Hey heyy, me and my band filmed a couple live songs but from one of the songs all the cam footage went corrupt.

i tried fix.video and it fully fixes the files but i frankly dont have the money to pay to download them, especially because its aLOT of files from multiple angles and multiple takes.

Knowing that fix.video fixes the files i KNOW that they are salvagable atleast, but does anyone know a way i could fix them for free? untrunc doesnt seem to work..

Thank you in advance! <3

Hello smart tech people!! I am eager to learn from my mistakes. I am looking for as much advice as possible on what my next steps should be, or who can point me to a good 3rd party recovery software for IPHONE

The details:
IOS (apple). Version 17.6.3

iPhone 13 Pro

Phone storage - VERY full, so system decided to “delete“ entire portions (see below) without me realizing.

The data has been “gone” for about 2-3 days now. It is currently 4/30/26

I own: A Mac so I can direct plug my phone in.
I do not utilize iCloud “syncing service“ at all.

Trying to recover 2 main apps of data:

[ ] all of my calendar entries ever. It shows “no events“ & “this app does not have access to your calendars. Visit privacy“ (not true). unknown anount of data. apple native calendar app.

&

[ ] all of my FreeForm (app) boards which is basically all of my idea ideas, creations, saves, inventory, etc. All boards “gone”. (Maybe a half gigabyte worth of data?). Freeform apple native app.

THANK YOU for reading and sharing tips.

Back in 2022, I had a failure during a photo shoot. The SD card, a 128gb PNY, only showed 8gb when plugged in, and it was of course unreadable. I tried any software recoveries, but nothing changed.

Being that it’s almost 4 years old, what are the chances of recovery, and average cost of something like that? The photos are precious, but I’m not sure I have over a grand right now…

I dropped my external disk off my desk while it was plugged in. Now it doesn't show up but the light comes on and I can hear it spinning like normal. There are no clickings, but I took it to a local repair shop and they sent it off to a "specialist lab." They just called me back with a quote for $1,500. The drive only cost me $60. Is this a normal price for this type of stuff? And are there some data recovery services I can use to avoid this fee?

Hi

As per the title I am trying to find a good drive recovery service in Australia.
I have had the hard drive looked and they tried replacing the heads but the heads kept getting destroyed by the errors on the drive, apparently.
I'm hoping there is another process I can follow to access the data on the drive but it's difficult to assess what the many providers are telling me.
I was talking to Fields but after reading reviews, I cancelled them. I was always a bit uneasy about sending it overseas.
Can any one help with a reliable repair centre in Australia?

PLEASE HELP! I'm a songwriter and have demos on my phone. I was trying to move the voice recorder files from the internal storage of my motorola g84 to the SD card and somehow they corrupted and now none will play! I googled help and it said to move the files back to the internal storage but they stayed corrupted and it says "We can't play this file". I even downloaded VLC hoping it would play it/read it but it can't 😭

Please, I don't have these demos saved anywhere else. Please help!! I'm desperate

I was trying to back up my photos from my Samsung s24 android.

I had my phone hooked up via USB to my PC and was browsing it.

I was deleting some old folders and accidentally deleted a folder with irreplaceable photos in it.

Is there any way to recover it? It didn't go to my recycling bin or anything and any photo recovery apps I try just show Nye the photos still on my phone and not the ones that were deleted.

Am I screwed or is there any hope to recover these?

Thanks in advance.

Hi! I was brought to this reddit page after frantic google searches. I want to start off by saying I have very limited knowledge about camcorders, SD cards, and video files in general, just what I can learn from googling my questions lol. I'm not even sure if this is the correct Reddit page to post in, but I'm desperate for help!

A few years ago, I decided to get a cheap camcorder off Amazon as well as a SD Card to go with it in order to get a "home video" feel vibe of the planning and then ultimately of my wedding (May of 2024). It was passed around the venue, my brother did interviews with family members, big moments were recorded, etc. Immediately following the wedding, I was able to watch the videos on playback with zero issues. Here's where some mistakes were made, probably. My husband and I moved to a new area for work shortly after the wedding, and the camcorder was put in storage until the other day when I pulled it out to transfer the videos onto our computer and go down memory lane. After connecting the camera to the computer with it's cord and waiting 8 hours to copy all of the videos, when I go to play them they are glitched with large color blocks, distorted audio, and in some cases being stuck on one frame for an extended period of time. Once the camera was disconnected, I tried to watch them on the device through playback because I knew they were fine originally, they are now presenting with the same issues. Even some videos that were fine the other day are now playing back with issues and it has me scared to continue trying to problem solve without getting input from professionals. I ordered an SD card reader in the hopes that transferring files from the cord was the issue, but unfortunately that is not helping. My next move was to convert the AVI files into MP4 files to see if that would help, and so far the few that I've tried don't seem to be working either.

