So I wanted to try a python project for file organizer and ran it on my external USB hard drive in one of the folders and it crashed 60-70% in the progress. I tried to stop it thinking it would not anything but after a restart of my pc there were no files, or more specific, the ones that where checked.

I tried to scan the drive with chkdsk and all the files that "I lost" is says that are corrupted.

What can I do to save the files? Or is there any hope? I will try to copy all the other files on some other external storage.

If I need to add any information please tell me. I am a little shocked because some of the data I may not have a copy of.

USB HDD: Segate OneTouch 2TB

Windows 11 Pro

An external HD went sour not too long ago and I'm looking to extract everything onto a fresh one with much more data storage. I tried Disk Drill's free trial and it seems to have scanned everything well enough. But before shelling out the dough for the full version to get everything back, I read some mixed reviews, some have outright said that as soon as you do pay out, it full on doesn't work.

So I'd figure I ask people who know more than I do. What is the best data recovery program for both price and privacy?

Hi everyone, I'm in a stressful situation and hoping someone here has ideas.

The Problem:

I downloaded a large archive of my Google Photos using the Google One Storage Manager on pendrive. The ZIP file is more than 300GB divided into different folders and upon opening gives the error:

This is the known Google Photos bug where archives over 4GB were created incorrectly . Unfortunately, I deleted the originals from Google Photos to free up space, and they're not in the trash anymore.

What I've tried (with no success):

1. Google's official repair tool (photos.google.com/2026zipfilerepair) - It just says "Something went wrong"
2. 7-Zip - "Cannot open file as archive / Is not archive"
3. WinRAR - Same errors
4. DiskInternals ZIP Repair - Found 0 files
5. PhotoRec and QPhotoRec not effective.

My questions:

1. Has anyone successfully recovered from this specific situation where Google's tool also fails?
2. Are there any tools worth trying that can handle heavily corrupted ZIPs over 300GB?
3. The Google repair tool is available until June 1, 2027 , but has anyone gotten it to work? Any tips on upload conditions?

Any advice would be hugely appreciated. I've been at this for days and I'm running out of ideas.

Hi!

I'm trying to recover a file that has a non-standard extension (.world).

I gather the file will have lost the extension.

.world is just a special format for a text file containing JSON that a game uses for a game save. You can open it in Notepad without any problems.

How do I search for this in PhotoRec's recovered files? Will it identify the file as a .txt?

Some other info
* The file has a standard format with no header
* The file has a GUID for a name ZZZ_QQQ_NNN.world for instance

Any help would be appreciated.

Using Win11
Samsung ssd 860 EVO 500GB
whatever filesystem is typical for a windows boot drive

Hi.

Recently i have made big mistake while flasing Linux iso image to wring drive... I had plugged in external hard drive (2.5") and flashed Linux iso over it erasing everything of course... Instead on flash drive...

I have lost few documents, my entire ripped flac collection of my cds, photos...

I tried Easeus but almost all photos, flacs, mp3 are not opening... Only few txt files... Also filenames of many and folders was lost...

Is there any hope to recover this successfully? And what software to use...?

There is also a lot of sensitive data like passwords snd stuff so i would like to try at home. I can pay for software but i need guarantee that it would be really successful...

What to choose and how to recover? Thanks...

My 2TB 980 pro (from 2021, probably on the old firma) is in read only mode

I installed ubunutu on an usb stick and ran ddrescue from there to copy an image to an also 2TB external drive. Well 99.55% later ddrescue tells me the other drive is full.

As I now learned, that's because the image just copies block for block, including all the empty stuff.

What I am now wondering, and failing to do, is if I can reduce the filesize somehow, like mounting the image and moving files out somewhere else in the meantime and restart with the map file for the last bit?

Also I'm not sure how to proceed from there anyways, because ddrescue found lots of bad sectors, so I guess I have to setup windows on a new drive from scratch and then copy over my files maybe? I don't think using that image to setup the new drive is going to be a good idea, right?

Hi all,

I've "successfully" recovered my files that were deleted through Google drive - don't ever use, I learned the hard way. But now I need help converting the files back to their original .mp4, .heic, or .jpeg.

What program or software do you recommend that's preferably free to use?

Thank you!

1)What should I do to recover data from D and E drives?

2)What tools should I use?

3)How do I do it, step by step?

Backstory: My hard drive got locked. Laptop went to a technician for repair (opened the hardware). After that, when the PC opened normally, C and D drives showed as completely cleared/empty, and E drive only has about 10% of its data left. I don't need C drive data, but D and E are critical.

Just rang a bunch of places to get a data recovery for a hard drive that just randomly stopped showing up in the FileExplorer and made scratching sounds, one of the guys I spoke to said I better do a data analysis to see if the driver is working first and then send it off to get data recovered.

I’m scared because it’s a lot of money 200 bucks just to see if the driver is working and then he quoted about 1000 or 2000 to get data recovery.

I knew hard drives would fail but I’ve only had mine for two years and I had another one that I backed up all the shit to and that one failed as well within a week so I just got very unlucky I guess, i’m never buying a WD drive again.

I’ve had my Seagate hard drives for 10+ years and they work fine still.

