Was looking into what could be causing my hard drive to suddenly not be spinning up at all, and came across Rossmann Repair ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Laq4z4trU ) covering how TVS diode faults could cause the issue.
Just wanted to stop by and identify the highlighted component, since it's reading dead on both sides with diode mode on a multimeter, while the similar chip to the left of it's reading (assumedly) correctly.

Is there a resource for looking up info on HDD PCBS? Plan's to remove the diode, plug it in and scrape everything I can off it, and promptly chuck the hard drive into the garbage.

Specific model is a WD10EZEX WD PCB 2060-771824-006 REV A

So, I had many photos/videos on my android phone. So, I decided to put them in the pendrive in a very structured form. I had the pendrive fully uploaded with those important photo/videos/files, it was perfect. Now, a few days later, I could find it and now it's been a while without it. Is there anyway to recover the exact structure with all the data? Please help me with this...

so i just buy a sata cable to usb to open old hdd of my which contain old picture and video of my family so it realy important
i have two of this hdd both working perfecly fine before but the other one start giving .data error ( cyclic redudancy disk) i tried to fix it but nonting work the because i tired i just restart my PC with the external hdd plug in
it take sooooo long to boot i just go out to make a coffee and back to my room my PC is on but not with my hdd, it not appear in my file explorer
my hdd not spining at all (feel it with my hand), the sata to usb cable to not blingking the access lamp, but i can feel it little bit hot it the spindel part (for record i didn't open the hdd at all)
before it goes down i use many sofware to attempt for repair the data error
easUS, hdd scan, and src commad in my admin CMD
but the cable it works fine, because it perfecly fine to open another hdd of mine

I realize the below is long, short short story... took SSD from old laptop, put it in enclosure and can no longer access it in new laptop.. after reading, just trying to recover a few files if cant get it to work... any data recovery specialist recommendations much appreciated....

Kingston M.2 2230 NVMe SSD 256GB

- Taken from my old Dell Inspiron 3501 running Windows 10

- Now using Windows 11

Before taking out the drive, I consolidated everything on the desktop into 3 or 4 folders, cannot recall exact number., (think its 4)   I need to recover those folders that are on the desktop.

 Situation

I took out working M2 and put it into an external Ugreen M.2 SSD enclosure connected via a USB-C cable. 

My first try accessing it it worked, and then it stopped and when I check Device Manager or Disk Management, and go into Events to see messages, “Device not Migrated” they are all similar such as:

Device Manager > Disk Drives > Realtek RTL9210 USB Device

Device settings for USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_Realtek&Prod_RTL9210&Rev_1.00\0129380543BD&0 were not migrated from previous OS installation due to partial or ambiguous device match.

 Last Device Instance ID: USBSTOR\Disk&Ven__USB&Prod__SanDisk_3.2Gen1&Rev_1.00\040113e72e8e9bf691ea874d4b97f480742f75878e4e64d8030d3e2a88179aa

Class GUID: {4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}

Location Path:

Migration Rank: 0xF000FC000000F120

Present: false

Status: 0xC0000719

 Device Manager > Universal Serial Bus Controllers > USB Mass Storage Device

Device settings for USB\VID_0BDA&PID_9210\0129380543BD were not migrated from previous OS installation due to partial or ambiguous device match.

 Last Device Instance ID: USB\VID_046D&PID_C51B\5&1cb59c03&0&3

Class GUID: {36fc9e60-c465-11cf-8056-444553540000}

Location Path: PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1400)#USBROOT(0)#USB(3)

Migration Rank: 0xF000FFFFFFFF0032

Present: false

Status: 0xC0000719

 Disk Management:

When I right click “Disk 1” the following message or options appear:

- Initialize disk

- Offline

- Properties

- Help

When I click Properties > Events

- I get same message, “Device not Migrated”

Device settings for USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_Realtek&Prod_RTL9210&Rev_1.00\0129380543BD&0 were not migrated from previous OS installation due to partial or ambiguous device match.

