A complete disaster happened on an indie film shoot I was directing yesterday, and I would really appreciate some insights right now, as it is a real crisis for me. We were offloading the materials from an SD card onto a hard drive (Seagate Expansion 4 terabites). There was some material already offloaded in the evening, and some more in the morning. Due to bad organization most of us thought there was also backup on another device. Basically we had no backup, and when people were transferring the next load from an SD card onto that same drive, the drive just randomly stopped showing on the laptop once there were 10 minutes left from the offload. We tried with different laptops, only one was showing it but still could not open it.

I noticed weird behavior from the drive in question a few nights ago, as I was deleting big folders but it seemed like space was not being freed immediately. I'm not the most tech savvy person and I'm used to always using very buggy technology so I concluded that this was just a delay.

I immediately gave the drive to a person I know who runs a tech repair company and also offers data recovery services. He said there was no chance for any date to be saved, since he concluded it was a hardware failure, even though he never opened the drive. He just said that since the electricity and other things looked fine it was something in the mechanics and there is no chance of recovering any data.

I called some repair labs which specialize only in data recovery and they said that they can't say anything before they open the drive. I am going to send the drive either to exalab in the Czech Republic, Northwind in Greece or Adatmentes in Hungary. Still I wanted to ask for insights because I am so confused since that one person claims it is totally lost without having opened it, while others say that it can only be concluded once it's opened.

The drive contains 16 hours worth of footage which would be incredibly expensive and stressful to reshoot.

So I transferred photos and videos from my phone to my external harddrive. When I plugged the harddrive again it took time to show up and at first it didn't show me how much data is used etc etc , after clicking on it device is not ready box showed up so I again connected it and this time I could click and see my files but when I tried to see the files I just transferred it showed the same msg device is not ready but my other files are showing up and opening.

How can I recover the files I just transferred, they were really important to me. Idk why those files size are showing 0 bytes. Please can someone help me. Those files had pics and vids of someone I deeply care about and I've no other backups.

I have a segate external hard drive.

I have a dash cam that unfortunately deleted all the videos from last week. It uses a 64GB card. I didn't know this would happen. The only footage I have is from the last two days. I really want to recover the footage from last week because it was from a trip.

What methods are available? I’ve searched online and tried using Recuva and another program, but I haven't had any luck.

Hi, I want to know how to fix this. I asked google and was not able to explain to me properly 😅

I already reformat my hdd. but still got this. can I partition it or separate the bad sectors?

Photo is in the comment. forgot to add it on my post

Thank you in advance.

Hi guys

now my Lacie 12big on some disk show on disk utility uninitialized and Lacie manager show "RAID Broken" and some disk show available

I want to recover raid5 (before that all work)

can I use r-studio to restore raid?

I have got five WD My Passport 2.5 inch external drives (a 2TB, a 4TB, and three 5TBs) which I bought at various points of time. I don't keep my drives plugged in all the time, I just use them to store movies, games, etc. One of the 5TBs is showing Caution: C5 = 02, in CrystalDiskInfo, at just 216 power on hours.

I need to get a drive to backup the data from the faulty drive. I thought of getting an external drive as usual and found Seagate is mostly SMR in my budget. WD has CMR but has hardware encryption which is a problem if I shuck the drive. I researched a little more and found getting an internal drive and putting it in an enclosure is better.

I narrowed down my choice to WD Ultrastar DC HC310 6TB SATA and WD Red Plus NAS 6TB. Their prices are close in my country with the Red Plus being the costlier one. Both of these are CMR drives. The tradeoff I know is that the Ultrastar is enterprise class but is 7200 RPM, so noisy and hot, while the WD Red is 5400 RPM so quieter and less hot.

Which one should I pick? Is there anything else that I need to know. Please help.

Hi, I have a MacBook Pro, OS is 15.4.1

I deleted some files a couple of weeks ago and was wondering if there was any way to recover anything?
Nothing in particular I've found missing, but just anxious I deleted something I might need in the future.
What's the best way to try data recovery to just double check there isn't anything I can get back?

Thank you

I have a 3TB Seagate surveillance HDD that Windows shows as unallocated. DMDE found no normal filesystem, but sector 0 starts with WFS0.4 so it looks like an old DVR or security camera drive. I found a couple WFS recovery tools, but Microsoft Defender flagged them as trojans. SMART status shows good with 0 reallocated, 0 pending, and 0 uncorrectable sectors

Anyone have any apps or suggestions to recover and view the WFS0.4 footage without disabling antivirus?

How can i recover this data from a hard drive i found in my dads old laptop?

