Hello, I recently had to send in my laptop to get a speaker fixed and was told to make a backup, as the laptop would be reset, I made a system image tested it before I sent it in, it restored fine, but now that I got it back I was no longer able to restore it, it gave me the message "To restore this computer. Windows needs to format the drive that the Windows recovery Environment is currently running on. To continue with the restore, shut down this computer and boot it from a windows installation disk or a system repair disc and then try to restore again." Now the problem is I have tried this, I got hp to send me a recovery disk, but there is no option to restore the system image, it goes straight to resetting the computer it does not have the advance startup options. I have made my own recovery disk using the windows 8 tool and tried, that has the advanced startup options but gives me the same message when in try to restore it. I also have a system image of when i first got the laptop back from them, but i could not restore that either. I have tired near everything ( I just don't want to type out everything I did) any help would be appreciated, If you need anymore details just ask.
Is there at least some way to make a better recovery media, or a windows 8 installation usb? Theres gotta be a way because I know when I tested my image it restored before i sent it in perfectly
What device did you put the recovery image on?
By the way, it's very common and easy to put the recovery tools on a bootable flashdrive; it's included on the install media, so just follow the steps for making a bootable install image on a flashdrive.
GoodDayToDie said:
What device did you put the recovery image on?
By the way, it's very common and easy to put the recovery tools on a bootable flashdrive; it's included on the install media, so just follow the steps for making a bootable install image on a flashdrive.
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Its on one partition of an external hard drive I have, and is what you are talking about above available for win 8.1? Lately I've tried looking for a windows 8.1 iso to make a bootable drive from but cant seem to find one that works. Also thank you for your help
... Huh. If it's on an external drive, then the error you're getting doesn't make a lot of sense anyhow. (But then, I guess you knew that.)
Creating a bootable flash drive is easy. You can either use one of a handful of tools, or just do it manually using diskpart on the command line. Wipe the drive, make sure it's using MBR, create one partition, mark that partition Active, format it FAT32. Then just copy (literally, you can use Explorer for this step if you want) the entire contents of the boot media, such as the DVD, onto your flashdrive. If you don't have a DVD drive to boot from for this part, you can mount the ISO or use 7-Zip to extract the contents of the .ISO file system.
If you *do* have a DVD drive or other bootable media, it should certainly be possible to enter the recovery environment for your OS. The actual steps to restore your backup from there, though, are less clear to me; I've never used the Win8 recovery tools.
I can't find a working iso for windows 8.1, but I noticed that the recovery media I have has the bootx64.efi set up in a weird way which is probably why its not booting into the options I need to restore the image. I tried to make one on a separate USB combining the two I have with the factores image but the boot and efi folders from the other that gives me the options but that would not show up at all to boot into
Thanks for your help, should I mark this as solved
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Shift is not shipped with any cd/dvd for system recovery
In case of hard drive crash, how are we gonna restore the system?
Is it possible to make system recovery disks by ourselves, just like what sony has been asking their nb buyers to do (to burn recovery disks by themselves)?
I think you could backup the restore partition to a DVD using something like Acronis Trueimage and then use Partition Magic or similar to delete the partition and extend the primary partition into this space increasing its size.
To be honest you may be as well do a full image onto another harddisk as a backup and have a suitable Acronis or similar bootdisk to allow a full image restore if the worst happens.
Recovery Partition
I have used BartPE to boot off an external USB DVD Writer.
From within BartPE you can then use Ghost to capture the ENTIRE drive.
The ***Hidden*** restore partition cannot be see by anything, not ghost, not partition magic, not acronis, it simply is not there.
My belief is that this is due to a BIOS restriction and the FN+F3 boot that does allow the restore is either.....
1. A special mode where the bios can see the hidden partition
2. The actual recovery image is on a separate flash area that we can't see.
Either way having the ghost will recover the hard drive.
I have installed both XP and Linux on the Shift and still been able to reboot, press FN+F3 and do a vista re-installation.
This makes me believe the image is on a separate flash device that only the BIOS section can see.
Hope this helps.
Blitz
Dear Members!
I did the stupid thing of using a tool, not completly knowing what it does.