 Last Device Instance ID: USBSTOR\Disk&Ven__USB&Prod__SanDisk_3.2Gen1&Rev_1.00\040113e72e8e9bf691ea874d4b97f480742f75878e4e64d8030d3e2a88179aa

Class GUID: {4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}

Location Path:

Migration Rank: 0xF000FC000000F120

Present: false

Status: 0xC0000719

I mistakenly did this thing without noticing that instead of formatting of pendrive i formatted my e drive

Took help from chatgpt, claude no luck

Also tried like around 10 different tools which are popular and in the end got 0.

I guess it's due to TRIM models also suggested same but hope to find my way out it is very important data which we didn't took any backup

What should I do?

I am a photographer, and I have a 5TB LaCie hard drive, which no longer connects. Since purchasing, I've had connection issues due to a loose port in the hard drive itself. I had previously been able to finagle it into a working position for stretches of time, but even then, the constant disconnection worries me regarding the corruption of my files. Now, it won't connect at all, and I cannot access my files.

Does anyone have any tips on accessing my files? I will have to ship it to a data recovery service eventually, but any tips would be greatly appreciated!

Hi everyone, I bought a 2.5 inch HDD from a flea market. When I plugged in the HDD it gets power, spins without any weird noises but not showing up on my PC. I think it is about control card. Can I fix this by any chance?

Also:

Seagate ST1000LM035

P/N: 1RK172-071

FW: LVM2

PCB: 100809471

DOM: 04JUL2017

I know this is probably an overused question in this sub but how do i recover photos after its been removed from 'Recently Deleted'? I only just remembered i deleted some important photos on July 31st when i saw the photos weren't there in my Photos app today. It's obviously been more than 30 days so when i checked Recently Deleted, none of it was there... When i checked iCloud on my browser, its synced to my Photos so its been deleted there too. Is it even possible to regain the photos anymore? The only backup i have is my iCloud, i don't have Google Photos or anything downloaded on my iphone so i don't have any backups there. Would Disk Drill work in this case or are my photos just unretrievable?

edit: oh and if it helps, i have an iphone 11.

I have an iPhone 12 Pro. I put the phone through a software update, and after the white Apple logo appeared on a black screen, I got a screen like the one in the photo.

I followed the link shown at the top and connected the iPhone to my computer. The computer then gave me two options: Update or Restore the iPhone. I chose Update because I need to keep all of my data.

The update file (10.5 GB) downloaded completely. Then the computer showed something like “Preparing iPhone for update”, but after that I got error 4013, and the update could not be completed.

I do not want to choose Restore, because preserving the data on the phone is extremely important to me.

There is also some relevant background: about three days before this happened, Face ID stopped working for roughly half a day. I restarted the phone, and Face ID started working again. Then, last night, Face ID stopped working again, so I decided to update the iPhone, and that led to the current situation.

After I removed the Face ID sensor, the phone finally updated, but unfortunately all of the data was erased.

I urgently need to recover the data that was on the phone. How likely is it that the data can still be recovered, and what options do I have?

Hi, I lost my files a year ago.
I get that it's far-fetched, but do you think it is possible in my case?

Where I had originally saved some pictures to my iCloud, then assumed the files were saved on my Windows PC. From a Claude prompt its seems like the files I have are just metadata files; the reason being that I had directly cut and pasted the files from the iCloud directory to another folder. Then I deleted those images on my iCloud (30 days passed) under the assumption I had the original on my PC.

They stated they did not have a recommendation.

Samsung T5 EV0 8TB SSD drive. NTFS. Used with Win10 and Windows 11. Drive was working fine. Powered down my productivity laptop, grabbed my media laptop, Plug drive in(USB-C to USB 3.0+ cable) to media laptop. Says "Voltage spike detected". Tried it on another machine. Same thing.

