Partition recovery is the process of recovering data from a hard drive partition that has been rendered unreadable by normal methods. A problem that is caused by drive failure, accidental formatting, corruption of data. Do not confuse with [recovery-partition].
Questions tagged [partition-recovery]
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Where is the Windows license key on Windows 10?
I got a new laptop; it came with an existing Windows installation, but I wanted to migrate my current backup to the new machine. I dd-ed the new machine's partitions to an external…
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Change RAW partition to NTFS or recover files from RAW
I've resized my C:\ partition but now I can't boot anymore. I tried to use CHKDSK to analyse the disk but keep getting this error:
CHKDSK does not support RAW disk.
I suppose the partition is damaged or changed to RAW format. So, how can I…
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Recovering a Partially Formatted USB Thumb Drive
I have a USB Thumb Drive that I was going to use to install Windows 7 with. While formatting the drive with the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool it failed leaving my USB drive in an unusable state.
I can see the drive with the Windows Disk Manager,…
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Get rid of "Resource Busy" message on Mac OS X
I am trying to repair a lost HSF+ partition table an iMac by running the i command inside of sudo pdisk /dev/rdisk1. Once I try running the i command, I get an error message saying that the resource is busy:
pdisk: can't open file '/dev/rdisk1' for…
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How to fix a damaged/corrupted NTFS filesystem/partition without losing the data on it?
I was going to install Fedora 15 along side my Windows 7 Starter on my Acer Apire One D255E and at some point during the resizing of the NTFS partition (the one with Windows on it) the setup failed. Now I cannot access this partition from any OS.…
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How to force partition to value out of range
I have an ubuntu desktop system (VM guest), whose partitions were created by the install media. I wanted to expand the disk, so I shutdown the guest, and increased the disk size of the guest in the host. Now I need to expand the partitions in the…
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How to fix a partition detected as RAW, when Chkdsk correctly reads it as NTFS?
My external HDD suddenly started reporting as "931.51 GB RAW (Primary)" in Windows disk management.
I tried using DiskInternals Partition Recovery, which indeed reported the drive being only seen as RAW, easily found a partition at sector 2048,…
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How can I repair or install startup repair/system recovery after BCD corruption?
How should I go about repairing startup repair?
Installing startup repair onto the hard drive, as if it was not originally there, would also fix this.
In the hope that someone at a Windows-specific forum may have an idea, I've also posted this over…
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Unable to boot into cloned drive after formatting old drive
I have an HP Omen laptop with a standard SATA hard drive and a recently purchased M.2 PCIe SSD.
I cloned the SATA drive onto the M2, but had trouble cloning all partitions. I have the System partition, Reserved and the Primary.
After cloning, I…
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Restoring microSD partition table
I just found that my HD2 broke its memory card's partition table at once.
When I insert the card in my SD reader I get only a whole RAW (unformatted) partition in Windows. Linux doesn't even see it as /dev/sdXX
How can I try to restore the old 3…
usr-local-ΕΨΗΕΛΩΝ
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Linux - accidentally used dd on a LUKS encrypted drive, is there a way to recover?
I accidentally ran dd bs=4M if=image.iso of=/dev/sda oflag=sync when creating a bootable drive instead of targeting the USB stick.
I am fairly certain most of the files would be fine - the iso is only ~330mb, while the drive is 500gb.
The problem…
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Copying hard drive partition structure
I'm trying to copy the partition structure of a drive that died, all the info I have is that it has an MBR, uses an msdos partition table (not sure if this matters?) and has 9 partitions and looks something like this:
/dev/sda,sector 0 is…
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My External Hard Drive fell and I cannot access storage anymore. How can I fix it?
My eternal hard drive fell and now I can no longer access the files through My Computer. (under devices and drivers)
The hard drive is a Seagate Expansion Portable Device:
Model SRD00f1
Seagate Expansion SCSI disk device
The drive isn't broken,…
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How to recover exFat partition?
I'm trying to recover a single 4 TB ExFat partition made in Maverick's Disk Utility.
This single partition on the disk has storage files shared between Windows and Mac.
It became inaccessible after a Windows performed a repair reboot on the main…
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Started DBAN on an external by accident - can I get my data back?
I was running DBAN on a laptop HDD and I had an external HDD attached. Without realising that, I ran DBAN in auto mode. Completely stupid, I know.
I noticed it was attached when the operation started, and in a panic I pulled the external out of the…
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