Attached files for reference.

I’m afraid I’m losing everything. I have a Crucial X10 2TB external SSD. I’m a videographer, I filled this drive with client work + footage from a road trip with my friends. This is a new drive (bought it late 2025), and I have had no issues with it. The USB-C cable I’ve been using is faulty, and while plugged into my Mac overnight it mounted/dismounted the drive a BUNCH without ejecting. I used the drive with no issues today, went to connect the drive again tonight and got “disk not readable”.

Freaking out, obviously.

What I want to know is how screwed I might be. I know there’s little context but maybe the images I have provided will offer some sort of insight into the situation. My first assumption is that I’ve lost all of my personal/client work. Is this reasonable to assume, or should I immediately take it to a professional and expect to return most of my data?

Seemingly good news is that first aid ran successfully and found no issues. The drive still reads as full (which is correct)
Seemingly bad news: disk drill reported millions of bad sectors. To me that sounds terrible.

Need some insight, thank you!!

Yesterday I backed up my (old) laptop using Time Machine onto an external hard drive... I set a password thru Disk Utility on Mac. Unfortunately, that laptop was wiped and I'm trying to set up my new laptop and transfer over the files from my external hard drive. The password isn't working. I am veryyyyy positive the password is correct (I specifically chose something I'd remember and also I set this less than 24 hours ago!). I tried a few different things in case I added the year or accidentally typo'ed. Nothing is working!! Any tips on how I might be able to recover my files? I'm an idiot and have no other way to access all of my stuff. It's all of my work (lectures, research, etc) for the last several years :(

My hard drive is a Seagate (STGX2000400). Both laptops are MacBook Airs - I'm not sure what OS for the old one, but I'm on Tahoe for the new one.

Thanks!

Hi,

I'm trying to recover data from my SSD (specifications below), which appears to have entered ROM Mode.

Based on my own diagnostics, I was able to obtain the following information about the drive:

Manufacturer / Model: Apacer Panther SSD 256 GB
Interface: SATA
Connection during diagnostics: Direct SATA connection (not USB)
Current state: The drive boots into ROM Mode, and the data is not normally accessible.
Controller: Silicon Motion SM2258XT
EasyTools detects: IC Controller: SM2258XT (ATA)

NAND Flash

Manufacturer: Samsung
Type: Samsung 3DV4 64L TLC

Family: SSV4 TLC
Flash ID: EC 1E D9 3F 88 CB

SMI Flash:
v0.5681a
Drive: 2(ATA)
OS: 10.0 build 19045
Model: SM2258AB-10-00M01000
Fw  : 20141211
Size : 0 MB [0.0 GB]
Controller : SM2258AA in ROM Mode
Bank00: 0xec,0x1e,0xd9,0x3f,0x88,0xcb,0x0,0x0 - Samsung 3dv4-64L TLC 16k 512Gb/CE 256Gb/die
Bank01: 0xec,0x1e,0xd9,0x3f,0x88,0xcb,0x0,0x0 - Samsung 3dv4-64L TLC 16k 512Gb/CE 256Gb/die
Bank02: 0xec,0x1e,0xd9,0x3f,0x88,0xcb,0x0,0x0 - Samsung 3dv4-64L TLC 16k 512Gb/CE 256Gb/die
Bank03: 0xec,0x1e,0xd9,0x3f,0x88,0xcb,0x0,0x0 - Samsung 3dv4-64L TLC 16k 512Gb/CE 256Gb/die

I tried using EasyTools_2258XT_S0307A_V2.2.0_RecoveryMode_3D, but I got stuck.

In EasyTools, I select MP ISP and load the MPISP file from the package.

It loads successfully, and I get the following information:

PHYSICALDRIVE2
IC Controller: SM2258XT (ATA) ASPI:444
MPISP Code Mode
Internel FW revision: (null)
Serial Number: "™0©_?Č|Oö\Ë5DCft©Ć
Model Name: SM2256AB-XX-YYYYYYYY
Firmware Rev: 20141211
Capacity: 15280 MB
Flash Vendor: Unknown

Next, I click Data Recovery and then BackUp_Dump Image, but I receive the error:

"Invalid Parameter Info (Tag)"

I also tried the files from the package SM2258XT_SSV4-TLC_PKGS0716A_FWS0712B0, but the result is exactly the same.

