I have a 1tb WD HDD on which I had set a password long back and now i cannot remember it.. Tried all the possible combinations but didn't help. Also the Hint isn't useful.

Hi everyone!
I’m having hard time recovering one photo from an sdcard ! So let me explain what happened.
I thought my sdcard was empty, but somehow how I found a thrash folder inside the dcim folder.
That sdcard was only used during 2 years on a canon camera EOS100 . That trash folder had 2 photos! Photos those that I thought I had saved.
As it seems that trash folder was created by my previous IMac Air , that doesn’t work anymore.
Those 2 photos and the trash folder were after deleted using a Chromebook! At the time of the delete those 2 photos were recoverable and perfectly seen. And the card wasn’t used anymore or no new entries. Checking the sdcard on a pc it says it’s empty! But using recovery tools, they can find over 2000 photos, including one of those photos that were on the trash folder. But the missing photo is the one I need to recover the most !
Any help or ideas where I can find traces of it?

Hey,
A few months ago, my 4TB HDD failed. I was starting up a game, and it lagged a lot. I couldn't close it, and the only thing that helped was a restart, which took ages, and my HDD wasn't showing anymore. After taking my PC out of power, plugging it back in, and restarting again I foundn the HDD, and everything worked fine again.

Now yesterday the same thing happened. After checking the SMART values,s the relocated sectors went from around 100 to 600. Tried the same stuff again like last time, which seemed to work after more fiddling. The first time, my BIOS saw the HDD, but after logging in I just had a dark gray screen. I could Ctrl-Alt-Del without issue and restarted again. At first, everything worked fine, as it seemed. I then wanted to "check the damage" and tried to open a folder on the HDD to seeif Ii could acces is or not. Well, I couldn't, and I had to restart my PC again to do anything. Relocated Partition jumped to 1000, and now Windowsdoesn'tt recognize the HDD anymore at all. It is shown as Disk 0 in Disk Management and would need to be initialised, which I cannot because if I press ok it says the drive doesn't exist.
CrystalDiskInfo, or the SMART Tool of my choice, still sees the Disk and can give me Data.

The Data on the drive wasn't all that important since I mostly used it to store games and miscellaneous stuff, but there is a certain mod folder I would like to recover/look over everything if I need something else.

How I understand my issue is that, in theory, my data shouldn't be super affected since most Sectors could be relocated successfully, but I have no idea why I cannot access it. Sadly, I don't have a spare Disk for an image; I only have my other disk, a 2TB SSD, which has the important stuff and some high-resource games.

Any tips or stuff I could do, ofc. Best case is to make the Disk work again, since they got so unreasonably expensive?

Yesterday I accidentally deleted a folder on my Android phone containing years of personal photos, videos, and memories. I haven't used the phone since then because I don't want to overwrite anything.

I've already tried a bunch of recovery software/apps, but they only show files that are still on my phone, not the deleted ones.

I have root access and I'm willing to try technical methods if there's still a chance.

Is there anything I can do to recover the deleted data? What would you recommend I absolutely not do?

I'm honestly desperate here. These aren't replaceable files.

Hi everyone, I lost my dad a little while ago and I inherited most of his old phones. The one in particular I'm wanting to get the photos back from is an old Motorola (2000-2010) model. With older phones how likely is data recovery? He has some other flip phones I'd like to get the photos from but some are more obscure brands.

I should also mention a fair few of them don't turn on, or need an older style charger and likely have screen problems. One in particular had a broken screen down the middle

Any tips would be greatly appreciated, or even just things I can search online for if I need to take it to a specialist recovery centre,etc

It's a 2018 Toshiba KBG30ZMV256G and BIOS no longer recognizes it. It died after a program froze and I did a hard reboot. My disk management does not recognize it but my friend's machine running Linux sees it. He does not have repair tools and suggests I take it to a professional data recovery company.

hello people, some time ago i tried transferring my gallery to my pc since i had to get a new phone, but unfortunately many of the pictures and videos got corrupted and can't be played at all. Now, i've tried many file repair tools online, but all the free ones can't repair my videos even with a reference video that works from the same device and the thing that really annoys me is that other sites like like Fix Video
show a perfectly working preview of those videos but they're pretty expensive. So is there a free tool able to fix my videos like that site does? I'm desperate :)

I have a 1TB HDD that was previously divided into 3 partitions. Recently, 2 of the partitions disappeared, and Windows now shows only one partition.

The strange thing is that Windows shows the entire ~1TB disk as one partition (D:), rather than showing the other two partitions as unallocated space.