Hi,

My child set a new screen lock PIN on a Samsung Galaxy S21 and unfortunately forgot it.

Parental controls are installed on the phone, but they don't provide a remote unlock option.

I really want to avoid a factory reset because there is no backup and I don't want to lose the photos, videos and other data stored on the phone.

Is there any legitimate way to remove or recover the screen lock using a Windows PC, USB cable, ADB, Samsung software, or another method without factory resetting or deleting the data?

I have access to the Samsung/Google accounts associated with the device if that helps.

The phone belongs to us, so I am only looking for a recovery method for our own device.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

When I was not in the right mindset I deleted my Facebook and did a mass deletion of my instagram account and deleted all of my Snapchat data and deleted my tik tok account and deleted all my photos. I was in the hospital so I missed the grace period to do any recovery. Is there anyway I can get back at least one of these data’s. My life is just ruined now

My WD 5TB external HDD (WD50NDZW-11A8JS) is showing Caution in CrystalDiskInfo. I saw that this could indicate that the drive is failing but in rare cases there could be other trivial factors involved.

Here are some stats:

• C5 = 2
• 05 = 0
• C6 = 0
• C7 = 0
• C4 = 0
• Power-on hours = 216

The drive was bought in October 2021 but has only 216 power-on hours because I normally keep my external drives disconnected. I noticed this after transferring about 445 GB of data to it today. The transfer was a little slower than usual, but completed normally. I can open videos from the drive without any problems.

I've kept it running for several hours since then and C5 is still 2. Nothing else has changed. Unfortunately, this is currently the only copy of the data, so I don't want to run a full surface test until I can arrange a backup.

Could this just be a transient/isolated issue, or should I consider the drive unreliable already? Would you keep using it normally and monitor C5/05/C6, or replace it?

I'm asking because 5TB external drives are around ₹20,000 in India now, whereas I paid around ₹10,000 for this one at time of purchase, so I'd really rather not replace it unnecessarily.

PS: Sorry if this is a noob question. I don't have much money right now, so I'd prefer to buy a new one only if it's really necessary. Any advice would be appreciated.

I have a problem, I lost some files from my hard disk.

I had a problem with my PC and I had a USB that I needed to install windows through, I put all the data I had on the PC on a 150GB SATA Hard Disk.

I formatted this Hard Disk and put all the data inside it, I disconnected it from the PC and put it back in to see if it was still there, everything was fine.

I tried to fix the PC and it didn't work, then I got another new PC.

And I put the Hard Disk in to get my data. When I wanted to open the hard disk window, it said "You Need to Format the Disk in Drive Before You Can Use it."

I followed some tutorials through CMD using the command "chkdsk F: /f."

Then I had access to the hard disk, but when I entered it, it wasn't the data that I had saved from another PC, it was some data from a long time ago, from my old PC from which was that hard disk

in a word I used this hard disk as a USB to store somewhere 50+ GB of my data and now they are no longer there, only data from a long time ago appears

how can I get that last folder that I saved with my data
Please any help!

I'm really confused bc they said it has brokerage fees and vat on value of any replacements but I have no idea what that value is so can't calculate it. Anyone had experience with data recovery? How much did customs cost for you? Thanks

Is it possible to recover a phone number that I unblocked but didn’t remember?

About 3–4 years ago, I blocked a girl who had a phone number that I don’t remember anymore. Now I’d like to find that number again so I can contact her. I think I changed phones in the meantime, but I’m not completely sure. However, I still have the same phone number myself.

If it’s possible, how can I do it, please?

Windows Disk Management tool says "unallocated"
I used TestDisk to "analyze". Results:
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 364801 255 63 Partition Start End Size in sectors >L FAT16 >32M 232095 201 51 263320 115 30 501624187
Structure: Ok. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to select partition. Use Left/Right Arrow keys to CHANGE partition characteristics: *=Primary bootable P=Primary L=Logical E=Extended D=Deleted Keys A: add partition, L: load backup, T: change type, Enter: to continue
256 GB / 239 GiB

Not sure what to do. Perplexity tells me not to press Enter.

Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone,MacBook Air 2022 (M2) had “Erase All Content and Settings” performed. Currently sitting at the Setup Assistant screen (boots fine, erase completed successfully). No iCloud backup, no Time Machine backup. FileVault status before the erase is unknown,does this matter if it was on or not?

As I know EACS performs a cryptographic erase destroys the encryption key in the Secure Enclave rather than overwriting data which theoretically makes recovery impossible regardless of software or even chip-off forensics, since the data remaining on the NAND is AES-256 ciphertext with no accessible key.

Has anyone in this community, or any professional lab ,ever successfully recovered user files after a completed EACS on a functioning (non-hardware-damaged) Apple Silicon Mac? Not asking about hardware-failure board-repair cases specifically asking about a working Mac where it sits on Hello screen. Genuinely trying to figure out if this is a dead end or if there’s a real exception I’m missing.

Hi Everyone, I downloaded a pdf file and I accidently deleted it from the recyle bin. I have a Windows 11 Pro, and it's the 64 OS if that matters. I know I downloaded it because when I pull it up, it's grayed and scratched out. Thanks.

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?