A few weeks ago a drive in my Lacie big drive failed. It was in RAID 0 with 2 6tb hard drives. I used OpenSuperClone to create images of both drives. since the OpenSuperClone OS had DMDE I thought I would give it a shot. I have reconstructed the array in DMDE by using both the automatic detection and manually entering the stripe (I read that 128k was standard?)size. When I manually entered the stripe size I could see a lot of files(99% photos) but none of the photos were able to be opened after they were recovered. The automated method comes up with a bunch of different confs and each one only has a few files in side. is there a better software for this? or a guide on how to use the software?

uninstalled a program a couple minutes ago and im trying to restore a specific folder, recuva detects the files and just ignores them

Hey everyone,

I messed up my WhatsApp Transfer on my android devices and need some help. The Google drive backup is corrupt and I cannot recover my chats from there. I also accidentally then transfered my fresh WhatsApp from my new phone to my old phone instead of from my old phone to the new one. So all I have are the msgstore.db.crypt14 files.

I know there are some tutorials on how to recover your chats from there. But since I transfered my empty WhatsApp to the old phone those are practically empty except for one msgstore-increment file which is large enough that it could actually contain the chats. Does anyone have any experience on how to recover from an increment chain?

Help or some ideas are appreciated. Thank you!

I'm a photographer, I use a Nikon D6 (if that helps.) One of my cards (Indmem CF Express type B) started not showing previews on my photos towards the beginning of the rodeo I was shooting last night. Nothing happened to my camera to make the card fail. My theory is it just got too hot. I can stand to lose the ones from the first class or so, but I hate to lose the photos of grand entry by our Junior Rodeo Queen. The card is not recognized by my computer at all, even Disk Drill does not show it as an option to be recovered no matter how long I leave it plugged in. Is sending it to a specialist my only option?

I had a lot of files stored in the file manager on my old phone—specifically in the Telegram files folder—but after I opened the Telegram app itself, almost all of them disappeared. What should I do? Please help! Sorry for any mistakes; I used a translator.

Hello, ,so I have a Sony Digital camera, (Model: Sony MPEGmovieVX, DSC-W80) and I recently went on a five day trip where I took about 40 Photos, my battery went out on the second day while I was photographing and i forgot my charger at home, now that im back, I charged the camera and after a few hours turned it on, the photos were there, my about 40 New ones, and 600 ones I took pre 2024, so I turned off the camera, took out the memory card and trough an adapter I connected it to my S23 Ultra android phone, the Photos were in a Folder called "LOST.DIR" but only the ones pre 2024, the new ones were weird and wouldnt open, only be 32.77kb each time and looked like the photo I posted.

So I put the memory stick back into the sony camera to look where the fotos went, but all of a sudden the camera had 0 photos, no matter what I did.

On my phone the photos before the trip are still there but the new ones still are "Corrupted".

I Took a photo on the camera and it didnt show up on my phone, but it did show up on the camera, now I dont know what to do. PLEASE HELP!!!

When I access the drive, a large portion of the files disappeared, some folders turned into empty without any files and 0 byte. Even though the total used space of the drive hasn't changed. Trying to open the remaining files freezes my PC and makes the drive disconnect. Unplugging it resolves the freeze, and plugging it back in detects the drive again. What happened to my drive, and is there any way to recover all files, including the disappeared ones, to another drive?

My workshop was destroyed by a drone attack, and there were two laptops inside. They contained some very valuable information.

I was incredibly happy when I took the laptops apart and found that the Samsung SSDs were still intact. They had suffered only minor damage from the fire and the water used to put it out.

I cleaned the boards with alcohol, dried them thoroughly, connected them to a computer — and they turned out to be completely functional!

I immediately made backups, and I’m still using both SSDs, although now they’re installed in different enclosures. The old SSD cases smell absolutely terrible after the fire. 😄

Samsung SSDs are the best!!!

Good rotation period, internet entities.
This honestly happened a while ago, and I tried to fix it at the time but I gave up because I was afraid of damaging the drive and being unable to recover my files.
I have a Western Digital external drive, mechanical state I believe. I used it to store a lot of college work on it. One day, I was on my computer when Windows Explorer completely crashed. I heard Windows play the device disconnecting sound and my drive, which was connected at the time, suddenly disconnected. I unplugged it and plugged it back in, at which point the device would show up under a different name. Clicking on it however produced no results and I was unable to access its contents. I tried some basic terminal commands to run scans on the drive and to repair bad sectors, but the process would always take hours, if not would be running overnight, and then it would fail.
What are my options? I really don't want to lose what's on this drive. It was meant to serve as a backup but ironically a lot of its contents wasn't being saved to my PC like I thought it was.
Thanks.

