Decrypting and reading a FileVault sparsebundle in Linux?

April 24th, 2012
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data-recovery
filevault
linux

Question My MacBook’s HD started failing recently. Fortunately most of the data was properly backed up and most of the other important data could be retrieved by hooking up the drive with the help of an external USB enclosure, but the problem is that my home directory has been encrypted with FileVault and I currently [...]

Undelete files on Macbook, trash is empty

April 24th, 2012
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data-recovery
mac

Question long story short: 2am, very tired, in a hurry, deleted all docs from wrong device, emptied trash. I’ve been asked to recover files for someone who has mistakenly deleted all documents on their Macbook. They were attempting to clean up a usb device in preparation for backing up the macbook documents to the usb [...]

Corrupted the System partition on RAID configuration after a BIOS update, how do I recover data?

April 18th, 2012
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bios
data-recovery
raid
windows-7

Question Problem: After an ASUS BIOS update to improve stability for 45 nm quad-core processors. On the next reboot, got the Windows Loading screen, and then a blue screen. Rebooted again, another blue screen. I have 2 partitions C: and D: I need a way to get the data off my D: partition so I [...]

How To Get Adjacent Data Back? after using “Remove data from the external data range before saving the workbook” -

April 11th, 2012
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data-recovery
excel-2010
microsoft-excel
sql

Question I have a spreadsheet with an external data table coming from SQL Server with a query that returns data specific to each user. I have put instructions in this file to allow it to download once and then to unlink it. Unfortunately one user didn’t, added a whole heap of data, “saved” and has [...]

Recover Outlook PST files

April 8th, 2012
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data-recovery
outlook
pst

Question I have a 6 GB Outlook file that won’t load in Outlook any more. I am not sure what recovery options I have available. I downloaded one recovery tool demo which shows some but not all mail messages. Are there any tools that have worked for you? Can I import the PST files directly [...]

Recover data after dban use

April 3rd, 2012
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data-recovery
dban

Question I had just finished a reinstall of windows xp and had put all my files back in place, then when I was out my little sister saw the dban disk I used and she thought it was a game…. When I got home I was welcomed to a formatted pc and a sister who [...]

How can I recover my accidentally-deleted Windows 7 boot partition?

March 30th, 2012
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boot-partition
data-recovery
ubuntu
windows-7

Question I had Ubuntu and Windows 7 installed, but since I never used Ubuntu and it used 130GB of space I decided to delete it. I deleted two partitions and completely wiped the one with the data. The other one – which I believe had the startup – wasn’t wiped. By the way, my CD [...]

Should Windows 7′s built-in image restore really be so slow that it takes DAYS?

March 26th, 2012
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data-recovery
restore
windows

Question When I restore a ~500 GB disk image made with Windows 7′s built-in system image tool, it runs for 8-10 hours with very little progress, and even after 3 days it is still only about 30% done. Why is this happening, and what can I do to fix it? Background/original version of question I’ve [...]

Migrate unbootable Windows 7 installation

March 23rd, 2012
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boot
boot-camp
data-recovery
mac
windows-7

Question Until several months ago, I had a 64-bit installation of Windows 7 running very smoothly through Boot Camp on my iMac (iMac7,1). I was going to give the computer to my parents, and to spruce it up, I decided to swap out the internal HDD with a small (60GB) SSD (the operation went well, [...]

lost files, not freed on disk

March 18th, 2012
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data-recovery
disk
linux

Question I had a NAS with 300GB data stored on it. I played around with it and finally broke it – all of the data was lost. I opened the NAS and put the disk into my computer (running Ubuntu). I put new data on it (about 80GB) and then realized that the old data [...]

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