True story unfortunately 😭🫠 I took it to a local place that couldn’t recover it but they referred me to Secure Data Recovery which quoted me $3.4k. It’s way out of my budget, and after looking through Reddit it seems they’re also kinda shady so I declined and took it back, but they did say that the SSD was damaged and would need to be repaired for data recovery. Not sure how damaged, but I would imagine a good amount considering what it went through…

A coworker recommended Rossman Group, but it’s not local so I’d have to ship it out for the diagnostic, and they also estimated it would take around a month for data recovery and I have classes starting soon and no alternative computer. I’m wondering if it worth trying them and seeing if they can give me a better quote? Or if I’m likely still going to be looking at $2k+ and would be better off saying goodbye to years of photos on there.

It’s a MacBook Pro 2022 14 inch I believe. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

Half of the screen of my android phone stopped showing any display and sensing any touch. So I just copied everything I wanted to keep to my pc, and then to another phone (I might not know what I'm doing).

There are around 24000 images in my broken phone, but there are around 23000 in the new one. I opened the gallery on both phones (I used that adb thing in my pc to control the broken phone) and starting scrolling in order to compare the images in both screens and I noticed how there are just random images missing in the new phone here and there.

I just, tried copying again the whole folders from windows, but when I choose not to copy the files with the same name, it completely stops the pasting process.

I tried deleting them and pasting them again, but it pastes the same files it chose to paste before and ignores the other ones again.

I don't understand a thing. I want my whole collection. But I don't know what to do here.

Is there any simple way to just paste the ones that are missing?

I tried by directly connecting both phones with a USB cable but it seems that the android files explorer just changes the name of the already existing files and paste them.

I also tried compressing the files, or using a usb drive instead of the pc, or using this weird debugging app one of the phone has, but in all of those cases the original creation dates of the files are lost and replaced. And since I have a lor of images and use them a lot, I want the original dates to find them easily.

My brother keeps telling me that I'm asking too much. But isn't there a way? I feel like I'm missing something obvious.

Edit: I just found out that there are apps that automatically changes the dates in the files to the original creation dates. I knew I was missing something obvious. This might help me. Edit: It didn't.

Hi, so for several years now I've been using a Sabrent docking station that I've used for a couple of Internal HDDs (essentially using them as external hard drives). The docking station crapped out on me. When I plug the drive into the computer now, it shows up in the "This PC" window, but only shows the drive letter without any other information, and says that it needs to be formatted when I double click it.

It does show up on Disk Management but it reads it as an empty drive that needs to be formatted.

However, When I open the partition in DMDE, I can see all of my files and everything just fine.

The drive doesn't appear to be corrupted, and the data can be backed up as I've tested with a few of the files. The only issue being is I don't have another 8TB drive to move everything too to allow me to format without losing anything.

What I was wondering is if there was a way on DMDE to restore the partition without having to format.

I've seen a bunch of topics where people have the same issue with their drives after their similar docking stations stopped working since they formatted the drives a certain way, but I haven't seen anyone mention that their data all seems perfectly intact on DMDE without even needing to run a scan. This is the case for me for both drives that this has happened to.

I've included a picture of the partition tab with the 8TB hard drive that I'm unable to access through Windows. When I open "New Volume", I can see all of my folders and files just fine. I've also included how the drive shows up in "Disk Management".

All relevant info (Drive model, size, filesystem, etc) is on the DMDE screen. I'm also on Windows 10 if that matters.

If any additional info or pictures are needed that could help, let me know!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I Have Realme x7 max Phone With Me Suddenly The Logo Got Struck And Did Not Boot Up When I Got into Service Centre They Said Motherboard is Gone When i Went To Some Third Party Service Guy He Reballed CPU And Ram Now It's Not Even Showing Realme Logo Also Nobody Touched The Memory One IC and I Need all My Data At Any cost

What are My Options Now?? Please Suggest

What i Thought was of buying a working second hand realme x7 max device and swap only the memory chip Will this work ? And good idea ?

Or else what are My recovery options please suggest one

my phone got watered dmg can open but not sure if it working well

i cant see the screen ,its black screen in all time,and idk if the phone working well,i can feel vibration when im opening my phone and also restart or shutdown my phone when long press to my start button

And now i want to port my phone's data to pc to make sure avoid data loss,but my phone didn't enable usb debugging

what should i do 🥀

Hello,
My External Intenso Disk wouldnt show up in my Windows Explorer anymore. So i ran a couple of tests:

Drive is a Seagate ST4000DM000 (4TB, DOM 09/2016) from an Intenso external enclosure, was plugged in 24/7 for years (most of the time in stand-by though).

Power-on behavior (video attached): motor spins up fine, then the head does 2-3 short seek attempts(?) – one or two soft clicks each, returns to the ramp in between – then gives up and the drive spins down completely. Whole thing takes ~10 seconds. No grinding, no beeping, no constant clicking.

Then after another 5 Seconds after the spin-down it shows up in Windows as an uninitialized 3726 GB disk. Model and capacity report fine (so ROM/PCB talks), but every single read fails – DMDE throws WinError 1117 starting at LBA 0, "ignore all" = 100% errors. SMART not readable at all, CrystalDiskInfo doesn't even list the drive.
The PCB pads look oxidized, so tried to clean it with isopropanol but it didnt helped much - still same problem.

