Data may be lost due to hardware or software failures; data recovery is the process of restoring the lost data.
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Bad sector on a directory
I've a bad sector on my /home/xyz which make a folder with 10 GB data unreadable. As far as I can see in syslog there's only one badsector with may destruct 4K of data while I have no access to 10 GB ...
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ext3 root filesystems goes read-only with aborted journal even after repairs
Short version: ext3 root filesystem on rackspace (xen) VM detects aborted journal on boot and mounts read-only. I've attempted to repair this from a rescue environment with tune2fs and e2fsck as ...
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How can I dump the full system memory?
After starting VirtualBox, the computer became sluggish and then hung completely due to OOM. Usually, OOM should be starting killing processes in order to free up some space, but this did not happen ...
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Can Safecopy Help Me Recover Data from a Drive that I can not Mount?
I have an old hard drive that I put data on, but it died when I tried to retrieve it, and it tells me I have to format it under Windows. Running on Linux now, can Safecopy help me even though I can ...
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How can I recover after Kate crashes?
I use Kate for coding and note-taking. Sometimes it crashes - often when I've got a lot open - and unsaved 'real' documents (eg, ones backed by files, that have been saved at some point) usually have ...
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Confusion with how to restore corrupt ext3 files if power outage occurs during a file write
I am running a small embedded system. Because the system will never be gracefully shutdown and will just have the power cable unplugged, I am running an initramfs but mounting an ext3 partition on a ...
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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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SafeCopy worked but I have a few problems
I had a 60G NTFS drive that had 28 physically bad blocks as reported by GParted. I used SafeCopy to recover to the root of an empty 500G drive using SafeCopy defaults. Everything worked as expected ...
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extundelete does not finish its work
I need to restore a file on sda7 so I remounted ro und startet extundelete
manuel@P5KC:~/recovery/RECOVERED_FILES$ sudo extundelete --restore-all /dev/sda7
WARNING: Extended attributes are not ...
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Bad superblock after server crash
My server (CentOS 6) crashed, and it now kernel panics on boot. It's currently using a mdadm RAID1 array with two 1TB drives.
vg_server2422-LogVol01 is /
vg_server2422-LogVol00 is Swap
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/home partition recovery
Unhappy with Gnome 3 in Ubuntu I tried Mint 14. Had a backup of my home partition. During the Mint installation I designated my old home partition, and when it booted everything was fine.
There ...
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SW Raid5 dies with 2 missing disks
i have an debian squeeze with 6x3TB Disks. On the SWRaid5 are 4 partitions. First for gpart Bios, Raid1 for "/", Raid5 for swap and the biggest part raid5 for files. While the system has build status ...
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WD MyBook 3TB - Gparted failed & HDD partitions recovery?
I have this new WD MyBook external HDD (USB 3.0/2.0); I created 3 partitions all of them ext3 type (~1 TB | ~1 TB | ~750 GB)
I loaded lots of files all the partitions were like ~30% full on each, and ...
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I lost my data on Freenas+iScsi
I lost my data on Freenas+iScsi
ZFS filesystem has mounted perfectly, I ran 'df' command and I can see the mount points.
Also, If I browse into the folders I can see the scsi extends files, too.
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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 long does it take for fls (from the Sleuth Kit) to run on a ntfs partition of 110 GiB (96% used)?
I have been running fls (from the Sleuth Kit) since last night, in verbose mode, hoping it will identify the files and directories I just deleted before running the program.
sudo fls -f ntfs -d -r ...
