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Recover Partially Formatted Hard Drive
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, and recently tried to safely remove my external hard drive using the GUI, but the "Format" button was right next to the "Safely Remove" button. I stopped the format as soon ...
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How to mount/recover data on a disk that was part of a mdadm raid 1 on another machine?
Some background
The disk itself was "worked on" by a friend and is said to be still intact, undamaged and still mountable/recoverable
The disk was part of a software raid 1 on Ubuntu 12.04
The other ...
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Partition wiped out possibly due to the partition table changed by Windows, malicious software, or …?
When the data loss problem occurred:
My Lenovo laptop has both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. There are two ntfs partitions shared between the two OSes: one for Windows 7 installation ,and the other for ...
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How to recover most recently deleted directories on NTFS partition under Ubuntu 12.04
In Nautilus under Ubuntu 12.04, I accidentally selected several directories on a partition and deleted them at once (unfortunately, I deleted them by Shift+Delete such that they don't remain in ...
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Retrieve deleted files on Linux VM guest
I use Ubuntu on VMware to learn how to use Linux. I used rm on some folders and mistakenly deleted some files from /etc. I have some very important files on it. Is there a way to retrieve that files, ...
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Recover many files using ntfsundelete
I am using the following command to scan for deleted files:
sudo ntfsundelete /dev/sda1 -S 400m-20g -p 100
How can I restore the all of the results?
I have tried:
sudo ntfsundelete /dev/sda1 -u ...
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Recovering Ubuntu
My Ubuntu 11.04 guest on VBox 4.0.10 crashed when I was working. Is there a way to go back to previous working configuration? I have always used the saved state and power off option. I did not take ...
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I accidentally removed /var/www/ on my Linux server
I ran rm -drf on my web server and accidentally removed everything inside /var/www/.
Of course, it had everything for our website in it. How can I undo this? Or is it possible to restore it to a ...
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“lshw -C disk” returns but prints nothing
I am using an ubuntu live cd to help me recover some data off of a hard drive. I used lshw -C disk to find out which device I need to copy, /dev/sda in this case.
I am using ddrescue -n to try and ...