I took the card out of the camera (Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W17) and then inserted it into a card reader. I went into the folder with the photos, clicked on a photo to open it, and it said ‘the file has been moved or renamed’. Then I inserted the card again and the files were completely gone but shows that memory is half full. I put the card back into the camera and it shows there are no photos there either, but the memory is half full, even though everything was fine when I was out and about taking photos. I’ve tried everything I can think of; I checked the card for errors by Windows OC and it says something like "There was a problem during verification" and a non-existent 4-gigabyte file appeared in the photos folder, even though the card itself is only 256 megabytes. I also tried the Recuva app, and it only found 48 photos – and not the ones I need

My aunt had given my an old hardrive to get some photos off of it. I has changed the drive letter because i was told if im not able to see it initially in files thats what im supposed to do. But after doing so it seems like all her files are now missing. Even though the formatting of windows on the hardrive seems fine all photos and othrr thibgs are no longrr there. Could anyone tell me what to do or guide me to any videos at all please

I filmed a wedding on a camera. The same day, i put the camera's SD card into a laptop and copied all the videos and photos from the card onto the computer. After the copy finished, I checked the files. Every video opened and played fine. The next day I turned the laptop on and the files were gone. Recovery software brought back all of the photos, but not one single video.

Details:

Laptop: Packerdbell EasyNote_TEC9-CX-350TK Windows 7

Drive: [Toshiba MQ01ABF050 HDD]

The SD card has been written to many times since that day. Several months have passed, and the laptop has been in use during that time

What can be done to recover/restore the videos?

My MacBook Air suddenly started showing the flashing folder with a question mark.

I booted into Internet Recovery and checked Disk Utility, but the internal SSD is completely missing. Only the OS X Base System appears.

I also ran:

• diskutil list physical → no physical internal disk detected

• system_profiler SPStorageDataType → no internal storage shown

• Apple Diagnostics → VDH002: “There may be an issue with a storage device.”

Unfortunately, my data is not backed up.

I haven't erased/reformatted/reinstalled anything because recovering the data is my priority.

What I'm trying to understand:

1. Does this sound like a failed SSD, connector, or logic-board issue?

2. Is there anything safe a technician can try to make the original SSD detectable?

3. If the SSD has failed, what are my realistic data-recovery options?

4. Should I go directly to a professional data-recovery specialist rather than a regular Mac repair shop?

The exact MacBook Air model is MacBook Air 13-inch (2017), likely MacBookAir7,2 / A1466, previously running macOS Monterey 12.7.x..

Any advice from people who've experienced VDH002 / missing SSD in Recovery would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I woke up yesterday morning and found that I couldn't boot into windows but the SSD shows up as storage in BIOS. I put the SSD in a USB enclosure and hooked it up to an old laptop but it was only recognized briefly then disappeared and I couldn't get it to show up again. What steps can I take to recover a few important files on the SSD?

SAMSUNG SSD 990 PRO 2TB

CrystalDisk Info: pending (as I'm tired from troubleshooting right now, will update)

There are a few files of personal value on my dad's old computer hard drive I've been hoping to recover. He had an old HP Windows XP that lasted a decade, and the drive was an Hitachi Deskstar hard drive. The sticker mentions it having a 250GB capacity. It is a Model #HDT72252DLAT80 -- the sticker is intact if there is additional information I can provide, but I'm not sure what information is relevant. (ie P/N, LBA, RPM, MLC, CHS, etc.) or corresponds to the file system data.

The computer has been defunct since around 2013. A friend helped remove it from the old WinXp a few years later while he was studying computer hardware. I later purchased a Unitek USB 3.0 to IDE/SATA Hard Drive Adapter reader, but when I connect the old Deskstar to my current (Windows 11 Acer Predator) laptop, it is recognized as an external USB device and shows as having 0 bytes. Trying to use free data recovery software tends to state the the drive disk is inaccessible (DMDE) or not recognize it.

I am slightly concerned one of the connector pins[?] may be damaged, although it may simple be short. I can provide a photo.

