Questions tagged [data-recovery]
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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What is the best way to recover deleted zip files from a specific path when rlinux, photorec can't find them?
What is the best way to recover deleted zip files from a specific path ? I have 2 zip files previously stored in an ext drive in /dev/sda3 to be cut&pasted to home/user/Documents. These zip files ...
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Copying a file from an HD with bad sectors
I am trying to copy various files from one HD to another.
on some files after several minutes (too many, say 5 minutes for an 11Mb file) I get this error and the file is not copied.
cp: error reading '...
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Accidentally deleted the entire hard drive during Ubuntu installation
I tried to install Ubuntu 23.04 on my device which was running on Windows 10. During the installation I might have selected the Erase all data and install Ubuntu option and got my full HDD erased ...
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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 can i recover a vdi file that was affected by dd?
Detail: i accidentally used dd of=myfile.vdi and it went to 0 byte after.
is there a way to recover the file
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Recovery data from Unable to mount Sandisk Extreme USB device
so it seem many Sandisk Extreme devices are crashing recently. The company updated some firmwares but it seems that my device does not need any update regarding the website autochecker, but anyhow my ...
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at boot time - recovering journal
I have dual boot - Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
I know for sure that last time Ubuntu was shutdown gracefully.
But today when i opted Ubuntu Linux from grub menu then I am getting this message:
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Deja Dup overwritten files
I have restored by deja dup an old version of our database so it has overwritten the current updated file.
is there anyway I can get the overwritten file back?
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ddrescue not starting after cancelling
I used ddrescue to copy data from an about-to-fail hard drive to another clean drive. I had formatted the targetted drive and began the process successfully but later canceled it because I had to get ...
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Dumbly shrinked partition size, what can I do to recover my /home folder
I was using a dual-boot setup with Windows and Ubuntu, but I ran out of space. Since I didn't really use Windows, I decided to remove it. I installed GParted and removed the Windows partitions, then ...
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Possibly of recovering data from virtualbox machine?
Tldr: vdi file corrupted, nothing i tried is helping
I noticed recently that the save files for one of my virtualbox machines disappeared. I had it on an hard drive that’s plugged into an outlet, and ...
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Clean reinstall Ubuntu while recovering former account
While tinkering (too much) with my machine, I deleted some apparently key files from the Ubuntu kernel on v22.*. I then thought I could "clean" reinstall just the system from a USB (that ...
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How can I recover my home folder after "apt purge" removed all it's contents?
I was on my Ubuntu 22.04 cleaning up some unused apps as sudo. Already had removed 3 of them so I ran the following command:
apt-get purge assinador-serpro
It was taking longer than usual when it ...
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Mistakenly formatted external big USB drive instead of intented USB drive - can I recover the files?
I have this external USB (2TB) disk where I place all my photos and such.
The other day I was making a Unity(!) startup-disk on a separate USB stick but mistakenly put the files on this external disk ...
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Deleted Partitions while installing Ubuntu [duplicate]
I am new to linux, as a windows user i thought installing Ubuntu on my old windows laptop will be as similar as installing windows later after installing Ubuntu, I realised that I accidentally deleted ...
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Deleted Partition Recovery Into System
I was installing ubuntu 22.04 on my system. There were 4 partitions on my system and I selected one of the four partition for the installation and chose the option of resizing the partition. Initially ...
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Is it possible to recover this LUKS-encrypted SD card?
I have a large size SD card that was encrypted with LUKS using the GNOME Disk Utility running on Ubuntu. I had some cherished photos on it. I've managed to accidentally format the SD card and wish to ...
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How do I recover lost folders and files in Ubuntu?
I'm a relative newbie to Ubuntu. I was trying to uninstall and re-install some Java programs on my setup and I ran the following command on the terminal
for g in ControlPanel java java_vm javaws ...
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Trying to recover a deleted ODT file [duplicate]
I'd tried using Photorec to restore a deleted ODT file since I accidentally deleted an important part of the boot files. Sadly, the option for filtering file searches for ODT's exclusively isn't ...
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PhotoRec outputs mostly text files in Ubuntu data recovery
Last night I discovered that Ubuntu 20.04 had deleted most of the contents of one of my folders, about 50GB worth. I tried to recover them using PhotoRec, but most of what is output so far is text ...
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External SSD not mountable after connecting to windows
I think I messed up really really bad and need help.
I had a laptop with an Ubuntu installation. My laptop's main board broke. I took out the M2 ssd where linux was installed and gave laptop for ...
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ZFS Ubuntu 20.04, Failed Drive makes pool unavailable
I have a recent Build of Ubuntu 20.04, Fresh installation 3 months ago, Installed on an SSD (No Boot ZFS), where I created 2 zpools: one 'zombiepool2' 4 x 2TB (not, very new drives), second '...
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Recover partition from hard drive showing wrong capacity
I have a 1TB hard drive that started making problems a few weeks ago. It was sometimes corrupting some of the data on the drive forcing me to run fsck before booting into the system. This worked for a ...
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Install Ubuntu over broken Ubuntu to recover files
I broke an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS when changing some X11 configuration file. Don't remember what exactly. The machine is an Acer Nitro 5, from 2021. It is now broken on boot. It shows a sometimes blinking ...
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Can't see some files after running " fsck -y /dev/sda3 " [duplicate]
While using GParted live usb to create some free space on my disk (only ubuntu 22.04 is installed on that entire disk), I mistakely stopped the resizing operation in between, and later when I tried to ...
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Recover Ubuntu files [duplicate]
I have deleted Ubuntu 18.04 files and cleared it from the trash.
Is it possible to recover these files?
Please advise.
