Questions tagged [testdisk]
TestDisk is a free data recovery utility. Usually associated with Photorec
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Can't boot into Windows 7 EFI GPT after recovery operation
My question, or rather issue, is in the extent of this previous case in which I wanted to grow my Linux (ext4) partition. The partition /dev/sda6 was in the way of doing this and since it contained ...
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How to Install Testdisk in Ubuntu 13.10 [duplicate]
I am unable to install testdisk in Ubuntu 13.10 from Live Disk.
I am using USB drive to run ubuntu 13.10. I want to recover some data from Windows partition.
I am unable to install testdisk. It is a ...
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testdisk: "Warning: number of (heads/cylinder|sectors per track) mismatches 255 (FAT) != 64 (HD)"
TL;DR: How do I get rid of the warnings in the subject line when everything else looks sweet?
I'm getting the following output when running testdisk's Analyze on a 64GB SD card:
TestDisk 6.14, Data ...
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need to recover data from a data hard disk that I used testdisk on in my attempt to repair mbr from a rootkit virus
Before I begin to say what my situation is here, please know i would be FOREVER GRATEFUL for anyone who can help me out with this mess. I have photos on here from years and years of painstaking work. ...
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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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How to recover files from a given directory using photorec
I want to recover some files using PhotoRec. Although I've used it before, I am not familiar with making it look only in one given directory.
Any idea how to do it?
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testdisk is showing wrong size of drive [duplicate]
I'm trying to recover the data of a damaged hard drive using testdisk. I did all good, did the quick search, the deeper seach, and then, after confirming that my files had been found by testdisk, I ...
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Help with corrupted NTFS partition
My Ubuntu isn't able to mount a partition.
It suddenly became unreadable because of a corrupt Master File Table. chkdsk /f is unable to correct it, saying:
Windows will now check the disk.
Corrupt ...
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Can I open Synaptic Package Manager in a Ubuntu Live CD session?
thats the question.
i screwed my harddrive and need to repair it in ubuntu live cd session with test disk that I Have to install with synaptic Package Manager, and I don-t know how to open in this ...
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Can I use testdisk to recover the Windows partition over which Ubuntu was installed?
I got a new Windows 7 laptop, tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 for dual boot and messed up my hard drive partitions. So opted for a clean install of Ubuntu by formatting the entire disk. (Which makes my ...
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Recovering a partition with no valid superblocks
My system had these partitions:
DellUtility
Windows 7
Ubuntu 14.04 (64bit) - extended
/home - extended
virtualbox - extended
swap - extended
(A Dell box with Ubuntu dual-boot and seperate home / "...
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How to recover lost data after installing Ubuntu 16.04 [duplicate]
This has been asked quite a few times before but I want to add something extra hence a new question. Please take a moment before marking it as a duplicate.
I had dual booting with Windows 10 and ...
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Broken Ext4: Why are all superblock backups missing?
After running a program for disk diagnostic made available by Seagate, my disk became blank. I was able to recover all the partitions with TestDisk, and their files are there just like before, except ...
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How to install TestDisk from source
I have just come downloading a software called testdisk-6.14-WIP.linux26.tar.bz2. Therefore I'm wondering how to deal with the installation.
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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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How to resolve " The harddisk seems too small" with Testdisk deeper search option
I need to recover the NTFS partition that was removed by Ubuntu 13.10 installation after choosing "replace Ubuntu 12.04 with 13.10"
But I am getting this message
Disk /dev/sda - 640 GB / 596 GiB - ...
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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 do I verify a partition is encrypted?
This article shows me how to see if Ubuntu has encrypted swap. What I would like to know is how I can determine that swap (or any other partition) is truly encrypted. What I would like to see is 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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windows 10 major update wiped GRUB, how do I recover partitions properly? [duplicate]
Windows 10 + Ubuntu 16.04 LTS dual boot on a Lenovo Laptop.. after getting nagged about an update... I have been dumped into the grub rescue screen
grub rescue>
and a lot of the help for dual ...
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Recover an partially(~5%) zero overwritten, external HDD with single partition
I have an external Seagate HDD of 1TB. I was using the default partition it came with. Never repartitioned it.
Yesterday I accidentally started reformatting it instead of my other disk, with an ...
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data recovery with testdisk
I'm trying to recover my data after a bad installation. On my laptop I had 2 partitions: Windows and Media. Now I'm trying to recover the content of the Media partition and this is what the amazing ...
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how to run testdisk.exe on a dd image of a 2TB hard drive
BACKGROUND INFO:
I have (2) 2TB hard drives.
HD1 - I hosed the MBR, drive won't mount, can't see data, but it must be there because I didn't do anything much to it except with testdisk
HD2 - was ...
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How can I recover my data after choosing “Erase disk and install Ubuntu”? [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop and chose the option "Erase disk and install Ubuntu" from liveUSB without any backup. When I realized that this would format my whole HDD, I immediately unplugged ...
