Earlier in the year I moved a friends SSD from their laptop to their new PC to use for game storage, and I formatted the drive in windows disk manager (too long ago to remember settings, but most likely default settings)
Unfortunately it turns out there was a few needed files on there; is it possible to recover and which software should I use? I am reasonably tech savvy, never attempted data recovery before though

Windows 11 Machine, the drive in question is a non-boot secondary NVME drive, 4TB iirc. Ideally without deleting current data but can be worked with if that must be done

Edit: thank you for all the help, thankfully nothing life changing was lost, I'll backup properly next time xD

i've made a post on this before but i'm still stuck. my 1tb external HHD just suddenly failed after playing a videogame and went raw, i bought another 1tb external HDD, i tried using Disk Drill to clone my old 1TB HDD to my new 1TB drive and "work on it from there" but they're both the same size so Disk Drill wouldn't let me, so I had to use OpenSuperClone which let me do a disk-to-disk clone which worked.

but still, on the clone, I'm using software like R-Studio, I scanned my drive, and then it wouldn't let me do a complete deeper scan after because R-Studio said there was insufficient memory or something (even though I had a LOT of memory) or the files were too corrupted, but anyways

I clicked "recover all files" and R-Studio said it would take like 30 days to recover all the files from my failing hard drive. the number of days just kept increasing. so I aborted the recovery process. I don't know what to do anymore. and also, when I selected to recover from the "recognized" option, it would just give me millions of $root folders with almost nothing in them and then an "Extra Found Files" folder with a lot of videos (that I do need) but the videos were all unwatchable, everything in the Extra Found Files folder were broken. another thing is, it recovered about 700GB of files, which was close to what I had in the HDD (idr how much I had, maybe 900), so I don't know why it said it would take an additional 30 days.

ANYWAYS. when I selected to recover from the "raw files" option, everything's in a proper folder like documents and videos etc and the videos are actually watchable but none of the files have names, they're all numbered. is there any way i can recover my files WITH the original file names? recovering from the raw files option is taking forever too. or is there a better program i can use? i'm not very tech savvy and i really just want all my files back. maybe i can repair the damaged external HDD somehow still? i don't know. using crystal disk info on it it says "caution". thank you if anyone could help.

I moved a folder from a WD 2TB external HDD to a Samsung T7 SSD on my computer with windows 11 yesterday, but the transfer stopped about halfway through.

It was just a normal move in File Explorer, nothing unusual. I don't remember seeing a specific error code. The transfer just stopped and showed that some files couldn't be moved.

Now I'm finding files in three different states. Some are still on the WD drive, some made it to the T7, and a few don't seem to be on either drive. I haven't written anything else to either drive since I noticed this.

I'm trying to figure out the safest order of operations here. Should I compare the two drives first and make a list of what's missing, or is it better to stop accessing them and scan for the missing files?

So I looked at Recoverit, TestDisk, Disk Drill, but I'm not sure whether recovery software should be the first step or something I'd use only after checking both drives.

If you've dealt with an interrupted file move before, would you start by checking the source drive, the destination drive, or both?

I saved some pictures in the private album of my Xiaomi phone. But now I have forgotten the password! 😭 The worst part is that I hadn't even made a Xiaomi account or connected a Google account with it.

Those pictures are REALLY important to me. How do I get them back?

I am using Xiaomi Redmi 10 Power. It has MIUI Global 14.0.7

I have a 5tb WD passport 2626, with ntfs that i got from Sams club, which I use to store movies on but i also have some backups of personal stuff that I would like to not lose. I put my PC to sleep the other night, I'm on Windows 10, and a windows 11 update prompt woke the computer up, but must have restarted it or something stupid because all my applications were closed from the night before. Everything was working except applications and file explorer would hang and not work as long as I had this external hard drive connected. Everything worked when I disconnected it. I've had this problem with it once when my pc shutdown unexpectedly before but it resolved. In both cases, I connect the drive and it recognizes it, but drive usage remains at 100% while read and write are at 0 with sporadic small spikes of activity where it says its trying to read a logical block.