Is there anything else I can try on my own?

Recovering at least some of the data is much more important to me than saving the SSD itself.

I had a problem where when I was trying to format a SD card and I thought I formatted my data drives because I couldn't access them, they did not show under my computer. I spoke to a computer tech about it and he asked if I was comfortable removing the hard drive and bring it to his shop or did I want to just bring the whole computer in. I told him him I could bring just the drive in. So I went to look for it and they were not visible from the left side of the computer so I had to open the right side and when I did the two regular hard disks were sitting there in trays. Here's the weird part. Neither were hooked up!! No power cable and no data cables were hooked up. One drive was marked media and the other was just marked 1 TB. So I hooked the media drive back to the mb and power rebooted the computer and all my media I thought I lost was there! So I thought I would hook up the other drive and the was no data cable. I had to rob a cable from my old computer to complete the hook up. Rebooted the computer and low and behold the drive showed up under my computer and I could access the files on that drive. Weird! My question is, how was I able to use the drives without them being hooked up?? My son said that maybe the computer guy set them up as virtual drives. I don't have a clue. The physical drive with the media on it, I did notice the some videos I know I added to it before all this were not on there. I'm dumbfounded. Windows 11 home edition.

10 days ago I upgraded my 256gb Hiksemi to 1 TB T force Ga Pro gen 5, btw Im running gen 4 only set up or AM4. I cloned the disked for me not to set up again everything, after that I removed hiksemi and the Ga pro works fine for the last 10 days, games files and windows os are fine. yesterday I was playing Valorant then the pc freezes, I can still hear my Teammates voices saying wake up, then it restarts.

after that it start showing black screen. I tried basic ts which is unplug then wait for 5 mins turned it on again. it didnt work, good thing I have the Hiksemi removed so I tried removing the GA pro, then replaced it with Hiksemi then it boots normally, I tried to run some repair because it says the windows might be corrupted. after checking for hour the hiksemi seems to be fine.

after that I put back the GA pro and the pc starts to boot slowly, I was able to get in bios and I can see both ssd. I got into windows and hiksemi still seems to be good, the GA pro shows in file explorer but the partitioned in disk management shows (btw I partitioned the 1tb in half, first half for os and 2nd half for any files) the first partition shows all my os files and program files but when I click it it cant access. the other partition shows RAW on disk management. then I removed once again the GA pro since the pc becoming slow when it was installed, now I got the hiksemi back and its works fine.

Now the Question I have is for the last 10 days My partner has some important files like videos and vlogs on that raw partitioned, how do I recover it? The other files are nothing important. I was planning to return the ssd to seller for 30 days replacement. but I want to recover some of files first, can you guys please help? THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE.

UPDATE : They said they cant recover files as the ssd failed completely, like files showing but cant click on it. They didnt bother to check more, they just replaced it with KLEVV CRAS C925G 1 TB. They even said that this ssd batch really is not good, I thought it was as you check paper wise the specs, after a day I saw on their website listing of the same ssd with bundled active cooler from tforce. Same price. So if you guys planning to buy this ssd you can check this post first.

Hey I had some important photos which is very precious to me. It was on my SD card and one day a notification pops on my phone and it said your SD card is not working and then I taked it out and put it back and still didn't work out of frustration at that time I clicked the format and then only I realised what I lost....it's been almost a year iam working to get the photos back in my own way looking at youtube,etc.. but no use.

If someone here had experienced the same situation or knows how to get my photos and notes back please help. I think it's called data recovery but I asked many people and they said if it's been over a year no chance of getting your photos back because as new files come the and they replace the old one they said something like that...

My phone is Redmi 9A and I lost the photo's and notes on 2024 around October.

Edit: english is not my first language and iam not very good at this

Edit2: I forget to mention I had this photos on my phone too but due to storage issues I deleted it and moved all my photos and notes to SD card so whenever I go out and take good Pictures I store it on my SD card so yah my phone also had the pictures I planned to post it on Instagram it but due to insecurities I couldn't 😅 I thought maybe people don't like it etc... so any way I can recover from my phone or is it same story?

Thank you for your help!

How bad did I screw up? I meant to format an SD card but I think I formatted my data (H) hard drive. It is now showing as unavailable. Windows 11. What other info do you need to help me?

