I need to copy 50Gb info from 64Gb broken flash card. Sometimes I need to ask Windows 10 system to retry copy the same file for several times. How to achieve that?
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I have a flash drive that was used primarily on a Mac, and it was ejected improperly.  Now when I put it back in, the computer (I tried 2 different Macs and 3 PCs) does not even register the flash drive- it does not show up in Finder or in My Computer. Any ideas how to get the lost files back?
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So, yesterday my phone took a serious tumble.  It is now essentially useless, as the screen either fails to turn on, or when it does, there is nothing useful to see (just lines of primary colors, mostly).  I believe (from the fact that it still chirps at me when emails come in, etc), that the phone is still functional, otherwise.  I would like to perform a full system dump, so that I can get off any files from the phone (a TMobile SGS2 (hercules) running slimrom 4.3 build 1).  The sdcard probably isn't important, as I can just pull it, but the phone's own internal storage I should like to get a copy of.  When I plug the phone into a usb port, it 'mounts' the usb via MTP, and I can see all the files.  Unfortunately, when I do a select all | copy | paste operation, the paste op dies before transferring all files.  I've tried a couple other ADB shell operations, in hope of flipping regular USB mounting on, but nothing has worked.  Any ideas how I can get a full dump of my poor phone's contents?  Edit  Currently running a adb pull /sdcard/ ... Its copying files presently, but its too early to tell if its going to get evertying I'm expecting.  Edit #2  looks like its going to work...its taking a rather long time, but it appears to be grabbing everything I was expecting it to.
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Can anyone recommend a cheap/free utility that can do this without very much effort?  My preference is that it would be really easy.    Boot into Windows Pick drive to move Pick target drive It copies everything over, and reboots to the correct partition.
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Is there a free way to clone a full Windows 7 installation from HDD to SSD? (The free part is important, I know I can pay for Acronis True Image.)      SSDs are usually much smaller than HDDs which complicates matters. For instance, I have about 50GB data, my new SSD is 80GB but I still can't use Windows clone/restore system if my HDD is something like 300GB.  Therefore, I'm looking for a third party tool that will be able to:   Create a clone of my C: partition Store it onto an external USB drive Boot from some rescue / restore CD Load the image onto the new SSD   Acronis True Image seems like a tool that should support this but it's a paid-for software and the trial version cannot create clones. Acronis Migrate Easy is a fully functional tria for 15 days but need both the HDD and SSD connected at the same time which is a bit of a problem for me as a laptop user.  P.S. I almost got there combining Windows image backup combined with Acronis True Image restore CD (which can load .vhd's) but was not able to boot as some boot information were probably lost and could not be repaired using the Win7 installation DVD.
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Out of the box, Windows will not allow you to partition a USB Thumb / Flash Drive. How can you do this?  In case anyone is wondering Why you would do this?  It's interesting in the case of a  drive where you can take a large thumbdrive (like 4 or 8 GB) and format a small amount of the drive to be used normally as a Fat32 drive and leave the remaining partition encrypted using BitLocker. This allows you to keep some non secret data on the unencrypted partition(like portable apps).
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Yesterday I was copying a single, 8 GB file to a USB with a slow, 7 MB/s write speed, while my RAM is 3 GB. While copying the system froze, to the point where I couldn't even move the cursor.  I managed to log into the text console, and ran iotop, it showed that a process named kswapd0 was taking 99.99% of IO.  Are there workarounds so copying a large file doesn't make my system unusable?
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I try to extract a file from set of .RAR parts. I always get the following error:  Corrupted   so I tried many programs to extract the corrupted RAR files. I have 10 parts, each one 400MB big. The last progam I used was .  It gave me the following message:     Severity:!High   Message:Recovery error for file XXXX with message set file   pointer error.   The program extracted 2GB of data, but it should extract 4GB.    Is there any way to extract the content or am I supposed to download the files again from another server?
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Background:    I put in a friend's SD Card to format it because it was having problems. Then I put mine back in and I think my phone formatted my SD Card. I had a ton of pictures on there that are now gone! I put the card into the computer and there's only 2mb of cache files on there and none of the original directories.   I already tried the following freeware recovery applications:         Neither of them were able to retrieve any files. Undelete took 1minute to scan for files and came up with 0 files.  Recuva took 10 minutes for their "deep scan" which doesn't seem thorough enough at all for this 8GB SD Card. I need something that's a lot more heavy duty.  I don't mind paying for an application to get the data back if necessary...   Questions:     Which application can I use to recover my deleted picture files from my 8GB HD Micro SD Card?   Why did Anroid format my SD card?   How can I tell if it's a phone problem, data problem, or SD Card problem?