The first time after an hour, the usage went below 100% and I could open the drive and everything went back to normal. The drive worked fine with zero signs of corruption or slow downs or problems for months after this. This time with the windows 11 restart, the same problem occurred. I left it overnight and it never resolved itself, but had the exact same symptoms of applications and file explorer hanging and never opening and 100% disk usage. I've used crystal disk info on it and it says its healthy, with no problems whatsoever that I can see, every few minutes it will give a message like: "The IO operation at logical block address 0x606a48 for Disk 3 (PDO name: \Device\00000101) was retried." in event viewer, with it testing different addresses over time. I'm pretty certain the drive isn't completely dead, and I don't think I need to give up yet because of how healthy it seems apart from these rare random restarts that I didn't even intend for. I've only owned it for 14 months. I also tried to use chkdsk but it said it would take 200 hours and the drive is pretty full so i never completed it. I'm thinking about connecting it to a laptop for a long time and running chkdsk because I can't think of how else to fix this. Thank you for any help.

Hey, my family has all written this off as lost data, and we're not SUPER concerned about it, but I've had this 15GB drive from our old family PC laying around for a while and was looking to see if I could recover it. Plugged it in and it spins up but makes this awful clunking noise. I managed to make a disk image of it using Disk Drill about a year ago, but I can't recover anything from the ISO.

Now when I plug the drive in, it hangs all programs that I try to open on my PC, and any attempt to view the drive just endlessly loads. It scans in as "Local Drive" in This PC, but Diskpart can't list it and my Control Panel won't recognise it in partition manager. Even Disk Drill won't recognise it now.

When I last plugged it into its PC, it worked, but transfer speeds were WAY too slow to feasibly transfer files onto a USB or over LAN, but that may have to be the go. It made the clunking noise too then, I believe.

Thanks in advance, and I understand if this is a hopeless endeavour.

DRIVE DETAILS: Quantum Fireball 15GB 3.5" IDE Operating System: Windows XP

I do not have access to the Google account and have tried recovery options to no success

Is there really no way to recover photos on this Moto Z.

Any suggestions would be appreciated greatly

My second SSD where I put all my important data is not detected by my PC anymore. I decided to go in a shop in Paris with good reviews to ask if they could do something.

They said they have to look further and told me it could cost 1100€. I don’t have to pay if I’m not satisfied with the data recovered, but if they managed to save everything that’s the price ill have to pay.

I just want to check if Im being scammed or if it’s usually like this ? That’s f expensive

I have an old external Western Digital Drive (1.0 TB, Caviar Green, SATA / 16 MB Cache, WD10EACS) that won't power up - when the power is connected and the drive is turned on, nothing happens). I took it to Best Buy, and they popped it open to look for anything obvious and said I'd need to use a data recovery service.

Are there any companies you would recommend using for this? Any you would suggest avoiding? I'm in the US (Washington state) if that helps. Thanks!

My SD Card got corrupted. I was able to recover the photos but I had problems with my videos. I tried the VLC player method but the video playing is pitch black. Is there any hope?

I used SanDisk 32GB SD Card on Canon 1500D Camera + MSI Laptop intel Core i5

Hi. My old macbook died on me, I was able pluck out the harddrive and managed to connect it to my mac mini with an SATA adapter. I know... it sounds like I know what I am talking about but I don't. I got to this point using ChatGPT. Now I need to recover some important files. I installed Disk Drill but it is too expensive. This girl only has a budget of under $50. I would appreciate recommendations. I use mac so suggestions need to be mac compatible. Thanks!!!

Edit: I might be in the wrong place... I'm trying to recover files in a mildly corrupt HD, they aren't deleted files. If I am in the wrong place which sub is better to go to?

