Questions tagged [testdisk]
TestDisk is a free data recovery utility. Usually associated with Photorec
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How to recover files without extension using PhotoRec
So i had some files without extensions on my usb drive which has been formatted many times.
I tried to use gparted to recover them but no result. Then i found PhotoRec which using deep scan i was able ...
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How to use TestDisk
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I just replaced my Windows 10 and switched to Ubuntu and deleted all my data accidently as it was in partitions on my windows.Tried using TestDisk for its recovery after ...
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/dev/sda5 : recovering journal, clean files block, can't boot into my desktop
to I face this screen when I want to boot to ubuntu. This happened after I used ''testdisk'' to recover some of my deleted files. After doing this a large part of my partition was occupied so that ...
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How to fix broken partition table after restoring a partition
I recently recovered an accidentally formatted ext4 partition by following these steps: Recover ext4 file system after quick format
The recovered drive now shows up in testdisk after running "...
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How do you undelete files from within multiple levels of deleted folder on EXT4 and keep the original file tree structure? [duplicate]
I was making some room n my file server by moving the data to the desktop. The desktop had a catastrophic failure and now i'm trying to recover the files from the fileserver.
Trying to undelete close ...
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Recover Deleted Windows os [duplicate]
so I'm studying cybersecurity and I'm currently working with bitlocker security, and on one of my tests, I tried to copy a whole windows nvme disk using a live Ubuntu stick and DD (note that the drive ...
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Stress the bandwidth and disk read in linux
I need to trigger HighBandwidth and high disk read for my alert testing purpose. So does anyone knows any Linux command to trigger HighBandwidth(transmitted and received) at 70GB as well as disk read ...
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Segmentation error when trying to rebuild boot sector with TestDisk
I've been trying to recover a windows 10 C: drive using Ubuntu 20.04.4 and TestDisk. Drive became RAW for no apparent reason. I created a disk image using dd:
sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of="/media/...
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External Hard Disk Won't Re-Mount
My hardDisk was working perfectly fine but all of a sudden, I felt that it was operating a bit slowly after a huge data transfer(around 250GB). So I decided to unmount and remount it, believing that ...
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Copy of a hard disk, error during the mount because of luks
A few weeks ago I encrypted an external hard drive with luks and the header bugged. I can still open the drive with my password but it shows me an empty folder. So I made a copy of the whole disk with ...
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Truncated ext4 partition after trying to access my partition from windows with ext2fs
After trying to access my Linux partition from Windows operating system, my Linux partition is now truncated to a size 1K byte and I am no longer able to mount that partition.
"fdisk" shows ...
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restore ext4 HD after creating GPT partition table
I have a windows10 - ubuntu 18.04 dual boot computer. Three drives on it:
512 GB SSD with ubuntu system
1 TB HD with windows system
1 TB HD Ext4 formatted (the problematic one) for extra data ...
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NTFS mounts are overwritten
I have downloaded and installed the new Ubuntu21.4.
It formatted the entire disk and I lost my NTFS mounts c:\ and D:.
Is there any way to recover NTFS Data (images and videos) from the hard disk.
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How to format write protected sd card in ubuntu
I have a sd card with 16GB I try to format it using windows 10 it says this device is write protected when I try with Ubuntu like that mkdosfs -F 32 -v /dev/sdh1 it says following lines.
mkfs.fat 4.1 (...
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Installed Ubuntu on top of Windows 7 Parition, thus lost an important file!
Hi there.
I had win 10 and 7 installed on dual boot, then i decided to download and install UBUNTU, in the installation process, i chose to install it on top of the win 7 partition, so it had to erase ...
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Disk /dev/sda: doesn't contain a valid partition table
I had a Software Raid 1, and somehow it got corrupted and I cannot boot it. I am trying to fix it through rescue mode and this is what I am getting from both drives. Is there any way to fix the ...
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Linux partitions deleted after Windows 10 Update (Version 1909)
I have a dual boot with Ubuntu and Windows 10. I have only booted into Windows a handful of times over the last 2 years or so. I left Windows logged in overnight and it decided to update. The next ...
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System not booting with no free disk space
I have used PhotoRec/TestDisk on my laptop with Ubuntu 18.04.5 to recover some deleted files from the ext4 filesystem.
I first let it do its work on the entire partition, all extensions. And PhotoRec ...
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Understanding TestDisk behaviour on disappeared files from a git / docker folder
I have totally messed up a git / docker local folder, and some of my files (curiously only those which were not tracked by git) have suddenly disappeared from one data subfolder ; I cannot see them ...
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Recover deleted files from ext4 - Ubuntu 18.04
Well, I finally did it. I noticed a folder of my original drawings going back 4 months was missing from its usual spot. With reference photos and palettes and all, there are maybe 700 files in that ...
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Decrypt ecryptfs files recovered from photorec
I have managed to recover files from a disk with a damaged partition table using photorec. Photorec does not preserve the file name or file structure so all I have are a bunch of randomly named files ...
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ACCIDENTALLY ISSUED DD COMMAND AGAINST EXTERNAL HDD
I recently issued dd if=/home of=/dev/sdb and turned out to ruin the exfat filesystem on my external harddrive. I immediately issued ctrl-c to stop writing.
Read few threads indicating the use of ...
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Wrecked my partitions with testdisk
I used to have partitions for Windows and Linux(had dual-boot) on my SSD, but then I broke the partitions with testdisk (because I didn't know what I was doing).
And now it looks like this:
$ sudo ...
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recover data from ddrescue img fails
After seeing some corrupted partition I did recovered whole disk using ddrescue and file is imagefile.img
ddrescue -f -r3 /dev/sda imagefile.img imagefile.log
now I want to recover some folders from ...