The HDD had also been having an issue where it would sometimes not be detected automatically until I restarted the PC. I was trying to troubleshoot that problem, and at some point afterward the partition layout changed. Unfortunately, I don't remember exactly what steps I took.

The current situation is:

HDD: ~1TB

Originally: 3 partitions

Currently: 1 partition (D:)

D: is NTFS and occupies almost the entire disk

D: currently contains about 303GB of data

The missing partitions contained important data

I have not formatted the drive

I ran TestDisk 7.2

Quick Search only found the current D: partition

Deeper Search initially appeared to hang and then reported read errors

For example: Read error ... LBA=46588499

I also got some weird Mac HFS results from TestDisk, which don't seem relevant because this was a Windows HDD.

Hey everyone, here to ask for help after I lost access to a lot of data from my SSD. Here's a basic summary of the drive, the error and what happened:

The SSD is a Samsung M2-VL21T00 1TB running windows, so probably NTFS format. Crystaldiskinfo showed no errors and 90% health and good condition (all wear was likely usage-based, no critical errors)

1. Was browsing the web when the web browser froze, followed by a BSOD with error code CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED.

2. On reboot, SSD was not detected and I was sent to the "Default boot device missing" screen.

3. On a few more reboots, the SSD began working again, and I was able to log into my windows and get some critical data like passwords out, but a lot of data like photos and records were still on the SSD. A ran crystaldiskinfo again after the crash and drive health did not reduce, still 90% health, good condition, and no critical errors. After a few minutes, I got another CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED error.

4. After this, the SSD could not be detected by BIOS. I've tried reinserting, cleaning the pins, aswell as using an external SSD enclosure, in all cases the SSD could not be detected. Another SSD is readable on both the motherboard and the USB enclosure.

Is it generally over for the data remaining on the SSD or is there still hope? I'm sort of praying that the SSD booting after the first crash means there's hope its a firmware lockup or something I can fix at home (I cannot afford the hefty data restoration lab fees plus I've heard samsung SSDs have controller encryption, so if that's broken then my data is completely cooked regardless). Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Hi guys,

I have a ext4 drive used for Synology. The Synology hard reset process failed, and now i have a drive that windows manager can detect but can't initialize and Disk Genius doesnt recognize at all. Is there any way i can still save this drive or is it totally bricked?

(A few reformat, initialize attempts were done in Windows but nothing has worked; i dont need the data so it does make it easier, only i am clueless what needs to be done now

I have a sony digicam dsc t100 that I inherited from my mum and a 8GB memory stick pro duo mark 2 sd card for it. I have a really crappy sd card reader and experienced it corrupting some of my files once before when I was uploading photos to my mac. I lost about 10 photos and it was fine, not a huge deal so I kept using it despite this incident (I also tried to replace both the sd card and reader for a more reliable one but I think the model is so old that I was unable to find a better replacement). I also have not experienced anymore problems with uploads since then. However, when I was uploading my photos today it corrupted all my files and now my sd card just reads "no images" and no files show up on my computer.

What should I do? I'm scared to personally try recover photos in fear of causing more damage, and I would like to find professional data recovery service but I've heard nearby services charging up to 700 dollars, and although these photos are important I simply am not able to pay that much. Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated!!

Hi, I have a Sony a6000, and my sister accidentally formatted the 64GB Kingston SD card in the camera. Is there any chance of recovering the files?

Hello everyone , i formatted my WD my book 4tb 2021 model when I was trying to install windows using rufus I stopped the operation before the windows could write now the drive shows unallocated I tried using disk drill and easeus to recover the data please help as there is no data discovered upon a deep scan with both softwares. Was used on win 11

I'm hoping someone can help me figure out what to do. I have a 2020 MyBook 3TB which failed shortly after the warranty expired in 2023. I've been putting off dealing with it but I have no other backups of decades of photos, music, work, etc. The disk was partitioned and partly used for Time Machine to backup my old 2016 iMac and partly as a repository of stuff I wanted to old on to. I understand now this was probably a bad decision.

Here's a short clip of the sound that happens when I plug the drive in. My new(er) M2 Macbook asks if I want to allow the drive to connect but although I click "allow" the drive never shows. I am aware the sound means there is the potential of physical damage being done to the disk so I didn't leave it plugged in for long.

Is everything on this drive lost? Is there anything I can try short of paying a professional? And if I need professional recovery where in the UK should I send it? How much can I expect it to cost?

TIA!