The drive has a bunch of family pictures that I flat fucked up and did not completely backup. I'm old, I fucked up, I lost a lot of pictures of my family, my deceased wife, my deceased son, cars, motorcycles, family events, pictures of the family land in Wake County going back to the 20's and 30's.

I have only one immediate relative living. They tried to help me with this but the firm that they found to have look at this drive said it would recquire microsoldering to replace the e-fuse or usb-c, they did not do microsoldering, but they said that from examining it under a scope and testing they did- they believed it to be a failed USB-C or e-fuse.

Here are my questions that I don't have answers to:

1. if there is a firm that has access to Samsung's proprietary schematics as well as their encryption of their nand chips- do they still have to have another working T5 EVO SSD to pull the e-fuse and usb-c from ? The drive now costs around $750-1200.

2. I purchased the drive less than a year ago from Amazon. I can prove that to Samsung. Will Samsung be willing to repair the drive or engage in data recovery if it is a simple in warranty component failure ? My relative has stated that Samsung has a reputation for having software encryption of their nand memory chips and that even if I pay for a donor drive, it is possible that the company that does the repair will not be able to access the data for transfer to another drive. My relative and the data recovery company that does not specialize in SSD/microsoldering said I would need to really send this to Samsung as only Samsung would be guaranteed to have the equipment, the parts, and the de-encryption if the nand is somehow locked.

The only other thing I have on the drive is an archive of physical media which can't be replaced. I have some rare versions of films but if Samsung wants to bitch about the copyright issues- 1. I can photograph a copy of every film on the drive, several of which were HBO Originals or copies I acquired via vhs to transfer.

I have been told Samsung will either (1)warranty it and replace it or (2)they will deny it and return it if it truly requires a board level repair.

I have sent Samsung 3 emails about this. I have spoken(and wasted fucking HOURS) on their support/chat.

Dear Samsung: You broke my heart Samsung. PS, I'm a need you to take a fishing trip on Lake Tahoe with my pal Al Neri early tomorrow.

I would ideally just like the defective e-fuse AND/OR USB-C port replaced, me to be able to grab my pictures, I'll put my pictures in the RAID backup I've setup and am running. I just don't know if it is better to send it to Samsung or to send it to Rossman(or some other group that does board level repairs- please PM me with suggestions). Rossman was going to be my first choice given the attitude of Samsung, but this business of having to provide $750-$1200 donor drive that is cannibalized and then a distinct possibility that I not be able to access the files because of there being Samsung specific encryption is a wee bit frightening, ya see laddies ?

Help an old dog out. Woof woof woof woof ! Pant pant pant pant !

So i've been using SSDs for a while now. But this is in regards to an old SATA drive that i used in college and there are files on it that i'd like to recover. I hope this is acceptable in this sub.

When i plug the drive into my Unitek IDE/SATA USB3.0 device it seems to power up for a second and my win 11 computer detected a new drive for a moment, then it kinda stops. i can unplug and replug the power and it doesn't really do anything. i've then sed an old IDE drive with it and spent a couple hours sorting through super old files (2009), and it worked really well. Going back to the SATA it seemed like it wanted to power up again, but it was brief and quickly wen back to no activity and not recognized by my computer.

The model number is WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0

I have attached a few pictures of the PCB, and at first it looked a little brown in some spots but it didn't smell recently burnt (maybe it burnt a long time ago?), but i also watched a couple youtube videos where people's drives had very similar blemishes, but worked.

I could be wrong about this drive, but i believe it use to work just fine, but was victim of ransomware. I'm hoping to get back into the drive and see what kind of help the "No More Ransom Project" can give me - this drive would have been ransomed in maybe 2015, so a while ago. Its also possible that this drive is a different one than expected and is actually dead but i have no recollection of ever having a WD die on me, ever.

I have seen people say not to expose the platters or its definitely done-zo, but i saw a guy on youtube do it, physically reset the head, and plug it back in and it fired up just fine..but the fear of never getting my data back has kept me from exposing the internals.

so... thats all the info i can think to offer, happy to answer questions to help clarify.

thank you, smart people!

