Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Use this tag when you want to refer to one of the problems stated above.
Questions tagged [data-recovery]
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How to recover deleted files?
Are there any tools, methods, incantations to recover recently deleted files on Ubuntu?
If it makes any difference, I want to recover a Keepass 2.x database file. But would be better to have a method/tool that works on any kind of file.
Decio Lira
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Accidentally deleted a folder
I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 and accidentally deleted a folder using Shift+Del.
Does anyone have any idea how to recover the folder?
bitsbuffer
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I seem to have deleted all my files while removing the wine from the home directory
After trying to remove Wine from Ubuntu, all my files were suddenly gone. That is, I do not see any of my documents etc., but my hard drive says only 3 GB is still available (which is common for my small hard drive).
The problem occurred after…
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Best tool to recover removed files
Possible Duplicate:
How to recover deleted files?
Using Ubuntu 10.10, I have a startup script that automatically removes my 'working directory'. This is a simple folder on my Desktop where I place a bunch of files that I use throughout the day.…
user6019
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If i clone a hard drive using the 'dd' command, will it also clone the free space and information about deleted files?
Yesterday I installed Ubuntu on my laptop, and due to my bad luck, I accidentally deleted the partition. The data on the disk was very important to me. I tried TestDisk to recover partition but that didn't work for me.
Someone suggested to try…
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Is there a usable GUI version of Photorec or Testdisk?
I wanted to recover some files from my sd card with Photorec, everything went fine, I use Ubuntu for a few years now, so I've seen the terminal quite a few times.
But, I wondered if a GUI version of Photorec exists. Is there any? If yes, how to…
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Retrieve files deleted by command rm in terminal
Here's a summary: I was programming using java and accidentally, instead of using the rm *.class command in the command-line, I used rm *.java. It took me a lot of time to finish that code. I hope someone knows a way to retrieve those files. Please…
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How to recover from 'sudo rm -rf' command?
By mistake, I ended up executing rm -rf / command from sudo on my laptop which erased many files before it stopped. Now when I restarted my system , it drops to this prompt:
GRUB rescue>_
I am having dual-boot with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7.
I…
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Can I recover a deleted file?
I have mistakenly deleted a file via while connected ssh. How I can recover that file or, if ubuntu has something like trash bin or so ?
Hari Krishna
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photorec not asking for file types
I am trying to use photorec version 6.13 to recover data from my formatted hard disk. While I see that, photorec is recovering the files, (I selected the saved file location in a USB drive.) but, it did not ask me what type of files to recover. ( I…
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Wiped data, and duplicated folders into files
Something weird happened today, and I dont know how. Within a folder, all folders have a file by the same name, with a colon appended to it. And all the files from the most inner-most directory in my home, have been dumped to ~, with a size of 0…
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Why Linux doesn't provide break-point Recovery to restore system to previous safe State?
Many times, I feel need to restore my linux system to some previous safe state. Few utility based option such as 'apt-get remove (for Ubuntu)' etc are available but are limited to cleaning unwanted software installations only.
The need ofcourse is…
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Recovering data from hard disk after an accidental Ubuntu reinstallation
My computer got wiped accidentally due to a fresh Ubuntu installation.
Since the drive contains very important data and codes, it would be really great if the same could be recovered.
It is a 2TB hard drive which had Ubuntu 10.10 earlier. It now…
Saurabh Agarwal
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usb drive wiped during install
Yeah I tried to install ubuntu on my computer and instead it wiped my USB drive (which has critical files) and now there's ubuntu 'installed' on my USB drive.
How do I get my files back?!?!
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Recover lost data
I have a big problem I have a laptop with dual boot (Windows and Ubuntu) , and two days ago my father made some changes to BIOS (he wanted to change Windows data from BIOS ...) and checked an option that says : Restore Default... and guess what I…
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