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Deleted Ubuntu folder and emptied the trash [duplicate]
Well, that was stupid. I put in an old USB and wanted to delete all the files on it. I believed it was an old Ubuntu install USB, so without further thought I clicked on something that said Ubuntu on ...
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Formatted laptop problems with booting external Ubuntu environment - Aptio Setup Utility issue
So background is that I stupidly formatted my laptop's harddrive instead of my external one and now I seem to have wiped it completely, OS and all. So when turning it on I get sent to the Aptio Setup ...
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How do I recover data after formatting laptop drive and deleting OS [duplicate]
So I stupidly formatted my laptop drive instead of my external harddrive and when I restarted the laptop I'm now stuck on Aptio Setup Utility with no boot options.
Is there anyway possible to recover ...
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carve bzip2 using foremost
i have a corrupted drive and need to recover the archive files from it. I already successfully used foremost to recover the pdf files.
foremost -t pdf -i /dev/sda -o /tmp/foremost/pdf
however i now ...
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Access Windows Software RAID 5?
Moving to Ubuntu, running 22.04.2 LTS. Previously I had Windows 10 installed and created a software RAID 5 (or fake-RAID) following these steps: https://recoverhdd.com/blog/creating-software-raid-in-...
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I accidentally deleted the folder trusted.gpg.d
I faced the error message
Warning: apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d instead (see apt-key(8)).
so I deleted the trusted.gpg.d folder and now I can't even update
I tried ...
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Problem during system partial update. Can the system be recovered?
The system was undertaking a partial update when the screen/session logged off due to inactivity.
When attempted to log in, the system wouldn´t let me write the password.
The computer was then re-...
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Recovery mode starts with RW filesystem
I'm running Kubuntu 22.04 and I can't seem to get it to start with the root filesystem mounted as read-only. Looking at the kernel parameters for recovery mode, grub does pass ro, recovery, and a ...
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How to mount JBOD array HDs from NAS to recover data?
I have four HDs from a crappy, dead NAS with data I'd like to retrieve. I'm new to Linux, and Ubuntu, but have determined that the partition that has the data is /dev/md125. However, I cannot mount ...
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How to recover lost customized desktop/ubuntu/gnome settings? [duplicate]
My Ubuntu 20.04 system froze/crashed while trying to install anaconda, and after rebooting, I found that all my customized Ubuntu/Gnome/Desktop settings had been reset to the defaults. (Eg background ...
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Most of customization disappeared, and home folder and partition files deleted during routine software update
A strange event during software update from inside "Discover" caused wiping of my custom profile and many personal files, both in my home folder and a separate partition.
I would like to try ...
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How to recover the partition I accidentally deleted while installing new Ubuntu 22.04? [duplicate]
I had Ubuntu 20 LTS. I had two HDD partitions, one for my documents and the other for os and system files. I upgraded to Ubuntu 22 LTS. It had asked me if I want to format the drive before installing ...
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Is there a way to recover data from a drive that was an LVM partition?
I'm a bit new to ubuntu, apologies upfront for gaps in my understanding.
One of our device broke down recently and needed to be RMA.
The device had 2 drives, an internal 30gb drive and a 1 tb ssd. The ...
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e2fsck deletes many inodes, recovers too little data from a disk image. Are there better methods?
I imaged a failing SSD as best I could using ddrescue or dd (it's been too long to recall which). With the resulting .img, I've burnt a disk which is not recognised as mountable.
Using e2fsck -fyvC 0 ...
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Recovering LUKS partition with shred disk
I have Ubuntu 18.04 LTS encrypted on my SSD and I ran the command:
sudo shred -vfn 1 /dev/sda
and have overwritten 8-10 GB I guess.
Furthermore, my computer could not load the password input window ...
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Recover data from corrupted mp4 file [duplicate]
I had a corrupted FAT32 SD (see Recover data from FAT 32).
With a tool using Windows (sorry!!!) I was able to recover some mp4 files.
The recoved probability was low, and in fact those mp4 files don't ...
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Foremost (data recovery) placing output in hidden directory, cannot be located
There is an issue with the foremost software that prevents it from reading location names with spaces. In these instances, it simply ignores the specified location and places the output in some ...
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Is it ok to run fsck intead of e2fsck for a read only badblocks correction?
I have a hard drive with a failing block that points to inode 8 of the first partition, this falls in exactly on the journal. So I tried to run e2fsck -cpvk but the problem is that i forgot to write ...
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Is it possible to recover a deleted directory? [duplicate]
I deleted a directory using the command rm -drf file_dev as root. Is it possible to recover this directory with its content somehow?
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How I can recover my windows data after almost installing ubuntu by mistake in the same drive
I wanted to install ubuntu and I made the mistake of doing it on the same drive as windows. Before finishing the installation I got a message saying "Partition(s) 1, 4 on /dev/sdb have been ...
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recover files from sd card partitioned by error
I have a sd card in exfat format, I could not read it in ubuntu so I have searched for a solution and found this page:
SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC 128GB Won't Mount
I followed the beginning of the ...
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Files.ubuntu recovery
Hae. Is it possible for one to access/recover files that were backed up with https://files.one.ubuntu.com/ and if it's possible kindly give me a guide to how I can achieve that. Thanks in advance.
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Using Hexdump to Read Hexadecimal Headers
I am using a file-carving tool to recover lost TXT and SRT files. According to the information I have, TXT UTF-8 has the following signature:
EF BB BF
And SRT has this signature:
31 0A 30 30
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Recover data from FAT 32
I made some videos with a camera.
The SD memory is a FAT 32.
Arriving at home when I inserted the SD I received the erorr
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/user/disk: can't read superblock on /dev/...