After using TouchEraser.zip I installed Alpha-FormatTouch-2.zip using clockwork.
I tried to boot the device, no luck...
Clockwork says:
can't mount /cache/recovery/log/log
can't open /cache/recovery/log/log
can't mount /cache/recovery/log/last_log
can't open /cache/recovery/log/last_log
Please help!
Stupidly enough I don't have the devices own factory image.
What to do now?
ok , first boot with noogie image and lets see what partion u got , if u have got rom partions so take a copy all files from it and take backup from the whole nook and do this steps in this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30722156&postcount=2
but u must try to recovery ur nook partition rom especially cuz very important ..... before do anything above .... i will keep continue active in this thread
good luck
only one partition on on gParted...
Do You think theres any way to fix it? how?
If CWR came up that far then the /rom partition must be ok.
All we know is that the /cache partition has a problem.
That's a disposable partition, you can format the /cache partition.
Be careful, don't make anything worse.
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Do You think theres any way to fix it? how?
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as Renate say ..... dont make anything more worth .... so can u type fdisk for ur nook to see all ur partition table info???
Pretty screwed...
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as Renate say ..... dont make anything more worth .... so can u type fdisk for ur nook to see all ur partition table info???
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I did but what it listed is ONLY ONE 1,8 gb partition. Toucheraser probably wiped the whole table (
I'd need a tool to restore the original filesystem or a factory image ( I don't have my own...).
I found one for glowlight, but probably I shouldn't write that to my mormal NST.
Alpha-FormatTouch-2.zip using clockwork.didn't work.
I'm pretty screwed...
Get Clockwork Recovery working on an SD card.
Get ADB setup and connected to CWR.
Run nookpart.sh from a shell (download the script from my signature).
This will recreate the partitioning without formatting or writing any of them.
You can then see if/what you can mount.
Use either the mount options in CWR or the mount command in ADB.
U kidding with me. Did u format the whole partition.? I suggest u try again and boot ur nook with noogie image and the all sevsen partition will show to U?
Tru agan man. Good luck
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resurect nook
Renate NST said:
Get Clockwork Recovery working on an SD card.
Get ADB setup and connected to CWR.
Run nookpart.sh from a shell (download the script from my signature).
This will recreate the partitioning without formatting or writing any of them.
You can then see if/what you can mount.
Use either the mount options in CWR or the mount command in ADB.
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I even can`t do that!,"my" nook simple are "dead" after, i delette all the memorie intern with MINI TOOL PARTITION WIZARD, without make backup or copy room, very nervius then, with CLOCKWORK RECOVERY in a sd card y instal a program call ALPHA FORMAT TOUCH2, after that my nook are iresponsive .no sd card function
any more no usb conection just charge, ¿can is posible resurrect it by some way?
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i delette all the memorie intern with MINI TOOL PARTITION WIZARD, without make backup or copy room,
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¿can is posible resurrect it by some way?
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The only way I can think of to quasi-resurrect your Nook is if you can obtain a full image backup of another Nook (e.g., boot it up with noogie and read/save its entire drive as an image file) then write the backup image file back to your Nook (after booting it up with noogie) -- but then the two Nook devices will have identical device-specific data (e.g., encryption keys, WiFi MAC address, etc.), which can cause Internet access/communication problems of various sorts.
The batery are charged but it won't power on , after i install ALPHA FORMAT TOUCH2
maybe i kill him.
Wow, this is an old thread!
The Nook Simple Touch was/is a simple device.
With its SD card it's almost completely unbrickable.
Add in the stuff we've learned in the last few years about booting over USB and it's almost unsinkable.
First, whenever somebody says "dead", it's never clear what the state is.
Until you get to the point where the screen is initialized you don't know what's going on.
If you have Windows where it goes "bong" when you plug in a USB device, see if it "bongs" when you connect/power up/power down.
As said above, you'll probably need to find a full NST image somewhere.
similar to this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2322762
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the batery are charged the machine have no image and whent i plug in a usb, no screen are inicialized just windowsXP said "OMAP3630 - No driver found". :silly:
Dear Renate, may I kindly ask you to provide the command prompt syntax here for dummies like me: "Run nookpart.sh from a shell (download the script from my signature)"? I know how to use adb, but with a ready syntax only.
