Questions tagged [hard-drive-recovery]
Hard drive recovery infers the recovery of previously lost data from a Hard Disk Drive due to system, user or device error.
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My files went missing on old hard drive after plugging in a new hard drive. What happened and is it possible to recover? [duplicate]
I just attempted to install a new SATA hard drive to my system. When I booted up Windows, I was unable to see the new drive in Disk Management. In addition, I also noticed the other 2 drives on the ...
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How to deal with a disk failure apparently because of a bad sector?
My external hard disk (WD: 1T , 800 GB used , NTFS file system) before using GNU ddrescue had 52 Pending_Sector with 0 reallocated (remapped) sector. After several minutes, Pending_Sector increased ...
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Why can’t I get a Seagate SV35 to mount — showing as unavailable — on Linux and other OSes?
Figuring that Linux is the most robust platform for troubleshooting at home, I'm trying to sort out what's wrong with two hard drives of mine.
I have a good, relatively new HDD dock that works for ...
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Why does failing HDD speed keep on going down during dd operation?
I have 320GB HDD that has bad sectors and disk is failing due to errors on read, reported via smartctl. To save as much data, I wanted to perform dd/ddrescue on this disk.
ddrescue had abysmally slow ...
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OpenSuperClone does not restore all partitions (partition labels missing)
I have a failing drive; wanted to clone it, first with dd, then I found about ddrescue, then I found about HDDSuperClone, and then I found about OpenSuperClone, which I ended up using.
Left the ...
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Detect Bad or Weak Sectors and Files Affected
I am trying to diagnose a HDD and have done some research in regards to detect bad sectors and find the files which resides on them. Some have suggested nfi.exe where we enter the Logical Sector ...
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How to fix "Input/output error" with chown?
One of my PC (running Debian) broke down recently. I took the HDD and plugged it to an external case with SATA to USB adapter, and tried to access the files from my laptop (Fedora). I can mount the ...
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HDD is yellow (Caution) in CrystalDiskInfo, Transferred files off of it, but Properties shows 78GB Used Space
HDD is yellow (Caution) in CrystalDiskInfo.. I transferred all visible files off of the hdd, Windows Explorer shows no files on it anymore, but when I open Properties it shows 78GB Used Space.
Is this ...
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How to recover RAID 10 from Mobius 5 Bay RAID array?
I have a Mobius 5 Bay RAID array, with 10TB in each drive. I have it set to RAID 10.
Recently I switched off and on my house's power breaker with this device on it, and now when it starts it fails ...
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Dropped my SSD; no longer mountable, but partially readable to a limited degree, what happened?
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I dropped my laptop with SSD inside
The drive is no longer mountable or fsck-able (the dreaded input/output error)
However, the disk is still intact/working enough to read the partition table ...
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How can I efficiently use ddrescue to read NTFS partition from hard drive with damaged GPT?
I'm trying to ddrescue a failing hard drive and not to waste time on unused sectors or other partitions, however the partition table is unreadable so I can't make use of ddru_ntfsbitmap.
Testdisk will ...
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Recovering data off of a malfunctioning external HDD
I have a WD6400BEVT hard drive which I use in an enclosure to store some older files etc.
I haven't accessed the drive in probably about 2 years, but recently purchased an external SSD and was hoping ...
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Is it possible to recover files from quickly formatted HDD? [duplicate]
I have formatted my hard drive, now I wonder if it is possible to recover the files while I have reinstalled windows on the same drive and been using it for a few weeks and almost filled the hard ...
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How to recover data from a RAW disk C (winows won't boot) [closed]
my disk C:/ is RAW and when I boot, it boots to the installation of Windows.
When I go through with the installation I can access my disks (when I click o then I can access the files) except disk C:/ (...
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How to save data from an external disk that died
A little under 4 years ago I bought a Seagate Backup Plus Portable 5 TB external hard drive. It's worked fine for years, but recently it started having problems - it would disconnect and then ...
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