I created a recovery on a USB drive and want to recover the USB Drive so I can use it again.
Disk Management won't let me delete/create a partition on it anymore. Anyone try this?
Thanks!
I just reformatted it.
Disk Management doesn't like to remove partitions flagged as recovery. It's easy enough to do with diskpart.exe if you don't have TUIphobia, though.
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Okay,
So I played with linux literally once or twice in my life and I never really dig into any deeper than that...
However I am aware / have made bootable Linux OS's in the past on just a normal USB, this was a few years back following some guides.
I have a Galaxy S and I know my computer tries to run the USB driver at boot because if my phone is plugged in the PC stalls at the Lenovo splash screen.
therefore it must be possible for it to run as a normal USB Boot so long as the right image in on the SD card in the phone.
My question is, how?
Any help greatly appreciated, going to start researching but any one with any quick ideas please let me know.
regards,
EDIT, I guess I will need to partition the SD Card, can I do this and not affect the Android OS? I presume it would have to be an external one too?
I guess that you could do it as long as your samsung mounts your SD when you boot your PC.
You could use a tool called UNETBOOTIN to create a USB-bootable version of any linux distro.
I would do this as follow:
- back up EVERYTHING in my SD card to a folder on PC
- run UNETBOOTIN and create a bootable linux on a usb stick
- copy everything from the usb stick to the root of your SD
- restore the files you have backed up earlier
If your Galaxy S mounts the SD card right at the boot of your PC then everything should work.
FYI you will not be able to see what is inside your SD, afaik, since linux will stay in a compressed filesystem image. So you won't be able to access your files on your phone, neither use it via ADB or fastboot.
Hope this has been helpful
Based on that last statement does that mean you cannot save anything on your USB boot versions of linux, since they are image files?
Hello guys, I'm in need of help here.
Recently I decided to convert my Fat32 external hard drive into NTFS(for larger files support) using the "convert "" /FS:NTFS" command. However, during this process something went wrong and the process crashed.
Now I'm unable to access my external hard drive.
I get the error message when I try to open the drive, that my drive is corrupted and unreadable. I am aware that I can format into NTFS or Fat32 to make it work again, however I would really hate to lose the data on it.
So I need a way to either copy that data to a folder on my computer, restore my external hard drive back to normal with no data lost or something in between.
Hi Ryan,
I can't help restore your external hard drive back to normal,but recover your data.I have succeed to recover data from inaccessible hard drive with Tenorshare Data Recovery.You can google search to get it.Hope this helps!Luck!
Best regards!
Alright, got Tenorshare Data Recovery now, however I'm unsure whether to use the FAT or the NTFS.
The hard drive was original FAT, however it was converting to NTFS when it crashed. Which should I choose then?
I accidentally selected the wrong disk drive while going through this proccess http://serverfault.com/questions/2952/b ... humb-drive
and I deleted my whole 1 TB hard disk :O it had everything on it around 700gb of stuff is there a way to recover it ?
Will system restore also restore a hard disk if it was connected during that time?
sorry,but i dont think you can recover disks formatted at the BOOT time...!!
but try recovery softwares...
rss92 said:
sorry,but i dont think you can recover disks formatted at the BOOT time...!!
but try recovery softwares...
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What do you mean at BOOT time? and it was an external hard disk it had no OS installed on it, I am trying a recovery software right now it is scanning the hard disk now and its taking very long, I have my fingers crossed if it doesn't work I will try Spinrite,
Also does system restore, restore an external hard disk connected to the system? because last time I did a system restore a few months ago I didn't connect my hard disk and it told me that location G:/ couldn't be restored which was my hard disk.
Anyone know?
System restore won't restore anything on a formatted drive.
Hmm, I normally would recommend Recuva as it is free, but it needs the original file system to be present (aka you can't have formatted). I think [email protected] can do it, but it isn't free.
Kk I am trying a program now, its still scanning and in the files found tab I can see my files so I am gonna wait till that program is done hoping it would recover the items,
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I forgot that after oem unlock all data + sdcard is wiped out. So i had some photos that i need to recover from that device. Is there any thing that i can do to recover them. Any good software alternatives?. I tried testdisk but it couldn't do much , since it couldn't detect partition table type. Currently i am using PC Inspector File Recovery, but lets c what happens. Meanwhile I need some recommendation from the forum?
I don't know if it can help you but take a look at Recuva from Piriform (less than 10 posts, cannot paste a link :'( )
Don't transfer data to the sdcard. Use cwm to mount the sdcard to a computer. Then use a couple of different recovery apps to try and piece your drive back together through the comp.
Its not a thorough wipe so as long as you don't write to the sdcard you should get a decent amount back. This is the most important step. Even booting into android could force writes you don't want.
I am in through CWM
Yeah I am mounting USB via CWM, actually i wanted to copy all the data to the pc and then install CM9 but i saw that there was nothing else remaining
Let see what happens I will be using some recovery software. I will be reporting back if I find something that works better than others
It seems my Surface is refusing to start. All I see is the word Surface for a couple of seconds before it turns off. Luckily, I made the recovery USB a while back. Does anyone know what I need to press to get it to boot from the USB? Thanks!
EDIT: NVM, I figured it out. For anyone out there that needs this: Hold VOLUME DOWN while turning on the device. It will boot from the USB drive you have in it.
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It seems my Surface is refusing to start. All I see is the word Surface for a couple of seconds before it turns off. Luckily, I made the recovery USB a while back. Does anyone know what I need to press to get it to boot from the USB? Thanks!
EDIT: NVM, I figured it out. For anyone out there that needs this: Hold VOLUME DOWN while turning on the device. It will boot from the USB drive you have in it.
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So how did you make the recovery USB? TIA
Edit: managed to make the recovery USB, now if I could only work out how to delete the Recovery partition........
May be using Storage Manager?
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May be using Storage Manager?
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Just search for Recovery under the "Settings" option and it should pop up a program (desktop) saying "Create a recovery drive"
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So how did you make the recovery USB? TIA
Edit: managed to make the recovery USB, now if I could only work out how to delete the Recovery partition........
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I believe after you make the recovery usb and before you close the program, there is a blue link at the bottom to remove the recovery partition. Else, you can probably just go through Disk Management and remove the partition, then extend the windows partition. (Search Disk Management under the "settings" option, then select the "Create and format hard disk partitions" desktop program). I haven't tried doing this (got the 64GB version) so good luck and hope it works Might want to make a back up of the back up though. Hoping that Microsoft will make a web recovery option someday similar to what the current gen macs all have now.
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Just search for Recovery under the "Settings" option and it should pop up a program (desktop) saying "Create a recovery drive"
I believe after you make the recovery usb and before you close the program, there is a blue link at the bottom to remove the recovery partition. Else, you can probably just go through Disk Management and remove the partition, then extend the windows partition. (Search Disk Management under the "settings" option, then select the "Create and format hard disk partitions" desktop program). I haven't tried doing this (got the 64GB version) so good luck and hope it works Might want to make a back up of the back up though. Hoping that Microsoft will make a web recovery option someday similar to what the current gen macs all have now.
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This is great. That would free up an additional 2-3gb of space!
Is it possible to create a recovery drive on an sd card? Is there an option to make the sd drive bootable?