Data recovery typically implies that data is lost by deletion, encryption or hardware error.
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fsck and Disk Utility won't repair Volume: invalid b-tree node size
I accidentally wrote some .iso data to a disk through dd by mistake. I cancelled the command after just 2 seconds but that was enough to wipe the first EFI partition (200MB) and a bit of the second ...
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Recover partitions or data after partition map becomes corrupted (HFS+)
So back story about my hard drive. I bought a USB 3.0 enclosure and a well rated and trusted brand WD 2tb hard drive to put in it. For many months now it had been running flawlessly on my iMac, ...
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What are some good data recovery programs to try on an SD card?
My friend imported a bunch of videos from his GoPro into iPhoto and foolishly let iPhoto delete upon successful import. He claims that iPhoto then quit unexpectedly and all of the videos are gone.
My ...
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How can I recover notes missing from the Notes app?
I recently opened the Notes app and found that about a month's worth of notes are missing. There is a gap between August 5th and September 3rd.
(This time period includes a note I wrote while in an ...
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Are .apple files potentially synonymous (or a wrapper to) .dmg files?
We lost a .dmg file on an harddrive. Our tech guy was able to recover files from the drive but not one of them is a .dmg file. But they are a lot of .apple file. Can the .dmg file we are looking for ...
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Recover a deleted encrypted partition?
As my previous external HDD threw some disturbing SMART Warnings, I bought a new Hard Drive. It arrived earlier today, I formatted it and made some backups onto it at it has more space and I wanted to ...
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Can I recover a deleted video from the iPhone 4S camera roll?
So I blundered this morning. Had a cute video of my daughter on Easter, then I accidentally deleted when I was trying to show people (its amazing how a simple finger swipe can cause so much damage!).
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External hard drive unplugged while running iTunes…Corrupted files
I have nearly 2TB of Movies and TV Shows copied to iTunes on an external hard drive. Last night, I was unplugging a cord behind my desk and I accidentally unplugged my HD. Well, when I plugged it back ...
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How to restores files lost from application during upgrade of app
I had a lot of important files on my iPhone in an app called Documents Mobile Office.
During upgrade of the application, the upgrade failed & the application does not reload. Hence I can't access ...
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OSX partitions wiped by NAS RAID
So I messed up when I thought it would be a good idea to stick some hard drives into my NAS. It's now changed the partition table to a RAID0 one and my data has vanished. What are my best chances of ...
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Trouble transferring pictures from an iPhone 3GS to PC
I had dropped my iPhone 3GS and the left bottom corner of the screen had cracked. Now the touch screen nor home button work. I'm able to charge the iPhone with my USB charger but am not able to do ...
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External drive not being recognized. Has Filevault HFS+ and FAT32 on same disk
I have a 750gb external hard drive that stopped being recognized. I can't tell with full certainty but I think it was after I connected it to a Windows computer. I've read online, in the meantime, how ...
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Missing Time Machine Files caused by FSEvents Failure?
I recently did a clean install/upgrade to Mac OS 10.8.2. I did a final update of my ongoing Time Machine Backup and verified Disk Integrity. After reinstalling and restoring my files, I have learned ...
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How to recover data from iPhone backup files WITHOUT the info.plist, status.plist, manifest.plist, manifest.mbdb, and manifest.mbdx files?
I have iTunes 10.5 and Mac OS X version 10.6.8.
I would like to restore my iPhone from backup.
iTunes detects all my backups EXCEPT one, which happens to be the backup I want.
I looked in the ...
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Macintosh HD missing after failed catalog btree rebuilding
There is an I/O error in the hard disk in my MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion and as I start it up, a progress bar fills up and then it shuts down on its own. I attempted to recover the files in ...
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Recover partition from NTFS drive with folder structure
I ran disk utility and looked for errors on a NTFS drive that was working fine but had been ejected abruptly after the computer was forced to shut down. After that a bunch of errors just appeared in ...
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Outlook 2011: Added an Exchange profile, lost previous profile data
A friend of mine wanted to use an Exchange account additionally to his normal profile (POP3 email, calendar etc.) in Outlook 2011.
He said he just added and configured the profile. When he re-openend ...
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iMovie which was created & stored on my iPhone 4S is nowhere to be found on phone or iCloud
The problem: The iMovie that our son spent dozens of hours making and editing for his final 7th grade project- due June 4th is now missing from his iPhone!
And unfortunately, a trip to the Genius ...
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Failing hard drive – Will it affect the integrity of my data?
I have a failing hard drive on my current MacBook Pro (it is having a symptom that I previously had on a failing hard drive on a MacBook – clicking drive noises).
I'm backing up my hard drive quite ...
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How do I recover a GPT partition possibly overwritten by the Windows recovery tool
I've had a good look around the web and can find similar problems but nothing specific to mine.
I recently installed Zorin OS onto my step dad's computer to breathe a little Linux-life into it. I ...
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How do you see if TRIM is active from the command line?
I just created a bootable OS X recovery USB drive based on the OS X Recovery USB stick. I enabled trim on this USB drive when it boots by extracting and converting the contained BaseImage.dmg, ...
