I was working on a ppt file for a whole day and I am sure I saved my modifications several times. The next day, when I oppened the file, openOffice did not ask me for any recovery, but I lost many modifications. This is really strange. Does any one know a solution for recovery? I am in fedora 10.
View 5 RepliesCan anyone recommend good file recovery software for Fedora? I accidentally deleted an iPlayer file (not critical) from an NTFS partition. I tried booting into Windows and using Recuva - it can find the file intact (I can see from the file size it's the correct one) but the directory structure is gone and the file is nameless. EDIT: got it back with Recuva in Windows, just needed to run Recuva as admin.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there any way to recover an overwritten linux file? I uncompresed a tar file which overwrote some of my files. I read somewhere you can umount your home directory.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI did a search through the forums but couldn't find another post specific to mine so I hope I'm not repeating something old when I ask this...I'm currently using ubuntu livecd to recover files from a dead windows machine. And when I say dead I mean windows itself won't boot, after several attempts at troubleshooting. All hardware is tested and passed. BIOS is up to date. Ubuntu itself opens up and operates just fine, accessing all drives and peripherals.
My problem is this, I want to recover my music and photos from the hard drive before I restore and re-install Windows. Easy enough. But the hundreds of gigs of music and photos that were on my HD are missing when I file browse to them in ubuntu.Every other file on the HD is there, in tact, from windows system files to downloaded movies and tv shows. The "Music" and "Photos" folders on my drive are there, and inside each of them is only a few files from thousands that should be there.
Is there a function I am unaware of in ubuntu to show all contents of the drive? Surely a windows boot error wouldn't selectively delete only my music and photos...?
I was copying a bunch of files between hard drives. For some reason I have permissions issues, but I was able to copy the data using cp in the terminal (I know I can sort out permissions, but that's something for another thread).So, I start copying files just fine, but cp doesn't have any sort of progress indication. So, I started up another two terminal windows, cd'd to the source and destination folders, and ls -l'd each to compare the folders.
At this point, I realised that I'd forgot to add -r to the cp command, so cancelled it. I decided it'd be better to start again and add -r in, and repeat the command. So, I went to the folder, went up a level, then rm -r'd the folder I was just in. It wasn't until I'd gone through with the command that I realised I was actually in the source folderSo, putting aside all the obvious things like 'You dope, you shouldn't have been messing around with rm -r, let alone sudo' and 'With great power comes great responsibility' and 'This never would have happened if you'd just sorted out your missions and usedNautilus', is there any way I can recover the data? I know it's possible in ext2, but not in ext3, but it's on an NTFS partition. Is it possible to recover files from this
I recently accidentally (permanently) deleted a bunch of files off my computer. I used "foremost" to recover all my images, but there are still a bunch of videos that need to be recovered. The problem is that foremost seems to have also recovered a crapload of files from before i switched to ubuntu (i just removed windoze today) so i have a LOT of jpg images right now (over 400,000) and i don't want to deal with that many video files!How do i recover my recently deleted videos without getting a bunch that i don't want?? (can i specify the folder they were deleted from or something?)PS: i used this code to recover my picturesCode:sudo foremost -t jpg -i /dev/sda1
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI accidentally deleted some video files on my digital video camera, the Hard Drive is FAT32 and the videos are saved as a .mod file.I've had good success recovering files in the past with Photorec but there is no option for .mod files with this software
View 1 Replies View RelatedAny open office file (all dot odt format)that I attempt to open opens in the document recovery mode;click recover goes to successfully recovered,click finish & the file closes. Attempt to re-open and this circularity begins. Open other dot odt files and ea joins the list of documents to recover and the list just adds each successive file to be recovered in other words all open office files are in a circular path.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've got a, as it seems to me, strange problem.I've inadvertently deleted my user from the group admin so I'm in the same situation of a lot of other users (read a lot of messages about it).My problem is that when restarted in recovery mode there is no way I can choose the 'drop to the root shell' or similar in the menu.The menu appears for a second and then I've got an empty screen. If I press a key I've been requested for a username and password that of course is not what I need.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am so confused! I changed my security profile to 'paranoid' (i'm a linux noob' and accidentally locked my self out of everything! Including su, sudo, YaST, etc. (openSUSE 11.1)
View 9 Replies View RelatedI accidentally deleted my drive, which was an ext4 filesystem. I had lot of .php files in that drive.I created again an ext4 filesystem from that deleted partition. When i used photorec ,it recovered lot of files without the filenames. better recovery tool which recovers both file and the filename?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI accidentally formatted a HDD when I meant to format a USB thumb drive. The HDD is a 250GB drive that had about 180GB of data in the EXT3 format. I was actually attempting to make a bootable USB thumb drive with TRK (Trinity Rescue Kit). Kind of funny/ironic to mess up a drive while trying to make a rescue disk. Anyway, as soon as I realized what had happened, I pulled the drive out of the computer to make sure I didn't do anything else stupid to it. I have been searching for some way to recover and haven't really found much. There are a lot of programs to get Windows data back, but I haven't seen anything specific on the EXT3 file system.
View 4 Replies View RelatedThe configuration default in Gnome power manager has changed and now I can't access anything but, the log in menu. I made a post about it but, no reply. Now I ask anyone if there is a way I can retrieve my files or fix the power manager config files.I tried to reinstal ubunto but, it only alow me to installed on another partition and booth on either one. I don't think that will work. I tried to use ubunto on a stick but, it does not accept me signing in with the same password (too short). I would apreciate any suggestions to get my files back. Compiuter is a laptop HP MINI 210-1054TU software ubunto 10.4 latest
View 5 Replies View RelatedBy mistake I did mke2fs to my Windows NTFS ParticionTo my understanding It has Modified the inodes only,Can I recover somehow the NTFS inodes?, I lost everything and I know the things are there.I've tryed particion recover, but that's not the problem, the particion is there, and it's NTFS, but the filesystem isnt
View 11 Replies View RelatedI have lost the data of my drive having file system ext3, please tell me the most reliable softwares for data recovery, please try to tell also GUI software.
View 1 Replies View RelatedBecause I forgot to bring a portable hard drive, I cannot boot to a linux OS.
The reason is that the /etc/fstab has a line that is
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And ext3-datadisk is on the portable hard drive.
The booting process stopped when it prompts for a root passwd or Ctl-D to reboot.
I keyed in the root passwd, and a (File Recovery) prompt appeared.
I tried to vi /etc/fstab but I cannot save the edited /etc/fstab.
How can I boot successfully in this case ?
I want to develop file recovery software of linux operating system guide me how it will possible or how i should start.
View 2 Replies View RelatedAs it says in the title I need to use the scalpel file recovery tool, or something similar to be able to recover a lost mysql storage folder.. The system crashed, and I really need these files as fast as possible. So I would love any help I could get.I have been searching in different search engines (including this forum) for an answer to my question, but I can't seem to find it.How can I configure scalpel, or any other similar application to be able to recover my mysql /var/lib/mysql storage directory. I really need these files... And.. I know, I should have taken backup
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a fedora file server with a raid 1 array acting as a NAS for my local network. I accidentally overwritten a file that I need to recovery. What are my chances of recovering this file?
View 2 Replies View RelatedThis is my first post on LinuxQuestions.org, so I hope I am posting this this in the right forum, and English is not my mother language, so I hope I made myself understandable. I have this small Poweredge 350 server with two 80GB IDE hard drives running Red Hat Fedora 5, with software Raid 1. Some months ago hda started to have unrecoverable I/O read errors for some blocks. I leaved it that way for some time then hdb also started having same kind of issues. I got new hard drives and replaced hdb first, but the problem is mdadm hasn't been able to recover the raid. I have three LINUX RAID partitions conforming the raid 1 between hda and hdb
/dev/md0
/dev/md1
/dev/md2
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So how can I force the raid to be recovered ignoring the hda errors, is there a way to recover this?
My computer isn't booting up or logging in, period, and I was wondering if I could run any of those Grub fixes if I downloaded it through the console. Can I run anything online besides yum using the console? I have a 4 gig USB Flash drive if necessary.
View 4 Replies View RelatedFor some reason the fedora grub didnt detect my windows recovery partition (Im on a netbook).How would I go into adding that to grub. Its on /dev/sda2
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm having an issue with LVM on an external USB drive. When booting, the system drops into a recovery console if the external drive is not powered on because it cannot find the volume group and members. The setup is one system drive with fedora 12 installed, one internal data drive; LVM volume group vg1 with 5 partitions and one external backup drive LVM volume group vg2 with 5 partitions. Both the data drive and external backup are the same size and identical layout.
I use an rsync script that I wrote to execute backups (mirroring actually).
fstab is set 'noauto' on the external partitions.
I am new to LVM and I'm stumped as how to make the system 'ignore' the external drive at boot, if not powered on.
It's my first time i switched to linux (fedora13) and i wanted to check out ubuntu10. Started installation but somehow (stupid!) selected not the right harddrive to install new system from an iso dvd. Well installation was not successfull, because not the right drive was selected.I came back to fedora but my "storage" harddrive that i had all my collected data and projects is lost. Basically it's like new formated and some files from the ubuntu 10 are on it. None of my files. Is there any way to recover it back? I don't even have a clue how do you install software to fedora13?(I'm a newbee that was sick and tired using and upgrading windows - so now mac OZ and linux)
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a pretty huge (16x1TB disks) RAID6 LVM array on a Red Hat box which has really thrown a spanner in its works and I'm in a right fix: I was part-way through rebuilding the array with one replacement disk when a second died and a third seemed to have fallen from the array. I was replacing a disk which had been showing signs through SMART of probable failure (uncorrectable errors) and I noticed the second disk was just starting to give similar but slightly less numerous errors.
Now my logic based on a gradually growing understanding of the workings of the LVM is that I stand a chance of resurrecting things as the data held on the machine has been static for a while (a few days) before my attempted drive replacement and none of the disks have actually FAILED.
I have replaced the unit I removed so the physical devices are as they were before the exercise. I clearly need to carefully convince the configuration that it's "how it was" and there are a few meta-data files in the /etc/lvm/archive I believe I can use to re-"set the scene". Presently the machine fails to boot completely and it's patiently waiting in single-user mode for my next visit.
I am new to Fedora. I know my top probably already been posted somewhere but I just could not find it. I just installed Fedora 11. But my root password does not work (I guess was my fault to type wrong in the first place or some type of short term memory lost). I looked at the root password recovery procedure which involves select single user at GRUB page when booting. But for some reasons, Fedora 11 does not boot into GRUB. I tried Alt+CTRL+F1, F1 or Shift, none of those gives me Grub screen.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have Fedora Core 4 PPTP server (poptop) that died (motherboard). I am setting up a replacement system but need to get the data off of the drive from the dead FC4 system. They are just plain text config files. So I removed the drive and mounted it to another system using a USB enclosure. But I can't mount of the root partition, only the boot partition. I have done some Googling and see that the reason is that the / partition is an LVM format. But of course the replacement system already has a /dev/logvol..... type of partition defined. So how can I mount the LVM partition from the dead system on the new system to get the data? Understanding this will be valuable for similar situations in the future.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am student of MCS and working on final project. I am the user of windows xp. I am new in Linux. I am working on a project that titles "Hard disk data Recovery of ext2 and ext3 in linux". In windows, including dos.h and bios.h header files in program of c language I can send interrupt to bios and access most of the devices like parallel port, hard disks etc. But problem is that there is no bios.h and dos.h files in gcc. Now how can I access my hard drive using c program. How can I call int13h interrupt in linux or there is any other function in the linux to access the hard disk. In fact I want to access sectors of my hard disk using c language program. How can I do it?
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