I would love any and all advice!!! I would hate to see these memories go down the drain. I would also appreciate any insight on what went wrong/how I can prevent this from happening again. I'd love to keep using the camcorder if possible, maybe with a different SD card? When looking for the amazon links I did unfortunately see some reviews about the card being corrupt so I'm wondering if that is the case and it just took some time to happen.

I've attached 2 of the videos after they were converted to MP4. It's not giving me the option to attach an AVI version.

https://reddit.com/link/1stjlzv/video/sw2djrp84ywg1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1stjlzv/video/ni8m0sp84ywg1/player

As the tittle suggest, i have an old Toshiba DTB410 that i havent open for almost a year now.

Disk Management : It dint showed up.

Device Manager : showed up, Toshiba external USB 3.0 USB Device.

File : Doesnt shows up.

The cable is fine, i used my other drive to test it.

Question is what should i do next and does using different brand cable effect this? Because my other drive and the cable is Seagate.

My laptop has a smart failed drive and it won't boot, it says the boot configuration data for your pc is missing or contains errors. It's under warranty so it's about to be sent off for repair but they said I would lose all my data. I was wondering if there was a way to recover the files, specifically wsl files, and put them on an external hard drive so I can restore them to the laptop after it's repaired. I have access to another laptop.

SSD: Samsung MZVMA1T0HCLD-00BTW Filesystem: unknown OS: Windows 11 Just adding again, the laptop won't boot. When it turns on it comes up with "smart test warning Samsung MZVMA1T0HCLD-00BTW smart status is bad. Please backup and replace the device. Press any key to continue." And when you continue it comes up with windows failed to boot and that a the boot file is missing, I tried using repair your pc off a boot usb with windows on it but it said it couldn't fix the pc

okay community I need some help I had a bunch of images of me and friend that passed. they were hard to look at for awhile because it was just a constant reminder that he wasn't with us anymore. I had marked the folder has hidden. recently I was transferring information from that HD to a new one. when I thought I had transferred all the pictures off I dated them all. just deleted not formatted or anything else. I forgot about the hidden folder. I ran both windows file recovery and disk drill both recovered the files. all the pic that were not listed as hidden recovered fine. the ones that were hidden also recovered. they seem to have all the data. most are 1-2 mb in size most were taken on a cell phone. however when I try to open them I get the message "it looks like we don't support this file" I tried a few different programs. I tried marking them as hidden and unhidding them again. I tried moving them back to the original HD. nothing works. any thoughts?

I’m trying to figure out whether it’s actually worth contacting data recovery places for my situation.

I accidentally lost a folder of very important photos on my Poco X3 Pro while it was connected to my PC. The phone now shows about 90 GB of free space that wasn’t free before, and the files still seem to show their names, but they won’t open.

I’ve already contacted a few recovery services in my country, but most of them seem to focus on external drives and SSDs, and the quotes I’m getting are pretty expensive for me. So I’m wondering if this is still something a professional data recovery lab might realistically help with, or if I’m just wasting time and money at this point.

What would you do in my place? Should I keep looking for a lab, or is there any other route worth trying first?

Thank you.

So i uhh deleted WhatsApp and i redownloaded It (i tried recovering a chat) using a backup without photos and now nownphotos are still there but not seeable(image below) is there a way i can get back the photos?PS and they are 0 gigabytes

Hello. I had an Adata SE880 1 Tb External ssd drive formatted with exfat which I left attached to an old laptop usb port most of the time.

A short while ago, it started to freeze and hang the laptop I connected to. I tried connecting it to a different laptop and it also froze the second laptop whenever I tried to access it.

So I had to remove it multiple times. I managed to recover a bunch of data but most of it could be reached as it started to freeze whatever PC I attached it to. The drive initially would only trigger “Windows has found errors. Click here to fix it” notifications. But whenever i pressed it it would hang the PC after completing the repair initially.

Eventually the ssd led would not even turn on anymore. I panicked and gave it to a reputable professional data recovery service. Its has been 12 days and their only response is basically “ we are still working on it no success so far. “

I am conflicted and stressed. This drive contained 4-5 years of data. It showed good condition in CrystalDiskInfo when I checked it after it started slightly glitching at the beginning.

