Hello i have an external HDD witch shows that the hdd is full and when i'm going on the hdd i have just 1 million of dir0000, dir0001 files and i would like to know if is possible to recover something from this hdd.  thank you
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Files disappeared from my computer. On running a system search, they were found in C:\found.001\disk0001.chk  I want to go in there and have a look, if there are other files there too, but it gives me an access denied message. I ran chkdsk but it said no problems.   Ideally I would want to run a recovery utility (not the ones for deleted files) that would restore them all to the respective locations. Though I am lucky, I still have them at this weird place.   I am on windows 7.
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Hi I have an Iomega HD for mac. I was writing a ubuntu server image to another drive but accidentally selected my 500GB Iomega with my files on it. The command I ran was:  sudo dd if=/Users/myuser/Desktop/ubuntu/ubuntuserver.img of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=1m   this shouldve been another disk.  I have downloaded testdisk but have no idea how to recover using it.  what are my best options for retrieving the data?
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My Portable harddisk was working fine. I once accessed it from a linux terminal. Later when I tried to use it in window it said You need to format it before you can access  In Ubuntu also when I plug it, it does not appear.  I tried running chkdisk but Windows says Raw file system could not be processed.  Is there any way I can get back the disk data?  Recovery software does not preserve folder when it recovers data. Also When I tried it it says "1 days remaining to process" nearly 350GB data.
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I have a hard drive which I need to recover specific files from but all the folders in the K:\ drive are denying me access even though I took owner ship of the full drive I.E      C:\Windows\System32>takeown /F K:\   This granted me access to the drive and see the folders but I can not access any of the folders after that.   Is there a way in which I can use Takeown to apply ownership to every directory on the drive>
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Friend of mine dropped a HDD on the floor and every since the HDD won't mount when connected. It just makes this spinning noise inside for about two rounds and then it goes quiet. Obviously, he wants to salvage the data but I said to him I'll see what I can do knowing the chance of recovery is pretty slim with HDD that won't mount. Was I right about this ? Is there anything I can try I may not know about ? I tried to run gparted on it as I know gparted can detect disks that aren't mounted but connected. But no luck.
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Here is the scenario.  A co-worker of mine was performing a migration to windows 7 pro from an xp box.  They made a backup of the general user folders, but managed to miss a few critical folders that are stored elsewere. These folders contained critical year end excel documents.  In their infinite wisdom they chose to format and re-install windows without making a backup image of the entire drive before hand.  I was now given the task of attempting to retrieve the lost documents using any methods known to me.  I've already tried most of the usual programs like get data back, ontrack easy recovery and a few others.  seeing the folder path and file names is not an issue but all of the excel documents I retrieve contain useless machine language.    Does anybody out there know of a program or method to pull some of these files successfully from the ether's of binary space?  Or am I up a creek without a paddle on this one?
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What is the best way to access a laptop's hard drive to recover data (assuming there is still intact data) when the OS (Windows XP) won't boot?  EDIT: I've tried booting from a disc, but that failed as well.
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I deleted lots of files &amp; folders on my laptop and then I put a new files in the same folders. I need to recover the deleted files. I tried a lot of recovery software and I couldn't recover my old files.   I read that if you refill the folders with new files after deleting old ones then I can't recover them again. Is that true?   What should I do?
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I have one hard drive. It's partitioned into 4 partitions, one of them is encrypted by Windows 7 Bitlocker, then I used Acronis Disk Director to merge both partitions during the process PC power off now the encrypted partition and when I try to enter the partition I have a message to format it, the other partition seems to contain 20 MB but when I open it I found nothing.  all data in this partition is so important to me , so please if anyone can help me recover my data I will be thankful
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I dragged a file to the recycle bin a few days ago. I have Windows 7 premium on a 245 GB partition, a 240 GB SSD, and a 250 SSD. And somewhere in the past few days I incidentally installed Delta Search. I know I should remove it right away, but I just switched to Windows on the partition of a 3.5 1 TB drive and would like to restore that file and deal with the malware after Christmas is over.  I'm pretty sure I know what drive that deleted files should be on, but what is the real name of the recycle directory and exactly where is it located? In other words, if I know the name of the drive what would the rest of the path look like so I can just paste it in my Explorer window and change the drive letter.
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This is what happened:  I was running 12.04.1 and wanted to install 12.10. upgrade, but a fresh install.  When setting up my computer I anticipated for this by dividing my 640GB HD in following partitions: 1. 60 GB for Ubuntu, boot 2. 576 GB for data, mountpoint /home 3. swap, 4GB  The idea was to manually select the correct partition in the installer but I got distracted for a moment and selected the wrong option.  Result: The installer started repartitioning the entire HD.  When I noticed this I interrupted the installer, but upon reboot it was clear that I was too late, no OS to boot to.  I booted from a Gparted Live CD to see if I could recover the data on my previous /home-partition, but it's gone.  Is there any way to recover the lost data? I searched around and read alot about Testdisk, but in all the tutorials I've seen, the set-up has been much easier than what I'm facing.  I've not only lost my partition table, it's been replaced.  Thanks in advance for any ideas that might help!  If extra info is needed, please specify and I will do my best to provide.
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A few days ago I did some summer cleaning on my computer, moving a bunch of old files to an external Flash drive for backup and then deleting them from the computer. To make sure that no one could recover my old photos or videos, I used this program called Eraser to wipe the free space after I moved the files. I used the Guttman method (35 passes) to wipe the free space on my hard drive.   Is there any way someone could recover this data even after I wiped it with 35 passes? Let's say I sold my hard drive on Amazon and someone bought it. Would they be able to do it?
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I have a USB flash drive which is no longer recognized by my computer. Windows Disk Management and DiskPart report No Media with no storage space (0 bytes) on the drive and I cannot partition or format the drive:     If the drive appears in Windows Explorer, trying to access it returns an error message indicating that there is no disk inserted, such as the following:     Please insert a disk into drive X:.   Various disk partitioning and data recovery utilities don't recognize the drive or only give a generic name for the drive and cannot access the contents of the drive.  What can I do? How do I recover data from the drive?     This question comes up often and the answers are usually the same. This post is meant to provide a definitive, canonical answer for this problem. Feel free to edit the answer to add additional details.
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So my friend has a USB flash drive that isn't working. I don't know a whole lot about "recovery" software so I figured I'd ask you guys.  What steps can I try (I have access to a Linux machine as well) to see....if I can get ANYTHING off the flash drive?  I've google'd around, but most of the stuff seems for windows.
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I have already had the same problem before. On that occasion, I found a program that could scan my entire hard drive for string pieces so I could recover it. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the program. It had to access the hard drive data directly, normal searches won't get any data from the hard drive before formatting.
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I know that most files, when deleted, aren't actually removed from the disk, and can be recovered later.  How can I ensure that a directory I had deleted will actually be removed from the disk? Are there utilities for that?  I'm using Debian Linux.
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I have 4 drives in Windows: C:, D:, E: and F:. Except C:, all of them are empty.    Suddenly it shows up to 2 GB space used – even when there are no files.     [  When I format the drives, it's fine for a while until it shows used space again.  I use Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit.