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Safe method for SD backup and recovery on a Mac

I have tried several methods on my Mac to backup and recover an image of the SDs on my raspis. The only method that has consistently proved to work for me is the "dd" from Mac terminal. The ...
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How to revert misconfigured BOOT_ORDER value on RPI4?

I've had my RPI4 configured to boot from the network if there is no SD card inserted (for bare metal programming) but firmware update restored it back to SD boot only. So I've tried to make it boot ...
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Is it possible to select the root partition at boot time using GPIO pins

My Raspberry PI has 2 identical (kind of) root partitions. I would like to be able to select the other root partition at boot time using a GPIO pin in case I brick it.
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Raspberry Pi not booting "recover4.elf is not compatible"

I've bought x3 Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Model sets a while ago and was very happy with it. I've been working on the one and cloning the same SD-Card onto other 2, so I could have the same system state on ...
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Corrupted SD Card - how to fix, or recover data?

I recently got my hands on an older pi (Model 3B), that I had left at my mom's house some time ago. When I went to start it, it wouldn't boot. The red light came on but the screen remained black. I ...
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Recover an ext4 due to the super block flag

My ubuntu 21 hanged and after rebooting, it was not able to boot up. The current message is this one. Tried to use fsck with -y and -f and none of them fixes the partition. It happened with the ...
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Recovery of SRM save game file from Retropie corrupt SD card

I've been googling at this all night and have found multiple conflicting methods of recovering/formatting/saving corrupt SD cards but i'm a complete n00b with both Raspberry Pi and Linux. Basically ...
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Install recovery mode after already flashing Raspberry Pi OS?

I have a Raspberry Pi 4B, and I installed Raspberry Pi OS onto a blank microSD card using the official imager. My understanding is that if I had used NOOBS, after installing the OS there would have ...
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how to recover removed directories

I am trying to cross compile Qt for my raspberry, I tried it and I had some errors so I decided to change the configuration and try again maybe things will get better .. I got this after configuration ...
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Disable Single User Mode

If I forget my password to my Raspberry Pi, I can gain access again by using single user mode (here is an alternative link). The upside is that if I don't know my password, I can gain access. The ...
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How NOOBS OS boots? (in recovery mode)

I am trying to implement something which requires me to learn this:- How Raspberry pi NOOBS OS boots in recovery mode while holding SHIFT key? Can anyone help me regarding this?
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how to remove recovery mode screen in Raspberry pi 3 b+

Any body can help me about recovery mode. How to remove recovery mode screen in Raspberry pi 3 b+ Thanks
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Pi stopped booting after losing power - can it be recovered

I have had a pi running as a Bluetooth link to a meat-curing machine and it's been awesome! The thing has run without issues for like 45 days. Well today I decided to move it to a new room and so I ...
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rPi4 no longer capable of HDMI output. Eeprom recovery did not help

I have a rPi 4 that died on me, in two stages: First it would only show a yellow screen on HDMI outputs. Then later, it completely stopped outputting HDMI altogether. It seems to be in a reboot loop? ...
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Pi 3b+ boot problem

My pi 3b+ works with an SSD disk connected through USB and it was working with nextcloud for more than 1 year. Pi stopped working, I could not access online, the apache server was not responding and ...
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Accidently disabled overscan on pi 4b

Stupid me. I accidentally disabled overscan and it won't show anything after normal post, it shows the rainbow-colored screen, then shifts for recovery then after what nothing. I don't want to lose ...
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Error on init/boot '/init: line 27: can't create /sys/class/leds/led0/trigger'

Sorry for asking the same question twice, but it seems I can't fix the problem yet. I have a web server running on my pi. One day I found that my server is down and I try to access my pi using VNC and ...
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I tried to hard wire power to pi 3 b, and smoked the board... File recovery?

I've been using my raspberry pi for about a year now, with Octoprint for my 3d printer. One of the more recent updates started showing it as under-voltaged. Over the last week, it started to cut out, ...
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Is possible to make the backup and the recovery root partition from one to the other?

I have two Raspberry Pi boards. One is a (Pi 1) Model B and the other is a Pi 2 Model B. The Pi 1 Model B is a new one from my friend. I had used the Pi 2 Model B for a long time. I know the ...
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Hi, I have falshed o/s for my rasberry pizero W on my 32gb sd card which contained my lots of data,So all I want to ask can I recover it back? [closed]

I want to know that does flashing formats existing data,if no how do I get it back?
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Recover files from RPi after doing chmod 777 / -R?

I know, I'm an idiot, I have no backups, let's move forward. Is there any way I can get the files off the SD card? I did sudo chmod 777 / -R and can no longer connect to the device over SSH or SFTP.
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Restore deleted files on Raspbian Jessie

I mistakenly deleted the files and folder that were whole movies collection on my external drive, the only folder left is 2014, I don't know how. The problem is from shell I ran rm -rfcommand So now ...
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NO display with raspberry Pi.High voltage at 3.3V output.(Is it dead?)

Recently I was using raspberry pi which was working fine. I tried to use GSM module with it and powered it using the 3.3V pin of raspberry pi and suddenly my raspberry pi rebooted and after it gained ...
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TFT LCD installation failed

Connected a 3.5in TFT LCD and ran the LCD35-show script which ran for a bit then rebooted and crashed. I would just like to get back to the HDMI, but system crashes. Noobs V2.3 is available but there ...
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Unable to enter recovery mode on Ubuntu MATE

I forgot my password for Ubuntu MATE and I've read that the only way to reset it in Ubuntu is to enter recovery mode and enter a root shell etc. The problem is, I can't figure out how to enter ...
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Reverting Display Brightness Changes

I have Ubuntu Mate installed on RPi3 with official 7" screen. I was changing screen brightness through Mate's GUI where I dragged the bar too much towards the dark side... Resulting BLACK LCD!!! How ...
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Can't access SD card contents (Ubuntu) after inserting SD into Android phone

So my Rasberry Pi had some sort of failure, and I'm trying to recover some data from the SD card. Since I didn't have an SD reader on hand I chucked the SD into my android phone and tried to use the ...
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How to enter Recovery Mode without USB keyboard?

At boot, I know you can enter to Recovery screen by holding shift. However, I don't have access to a usb keyboard for now. However, a bluetooth keyboard is configured with my Raspberry Pi 3, but it ...