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Yes, why can't I?  I was stashing away some old photography backup zips last night. I could copy 4 of my > 1 GB backup zips to my external USB connected hard-drive when I got the error message "Cannot copy file. Not enough free space." (sort of) for a zip of roughly 7 GB.  But there are 120 GB free. Why is this?   EDIT: Clarification - the files that I could copy was smaller than 4 GB. The failing one was 7 GB. The cause seems to be the FAT32 4 GB limit.
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Want to copy the file name quickly in Windows. I always use rename, copy , but feel it is quite slow. Any better way?
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I've read that flash memories can "only" be reprogrammed 100000 to 1000000 times, until the memory storage "deteriorates"  Why exactly does this happen with flash and not other memory types, and what does "deteriorate" refer to, internally?  EDIT: Since it's not only flash that this happens, I'd like to generalize a bit and inquire about the memories that have this problem. Also, does the wearing out between these memory types occur due to the same phenomenon?
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I had 500GB portable hard drive. it fell from the table and when i joined it was not showing any data and asked me to format it. i did format. Then again it was not functioning properly so i had to quick format it again.  Now i had lots of data in it. Is there any software which can recover my files and folders with same structure as original
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I am trying to help a friend who is very concerned that she has just lost all of the data on her 32GB SanDisk microSD card.  I told her I would post this and see if anyone could offer help.  Here are the details:   The SanDisk microSD card is less than two years old.  Probably only about a year old.  The store will take it back, but that doesn't really help.  She wants her data. She used the card in her Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone for over a month.  The phone was never exposed to water or temperature extremes. Today, her phone suddenly said something like "Your SD card is blank or an unsupported format". Her phone was then unable to read the SanDisk microSD card at all.   Here's what she has tried:   Rebooting her phone.  Had no effect. Taking out the SanDisk microSD card and putting it inside a full-size SD card adapter, and inserting it into a Windows 7 SP1 computer.  The computer did not recognize its presence at all. Putting the SanDisk microSD card into a USB 2.0 external card reader and inserting the card reader into a USB port on a Windows 7 SP1 computer.  The computer recognized the card reader and installed drivers for it.  The card reader shows up as 'Removable Disk' in Windows Explorer.  Clicking on 'Removable Disk' in Windows Explorer results in the error "Insert disk: Please insert a disk into the Removable Disk". After trying #3, tried opening the 'Removable Disk' in FreeCommander.  Doing so results in the error "The device is not ready".   She does not have access to a linux box, but does have access to her Android phone.  What can she do to recover the data on her 32GB SanDisk microSD card?
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I'm too spoiled by Windows utilities that take a digital snapshot of your entire drive, which you can then restore from in the event of a drive crash.  (e.g. like Time Machine for Mac OS X).  Is there a similar way of doing this in Linux?
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I cut and paste an 80GB worth of files and folders. At about 80% I cancelled it. Are some of the files deleted and gone forever? Does the files that were successfully transferred gets deleted? If yes, can I still recover them?
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I'm trying to transfer a 4 TB Time Machine backup from one USB 3 hard drive to another. I'm currently using SuperDuper to do it, and it's going to take upwards of two full days to perform the copy, if not longer.  That's significantly slower than the usual maximum speed for copying over USB 3, and I suspect that what's slowing things down is the overhead of copying each file individually, rather than just copying the raw data on the drive, sector by sector.  Given that I just need to duplicate a partition on to another drive:    Would it result in a usable partition if I did a sector-by-sector copy? Would that be faster than using SuperDuper? And if yes to both of the above, what are some methods I could use to do that?   I already tried using Disk Utility's restore feature to clone feature, but it got about 5% of the way in and then failed with a weird error about a drive being busy. So I don't think it's reliable enough, and it has no option for resuming where it left off. But that said, it did seem like it was going much faster, and if it didn't fail, it would've taken around 8 hours for it to finish.  edit: for posterity, the reason Disk Utility failed to copy the drive is because my destination drive was dying and loaded with bad sectors. Under normal circumstances it would probably work and be about as fast as dd. However I like Allan's answer the most because, in case something causes dd to stop mid-copy, you can restart it from where it left off.
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I have a brand new 32GB flash drive that was bought from Hong Kong but manufactured in China.  When I plug it in, it's detected, and when I examine the properties of the drive the size is reported to be 31.2 GB.  Windows forces me to format it but I have not manged to actually do that.  I then I browsed the internet and a forum told me to change the letter to L. After I did that I searched many programs that can help me format it, but when I checked it back, it is 4MB now.  Any idea what's happening with my drive?