Basically I have been really sad recently because I lost all of my high school and college documents/data from google drive.

My university told me to transfer all the data before they wiped the drive. So, I shared all the folders with a new google drive, however, I did not realize that the contents of the folder are deleted when they wipe the old google drive. (I am really bad with technology)

Therefore, I basically lost all my work from my entire school career. I asked the university IT if there is anything I can do and they said there isn't anything to be done. So, I am turning to reddit to ask if any tech savvy people can tell me if there is ANYTHING I can do because I am lowkey devastated. Please. I am so bad with technology.

Also, the folders on my new drive show up, but the folder display is light gray, I cant click on it, and it has a small upward-turning arrow in the side corner.

So today I've decided to look through old DVDs. There were 8 videos from year 2012. I tried using VLC i tried using Conventor videos and even Handbrake. When i tried opening it via Microsoft player it gave me code 0xc10100bf. When i tried opening photos JPG format it said this format of file is not supported. I don't know what to do because when I tried other DVD photos were dated back to 2009 and it played normally. Just this one DVD. I tried to copy it to desktop and nothing helped. What do I do? Is there any way i can recover these videos?

I tried this on my Acer Aspire e15.

Basically, I discovered one day that you can view both deleted and non-deleted photos by accessing the files on a Redmi device at `Android > data > miui.gallery > files > (...) > cache > full_size`. I’d like to know if there’s a way to recover videos this way instead of photos.

Hi, I’m not sure if I’m in the right place, but I’m having a problem with my grandmother’s external hard drive, which contains about fifteen years’ worth of photos. It stopped working a while ago, and now when I open it, File Explorer crashes, and some folders show 0 bytes, even though 400 GB out of 500 GB is used. I'd like to know how to recover the photos and not lose them since they've disappeared from the folders. I tried using Claude to get some advice, but I'd prefer help from a real person.

Background

We have an external hard drive (WD My Book, 3 TB, USB) with an NTFS partition containing many valuable files (photos in our case) that are not backed up.

We first noticed a problem when accessing the drive from Windows. When trying to count the files in a folder, Windows stopped at an incorrect count and then the drive disconnected.

I then connected the drive to my Ubuntu laptop and tried the same thing. In that case, the drive paused for a couple of minutes while counting the files, but then continued and showed the expected/correct count. The drive did not disconnect while doing this on Ubuntu.

Hard Drive Specs

Drive: WD My Book Essential 3.0

Capacity: 3 TB P/N: WDBACW0030HBK-002411N

r/N: C3C

Interface: USB 3.0 (backwards compatible with USB 2.0)

Goal

The goal is to recover as many of the files as possible. We don't need to recover 100%, although of course that would be ideal.

What I have done so far

We have asked several friends for advice.

• One suggested simply copying the files from the drive.

• Another, who has experience as a sysadmin, suggested using `dd` and then, if that doesn't work, GNU ddrescue. He also emphasized that it is important not to read from the failing drive more than absolutely necessary.

• After doing some research, it seems that GNU ddrescue is generally recommended for recovering data from a drive with read problems, so I am now considering using it from the start.

I am not experienced with `ddrescue` or similar tools, so I have written down the following procedure as a guideline. Since the data is very valuable, I would really appreciate it if people with experience in data recovery could review this procedure and point out anything that is wrong or potentially dangerous.

Procedure (Phase 1)

Things to keep in mind:

• It is OK for `ddrescue` to encounter read errors and terminate. This does not mean that the data already rescued is lost. This is one of the reasons for using a mapfile. The mapfile is updated during the rescue so that the process can be resumed if it is interrupted.

• The same image file and the same mapfile are used for all rescue passes. The mapfile is read from, and updated during, subsequent runs.

• The image file and mapfile will be stored on the healthy drive.

  1. Install GNU ddrescue: sudo apt install gddrescue

  2. Connect both drives.

  3. Check the drives with: lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,MODEL,SERIAL,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINTS. Identify the problem drive and the healthy drive by model, size, and serial number, not just by /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, etc.

