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Decrypt Bitlocker Files Restored from Recuva [migrated]

I have a computer that I need to restore data with files that were deleted and later restored to an external drive with Recuva (undelete file app). The source drive was encrypted with BitLocker. The ...
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How to create file history/ restore from previous version so that can retrieve accidentally delete shared network folder or file

How to create file history/ restore from previous version so that can retrieve accidentally delete shared network folder or file
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I accidently ran rm -rf /

I was writing a bash script to automate deleting something. I used the code rm -rf $path/* accidently i ran the script without passing path variable and since path variable is null , the command which ...
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I have deleted /etc/rc.d/ dirs, how can I restore them?

I have accidentally deleted /etc/rc.d and /etc/rc0.d folders which resulted deletion of init.d and other related folders. 1.What is the use of /etc/rc.d, rc, rc.d, rc0.d, rc1.d, rc2.d.......rc6.d and ...
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photorec photo recovery software not seeing my mounted filesystem - trying to use photorec to recover lost jpegs

What is my situation? I am working in a Dev Ops capacity for a service that manages jpeg files online. We had an unfortunate deploy and our media files (jpegs) are completely gone. I anticipate that ...
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Is it possible to relink an Inode in EXT4 with it's original filename

Ok, so foolish idiot here, trashes his postgresql data directory, right at the very moment when his backup routine is currently in the "delete old files" and "create new files" phase. As a result, Iv'...
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AWS S3 Bucket name already exists

I in S3 Buckets if ill create a new one or Bucket name already exists but I can I have two visible buckets. Edit: In other words, my bucket's been orphaned and I cant see it to delete it and I ...
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extundelete : How can i recover "recoverable inodes still lost"?

I am using extundelete to recover about 9000 files that were deleted from an AWS EBS volume, accidentally via programmatic error. The end of the report states 2864 recoverable inodes still lost. ...
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Recovering original filename after renaming in Ext4

If I rename a file with mv command like: mv original_file_name new_file_name Is this possible to recover the original filename on Linux Ext4 file system and if so how that can be done?
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Deleted the /etc/bind folder, any way to get the contents back?

So I was following a tutorial to set up a DNS server and I mistyped some things and want to start over, so I end up deleting the /etc/bind folder, thinking that reinstalling bind9 will restore the ...
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How to undelete a moved file on Linux

I accidentally moved a file onto an existing file and need to recover the old file. original file: /mnt/FILE (was around 1 GB) new file: /mnt/FILE (now is 17 bytes) command: mv SOMEFILE /mnt/FILE ...
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Undelete windows 8 files/directories

User accidentally deleted directory with firm data on laptop with Windows 8. I booted Ubuntu liveCD but using : $sudo fdisk -l WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util ...
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Ubuntu ntfsundelete on md0 software raid after fsck

System was failing and the colocation facility ran fsck -y on a raid that had some important data. The result is a lost+found folder with 2 million files in it. It is possible to get any of the ...
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How can recover all data and sites from accidentally delete virtual machine - Microsoft Azure

We have accidentally deleted Virtual Machine from Azure portal. Virtual Machine had about 12 - 15 SQL Server databases and about 10 websites/projected hosted on it. We are having Biz Spark account. ...
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How to restore files deleted from server

An employee accidentally deleted a folder from our fileserver. Is there way to restore this folder without having to restore our backup? (As this would undo a lot of work in other users' folders.) ...
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Is it possible to see what files are deleted on a cluster disk in a specific directory?

I need to check if there were files (accidentally deleted) in a specific directory on a clustered disk (Windows Server 2008 R2). Is there a way to do that? The installation is relatively new and the ...
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Authenticated Users builtin group in AD deleted

I have a large-ish AD setup, where one of the already fired admins, for reasons unknown deleted the subject group. Been googling for a while, but besides explanations what the group is for and ...
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How to undelete just deleted directory with "rm -R" command?

I deleted an important directory with rm -R command. This is an very populer host data. It was located /var/zpanel/hostdata/ayrintilih After remove ayrintilih directory has gone everything. I tried ...
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Lost Frm files recovering data from ibdata

I was working with a mysql innodb datbase. When I was working with mysqlworkbench accidentally all the .frm files got deleted from mysql data folder but I still have ibdata file in the data folder. I ...
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Unalterable folder or path to keep a mount point on Linux

I need to mount a tmpfs on a folder like /home/mysite.com/cache but this folder can be delete or changed by a user, but I don't want that the mounted filesystem become broken. Then if the user moves ...
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How much should it cost to implement shadowing for a Windows Server 2008 environment? [closed]

I should perhaps preface this by saying that I am not a sysadmin but rather a user. The reason I'm asking this question is because I and other users at my company have experienced accidental deletion ...
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Recover deleted files on windows 2008 file server

We have recently been hit by a weird virus which made all files and folders a system files/folders and also it hid all files and folders par some weird ones it created including: ..exe porn.exe ...
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How to recover from a deleted /bin/bash?

On my debian maschine I deleted /bin/bash by accident. Is there a way to get it back without reinstalltin the machine? If it helps. I'm still logged in. Guess once I'm out I cannot log in since it's ...
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mysql client binary size zero

I was using the openpanel-mod-mysql module when I kept getting weird error messages. Then I set out to execute the commands manually and got no response from mysql. I mean, when I typed in mysql, ...
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Undelete ZFS file shared by Samba

A user deleted a directory containing an important file over a Samba share. Share was from a Nexenta box running ZFS, raid-Z3. Last backup was 12 hours ago - is there a way to recover the 1 day's ...
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How does Linux's unlink on a NTFS filesystem differs from Window's own implementation? [closed]

I have an external USB disk with an NTFS filesystem on it. If I remove a file from Windows and I run one of the several "undelete" utilities (say, TestDisk) I can easily recover the file (because "it'...
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NTFS: Restore deleted files by unflag delete state only (not copy files to another drive) [closed]

I am looking for a solution to restore deleted files on a NTFS Volume. No new files are written to the disk so all files has the condition "Excellent". But i have no storage room to copy the deleted ...
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Recover hard deleted items from Exchange

My MD had a clear out of her mailbox (anything from september 2011 back to 2005 was deleted!) she is now majorly regretting this as there was contracts etc etc in there. Now I have looked in OWA but ...
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volume undelete on a HP MSA

Is it possible to undelete a volume in a HP MSA 2000?
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Recover erased files from a samba share

Is there any kind way (and chance) to recover deleted files on a samba share? We're using Ubuntu Server 10.04 and a user accidentally deleted all his files. He used (I don't think it's useful anyway) ...
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good, free undelete for windows? [closed]

I was using robocopy and accidentally included the /MIR command which deletes everything on the destination drive which isnt in the source - face palm is findNtfs my best option? Ive had luck with ...
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How to undelete an accidentally removed partition?

A colleague of mine just removed and repartitioned a disc (NTFS) that we wanted to backup. After he realized his mistake he didn't do anything else. Is it possible to recover any of the files that ...
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Is it possible to recover a deleted named.conf if named still running?

If, for example, you spend some time working on a named.conf, and then by mistake clear it and save it (thanks to vi), is there a saved copy of the named.conf in the running instance that I could grab?...
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How to make deleted files unrecoverable? [closed]

If I delete files on a NTFS partition I can recover them shortly with a very high probability of success. When a file is deleted, only the file system entry is deleted, thus the content of the file ...
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