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Questions tagged [recovery]

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How can I restore a lost Chrome session?

Computer shut down on me and the restore previous session button didn't work. Is there a file that shows previous session URLs? I remember hearing about this a while ago. Any help is appreciated thanks
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Kali linux failed after upgrade

My Kali stopped working after upgrade. I run it in recovery mode, and it seems that basic communication (http) packages have some problem. When I try wget or curl I get: relocation error /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol…
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Why is this data seemingly gone?

This question is a bit long, but people often prefer to have all the details instead of being required to ask for them, so I've included as much detail as possible. I received a frantic call from a friend who had just accidentally deleted their…
RockPaperLz- Mask it or Casket
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Recovery on an ancient version of my TexStudio file

I am writing both my PhD manuscript and a scientific paper. Instead of writing the latter in Overleaf, I chose to do it on my TexStudio. I made a huge mistake of copy/paste the template of the paper to the second chapter (that took me three months…
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How to delete a Folder as if it hasn't existed at all

As the title says, not only I want to completely erase it's bits and bytes from the disk but also it's trace on file system, so NO Undelete software can show that it HAD been there at all. There are good software that will do the first task (…
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Recovery mode or boot USB for an Apple iMac 20" A1224 (2009)

Recently found an Apple iMac 20" A1224 (2009) on the side of the road and want to wipe and reinstall (don't know former user password). I'm using a regular wireless keyboard (is this the problem?) and Command+R does not respond. I have tried a few…
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Fix cloned Windows problems (laptop system-recovery, memtest, Windows recovery environment)

Background/Cause Several months ago, I upgraded my laptop's hard-drive to an SSD. The SSD is smaller than the hard-drive, so I freed up enough space for it to fit and cloned the drive to the SSD, with the only changes being that I shrank the…
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Tab recovery from a corrupt Chrome Last Session?

Chrome crashed and I lost ~100 tabs. The tabs don't appear in history and I'm not able to restore them by renaming my Last Session file to Current Session in AppData/Google/UserData/Default, it just opens a new blank tab. I have created a backup of…
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OEM Windows 7 product key missing 1 letter, how can I fill in the blank?

I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre machine I'm trying to refurbish for a friend. I'd like to install the version of Windows it came with, but the Microsoft OEM key sticker is missing one letter near the very end (00000-X0000). I'd like to just plug away…
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Linux: specify root filesystem with fallback

I know I could use initrd/initramfs to do whatever needed, but I would like to avoid this option, if possible. I need to have a "normal" working rootfs (on an SD card of an embedded system, if it matters). If, for any reason, booting won't succeed…
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Encrypted luks SSD from dead laptop in another laptop / data recovery

Recently my laptop died, there is no chance to save the laptop anymore. On the laptop i was running Elementary OS. While installing i choose the encryption with LUkS option. Now i have another laptop, i want to recover the files / run the whole OS,…
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Deleting list of files with non-standard file names

I have recently had to rescue files from a bad HDD, and am in the middle of cleaning up the mess. Currently I'm using a duplicate cleaner to delete any restored files that have duplicates on my backup. I'm comparing contents, not file names as file…
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How to mount large disk image on small hardware to recover files

I have a raw disk backup of a 4TB external drive /dev/sda split into 1GiB chunks, within is a single used partition /dev/sda1 and some other junk. The chunks are being stored on multiple physical drives as they are all smaller than 4TB. What's the…
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How does Windows 10 "Reset this PC" work?

In Windows 10, the Reset this PC feature says it can "Reinstall Windows from this device". My PC have the classic following partitions: MBR EFI MSR / Reserved Windows Recovery (WinRE_DRV) (1000 MB) So no OEM Partition or OneKey Recovery (OKR)…
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How to recover bricked Archer C20?

My router is a TP-Link Archer C20 (US) V5. I installed OpenWRT on it successfully using these instructions (made sure to use the US firmware of course) and it was working fine. For some reason I decided to put a fresh copy of OpenWRT again (using…
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