Data may be lost due to hardware or software failures; data recovery is the process of restoring the lost data.
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How to repair an ext3 partition after broken resize operation?
I was using gparted to resize a near-terabyte ext3 partition, adding about 40 GB to the left. After nearly 12 hours of moving data (and with 23 more hours estimated to remain) the system hung. Now ...
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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 ...
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Prevent libflashplayer.so from deleting a file?
I'm trying the preview release of Flash Player "Square" for Linux and noticed that video files are now being deleted from the /tmp/ folder.
Yet the files are still in use (I can see them with lsof):
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Recovering deleted files on fedora
I accidentally deleted a file from my laptop. I'm using Fedora. Is it possible to recover the file?
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Accessing the iPhone file system via Linux/Unix
My old iPhone is semi-bricked. It turns off after a few minutes and doesn't get past the load screen.
It has important data on it which wasn't backed up. I'm trying to access the hard-drive's ...