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What's filling up my root directory? [duplicate]
I have a 120gb SSD which is dedicated to /root and a separate HDD for /home but for some reason my root drive is full and I can't see why.
I've tried autoclean autoremove and clean but it hasn't ...
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Associate ready annotations with a raw PDF file with Okular
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Accidently, the file x.pdf which was a book with a lot of annotations created by Okular is deleted. Annotations, however, are present in /home/user/.var/app/org.kde.okular/data/okular/docdata/....
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Can't restore lost windows partition [duplicate]
I was trying to install Ubuntu budgie, I clicked on erase disk and setup lvm, but I didn't click ok when the confirmation window poped up, I quit the installation. Tried booting back into windows ...
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Corrupted ext4 disk with windows disk manager
I am the main linux person in our team (which is a sad state of affairs), and am trying to fix a problem created by one of our windows users.
They had a 5TB drive with a single ~5TB ext4 partition ...
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recover HD overwritten by ddrescue
I have a portable 2TB hard disk that I was using as a network drive. I had disconnected it from the router and connected it via USB to my desktop. It contained all my pictures. I was working on ...
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undelete all the files with testdisk
My GF deleted a load of her photos, and Im trying to recover them with testdisk.
using the utility, I selected Advanced, and Undelete, but i dont see how to just choose all the deleted photos. Im ...
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How to recover my data
i tried to remove/uninstall my firefox but unfortunately i lost my all data in my kubuntu system . I'm just trying to remove all firefox file from my root system but i dont know how to remove all this ...
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Problem booting dual boot Ububntu / win10 after partition size change
I had a working system with dual boot of Win 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 on a single hard disk with the following partition layout (more or less, that is what I remember):
- Primary NTFS, 1.5gb boot
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package installing issue
I was trying to install libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev and mesa-common-dev on lubuntu due to an online course that requires opengl to run the code for the exercices and initially it raised an error ...
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I overwrote my external hard drive. Can I recover files?
I was trying to make a bootable USB drive. I entered the following:
root@BlackBox:/home/bgp# pv XP32bit.iso > /dev/sdb
I let it run, and then became aware that I had the wrong target. I meant to ...
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Geometry of USB Memory - heads per cylinder is 124
i have a USB Stick,
and this stick has some problems,
how to set up for it proper geometry
TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www....
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testdisk unable to detect deleted folder
accidentally happened to Shift+Del a folder named new from my external HDD. In my attempt to recover the lost data (very valuable to me) and after going through most of the previous such cases on Ask ...
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PhotoRec extension customization is taking parts not defined in the signature
when i tried to recover my .m files which are considered as .txt for photorec. I tried to add my own extension. After creating .m file containing the word tic while in the .photorec.sig file i added ...
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Accidently deleted windows partition on Ubuntu
I have accidentally deleted my Windows partition (using fdisk) including the system partition. I was able to recover the partitions using Testdisk however I can't see an option too boot into Windows.
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In command line I am using testdisk, but the file is not getting located?
I am trying to use test disk on my Ubuntu software version 16.04 using command line (sudo apt-get install test disk) and after typing the password it is giving Unable to locate package test disk. What ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 / Windows 10 dual boot error
So I've been trying everything from Boot-Repair to TestDisk to try and fix boot errors after trying to install an older version of Ubuntu. I had both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 and using grub ...
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no outcomes when trying to recover files with testdisk
I've been trying to recover files with Testdisk and lately, it stopped working. on the outcome, it shows "Copy done! 0 ok, 0 failed"
how do I fix it?
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TestDisk 7.0 doesn't have undelete option
I tried using TestDisk 7.0 to undelete a few videos I made a week ago, but the undelete option doesn't show up.
I tried the list/copy option instead but it doesn't seem to work either. They just ...
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Why doesn't target destination in Testdisk have a directory tree?
I was using Testdisk in K oppix but I'm sure this applies to Ubuntu.
I can find files on the bad partition using the directory tree. I hit c to copy the file and then Testdisk wants the destination ...
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Ubuntu LiveCD without a graphics card
I have a system with corrupted partition table so it won't boot. What I need is a recovery tool like testdisk to recover the partition table.
The problem is this system does not have a graphics ...
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Broken partitions
I just managed to break my partitions (or partition tables) on my dual boot PC. It has a 500MiB EFI Partition, 215GiB Windows 10 and 64GiB Linux. I'm currently trying to fix it using testdisk on linux ...
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Can I use ddrescue & Testdisk in ubuntu to create image to recover data? [duplicate]
I mistakely installed ubuntu over my 1tb drive removing essential data and photos which took about 5 mins to install, so I want to know if I can use ddrescue in Ubuntu to create a virtual image of the ...
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how to restore unbootable drive using testdisk
I accidentally erased my sister's entire hard drive and made a new partition table while tying to formate a USB and now the laptop gives me this screen on boot up
https://i.stack.imgur.com/KUsSg.jpg
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Testdisk: Finds my partition, then forgets it
When testdisk analyses my hard disk, it finds the lost partition and even the label 'Storage', which looks good at first.
But when the scan goes from 99% to 100%, the (multiple copies) of the linux ...
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I accidentally formatted my C: drive while I was using Ubuntu [duplicate]
My C drive had Windows installed and all of my important files. I know there is a way to try to recover it using testdisk. But I wanted to know if there are anythings that change since the dive I want ...
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Cant view any folders or files inside users home folder using testdisk?
I have installed the testdisk using
sudo apt install testdisk
and using this I want to view and recover some deleted files in ubuntu 16.04. I selected my linux partion in testdisk
sudo testdisk /...
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