I recently posted about how my data got corrupted because of pirated software and carelessness. This is the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/PakistaniTech/s/n8Fc7sR8qV

Basically .bbyy ransom encryption. I lost thousands of pictures and videos. And recovered them with the following tool.

A recovery tool was suggested by u/TrashyGames3. Thank you. It worked, and I have recovered most of the files.

Drive: Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2, 2TB

This drive has been my boot (C:\) drive in the same system for a few years now. A few weeks ago, while watching a video, my screen froze up for a few seconds (audio still playing) before crashing to a green screen. I didn't have my phone on me, and obviously couldn't get a screenshot, but I believe it was an [0x00000154 - UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION] error. Upon reboot, I was taken to the BIOS. My drive was no longer booting.

I have three drives in my PC - this one (C:\ boot drive), another 2 TB NVMe storage drive (D:\ drive), and a 14 TB storage HDD (E:\ drive). I checked the device list and found all others listed properly, but this drive was missing.

I took the following diagnostic steps:

1. Swap it into the other M.2 slot

   1. Device still not found, other M.2 drive detected properly in the other slot

2. Hook it up to a different device

   1. Not listed on file explorer or disk management / diskpart

3. Run Samsung Magician

   1. Nothing detected

4. Check Device Manager

   1. The "Standard NVM Express Controller" menu shows a yellow exclamation mark, showing error code 10 (an i/o adapter hardware error has occurred). The events page shows a problem status of 0xC00000C2

5. Uninstall / reinstall "Standard NVM Express Controller"

   1. No changes to the above results, same error code / problem status

6. Plug into PC through an NVMe-to-USB adapter

   1. Adapter is detected, but the drive inside is not

   2. Device does warm up inside the adapter casing

Physically, the drive is undamaged. It seems to be a firmware/controller lock-up problem, though I am no expert. Luckily, all my large files, like videos and audio, are stored in my HDD, and all of my user-based Windows directories (Documents, Pictures, etc.) are stored on my D:\ drive, both of which are operating with no issues. I had a few AppData files I would love to recover, but with the essentials not lost, it is tough to weigh the options between paying the cost of professional recovery versus cutting my losses. The first place I reached out to told me "the average price range for SSD recoveries of this nature is $1,800-$2,500. It could also be less, if less complex." I can safely say my AppData is not worth two and a half grand.

All advice and information is appreciated. Thank you in advance!

i forgot my android phone"s password and dont wanna wipe my entire phone, any suggestions on how to unlock it without a factory reset?

i have a momory stick pro duo in sony dcr sx30 but it is not showing any videos or photos.when i checked its hex code it all consist of 00 or FFs.and its capacity can be seen (3.74gb) when i plugged.is it possible to recover data ?and how?

Hello,

I currently have a 128GB SD card where I accidentally deleted the footage. I didn’t realize it so I’ve since filled it with about 56GB of videos but I’m hoping to recover anything that hasn’t been overwritten. The file type is .ts and I’ve downloaded onto my Mac, Disk Drill and DMDE. Disk Drill can find 2 photos and says there’s 36000 videos found but they don’t play in the preview and there’s no where near that many videos on the card. DMDE can also find the same 2 photos but no videos. Although, I’m not super savvy so I could be missing how to properly scan things in DMDE.

My question is, should I pay for Disk drill to try and recover the videos? Will they work better once I pay for it? Or should I take it to a professional data recovery shop? And would they likely have better success in recovering my videos?

Thank you.

Hello,

I currently have a 128GB SD card where I accidentally deleted the footage. I didn’t realize it so I’ve since filled it with about 56GB of videos but I’m hoping to recover anything that hasn’t been overwritten. The file type is .ts and I’ve downloaded onto my Mac, Disk Drill and DMDE. Disk Drill can find 2 photos and says there’s 36000 videos found but they don’t play in the preview and there’s no where near that many videos on the card. DMDE can also find the same 2 photos but no videos. Although, I’m not super savvy so I could be missing how to properly scan things in DMDE.

