Windows 7 to Ubuntu just yesterday. Windows 7 was in my C: drive. I did not realise that if I wipe Windows 7 and install Ubuntu, Ubuntu would be installed in the C: drive only. So ...
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Tool for recovering deleted data from a flash drive
What is the best tool for recovering deleted data from a flash drive (pen drive)?
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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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Ntfs recovery software for ubuntu?
I need a free linux application to recover some files on an NTFS. Please suggest me a best one?
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How to resolve “Failed to download repository information”?
Whenever I try to install anything with the Ubuntu Software Center, the following error appears.
Failed to download repository information
Check your Internet connection.
E:Unable to ...
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Recovering user files with a Live CD
For some reason my bootup isn't working. I get an error akin to "Operating System Not Found". So I tried bootrepair, and that didn't work. So then I decided I would just save my personal files, wipe ...
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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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Installed Ubuntu over windows
I need to get those windows files. Please let me know whether there is any procedure to get those windows files
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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 ...
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How to get GUI back after freeze interrupted an Nvidia driver update?
I just went through a driver update. The OS froze, so I had to hard reboot the PC. Now I just get the login prompt in terminal. So, I tried to run startx.
codeError: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel ...
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How to recover Ubuntu partition after computer failure?
Recently my computer broke down and the Linux Ubuntu 10.04 partition could not be loaded back. What should be done to recover it back? What could be the possible error?
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Enable Wi-Fi in Recovery Terminal
How do I enable WiFi from the Ubuntu 11.10 netroot recovery terminal?
After just 12 hours with Ubuntu, I managed to destroy my ATI fglrx drivers and now I can't repair them without Internet access.
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Cannot lock '/etc/group' in recovery mode
I've currently booted into recovery mode, because I removed my sole user from admin :/
When I run adduser oadams admin, I get gpasswd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later.
For what it's worth, ...
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I unexpetedly deleted administrator account and the other accounts are asking root password
I unexpectedly deleted my user account (the only administrator for the machine). I have another account which is standard account now i cant access my hard disk or anything with that standard account ...
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How to exit the recovery console?
I was having problems with Ubuntu 11.04 freezing up with Firefox, then it was freezing up with other applications as well.
At login I tried Recovery Console and now I can't get out of it. Ubuntu ...
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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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How to recover data from a failing hard drive?
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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How can I make an Ubuntu recovery image
I am about to expand my Ubuntu partition, so I think I should make a backup of current one in case something goes wrong.
Is there some software to make a bootable USB and recovery image?
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Is recovery mode supposed to hang after fsck?
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
I wanted to test running fsck on root file system (ext4) on my home PC before I try to fix a real problem on my work server.
I booted into Linux recovery mode, and selected 'fsck - ...
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How to boot into Single-User recovery mode?
In desktop Ubuntu there is handy GRUB menu, but there is no such menu in Ubuntu Server. How do I get into recovery (single-user) mode on Ubuntu Server then?
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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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Recover accidentally removed files on NTFS partition
I accidentally removed some files on a NTFS partition
How can I recover them staying inside Linux without0 rebooting ?
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How to boot to root shell when GRUB recovery menu fails to load a shell?
Can't seem to boot into root shell in recovery mode from GRUB. I try booting into recovery mode from the GRUB menu and don't ever get a shell, just log messages from the kernel bootup. Ctrl+Alt+F1-F12 ...
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Can you make a bootable recovery partition for Ubuntu? [duplicate]
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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How to connect to internet from recovery mode?
I am working on a kernel panic issue.
As Ubuntu is very reliant on internet, I am currently investigating how to connect to internet when choosing recovery mode. Even in my healthy 11.10 system it ...
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recovery of data after installing ubuntu 12 [duplicate]
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Formatted and lost 6 years worth of photo memories.. any way to get this back?
Installed Ubuntu over windows
i had been using ubuntu paralally with windows before.this ...
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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 ...
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How can I recover data from a 2TB hard drive?
I have a Western Digital 2TB External Hard Drive. I basically use it to keep all my movies and videos. Its file system is NTFS, and currently I'm using 1.4TB. One night I turn it on and copied a 4GB ...
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kernel panick how to recover [closed]
I installed unity 5.0 on my Ubuntu 12.04 experimental system. After installation of unity 5.0 plus some normal updates the system still boots but is shutting down because of kernel panik. I tried to ...
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Create Ubuntu recovery partition [duplicate]
I have an HP laptop that came with Windows 7 installed with a recovery partition which was accessible through the boot menu in the same way you could access the bios. I wanted to be able to create an ...
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Recovering data from /
I accidentally installed Ubuntu to one of my data drives from Windows. The drive was a NTFS drive and contained about 80 GB of important data. The size of the drive is 110 GB. Its new file system is ...
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Updates kill Keyboard and mouse
I had applied all the updates available for on 23rd Morning and Keyboard and mouse stopped working thereafter. The updates amounted to around 230 MBs in size. I can use the keyboard to select other ...
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How to recover an interrupted 12.04 upgrade from 11.10?
Ok, I will get right to the point. I was upgrading ubuntu to 12.04 from 11.10 (x64) and right in the middle of the package installation I had a freeze (not ubuntu's fault) forcing me to do a hard ...
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Some applications is not working after upgrading from Ubuntu 11.04 32 bit to Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit
I updated my system from Ubuntu 11.10 32-bit to Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit using installation DVD. I used option 'update older installation of Ubuntu 11.10'. Now my softwares and settings pre-installed ...
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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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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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Install Ubuntu on ThinkPad, recovery section must remain intact
I want to install Ubuntu on a Lenovo ThinkPad T500 that I've got. However, due to some licensing and warranty issues, the recovery section on the disk (the one that enables the "ThinkVantage" button) ...
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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 from uninstall of ubuntu-desktop?
In my infinite wisdom, during a system upgrade, I somehow managed to remove 'ubuntu-desktop' and several other key packages. As a consequence, my desktop is now gone - I only see a standard X terminal ...
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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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The system drops to a grub prompt on boot after an update. How do I fix this?
The day before yesterday, I opened Ubuntu.
I always go to the update manager first. After I loaded the updates and tried to re-start, I got a command line prompt saying grub_. I have never ...
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How to recover partially removed components of ubuntu-desktop?
So I was messing around with tasksel to install LAMP. Foolishly I unchecked the ubuntu-desktop item. About 25% through the process I realized it is removing my desktop components. So I closed the ...
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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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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?
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