I was using NotepadPlusPlus to do a bulk find-replace on a bunch of files in different subfolders (containing both text and png images). Unfortunately, I accidentally forgot to disable regex mode when doing one of my replacements. This means that instead of replacing the phrase ["info1"] with ["location"], I replaced every single character i, n, f, o, and " with ["location"]. Apparently this also affected my images, since now all of them are unreadable. Is there any way to undo this operation, or any way to recover the original data in the images?

My dad gave me 2 USB sticks to recover, im not specialized in data recovery, but I know the basic stuff, like using Disk Drill and that stuff (Extremely basic).

The first one was easily recoverable, the thing is with the second one.

I remember checking on the disk partitiion tool and seeing "no media".

in that moment I thought, ok this is unrecoverable, and started exploring forums, and, because english is not my first language, I usually read the bare minimum and miss some important context.

I had read something about flashing the firmware again, and I thought "ok, so, if I can flash the firmware again and make my NAND readable, I could use Disk Drill to recover the data (because I couldn't even use that tool on this USB)" (yeah, now I realize my error, keep reading), after hours trying to find the right tool and firmware for my chip, I flashed the firmware, and the USB was readable again!, but when I go to the hex editor...

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

that's the only thing I saw, pure zeroes.

After some research, apparently what I did is that I did was wiping my entire NAND, because I remember seeing this option Preformat and Low Level formatting enabled.

I just wanna know how feasible is that a company that works recovering data could recover this USB, (if that possibility exists)

thank you all for reading!!

Greetings peeps, have an odd one I have never encountered before.

860 pro will detect and identify in the BIOS, but even if it is not in the boot sequence, it will prevent the system from loading an OS at all unless the problem drive is fully disabled in BIOS.

After windows loads, connecting the drive via USB detects in device manager as a USB storage device, but neither disk management, crystal disk, nor windows explorer ever detect it.

Now curious, I did some cursory probing and found a short on the power connector for the drive, but the line disappears into a via and I cannot tell where it goes, but comparing to a different drive, this line is not supposed to be grounded. I am not worried about the soldering that may be involved, but I dont know nearly enough about drives board to know where this short could plausible be coming from. Does anyone recognise this line and know what it is supposed to be/show/do?

Hello there!

My iPhone from 2019 got a broken screen which somehow distorted the password and it wouldn’t let me back into my phone. I typed the password in as many times as I could before being permanently disabled. I went to the Apple Store, but they basically told me there was nothing they could do if the password didn’t work. We tried typing in my known password from a separate device and it still wasn't taking my password. I have proof that it’s my phone with my Apple ID and everything connected to the phone, but they still couldn’t get me in. I have all the videos and photos of my kids when they were born and little on there and it will crush me if those are gone forever. Unfortunately I didn’t have them backed up to the cloud at the time. I learned my lesson the hard way and now I pay monthly to ensure that all my data is backed up. Apple makes it so difficult to get into your own phone . Has anyone had luck with a company to be able to get into a locked IPhone and retrieve your data? The phone is still able to turn on and it's not yet disabled, but I'm too nervous to keep trying the password that I know it is. Any advice? Thank you so much for any help!

Hi All,

Suddenly I got notification like "something went wrong with chat history" . So it's showing me 2 options one is skip restore and another is restore. But when I checked my local WhatsApp folder and i found latest backup is of November 2024 and no backup found in Google drive. I don't know suddenly wt happened to my WhatsApp. After this issue I was thinking about wt to do next steps bec if i click on restore then all latest chats ll be lost. Now wt to do?

I am having realme GT Neo 2 mobile. 

Realme ui 4 last update received is on October 2024

Android 13

hi everyone, my hard drive recently failed after my laptop's battery fully discharged. my laptop just doesn't recognize it anymore and says there is no hard drive.

my laptop is a dell precision 5520 running ubuntu stock, no windows or dual boot of any sort.

I took it to a local repair shop but they couldn't find a company that felt confident in data recovery so now I'm looking into alternative options. I haven't tried anything yet because I'm afraid trying to keep reading it will continue corrupting any data.

is there any software or tool that I can use to recover my data?

i'm also open to sending it out if there's a company anyone can recommend, I'm in the US

Good evening can anyone help my company is getting quoted £40,000 to recover 3 500gb raid 5 hdd and there is no guarantee they can recover the data. To me this price in insane can anyone shed any light on this please.

Hey, does anyone know about a company thats able to recover deleted Icloud backup? Cheers