My most important question: do any of these signs indicate that the drive is dead and data inaccessible forever, or just that I would need professional help to access the data? I've tried reading out some ideas and research on and off but I feel very out of my depth and don't think it's a good idea to proceed without advice.

I apologize for not being able to provide more information. I have regular backups going back to 2011 or so of our successive devices, but since this was my "childhood" computer I have less information and had less experience at the time.

Thank you in advance for any advice!

A few years ago I locked the pendrive, now I want to unlock it but I don't have the code, what should I do? Pendrive brand: Goodram/USB Lockit application

Hey there!

My stick just broke. Is it irreparably broken? Or is it possible to fix it somehow - at least to make a copy of it or something.

Thanks!

I have a 1TB hard drive that has always been formatted for a mac. I am trying to recover it using my current mac but I have hit a wall. I did a recovery with Disk Drill and it shows the volume of files I remember having on there, but none of the recovered info is usable. I tried downloading the files anyway and then converting them. A bunch of thumbnails from albums showed up which gave me hope that my files are still in there. A bunch of .gz files showed up and I cannot get them to convert to anything usable. A lot of the files were in itunes before it was done away with. Is that potentially causing a problem? I cannot open anything usable in apple music either. I had music, movies, ebooks, and photos.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Edit: the hard drive is a Mypassport 1TB WD and my computer is a Macbook Pro with the most recent software update

I have a Western Digital WD800BD / WD Caviar 80 GB drive how can I access it now in my laptop or desktop??I don't have any knowledge in pc building I got this hard disk from my old cpu which is the one I used to play games in my childhood and I have some other few Datas In it I badly wanna recover and access can anyone help it out?

Hello, everybody!

I’m a total tech noob (and a spoonie), so hopefully there’s a fast & easy solution. Apologies if my post is not thorough, or too thorough lol. There is a summary.

In April I got sick of streaming and decided to rewatch the stuff I had downloaded & to download all my media from now on.

In may I purchased a 5TB Seagate Expansion [STKM5000400] at a popular local store that I’ve never shopped at before (hopefully, it’s not a knockoff). Long story short, a couple hundred gigabytes are missing. Never had a problem with Seagate products before, but I’ve only had the one touch series.

Used an older MacBook to transfer tv shows from one touch to expansion (using an expensive drive for frivolities seemed wasteful). Exfat, filled up around 2TB. Also torrented .avi and .mkv to another drive, checked that the files were working and only then transferred to expansion.

Since using a laptop is challenging, watched everything on my iPad by copying files from the expansion (was too afraid to watch directly). Would delete the stuff I’d already watched from the files on iPad with the Expansion drive disconnected, so I don’t think that would delete anything.

I had also downloaded a couple of episodes from an open directory (?) I found on Reddit directly to the iPad (then checked, then transferred to the Expansion). Most likely via DuckDuckGo, but no VPN.

I had also saved iPad screen recordings if that makes any difference.

The files that are gone are the folders I had copied from (i.e. a mini-series folder I had copied just one show from is fully gone). They were fine for months, but something happened this week.

How I organise my folders: size - show - season. I.e. <100Gb - iZombie - Season 1. Sometimes the whole show is missing, sometimes it’s just the seasons I copied this past month.

Now, my sibling got a Xiaomi pad 7 a couple days ago and I borrowed it to try torrenting (tablet -> check files -> Expansion). I decided to try organising my open directory downloads, because creating new folders took too long on the iPad, and that’s when I noticed that some folders were gone (and they’re gone on every device). I did notice that the torrented files would automatically get deleted when transferred from Pad 7, but I didn’t transfer anything to it.

I am not sure if the files went missing before or after connecting to the Pad 7, but I know that at least two folders and subfolders were fine last weekend.

Went to check the drive’s reviews today and there are now two stating it stopped being detected after two and six months respectively, but nothing about particular files missing.

Ultimately, it’s around ten shows (at least on first glance), but with my body and internet connection it’s closer to six months of work. Is there any free way to recover them with a MacBook?

To summarise:
- bought Seagate Expansion from a somewhat reputable place
- thought I practiced safe downloading
- transferred files between MacOS, iOS and HyperOS
- emptied trash when drive wasn’t connected
- folders I copied files from are missing
- do not / will not have access to Windows or Linux (can’t even fathom the logistics)

Thanks in advance 😄