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This tag is for questions about techniques for recovering lost data — e.g., from deleted files and/or damaged or corrupted digital media. Please review the tag wiki before posting a question. Do not explicitly ask for tools or other products; such questions are off-topic on Super User.

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I need some files recovered from a NTFS partition with MFT overwritten partially. The NTFS file was created by windows 10 installer with default options. It was primary partition. I have recovered ...
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I was moving files from a laptop to an external hard drive connected via USB. It involved some "work" folder, which had a submission 01 and \_to be merged folders inside it. In Windows ...
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To create .ecc file with DVDisaster you have to create ISO of error free disc. In user's manual of DVDisaster there is an instruction on how to create ISO of error free disc with DVDisaster. But can ...
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I want to create a backup of the first 500MiB of space on my disk. Backup dd if=/dev/sda of=./backup.ddimg bs=1024 count=500 Change dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1000 Restore dd if=backup....
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Here is an example partition shown on my disk. Partition Start End Size in sector P Linux 60801 47 47 60801 80 15 2048 How do I calculate size in bytes from Start and End? How do I calculate size in ...
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My hard-disk's MBR(Master Boot Record) got overwritten by the dd command. Instead of dd if=myfile of=disk1, due to a mistake, dd if=myfile of=disk2 was supplied. Luckily, it failed after overwriting ...
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I am trying to recover photos and videos from an old 7z archive (~1.4 GB) created about 3 years ago. The archive consistently fails to extract due to a corrupted header. Problem When opening or ...
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I found several SD/SDHC/microSD/microSDHC cards and USB drives, some used, some in original packaging. Their manufacturing dates range all over the 2010's, and the used ones have not seen power for at ...
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I had a coffee spill (with milk and sugar) onto a WD My Passport Drive Plus (4TB, WDBZCD0080BBK-0B) external hard drive that was plugged in. It was a significant amount, like it spilled directly on it ...
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I have a corrupted exFAT file system on a micro SD card, in which files written simply disappear after unmounting and mounting again, despite everything appearing normal until then. Every OS (Linux, ...
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Update: I found another behavior I didn't see before: Any file created inside the /DCIM/DJI_001 folder disappears after unmounting and re-mounting the disk, while files created inside the /DCIM/...
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I have a 4TB drive that came out of an ASUSTOR 5202T NAS storage, which I'm trying to mount as a volume to recover data from. The drive should be good, but the NAS module doesn't recognize it anymore ...
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Using Acronis True Image for more than 20 years now, I think I'll finally quit using it, because the company just doesn't fix well-known bugs, while the base system is highly unreliable. Read this ...
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I’ve had a few HDDs go bad on me in the last couple of years. I was hoping for some help with them if possible. I know about expert businesses out there, but am first looking for some advice to see if ...
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I am not sure if this is a correct place to ask this question. Sorry for bad english. I don't have an "SupportAssist OS Recovery" option (Fast-boot menu F12). I have not deleted a recovery ...
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