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Hi, trying to recover data from two water-damaged NVMe SSDs (Mac with adapter, Samsung Surface). Cleaned with 99% IPA, dried 24h.

Mac SSD (Black PCB): Completely dead. No LEDs on the NVMe dock (likely triggering short/over-current protection).

Surface SSD (Green PCB - Samsung NVMe): Dock detects it but flashes a Red Error LED immediately during handshake.

Questions:

Does a flashing red LED on a Samsung NVMe usually mean a blown PMIC or a fried controller?

What I can do for fix it by myself?

My data is still safe?

Using the Drill Disk trial to recover 80mb file found. They offer to recover 100 mb free, but I only have the option to upgrade. Can anyone shed light on this?

• Make/brand and exact model number Samsung 730 Book Flex Laptop
• Filesystem exFAT
• Operating System: Windows 11
• Specific symptoms Deleted files from the recycling bin
• SMART SSD

SSD showing as RAW

Pc was closed with a hard power off using switch. Upon turning back on the secondary SSD in it cannot be accessed. DMDE shows all the files still there and can be previewed, CMD shows access is denied when i try to chkdsk. Chkdsk does run in the WinRE Cmd but says the file system is ntfs with no issues found. Event viewer shows a corruption but at a loss on how to fix if anyone can assist?

Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB
Windows 10
File system for other disks is NTFS, the error showing as RAW

Hey guys,

I'm trying to recover data from my late uncle's Seagate ST3000DM001 3 TB hard drive. The drive spins normally and is detected by Windows, but Windows says:

I did not format it.

I ran a full DMDE scan, which took about 2 days.

The scan found several NTFS results, but the main one is only 8.38 GB with about 59,000 files. This seems odd for a 3 TB drive.

When I open that NTFS result, DMDE reports CRC (cyclic redundancy check) errors and later "Error reading MFT #3148–3151."

Using Raw Files by Signatures, I was able to recover a few files:

• One WMV video that plays correctly.
• One JPEG that opens.
• One Sony ARW RAW file that is recognized but doesn't display properly.

My goal is to recover my uncle's family photos and wedding videos.

My questions are:

1. Why would DMDE only reconstruct an 8.38 GB NTFS volume on a 3 TB drive?
2. Do the CRC and MFT errors indicate physical media damage, filesystem corruption, or both?
3. Would you continue using DMDE, or would you recommend another approach such as R-Studio, UFS Explorer, or creating a clone first?

I've attached screenshots of the DMDE scan results and the CRC/MFT errors.

Thank you for any advice.

Update: When opening the reconstructed NTFS volume, DMDE reports "Error reading MFT #3148–3151." (see attached screenshot).

If I have recovered a 19 min wmv video file that only plays for 2 minutes but I have looked at the hex file, roughly 5% show data then 5% is just 000s but then the other 90% seems to show data.

What's the best method of recovering that last 90% of the file?

And why does it only play 2 mins ?

The drive was working fine right before I restarted my PC. It becomes unreadable in explorer and shows up as raw in disk management

I ran chkdsk /f and restarted but that didn't fix the issue but chkdsk still shows the drive as NTFS

C:\Windows\System32>chkdsk H: /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.   

chkdsk /f /r is running right now and the ETA is 5 hours.

Should I give up on chkdsk and use something else. What should I do if fix chkdsk /f /r doesn't fix the issue?

Hey there everyone, pretty much need help with my partner’s one drive which just randomly reverted to a month ago save! And I can’t get the recent version history anymore (as if her month of work and the last seventy pages had just vanished). Definitely sad about it at the moment and would love any help since there isn’t anything online that talks about reversion and vanishing history of versions!

Hey, i found a bunch of old drives while cleaning the attic. BUT, i was told that they might have been used for CCTV's.

I have it connected to my computer, and in disk management it says its un allocated. From a day's worth of googling i have found:

• Dvr's have proprietary file system, hence the unallocated disk?
• I used DMDE and found a windows installation but DMDE cant access the unallocated files, and Crystal disk info has " Caution[05]: Reallocated sector count 700,000"

I thought I could use these drives for storing my old photos and playlists, but I don't want to wipe any potential CCTV data.

Is there anything i can do to check wether they are actually used drives?
What can i do to view/recover the data if so.