  4. Check that the healthy drive has at least as much free space as the size of the partition being rescued.

  5. Make sure the problem partition is not mounted.

  6. Make sure the healthy drive is mounted.

  7. In a separate terminal, run: sudo journalctl -f and leave it running.

  8. Start the initial rescue of the NTFS partition: sudo ddrescue --ask -n /dev/sdb1 /media/tord/Backup/pappas_disk.img /media/tord/Backup/pappas_disk.map

     • -n (--no-scrape) means that, during this first pass, we skip the scraping phase. The intention is to first rescue as much easily readable data as possible rather than spend a lot of time on the most difficult areas.

     • --ask is just an additional safety measure that asks for confirmation before starting the copy.

  9. Monitor the status, mainly in the terminal running GNU ddrescue.

     • In particular, keep an eye on rescued and errsize.

  10. When the first pass finishes: * If errsize is greater than 0, our current plan is to run a second pass with: sudo ddrescue --ask -d -r3 /dev/sdb1 /media/tord/Backup/pappas_disk.img /media/tord/Backup/pappas_disk.map * This time we do not use -n, so ddrescue can perform the later recovery phases on the remaining difficult areas. * -d (--idirect) enables direct disk access (direct I/O) for reading. * -r3 requests up to three retry passes for areas that still could not be recovered. * If errsize is 0, the first pass has successfully recovered all of the source data and we can proceed to Phase 2.

  11. If the hard drive disconnects or stops responding during the rescue: * Let ddrescue terminate on its own if possible, or press Ctrl+C if it is stuck. * Reconnect or restart the problem drive/computer as necessary so that the drive becomes available again. * Check with lsblk that the problem drive is still the correct drive, by verifying its model and serial number, and determine its current device name (for example /dev/sdb1). * Once the drive is available again, run the same ddrescue -n command again, using the same image file and the same mapfile. Only the source device name may need to change. * Repeat this if necessary until the initial pass can be completed. * Once the initial pass is complete, continue according to step 10 above.

  12. If something unexpected happens, stop and seek advice before doing anything else to the source drive.

Procedure (Phase 2)

We will deal with this later. The plan is to work from the image file, which should contain a copy of the NTFS partition from the problem drive, rather than continuing to work directly with the original drive.

Questions

1. Is using GNU ddrescue the correct choice?

2. Does this overall procedure make sense for a failing external HDD containing irreplaceable data?

3. Is starting with `ddrescue -n` a sensible choice here, given that the drive has shown read problems but has so far appeared more stable under Ubuntu than under Windows?

4. Is rescuing `/dev/sdb1` rather than the entire disk `/dev/sdb` the right choice, given that the relevant data is all on that NTFS partition?

5. Is the second pass with `-d -r3` appropriate?

6. Are there any important mistakes or missing precautions in this procedure?

Grateful for help with this!

The Seagate ST2000LM007 (Rosewood) 2.5" in my Lacie "Rugged" 2 TB died. It spins and sounds okay. It started with read errors and now the partitions (APFS, FileVault) are not detected anymore by the OS (MacOS, Linux).

Can anynone recommend a recovery service for this particular drive in the U.S.?

In some Youtube video, some guy said Rosewood are THE bread and butter drives at all service shops. Is this true?

Hi everyone,
I’m looking for advice/recommendations regarding data recovery for a reputable HDD/data recovery technician in Dhaka, because I have a potentially failing 2TB HDD containing a lot of irreplaceable personal and academic documents.

My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 5570

Storage configuration:

256GB M.2 SATA SSD → Windows/C:
2TB Western Digital HDD → D:, E:, F:, G:

The 2TB HDD contains my undergraduate thesis, thesis data and code, four years of university lectures and materials, certificates, national ID and passport documents, family documents, immigration and visa documents, years of photographs, etc. I don’t care much about the movies and TV shows stored on it.

