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- 27 Jun 2021, 22:45
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Is cd data permanently lost after 13 years?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1293
Re: Is cd data permanently lost after 13 years?
This is on an old CD not a hard drive. I have run testdisk and no partition is found. I read that on cds and dvds the data is encoded in a dye which fades away in time. This makes sense but it doesn't make sense that the directories and file icons still show up and file sizes and other property info ...
- 27 Jun 2021, 22:19
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Is cd data permanently lost after 13 years?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1293
Is cd data permanently lost after 13 years?
I have a cd that is 13 years old. was full of pictures. The files were saved on a widows pc back in the day. While trying to view the files on my linux pc they do appear in the browser as existing files (some zipped and some not). They will not open. Instead I get the following message..."No ...
- 20 May 2021, 00:00
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: Is there hope? A reason to beleive?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5304
Is there hope? A reason to beleive?
Currently using Ubuntu 20.04 operating system. I had hundreds of photos saved on my hard drive. A couple years ago I resized the drive and and in the process the operation failed half way through. I now have no photos. I discovered Photorec, I tried recovering the photos. I recovered lots of ...
- 04 Apr 2018, 15:12
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: Newby needs to recover lost files after failed partition move
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2017
Re: Newby needs to recover lost files after failed partition move
Although I found and installed testdisk I cannot find photorec download. I keep finding a link for "testdisk and photorec download" but when I click it I only see "testdisk download". Is photorec a part of the testdisk program or is it a seperate program? Where is it? Also, as a beginner I need to ...
- 03 Apr 2018, 12:15
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: Newby needs to recover lost files after failed partition move
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2017
Newby needs to recover lost files after failed partition move
Not sure where to start. I have a 250g HD with a 50g partition. I was moving the partition with Gparted. It failed half way through. I have not touched it since except to remove it from the computer case. No records of the move or the failure were saved. I have installed testdisk and photorec and ...