And I have a spare completely bricked NSTGL, it was brought to me bricked already, managed to write an image from my current NSTGL using MiniTool Partition Wizard, and was able to open it in Windows Explorer, could see all files and folders, could add, copy and delete anything, but never succeeded in seeing any sign of life at the Nook's screen (nothing at all, never), and tried everything with a battery - disconnected it, pressed the switch button at the mainboard for some time, charged fully etc., then one unhappy day I have tried to overwrite it with a new image, but forgot to delete all partitions first and it crashed during the writing process in MiniTool Partition Wizard and now it is recognized by Windows (bang) and shown as a (some) drive but I cannot open it. Obviously I have damaged the partition table, and since then was unable to restore it, and now came across your messages here. Although, I am afraid restoring the partition table will do me no good, as it already showed no sign of life with a healthy image onboard. And I would appreciate it if you provide here a syntax for adbsync too
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Dear Renate, may I kindly ask you to provide the command prompt syntax here for dummies like me: "Run nookpart.sh from a shell (download the script from my signature)"? I know how to use adb, but with a ready syntax only.
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And I would appreciate it if you provide here a syntax for adbsync too
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I think a simpler, more expedient alternative to any adb-based method would be:
Use a disk-imaging tool (such as win32diskimager) and write to SD-card the image Noogie.img
Boot your live NSTGL off the Noogie SD-card and connect it to your PC via USB
Use the disk-imaging tool to read/save the NSTGL drive image to a file on your PC
Disconnect your live NSTGL from your PC
Boot your bad NSTGL off the Noogie SD-card and connect it to your PC via USB
Use the disk-imaging tool to write the file containing previously saved image of the live NSTGL drive to the bad NSTGL drive.
When writing out a disk image, make sure that you select the correct target drive (in particular don't select by mistake your PC "C:" drive).
Afterward you will have to figure out how to resolve the issue of the two Nook devices having identical device-specific data (e.g., encryption keys, WiFi MAC address, etc.), which can cause Internet access/communication problems of various sorts.
@Mnurlan I think @digixmax has it about right.
Just copying a whole image over is probably the easiest way.
If you have a raw image of the whole disk then the partitioning comes over just like all the other data.
@dummy56 if your device is IDing as OMAP3630 then what you have there is the bootloader.
The easiest thing to try would be just like above, with noogie and a full 2GB image from a friend.
Depending on what got overwritten, you might be able to fix things with just a recovery and ADB.
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This is exactly what I did, remember I said that I received the "bad" NSTGL bricked already, so of course I took an image of my healthy (live) NSTGL FW1.2.0 to overwrite (re-write) whatever was left on "bad-dead" NSTGL, and I know in details how to write-read-save an image with win32diskimager, just during the second attempt I forgot to delete all partitions first and that resulted in damaged partitions - that is my educated guess. I would like to point out that my first attempt was successful (I have copied a healthy image of my live NSTGL to a bad one) and I was able to read-see-delete-add anything to NSTGL in Windows Explorer whenever I connect that dead NSTGL to PC directly, without a Noogie.
I am afraid, the screen has been damaged somehow (although it looks visibly intact), as it never showed any sign of life, no matter whatever I've tried.
And now the problem is that no Nook's partition appears in the MiniTool Partition Wizard window, only SD-card with Noogie, so I have nowhere to write an image. This is why I thought the culprit is - a damaged partition table. I have tried to use the GParted Live CD, but my notebook failed to boot on it, so I just postponed it for a while, as I had to leave for my rotation. Currently I am away from home and I left that "bad" NSTGL at home, and won't be able to do anything about it until I am back on Feb. 18.
And having two Nook devices having identical device-specific data is the least of my problems as I am pretty sure that I can easily do without W-Fi functionality of that Nook should I manage to revive it somehow, which I doubt.
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This is exactly what I did, remember I said that I received the "bad" NSTGL bricked already, so of course I took an image of my healthy (live) NSTGL FW1.2.0 to overwrite (re-write) whatever was left on "bad-dead" NSTGL, and I know in details how to write-read-save an image with win32diskimager, just during the second attempt I forgot to delete all partitions first and that resulted in damaged partitions - that is my educated guess.