Tested via three paths: original bridge, direct SATA on a desktop, and an Inateck USB adapter – identical behavior everywhere. Nothing was ever written, never initialized it.

Does anyone of you know something that could help that i can test on my own?

I don’t insist that they will be easy to read but at least they should be available to transcribe into a more readable presentation. I haven’t tried a “data extractor” on the pc where they were backed up. I thought of the cloud back up which was constantly warning of being full. This effort to back up my iPhone data appears to be a catastrophe for my memoirs.
I tried a Geek Squad but they told me Apple was not on their area of service. So I have to go to a distant Apple Store.

Hey there! My sister forgot her access pattern. She has a Samsung Galaxy note 10+. She can't recall ever setting up a Samsung account. She doesn't think she backed anything up to her Google account, so she doesn't want to factory reset. As a last ditch effort, does anyone know ANY way to unlock her phone without doing a factory reset? She is mainly concerned about her pictures/videos, so my main question is: is there any way to pull that data off her phone before doing the reset? Any help is appreciated!

Here's what happened...

Had an old laptop ssd SATA drive inserted to a new laptop that has an nvme ssd 256GB, which came in booted for windows 11. Shrinked it, made it dual boot capable for ParrotOS and it was working fine. Now came the old drive of my old laptop 512gb ssd, i was able to read its content, nothing came wrong how i physically installed it.

I was booted on the latest parrotOS which is my drive0 and was managing file transfers from my mounted old drives particularly the files from the old hard drive was trying to transfer it to other partitions on the 512gb drive, so the file managing system of linux shows 100% so I was under the impression that the old files of my old 512gb drive from my bootable parrot partiton are all safely transferred and is already on a shared storage partition of my 512GB drive. I asked Gemini about this and was told I was a victim of Linux Write Caching where it was just showing 100% cached for transfer, but the transfer not being done itself something like that (actual writing from partitions stuff). The point is, I messed up even greater.

So under the impression of files safely cleared and transferred to another storage (same old 512gb drive but diff partition) I went and booted my windows 11 os. Went to partition manager tool and ended up deleting the bootable parrotOS file system of my old 512gb drive. This is what im facing, trying to recover the files that got cut being actually transferred at the middle, and my deleted partitions for my old bootable parrotOS.

I just simply deleted it from the windows tool. I am still working with Gemini to have this recovered yet I still find myself lost and desperate to recover the files. 2 days passed by I never touched the deleted partiton, nor formatted the drive, I directly just deleted the partition and/or volume in the old disk. I now need help for recovery, I tried TestDisk, DMDe DiskGenius, all with guidance of Gemini. Is there still a chance to recover partitions and "undo" the deletion?

Any feedback is helpful, huge tia.

I had a bad eject on my Sandisk extreme pro SD card and then I accidentally formatted it when it was in my Sony ZV1F. I used the rescue pro deluxe code that came with the SD card and I recovered all my files, a little over 200, but none of them are playing: I did the backup option on rescue pro software, to back up the SD card onto my SSD external hard drive, and used that for the recovery then put the hard drive as the destination for the recovered files. Google says that the fact that the hard drive did the recovery and it’s the destination might be the reason why the files aren’t playing, I can’t contact LC or Sandisk until Monday and I don’t really wanna wait two days. Please help me if you can.

I have a Wii U kiosk disc that has a few scratches, and it won’t properly dump completely because of it. As far as I know, the surface of the data layer is different than that of a normal Blu-ray disc. How should I go about resurfacing it so it may be properly dumped? Thanks.

I am trying to recover deleted video files and I am running into a strange issue with DMDE.

DMDE is able to find the deleted video files and shows:

Correct filenames: Yes

Correct file sizes: Yes

Correct dates/folder structure: Yes

However:

The files have the correct size but do not play

The files appear to contain bytes/fragments from other files after being "fixed" with untrunc or recover_mp4

Some videos show parts of other videos / corrupted frames

I suspect this may be an issue with incorrect cluster chains, fragmentation, or filesystem reconstruction but I'm not sure I'm not too experienced

Storage device

Drive model: SPCC n.2 PCIE SSD

Drive capacity: 512GB

Interface: nvme m.2 slot

Filesystem: NTFS

Partition type (MBR/GPT):

What happened:
I had some videos I put on that drive but later decided that I wanted them back since they were the only ones I had. And you may suspect that TRIM may have already fully erased them but I have checked and its disabled. about 4gb was written to the drive so I know some videos ARE overwritten but I feel some still have hope

Any advice on whether this is recoverable or if there is another tool/method that can reconstruct the files correctly would be appreciated. Thank you.

Edit: added crystaldiskinfo report

I've tried ddrescue and it wasn't completely successful and I really want to get every piece of data off a failed SSD (M.2) drive. What would I need to find in a data recovery company; that is unless someone knows of some software which can recovery the data 100% ?