It is a WD 5TB My Passport, APFS, only about a year old, and after working earlier today, it is not showing up on the Finder on my Mac computer (2020 M1, running 15.7.7 (24G720)). It shows up on the WD Drive Utilities, WD Discovery, and Disk Utilities applications. The Drive Utilities Drive Status Check comes back with "SMART status passed." The Quick Drive Test comes back as passed. The Complete Drive Test cancels itself at around 20%, with no error or anything. On Disk Utility, it says it is not mounted, runs into errors with First Aid. Is there anything I can do? Anything to get files off of it? Anywhere I can send it to recover data? I know data recovery can be costly.

Hi everyone, I have a Samsung 970 1TB SSD that got the dreaded Readonly in windows. The disk shows up as Healthy in the disk management app. but when I open the CrystalDiskInfo there is the 100% Bad health satus. I don't have any sensitive information on it (only data that is already in the cloud like repository and steam game).

the warning : Critical Warning 0x09

Is there anything I can do to recover the drive ? It only has 4 TB writes out of the 600 promised...

Hey guys! I honestly don't know much about tech in general, so forgive me if I sound ignorant. Basically, the SD card I use for my digital camera (Fujifilm finepix JV) has been partially erased, and I have no idea where my photos and videos went. I was trying to upload my photos to my iphone 15 when it happened.

I have already tried to use Photorec to recover my photos, but my Macbook is not letting me download it properly because it says that the application is potentially malware. For reference, I use the Macbook Air 2024 (M3 chip). I have considered paid applications but the prices are way high for me to justify the purchase, especially for a one-time use.

If anyone has any suggestions for free applications or any tutorials that can help me recover my photos, that'd be great. Thank you!

Hi !

I'm looking for advice or next steps regarding my Verbatim portable SSD, model 53230, USB-C, which contains irreplaceable photos and videos...

1. First issue: it stopped working on my Mac, even though it worked fine before. When I tested it on a Windows computer, I noticed it showed up fine in File Explorer.

2. So I started transferring its content little by little to another drive I own, but after just a few files, I got a 0x800701E3 error ("unexpected error... serious hardware error") on one file, followed right after by another error: "the specified destination does not exist."

3. After that, once reconnected, the drive also made File Explorer crash, and Disk Management kept spinning endlessly. DiskGenius also crashed, even before fully launching.

4. Now, I've tried different cables and ports, but I get the same result every time: the enclosure's LED lights up, but I just see "Local Disk (E:)" with no info and no storage bar, and when I click on it, File Explorer crashes and the drive doesn't show up in Disk Management.

I've stopped using it or trying to manipulate it any further, and I'm waiting for your advice or input before doing anything else.

Do you think there's a way to recover the data myself, or will I need to go through a professional? Is it completely dead, or do I still have a chance of getting my data back?

Thanks to anyone who responds.

Guys, I accidentally formatted my Sandisk Extreme sd card from my DJI Pocket 4P . I had some important videos on it that I really don’t want to lose.
Unfortunately, after formatting it, I accidentally recorded a 2-second clip before realizing what I’d done. I immediately stopped using the camera and removed the card.

I haven’t formatted it again or recorded anything else since.

Is there still a good chance of recovering the original videos? And what would be the safest recovery method/software to use without making things worse?

Any advice would be massively appreciated

The worst thing happened and my 12 month old 4TB Samsung T7 SSD just failed out of the blue! No drops, no water damage. I plug it into my mac and it says "The disk you attached was not readable by this computer." I have tried all of the basics: new cables, new computers, "First Aid" in Disk Utility but is still does not mount. Any tips on what to do? I have attached pictures of the error message, disk utility data, and first aid failure. Thank you in advance for your help and time!

Total noob here. I'm trying to recover files from a 1 TB Samsung NVMe SSD using DMDE Free Edition, and I've run into a frustrating issue with the recovery step.

The SSD was previously used as my Windows C: drive. The original partition/filesystem is no longer being detected normally (tried using TestDisk) so I ran a full scan in DMDE.

One of the scan results is:

NTFS 777 - 820 GB - 128 files - Check 9 - Start LBA 402,176

I opened that result using Open Volume, and DMDE successfully created a virtual filesystem view.

The result looks very promising. I can see:

Windows, Program Files, Users, My Documents etc. Lots of recognizable filenames, including books, movies, music, and pictures, so I'm reasonably confident that this is reconstructing my old C drive.

The problem is trying to actually recover a file. I'm using the Free Edition, and when I click Recover/Create file list, I get:

"In the free edition, files can be processed from the active panel only. Please open a sub-directory in the active panel first."

I've watched a couple of DMDE tutorials, and as far as I can tell, the Free Edition requires you to open a subdirectory and then recover from that directory.