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And now the problem is that no Nook's partition appears in the MiniTool Partition Wizard window, only SD-card with Noogie, so I have nowhere to write an image. This is why I thought the culprit is - a damaged partition table.
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Since Wiin32DiskImager can read/write from/to a raw physical device, there is no need to clear/fix the partition table of the bad NSTGL using MiniTool or GParted before re-imaging it.
As long as your bad NSTGL when booted on Noogie appears as a raw physical drive in Win32DiskImager's drive-selection menu, you can re-image the bad NSTGL using the raw drive image of the good NSTGL.
NSTGL in question appears as (some) drive in Windows Explorer window, but does not appear in the Wiin32DiskImager's drive selection window, and I run it As Administrator
My wife's touch was booting fine into either stock or android but now when it boots there is no option to go to android, it just boots up to the mostly stock nook. The only clue android is still there is button saver which is still there but that's all that shows along with the µsd card.
Again, the touch will not give me dual boot options any more, just the nook.
Any clues or would I have to redo everything?
Thanks
The only real "dual boot" is the selection between normal boot and recovery and you're probably not talking about that.
With a normal boot, it will try to start a launcher.
If you haven't clicked the invisible box yet saying "Remember my preference" it will ask you whether you want to run "Home" or "Launcher".
Once you accidentally or intentionally click that box it won't ask you anymore.
There are tools to fix this or you can do it the lower level way.
The file /data/system/packages.xml holds many things, including this preference.
Find a section like this:
Code:
<preferred-activities>
<item name= ...
...
</item>
</preferred-activities>
And delete the whole thing.
Thanks for the help Renate.
I've hooked the nook to the computer and 2 files come up, one the cards' content and the other, only 4 files, which is the nook rom?
I have data files showing but no system nor packages.xml files. I have no problems editing xml or many other type files but obviously I'm not looking in the right place. Could you show me the way please?
Thank you
The standard USB mounts on the Nook won't get you where you want.
You need to be using ADB or else have noogie running off a card.
You need access to the /data partition where the /data/system/packages.xml is.
I think this was set up with noogie. I can't find a 'data' partition. On the sd card there is no adb and only 2 data files neither of which contain what I need. Something along the way seem to have been lost.
Where might those tools be that you mentioned, perhaps they would work?
Thanks for the help,
Okay, I was a little slow on the uptake. I created a noogie.img card, put it into the nook, plugged into computer usb, waited for it to boot which it did. After booting up I did not see any different partitions. I still only saw the 4 nook files and the contents of the sd card which are the noogie files.
I'll redo the noogie.img after getting a fresh copy but will it work?
Edit: I mounted a fresh copy of noogie.img and it still doesn't work. I can't see the partitions. Not sure if this is relevant or not but when I boot up with the noogie card in as soon as I unlock it I get a pop up saying the card needs formatting and either format or cancel. Of course I hit cancel but should it be doing that?
2nd Edit: I used a different image writer, win32diskimager, and now it boots to a Rooted Forever screen. The only folder/partition showing on the computer is boot: with .pgm and .bin etc files, no other partitions show up.
What else can I do?
Sorry, if you are running noogie and using Windows you can easily only access the VFAT partitions.
Running Linux or installing some EXT2 extensions you should be able to make it work.
If you are rooted, you should be able to use ADB.
If you run Clockwork Recovery you should be able to use ADB.
So I just bought a new Lenovo Lynx and I noticed that even though it has a 64GB drive, the C drive is only 48GB. Upon my investigation, I found that there are 3 partitions labeled as "Recovery". The total space adds up to about 9GB. See attachement.
My question is: Can I remove them and if so, what's the best way to do so?
The largest recovery partition has the actual .WIM factory install image. Windows has a separate recovery partition for its own recovery use (when you select advanced boot options). I forget what the 3rd one is for.
You can remove them, but you will have to create your own recovery routine beforehand, because both the Lenovo and Windows recovery routines will fail w/o the partitions present.
Suggest leaving them in place for the first month of use, as if an issue arises that require support, the main troubleshooting step would be to reset to factory install. If that's not available, support will be problematic.
