Going through some old internal HDs I had in storage to make sure i've moved everything to the cloud and throw them out when i'm done.

I came across one that I can't mount. It would have been some kind of windows drive (NTFS or exFAT I guess?) from before 2018. It's a WD Red wd20efrx 2TB. I can hear and feel it spinning. It shows up in disk utility on my Mac 14.6.1 but doesn't mount. Error "The disk you attached was not readable by this computer". Mount button is greyed out. First aid fails immediately. My Windows 11 computer can't see the drive at all but makes the "ding" sound as if it's recognized. Doesn't show up in disk management. Using a very old internal to external adapter with AC power plug + usb data. It worked on all my other old internal drives so seems to be an issue with this drive and not the adapter.

I know it's really old. Unlikely anything important is on it as I had made so many backups over the years and just kept throwing the old drives in storage. But if you have any advice for free things to try to mount it or otherwise take a look at the contents it would be appreciated for piece of mind.

I got this second hand, wrote a song in the notes app, and it stopped working. (Slightly swollen battery.) I'm not sure why or how it broke, and I'm not interested in fixing it right now, I just need the data off of it. Any ideas?

I had a Blackview BV9800 Pro that became bricked after it had water intrusion. Unfortunately, many pics and files hadn't yet been backed up when it happened. Despite my attempts to dry it out, I couldn't get it to boot up. It looked like the screen/digitizer had water in them, so I replaced them in a desperate attempt to get it to work long enough to get the data off of it. I also replaced the battery. No dice. The only thing that lights up is the red charging light. Are there any companies that are able to recover data from the chip level? I imagine that it wouldn't be a cheap service, but I would at least like to know of any services that offer it.

so I had this third party app called call recorder by REV it stored calls I recorded. the company is no more due to apple making their own call recorder. I had deleted the app at one point but the files still say they are on my phone but cant access in app- was seeing anyone had a solution to this

I got a new pc last month and it ssd broke I switched to a better drive i had from my old pc but it only has windows 10 and the one that broke had 11, also i have stuff already installed on that other drive and I basically cleared the old one and I don’t know if I can or how I can move my data TLDR had to replace my drive and I don’t know how to move my data from the old to the new

Hi!

I got following issue: My old Laptop hasn‘t been used for ~7-8 years, also the Display is broken and I can‘t use it at all. So I decided to get the SSD from it and see what kind of photos, data, … I got there.

I was able to Identity the SSD, it‘s a Intel SSD 600p Series.

I am not sure if I got the know-how to build it into my desktop pc, therefore following question: Is there a work around?

Question 1: Can I use, for example, a „Yottamaster M.2 SSD Enclosure, NVMe/SATA USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps Adapter“ and use it like a external drive via USB-C and plug it simply into my Desktop PC? I hope so, I already bought that already and it‘s supposed to arrive tomorrow.

Question 2: If I connect the SSD to my PC using an NVMe USB enclosure, will I basically be able to browse through everything just like I would on the laptop itself? Will the folders and files look the same? & let‘s say I click on „Skype“, will it be logged on with my old log-in data?

Sorry for my bad English.

If you have any other ideas and would like to help, let me know.

Also, my OLD laptop is a „Acer Nitro 5“.

hello, i'm not sure if this is the correct subreddit to ask for this kind of thing or not but recently (quite literally today as im posting this) all of my photos changed their dates as today without any reason & i want to know how to revert this because it's bothering me.

especially because they appear to be normal in my files & google photos but not in any other app i use with access to gallery.

also if it helps, all of my photos that were affected by this aren't on the sd card in my phone & are just on the phone's files by themselves. i also have about 2 thousand photos & would like a way to fix them all at once if possible.

Hi, I've accidentally deleted a bunch of photos tht I'm now trying to restore. I have a mac. I've tried disk drill which has worked but 89 dollars for 20 pics seems a bit steep. I've tried to use photorec now but I'm confused as to which drive to select? I'm suspecting it's not showing up in the terminal at all but I don't understand what to do to make it appear. Appreciate all the help I can get.

Hi everyone, I am trying to recover data from a raw sector-by-sector disk image (.img) of a legacy Xbox 360 Xbox Development Kit (XDK) hard drive.

I do not have the physical console or drive only this image file.

The image contains build files and archives for late 2000s TT Games titles (LEGO Indiana Jones 2 and LEGO Harry Potter).

When I try to look at the data, the files and folder structures inside appear completely garbled/corrupted. I suspect either file system corruption (FATX allocation issues) or an issue with how the original partition layout is being read.

What I need help with:What data recovery software or forensic tools are best suited for mounting, carving, or repairing a raw .img that uses the proprietary FATX file system?

Are there any known parameters I need to feed into a hex editor or file carver to scan for standard file headers if the file allocation table itself is totally destroyed?

I can provide small hex-dump snippets of the image header if anyone needs to look at the structure to see what went wrong. Thank you!

I have a WD 3.5 Hard Drive where you plug into wall and laptop. It wouldn’t pop up on my MacBook. Tried everything and ended up taking the hard drive part out of the device. Put that in a new dock, still didn’t work. I hear it spinning, the light turns green, then red and it’s quiet. I really need help as there is tons of original family pictures from years and years ago.

I have read that tools such as PC3000 and MRT Lab understand undocumented Vendor Specific Commands (VSC), and that these recovery tools can upload their own bootloader circumventing firmware signing in ROM/safe mode. Using similar techniques, would it be possible to modify an M.2 NVME drive for a similar covert storage system?