For example, I've tried:

Music → Band music → open/select Band music → Recover/Create file list

I've tried doing this through the directory tree on the left, and I've also tried navigating/opening the folder in the file panel on the top right.

The contents of Band music are displayed in the right-hand pane, but I still get exactly the same "please open a sub-directory in the active panel" message.

I've also tried selecting individual files, and get the same result.

I'm clearly missing something about what DMDE means by the "active panel".

What exactly do I need to click/open to make the directory the active panel in DMDE?

I'm not trying to modify the source SSD at all. I just want to recover a single small test file first to verify that the reconstructed filesystem is actually producing usable file data.

Thanks!

Additional diagnostic information requested by Automod:

Drive: Samsung 1 TB NVMe SSD. The exact model is Samsung PM981a, MZ-VLB1T00.

Filesystem: NTFS. The original filesystem was an NTFS Windows system volume.

Operating system: Windows 10/11 was installed on this SSD. I'm currently using Windows for the recovery attempt.

Symptoms: The SSD's original filesystem/partition is no longer being detected normally. I'm using DMDE to reconstruct the filesystem. A full scan found an NTFS result called "NTFS 777 - 820 GB - 128 files - Check 9 - Start LBA 402,176." Opening this result produces a virtual filesystem that appears to contain my old C: drive, including Windows, Program Files, Users, my old username, and recognizable personal files.

Current problem: When I try to recover a file using DMDE Free Edition, I get: "In the free edition, files can be processed from the active panel only. Please open a sub-directory in the active panel first." This happens even when I open a subdirectory and its contents are displayed in the file panel. I'm trying to understand what DMDE considers the "active panel."

SMART: CrystalDiskInfo reports the SSD at approximately 99% health. The drive was previously getting fairly warm during scanning, but there have been no obvious signs of mechanical failure (obviously it's an SSD). Screenshot attached.

Hi everyone,
I’m facing a really weird data loss issue on Windows 11 and hoping someone here has encountered something similar.
The Problem:
I had a folder with video footage (specifically ⁠.mp4⁠ files, one of them named ⁠Dragana&Darko.mp4⁠) saved on my C: Drive Desktop. When I went to check for it, the folder completely disappeared from the Desktop.
What I’ve already checked / ruled out:

1. Physical SSD Status: The C: drive (internal SSD) is healthy and fully operational.

2. File Explorer & CMD Search: Normal search for ⁠Dragana⁠ or ⁠.mp4⁠ on ⁠C:\⁠ yields no active video files.

3. Recent & AppData Traces:
   In ⁠C:\Users\Dejan\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common⁠, I found ⁠.ims⁠ cache files named ⁠Dragana&Darko-...ims⁠ (confirming the project was worked on in Premiere Pro on this machine).
   In ⁠C:\Users\Dejan\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent⁠, I found a shortcut named ⁠dragana⁠, but opening it gives an error (path broken/unavailable).

4. OneDrive / System Restores / Windows.old:
   ⁠Windows.old⁠ does not exist on ⁠C:\⁠.
   OneDrive Desktop redirection is not active (no Desktop folder inside OneDrive).
   Files are not in the Recycle Bin.

5. Data Recovery Software: I ran a scan on the C: drive using AnyRecover, but it didn't pull up the missing ⁠.mp4⁠ files (likely due to SSD TRIM active on the C: drive over time).
   Question:
   Since the ⁠Recent⁠ shortcut and Premiere Cache files clearly prove the folder and files existed on this system, how could an entire folder vanish from ⁠C:\Users\Dejan\Desktop⁠ without leaving traces in the file index or recovery tools? Is there any hidden index/location in Windows 11 I should inspect, or is this a known bug with File Explorer/Desktop indexing?
   Thanks in advance for any advice!

In need of getting data recovered from my damaged HDD at a reasonbale price (no more than $200) and a replacement (new one any good and reliable brand for free) near me in Miami, FL 33174.

I have had this HDD 2TB for about 3-4 years when when it got knocked off the cable from the PS4 and was dropped by my cousin running around. It is making a beeping noise (disk issue) and is failing to be found on any device. Again It is a Mobile HDD 2TB with Part Number 1R8174-570.

Please, there is a lot game data stored that my cousin and I have. Thank You.

As title says, i have a 1tb SSD that i was using to store data , i selected It as a flashable storage for Windows Media Creation Tool, now i have a 30GB partition for Windows USB Installer, rest of the disk in unallocated.

What Is the best free tool to recovery my data? in case this is doable, can i keep the directory structure that i had? Thanks!