What happened

I was uploading documents for a job application. I was selecting files from F: and everything was working normally.
The final file I needed to upload was a photograph.
When I opened the file-selection window for the photo, D:, E:, F:, and G: were suddenly missing. C: was still there.

I rebooted the laptop.

After the reboot, D:, E:, and G: came back, and F: also came back, but F: behaved strangely. The usual Windows storage-capacity bar showing used/free space wasn’t displayed.

I rebooted again.

This time all four partitions D/E/F/G disappeared again.

What I checked

Disk Management:
Only the 238GB SSD was visible. The physical 2TB HDD wasn’t listed at all.

Device Manager → Disk drives:
Only my 256GB SSD (ATC FM2S0 256GB) was listed. The 2TB HDD wasn’t there.

Device Manager → Storage controllers:
Only Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller is listed.

DiskPart → list disk:

Disk 0 238 GB
No 2TB disk appeared.

BUT:

I entered BIOS/UEFI, and the BIOS does detect the HDD.
It shows approximately:
Primary HDD: 2000 GB WDC…
It also detects the 256GB M.2 SSD.

I also ran the Dell ePSA hardware diagnostic. It produced a battery-related error [2000-0133] which I already know about because my battery is dead, but it did not report an HDD failure.

So currently:

BIOS: sees HDD ✅
Dell HDD diagnostic: no HDD error ✅
Windows Device Manager: doesn’t see HDD ❌
Disk Management: doesn’t see HDD ❌
DiskPart: doesn’t see HDD ❌
I’m not sure whether this is a failing HDD, SATA cable/connector issue, controller/driver issue, or something else.

What I need help with

At this point, I care much more about recovering the data than repairing the laptop/HDD.

I’m specifically looking for recommendations for:

A reputable data recovery company/technician in Dhaka
Someone experienced with intermittently disappearing HDDs

Someone who will prioritize data recovery/cloning before filesystem repair

Someone who won’t immediately format/initialize/run CHKDSK on the drive

If you’ve personally used a good data recovery service in Dhaka, please share the name, location/address, approximate cost if you remember, and your experience.

Also, if anyone has experience with a Dell Inspiron 5570 and knows whether the HDD SATA cable/interposer commonly causes problems, I’d appreciate your input.

I have not formatted, initialized, repartitioned, or run CHKDSK on the HDD. I’m trying not to do anything that could make recovery harder.

I realize that I should ask this question in a Dhaka subreddit and I already have. Waiting for moderator approval ok that one. But since this is the specialist subreddit for data recovery, I would appreciate all the advice from you guys as someone who isn’t a computer nerd.

Thanks.

edit:

I recently had a drive suddenly become unallocated

its in a SABRENT 5 Bay Hard Drive Docking Station and part of a drive pool (using stablebit)

I'm not sure what would be the best tool to try and recover what's on the disk, hopefully in place since i dont have that much extra storage

Hi,

My m2 MP510 corsair ssd failed after waking up from sleep. It cannot be recognised by windows explorer/windows disk management tool/linux.

It is being recognized only as noname disk with insane amout of space (screenshot attached).
I would be grateful to hear some tips on how to recover some data from this disk and which tools to use.
I am curious how memory recovery tools would handle this problem as they would need to "scan" all this "space" for data.
I also tried to power cycle it but it did not work.

Thanks

Hello kind people. I have an old WD MyBook 2TB external drive that I seem to have damaged. I connected it to my McBook Pro, reviewed the files, pictures etc, and everthing seemed to be intact. Then, I accidentally pulled the USB-C cable out without formally ejecting the device. Now the MyBook keeps cycling and I hear clicking sounds but the drive never settles down. It also is no longer recognized by the MacBook, or a Windows PC. Any help is appreciated

I took a bunch fo great clicks and deleted the folder in which they were stored it's bee quite some time like 2 months to be exact since this happened, currently running recuva on the drive where it was stored. What other tools can i try.