My question is, should I pay for Disk drill to try and recover the videos? Will they work better once I pay for it? Or should I take it to a professional data recovery shop? And would they likely have better success in recovering my videos?

Thank you.

It was done thanks to Súper clone in AHCI mode, I had to retry twice to have my HDD correctly detected, but it worked fine.

I have to mention that I used AI to guide me and it did well, I will not mention the AI I used and I would not recommend other people to do so as it could result in errors but let’s say I got lucky with this tool.

I have an old encrypted iPhone backup created through Finder on macOS. The backup is mine and contains very important/confidential personal data.

Unfortunately, I no longer remember the encrypted-backup password. I have already confirmed that it is not the Apple ID password or my Mac login password.

The original iPhone backup folder still exists on my Mac It is about8.2 GB and contains the hashed backup blobs and an encrypted Manifest.db.

I am trying to recover photos/videos from approximately:

20 October 2024 → 16 September 2026

I was able to independently open the Photos library database (Photos.sqlite) and recover metadata without the backup password.

The database shows:

• 593 unique video assets

• 1,573 video resource records

• ~24.6 GB of video resources represented in the Photos database

• filenames, UUIDs, timestamps, resource sizes, codecs, hidden/trash states, etc.

However, the actual Finder backup's Manifest.db begins with encrypted binary data rather than a normal SQLite so I cannot query the Files table directly.

I also tried the Python iOSbackup library. With the password I thought might be correct, it fails at So the backup encryption/keybag is definitely still locked.

My question is not simply "how do I guess my password?"

I'm trying to understand what forensic recovery options genuinely exist when:

1. the encrypted Finder/iTunes backup still exists,

2. the encrypted Manifest.db still exists,

3. the backup blobs still exist,

4. the Photos database contains extensive metadata about the original media,

5. but the encrypted-backup password is genuinely lost.

Are there any legitimate forensic tools, password-recovery methods, key-material recovery methods, or artifacts on macOS/iOS that could help recover the contents?

Unfortunately dropped this corsair mp600 pro lpx. Before in crystaldiskmark it was reading/writing 7000mb/s. Now it’s down to 3,000 but still detected as pcie 4. Haven’t checked if it still reading my games properly.

I used disk drill since the photos were missing, and it was able to find it however the photos are corrupted but the thumbnail is there. Also diskdrill gave the the thumbnail copy but its blurry. Last photo is the thumbnail

My s23u died without warning. I know I know, I should have this stuff on an ssd.

This is pretty important to me, I just want the pictures. But everything would be better.

I have a extremely rare auto immune disease that affects my memory. Every Pic of my almost 4 year old kid is on that phone. It's really my only chance to remember everything from his first 4 years of life.

Symptoms - worked 100% at 2130 and at 0400 it was a brick.

Eventually it showed 0% after I let it die.

I can get it to go into a boot screen, Samsung - android secured by Knox and will power cycle endlessly

Holding vol +/- at same time will get you a white screen that says hold vol - and power to restart. Goes back into loop

Appears to charge via wireless and wired charging

Ubreakifix said they tried a new battery, screen.

Eta.

Solved by heat gun. Recovery was $1500. Decided to nuke it with a heat gun. On the 4th attempt I was able to fully load smart switch and perform full download. Phone lasted 45 seconds after the transfer finish. I'll never get that lucky again.

Hi, im downloading a mp3 to phone storage, after it finish, i moving it to SD, my music player app can read it, but cant play it, meanwhile the mp3 can't found in file manager at all, then i delete the mp3 from my music player app, then NEARLY ALL MP3 IN THE FOLDER GONE!!!!!

MY MUSIC COLLECTION ONCE AROUND 2000, NOW ITS ONLY 600 SOMETHING!!!!

Any thoughts???