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Unallocated space with important data
I used GParted to convert a primary partition to extended one after copying the data to another partition. After having the extended partition I moved the data back. To my utter shock after a restart ...
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Can not show external HDD during photorec
I have just formated my HP laptop (having 500 GB Hard Disk Internal) and install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS OS. while get back up for lost files, I install testdisk and run sudo photorec. All process is going ...
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Impossible to rewrite my Partitions Table with my two Linux partitions although there is no ovelap
Due to a bug created by Windows 10, I am trying to rewrite the partitions table of my hard disk with TestDisk. I had a Dual Boot environment (Windows / Ubuntu) and I had two Linux partitions (...
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Recovering a lost LibreOffice document with testdisk
I was working on a LibreOffice Writer document when my computer turned off. No problem there, I booted up, went back into LibreOffice and it gave the option to recover everything. I left the document ...
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Lost all my partition after installing Ubuntu 14.4 LTS [duplicate]
Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with a bootable pendrive. Before that I had 3 partitions on my windows system (C:, D:, and E:). During the installation process I thought it would be the same as ...
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Testdisk can't/won't recognise hard disk
After moving a number of hard drives from an Ubuntu desktop to dedicated Ubuntu server, I'm finding it hard to get Ubuntu server to recognise one of the drives. It's a 4tb WD green which was formatted ...
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chhdsk and Ubuntu
I have a laptop with Windows and Ubuntu. There were some bad sectors in a partition used by both Ubuntu and Windows. I have run chkdsk (from Windows installation disk), and so Windows will not access ...
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Can I recover a deleted partition table faster if I remember some of the layout?
I accidentally deleted the partition table of a 1.5TB drive with about 10 partitions on it; I'm running testdisk now but it's going to take a while to scan everything.
I do have some useful ...
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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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Cannot fsck a corrupted USB
I put valuable data on a disfunctioning LUKS encrypted USB. The command
fsck.vfat /dev/mapper/myusb -v -y
seems no to be enough. I ran the command for more than 12 hours without the command to ...
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deleted files recovery
I accidentally deleted one of partitions from the Ubuntu livecd. I get afraid and recreated the partition. But it was formated and all my files were gone. I installed Ubuntu in another partition.
Is ...
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Testdisk brings back empty folders that take up space
I ran testdisk in order to recover one partition out of two with some important files on it. Testdisk brought back the partition with three folders: "$RECYCLE.BIN", "saves" (this is what I was looking ...
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Recover data from USB flash drive with testdisk and photorec
I have a 32GB flash drive, somehow it is no more working, it is detected as an 8Mb drive as fdisk -l shows:
Disk /dev/sdb: 8 MB, 8454144 bytes
1 heads, 17 sectors/track, 971 cylinders, total 16512 ...
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Lubuntu/Win 7 dual-boot: Attempting recovery of Windows 7 boot
I had both Windows 7 and Lubuntu 14.04 LTS in dual-boot. I wanted to reinstall Lubuntu since there were a couple of issues after having fiddled with multiple desktop environments. Popped in the ...
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All partions deleted accidently and I lost all my very very important data
I was using windows 7 and ubuntu 12.04 on my machine I had to update my ubuntu so I decided to remove windows 7 and install ubuntu 15.10 while installation I was asked to remove the windows with ...
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How to recover partially formatted ext4 partition (testdisk did not help)
I have а 2TB "single ext4-formatted partition" HDD.
Recently, while working under Windows 7 on the same machine, I have damaged the afore-mentioned partition. What happened is that while I was trying ...
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Unknown filesystem error: grub rescue [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Grub rescue - error: unknown filesystem
After using testdisk 6.11, I got the error message:
Unknown filesystem error: grub rescue
To fix it, I used Boot-Repair, but it took ...
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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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I need to make a Startup Disk
I am using XUBUNTU 15 10. I want to make a Startup Disk that would help me log in if some problem arises. I tried to use the two available for Free download: (1) Startup Disk Creator (usb-creator-kde);...
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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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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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Repair vanished partitions after Startup Disk Creator
I have an external 1.5TB hard-drive which I've been using for years, no back-ups.
I have several partitions on that hard-drive, one of which has all my data on (I cannot remember whether FAT32/NTFS),...
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Restoring Ubuntu grub with testdisk after windows 10 update
I don't know very well the partition system of Ubuntu, so I don't want to do something that can damage more the system. My, problem is the same as this one
I used Testdisk for this problem, what to ...
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Recover data from external disk using testdisk and photorec
So I had my partition tables gone corrupt somehow after writing a media file over the network to the external HDD of my media center. Following the steps from this answer, I tried quick- and ...
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Recovering lost space due to PhotoRec
I accidentally deleted a important folder, and attempted to use testdisk (photorec) to recover the files.
However, it kept taking longer and longer so I stopped it. It created 18 folders in home, ...
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How can I install & run testdisk with USB
How can I install & run testdisk with USB?
When I boot from HDD, i can download & install testdisk from ubuntu software center; but when I boot from USB (for the purpose of recovering my NTFS ...