Suggest installing Acronis True Image 2014 free trial, and make a bootable USB from it (the boot image isn't affected by the trialware). Reset your system to factory install. To keep it "virgin," don't start up Windows after the reset.
Use TrueImage USB to back up the restored partition to external USB storage. To verify, restore from the just-made backup copy, and start up Windows. If the backup is good, the restore should be good, and your system should start up properly. (If the restore fails, then do another factory reset using the Lenovo method.) You now have your own factory install backup.
To claim the space, simplest is to delete the two recovery partitions after the main partition, then expand the main partition using Win's Disk Manager. To reclaim the 1GB partition would require a wipe and repartition of the drive.
PS: The 64GB drive is actually 59.6GB (64 / 1.024^3).
So just to be sure, I can install Windows 8.1 Pro from a USB just like any other PC but I have to make sure not to touch the EFI partition?
Don't have to download and install stuffs that you'll only use once. You can just use windows search and look for a way to create a recovery disk. It'll even ask if you want to delete the existing recovery partition at the end.
Sent from my U9200
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Don't have to download and install stuffs that you'll only use once. You can just use windows search and look for a way to create a recovery disk. It'll even ask if you want to delete the existing recovery partition at the end.
Sent from my U9200
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Thanks! That made the space usable by creating a new drive from the old recovery partition. When I try to use a partition tool to merge the 2 partitions, they tell me it can't be done. Is the best way to go about this just reinstalling windows and editing the partitions during the installation?
The point of "installing stuff" is not just to extract the recovery image, but also to have your own backup solution. There is a reason the Win8.x image backup is hard to find--because it's deprecated. It's also very limited. Having your own solution avoids the vagaries of Windows quirks. Some OEM recovery also depends on a particular partitioning scheme, and would fail if that scheme has been altered.
Then again, I understand that people don't take data integrity seriously, until after a crash. It's pretty stupid to nuke the recovery partition when prompted, BEFORE VERIFYING that the USB recovery key works. That's why you see the laments of some peeps here, begging for factory images that they FUBAR'ed.
Well, something nasty happened and I couldn't get the tablet to boot. Here are the steps I tried:
Startup Repair
Command Prompt > sfc
PC Refresh
PC Reset
And finally... Created a bootable USB with Windows 8.1 Pro and reinstalled Windows.
I now have only 2 partitions... 1 recovery and one primary.
Thanks everybody for your help.
I need help to recover data (photo, contacts, WhatsApp chats) from my Un-Rooted GT-I9506 running Android 4.3. Due to some error the data was not synced for about 6 months.
Any help as the steps that I need to follow is greatly appreciated
The what's app chats should re-appear if you reinstall what's app and sign in on another phone.
So the phone won't boot at all into the rom? If not, you could install twrp using Odin, boot into twrp, mount the data partition, and copy the data to your computer. Before any of this will work, you need to make sure that the phone is seen by your windows computer.
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The what's app chats should re-appear if you reinstall what's app and sign in on another phone.
So the phone won't boot at all into the rom? If not, you could install twrp using Odin, boot into twrp, mount the data partition, and copy the data to your computer. Before any of this will work, you need to make sure that the phone is seen by your windows computer.
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Thank you audit13 for your help.
My GT-I9506 is working perfectly fine so I should be able to install TWRP.
However I made a mistake and loaded the TWRP ment S4-I337M. I got the usual Green OK message in ODIN. However when I pressed Volume Up & Power I was getting the usual Samsung Default Recovery Options.
Then I realized my mistake and loaded TWRP_3.0.2.0_ks01lte_20160508.tar.md5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...recovery-twrp-2-8-1-0-touch-recovery-t2942159
I got thw Green Successful Message in ODIN. But when I press Volume Down & Power I get the following message:
Recover Booting
Wet Warranty Bit: Recovery.
And the Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9506 in the Black Screen logo
The phone is stuck in the above screen
Phone is working fine (I am able to use the phone and to go to Download Mode).
What should I do?