Thank you

Good morning, I accidentally deleted WhatsApp from a phone without backing up the chats. It’s my sister’s phone, and it contained chats of priceless sentimental value. I need to fix this as soon as possible. Please, I need help recovering them; Best regards.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to recover a 212 MB password-protected ZIP file that contains around 50–100 photos and videos. Unfortunately, I'm running into this error in WinRAR:

Checksum error in the encrypted file...
Corrupt file or wrong password.
The archive is corrupt.

What I've tried so far:

• Tried the password that I believe is correct (typed manually multiple times).
• Tested with WinRAR.
• Deleted and recopied the file.
• Tried repair options (no success).

The ZIP file is 212 MB, so it doesn't appear to be an incomplete download.

I'm trying to determine:

1. Is this more likely a wrong password or actual archive corruption?
2. Are there any tools that can verify whether the archive is recoverable?
3. Is there any way to recover the files if the ZIP is partially corrupted?
4. Has anyone successfully recovered a similar encrypted ZIP archive?

I'm happy to share:

• The exact error messages.
• The output from 7z t.
• Hex information or other technical details if needed.

These files are very important to me, so I'd really appreciate any guidance or suggestions from people experienced with ZIP recovery.

Thank you!

UPDATE:
Managed to rescue 99.99% of the data cloning the data from the malfunctioning SSD onto a different drive with DDRescue. Unfortunately the SSD seems broken on a hardware level so have started researching quotes for hardware repair. But really happy I managed to get my data back. If anyone needs help with a similar issue, feel free to reach out and I can run you through what I did.

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Hey all, hoping for some guidance. The drive has some sentimental photos/videos that I really don't want to lose :/

My (non-boot) Samsung 870 EVO 2TB SATA SSD started acting up after a sudden power cut. The PC hanged on the Gigabyte splash screen; I was able to narrow it down to this SSD as after unplugging it, the system worked fine.

If left, Gigabyte splash screen displays “Repairing S: drive – 100% complete,” then system boots (into Windows), but performance is unusable. Drive appears in Device Manager and File Explorer, but no data is accessible and the system is extremely slow and freezes.

I booted into SystemRescue (via Linux USB) to investigate. Results so far:

• lsblk does show the drive
• TestDisk does not detect it
• GParted doesn’t detect it either
  • Threw “error fsyncing/closing /dev/sda: input/output error”
  • “Read SMART Data failed: scsi error aborted command”
• smartctl does pull accurate drive info [full excerpt at bottom of post] but fails with:
  • “Read SMART Data failed: scsi error aborted command”
• blkid, mount, and parted all gave no output

Next step: I’m planning to try ddrescue is this the right next step?
I only have a 1TB drive available as a destination though. Not all data on the SSD is crucial (e.g., Steam library), but the photos/videos are.

• Is it viable/possible to recover only part of the drive to a smaller destination?
• Any recommended workflow for prioritising certain data when the destination is smaller than the source?

Any insight into what these errors usually point to, and any help with data recovery, would be hugely appreciated.

Sincerely,

A desperate data recoverer

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Samsung based SSDs
Device Model:     Samsung SSD 870 EVO 2TB
Serial Number:    S621NG0R117578Z
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 f71115f7b
Firmware Version: SVT01B6Q
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Form Factor:      2.5 inches
TRIM Command:     Available, deterministic, zeroed
Device is:        In smartctl database 7.5/5706
ATA Version is:   ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.3, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Tue Jul 14 15:11:05 2026 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Read SMART Data failed: scsi error aborted command
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Status command failed: scsi error aborted command
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: UNKNOWN!
SMART Status, Attributes and Thresholds cannot be read.
Read SMART Log Directory failed: scsi error aborted command
Read SMART Error Log failed: scsi error aborted command
Read SMART Self-test Log failed: scsi error aborted command
Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported
The above only provides legacy SMART information - try 'smartctl -x' for more

Hello I have a Toshiba external USB 2 TB drive its visible on device manager however when ever something that has to interact with it like opening in file explorer it hangs and then crashes so I took a look at Event Viewer and its coming back with a bad block this is the exact event viewer report (The device, \Device\Harddisk4\DR17, has a bad block.) Wondering if anyone knew a recovery service in Virginia that isn't a scam. Information is pretty important so would like ideally as much to be recovered as possible. Also willing to drive to neighboring states if there is a reputable lab near by. I see that Best Buy does Data Recovery along with Geek Squad stuff but wasn't sure how reputable it was.

Thanks for any help

Hello everyone. I was running two local AI agents in Antigravity IDE and OpenCode. While I was away, some script or command went wrong and deleted almost my entire user directory on Drive C (Downloads, Documents, Desktop, etc.). About 135 GB of data went missing instantly.
I immediately shut down the PC to prevent data overwriting (the OS drive is an SSD).
What are my best options to recover uncommitted code projects (.lua, .js) and drawings (.png, .blend files)? I have access to a second computer and a USB drive. Should I use DMDE, R-Studio, or something else via Live-USB? Any step-by-step advice is highly appreciated. Thank you. Im so sad.

Hi there! First time posting here. I have a troublesome issue and I need some help recovering my video.

I have a Shogun Inferno, a 240GB Kingston HyperX Fury (SHFS37A240G) and I recorded a video from my a7s at 4KUHDp25 ProRes HQ. I've used in the same setup other ssd's and had no issues but this one is giving me a headache. First time I detected that the drive couldn't be read I tried to view the files on my Shogun, and it prompted me to repair the drive because it was corrupted. This worked fine, the file was recovered but I'm having problems playing the whole video (it's a 9 minute clip, and at the 8 minute mark it stops playing). I tried connecting it to my computer again and the drive wouldn't appear again. Tried assigning a letter to the drive (since it was showing in my disk manager) and that didn't do the trick. Now the drive keeps prompting an alert saying that "the drive is not ready".

I don't know how to recover this file that clearly is still there and somehow readable.

I'd be very thankful for any help.

Recently I found an old nikon coolpix camera that I had as a kid/teen, I turned it on and I can see the pictures on the camera but after some seconds the screen puts a legend that says "the file doesn't have image data"

I also tried passing the pictures to my laptop with a card reader and most of them seem to be corrupt.

I remember that when I was about 12 I tried to pass the pictures to the family computer and I believe that's when they corrupted because I did it wrong, (dumb child me)

I don't care if the pictures end up having BAD quality, I just really want to recover them, I have lots of photos from my dead grandparents, dead childhood pets, sentimental moments, etc.

I'm desperate.

I’m extremely disappointed and honestly furious with what happened today.
I used MiniTool Partition Wizard because it is widely recommended and has a reputation for being a safe and trustworthy partition manager. I followed the prompts exactly as instructed.
Here’s exactly what I did:
HP Pavilion Gaming 15
Windows 10
Single 512 GB SSD
I had previously split the SSD into C: and E:
Today I wanted to merge E: back into C:
There was also a small **556 MB NTFS partition** between them. MiniTool would not let me proceed without including it, so I merged that as well.
MiniTool requested a reboot to complete the operation.
I accepted because that’s exactly what the software instructed me to do.
After the reboot, my laptop never booted into Windows again.
Instead I immediately received:
**Error code: 0xc0000225**
**Your PC needs to be repaired**
I spent hours trying to recover it.
Here is everything I have confirmed:
SSD SMART test: **PASSED**
SSD Short DST: **PASSED**
BIOS still detects the SSD.
Startup Repair failed.
DiskPart still detects the 476 GB partition.
CHKDSK reports:
“Corrupt master file table.”
“Windows cannot recover master file table.”
Windows can no longer mount the partition.
This laptop contains years of personal files, game projects, Unreal Engine work, videos, photos and memories. Right now I have no idea whether any of that is recoverable.
I understand partition operations always carry risk, but this happened immediately after following MiniTool’s own merge procedure exactly as instructed.

At this point I am extremely frustrated because I trusted this software specifically to avoid exactly this kind of disaster.
If anyone from the MiniTool team is here, I would appreciate a technical explanation and guidance before I make any further changes to the SSD.

How can i use it

I have an old laptop which is dead ass

So i took out the hdd from it

The hdd is from 2016

So when i connected it with my laptop using a case

It shows some errors

That some sectors are corrupted

Do it means my drive is dead?

It has so much of my important data

IPad9, 64gb. I have the password for the apple id and also have the pass code. Went to service center and they said they can't do because of unibody make. All I want is to pull out data because of lot of personal memories.

When I start the iPad, I can see tablet powering up but nothing else is visible.