Re-flash TWRP. I recommend re-flashing TWRP. I like and still use 2.87.
https://twrp.me/devices/samsunggalaxys4ltea.html
Open Odin, uncheck auto reboot, flash TWRP and, when you see the word "reset" in the status window, remove USB cable, remove battery, replace battery, use button combination to boot into TWRP.
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Re-flash TWRP. I recommend re-flashing TWRP. I like and still use 2.87.
https://twrp.me/devices/samsunggalaxys4ltea.html
Open Odin, uncheck auto reboot, flash TWRP and, when you see the word "reset" in the status window, remove USB cable, remove battery, replace battery, use button combination to boot into TWRP.
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Re-flashing with 2.87 worked. TWRP is working, Thank you very much.
When you have time can you please point me to link that have step by step instructions to recover the data?
Boot into twrp, connect phone to computer, open file explorer and look for your data. If you don't see anything in the data partition, you may have to try using a data recovery program. Try a program like recuva.
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Boot into twrp, connect phone to computer, open file explorer and look for your data. If you don't see anything in the data partition, you may have to try using a data recovery program. Try a program like recuva.
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Thank you so much for your help. The files were deleted so I could not find them. I have downloaded Recuva.
What is the Optimal way to recover All deleted files using Recuva?
I did a search and this what I found and I not sure how to do it:
back up the entire internal memory partition to your computer as a single, massive .RAW file,
convert the .RAW file output to a VHD,
mount the VHD as a disk in Disk Manager,
scan the attached VHD volume for files that have been deleted and recover them,
Sorry, I have never use recuva on a phone or non-volatile memory. only mechanical drives.
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Sorry, I have never use recuva on a phone or non-volatile memory. only mechanical drives.
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When I boot GT-9506 into TWRP and mount the internal storage as USB my PC is not detecting the phone internal storage. Even Recuva or HDD Raw Copy Tool is not detecting the phone internal storage.
Any suggestions?
Does TWRP's file manager see any of your data files?
How was the data lost?
- Did you delete it manually?
- Did your format the device?
If so, then it's IMPOSSIBLE to get your data back. That's because Google enabled TRIM in Android 4.3+, so data you deleted is really gone.
If you are stubborn like most of the users and still want to waste lot's of time trying to recover the data then this is the thread you are searching for.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...de-internal-memory-data-recovery-yes-t1994705
TWRP File Manager seems to show all folders example: boot, cache, data, dev, ect, external_sd, license, preload, proc, recovery, res, root, sbin, sdcard, sideload, spersu, system, tem, twres, usbstorage, charger, default.prop .......
When I go into the data folder I see a lot of sub folders including app folder, app-asec, app-lib, app-private, audio, backup, mcmnfc .......
What I go into app folder I see some app files such as "com.whatsapp-34.apk, com.viber.voip6.apk
I am mainly trying to recover deleted Whatsapp & Viber chat, calls history
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How was the data lost?
- Did you delete it manually?
- Did your format the device?
If so, then it's IMPOSSIBLE to get your data back. That's because Google enabled TRIM in Android 4.3+, so data you deleted is really gone.
If you are stubborn like most of the users and still want to waste lot's of time trying to recover the data then this is the thread you are searching for.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...de-internal-memory-data-recovery-yes-t1994705
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The data was deleted manually but it was not formatted nor a factory reset done.
Yes I did see that 100 page long thread. But as mentioned in this tread my internal storage is NOT detected by Recuva or raw HDD copy utility.
I need the deleted data very badly. So I am willing to jump through any loops
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The data was deleted manually but it was not formatted nor a factory reset done.
Yes I did see that 100 page long thread. But as mentioned in this tread my internal storage is NOT detected by Recuva or raw HDD copy utility.
I need the deleted data very badly. So I am willing to jump through any loops
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If you deleted the data manually then you cannot get it back. There are no loops to jump through.
Android 4.3+ has Trim enabled. The TRIM function effectively nulls out the space where deleted files were stored, making the data completely unrecoverable.
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If you deleted the data manually then you cannot get it back. There are no loops to jump through.
Android 4.3+ has Trim enabled. The TRIM function effectively nulls out the space where deleted files were stored, making the data completely unrecoverable.
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I am not too sure about that because I used a software called Dr Fone and was able to recover some of the deleted files.