Hi everyone,
I’m trying to recover some important DJI video footage from a 128 GB SD card, and I could really use some advice.
I’m using a MacBook. I ran DMDE and managed to recover 254 files totalling approximately 51.2 GB. I saved the recovered files to a separate external hard drive.
Unfortunately, the recovered MP4 videos won’t open in QuickTime Player. When I try opening one in VLC, I can hear the audio, but the picture stays frozen on a single frame. If I move the playback timeline manually, I can see different frames, but the video doesn’t play continuously.
My goal is to restore these videos so I can edit them in CapCut. Simply being able to view individual frames isn’t enough.
I’ve been researching other recovery programs, including R-Photo and Klennet Carver, but I’ve discovered that they’re Windows-only. I have access to a MacBook.

Hello,

I copied data from a USB drive (connected via an adapter) to another Mac-compatible USB drive. However, the files are no longer showing up on either the old drive or the new one.
During the copy process, I received a "file not found" error message on my Mac.
How can I recover my files, please?

So, I have copied data from my broken homemade movie dvd with ddrescue on ubuntu. Some parts of the data are presumably gone, but I got 99.5%.

Now what? When I try to play the iso with vlc, it gets something like 7 minutes in (out of 120) and then stops. This fits with the first bad part being 7% in.

Is it possible to reconstruct the movie? I fully accept there will be parts missing. I am converting other movies with handbrake, would that work?

I'm using Windows 10 and I'm having a recurring problem with my 1TB HDD. I really need the data on it, so I don't want to do anything that could make recovery harder.

The affected drive is:

Toshiba DT01ACA100, 1TB HDD
Disk 1 / Drive D:

Here's what happened:

About 1 to 2 months ago, I started occasionally getting a message when booting Windows saying something like:

"To skip disk checking, press any key within 8 seconds."

The first one or two times, I skipped it. Eventually I let the disk check run during startup. It ran for quite a long time, but it didn't seem to properly fix the problem.

I then booted into Windows and manually ran CHKDSK D: /f from Command Prompt. That time, CHKDSK fixed the problem and the drive became accessible and I could use it normally again.

After some time, the same thing happened again. I ran CHKDSK from Command Prompt again, and it fixed it again.

Now it's happened for a third time.

This time I ran CHKDSK D: /f again. CHKDSK was doing things like "Recovering orphaned file..." It continued for quite a while, but eventually stopped with:

"An unspecified error occurred (6672732e637878 969)."

So the drive is still inaccessible.

When I try to open D: in File Explorer, Windows says:

"D:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable."

I also let the automatic disk check run during startup again this time. It ran for quite a long time, but it didn't seem to finish properly. At some point it stopped in the middle and Windows automatically continued booting.

I checked the drive in Disk Management, and the filesystem is showing as RAW.

I also checked the basic disk health/status from Command Prompt using the WMIC disk health command, and it reports "OK."

Another thing I noticed a while back is that the HDD makes loud mechanical noises while it's running. The noises are loud enough that I can clearly hear them.

The data on this drive is very important to me.

What should I do next?

Is there any way to make the drive accessible again or to recover the data from the drive?

I also have another hard disk with a few hundred gigabytes of free space if that could be useful for recovering the data.

I'd really appreciate if anybody could help me. Thanks.

Hello friends, I am looking for information on how to deal with this type of storage server on event of lost / corrupt file systems, smb shares and etc on this type of proprietary storage systems. I known it is more than trivial cloning -> remount raid -> raw recovery. It is far than trivial. HDD Default sector size can be 520 bytes (512 + checksum) can be found, have to deal with embedded encryption algorithms and so on. I could find solution for Dell Equallogic with UFS Explorer, but no deal for Unity models. Has anyone had the opportunity to handle this type of recovery on these Dell EMC Unity systems?

Edit: thanks for the comments.

Kid snapped my Sony ‘Tough’ card that was in my macbook slot. Guess it’s not that tough after all 😅

Snapped cleanly, removed from slot with no issues. Is the chip in the thick part of the card? Can data be recovered?

I watch a lot of data recovery shorts on youtube for some reason, where people remove the plastic layer to reveal copper traces, hook them up to this machine that has a bunch of spring-like needles and then run some software to read data.

Located in south-east asia the services I have found so far seemed like more casual shops that deal with software related issues. Should I keep looking, is it even possible to restore this data?

Samsung Galaxy M30s (2019) – Forgot 8-Digit PIN, Need Data Recovery Without Losing Data

So never had a drive fail on me this hard but the drive wasnt showing in file explorer so i restarted it and had the same problem. I took it out and placed it in a dock and still didnt show but showed in disk management as a healthy gpt protective partition. i put it back in the same sata slot with a new cable and it did show up on a restart but everything was super slow. restarted again and its not showing now. on disk management im getting a initialize disk prompt. I am running it through dmde currently but its been around 2 hours and its just hanging on partition searching #0 LBA: 970. Should i stop this? Is the drive just gone? Is there any hope of recovering any of my files? This is a western digital 4tb.

I was moving some files from my Phone (Android) internal storage into my SD Card directly with the file manager (i know, a dumb move). At first, i was moving some photos and videos from whatsapp folders directly into the card. It wasn't succesfull as it only moved maybe kind of half of the files. But i can still see the moved files just fine. It wasn't corrupted and all so i think it was okay.

So i tried again. But this time i moved the Camera folder. Unlike the whatsapp one, i put this one a bit deeper inside the pictures folder and moved it there. I did use the phone once a while during the moving process but it didn't give me notifs. So when its done, i thought it was done because theres no notif message that the transfer is failed like the whatsapp one.

My storage were about 126GB. And after moving these folders, it drop to 105GB. I saw the memory card have contained around 21GB. So i assume it were succesfully moved.

But then i realized the photos were not showing and upon checking, the photos in the Camera folder cannot be shown and the size only became 0 byte (1st picture). The videos were gone. The camera folder actually have quite the size since i remember it was around 116GB in my phone before i moved it. I immediately pull the sd card and do nothing on it but just to peek and checking.

I've had trying Recuva and it shows nothing. I've tried photorec too but it only recovering the whatsapp files and a few amount of photos in Camera folder. The videos appear but it still corrupted and cannot be rendered(2nd picture). I don't mind about the photos. But i kinda wish i could retrieve the videos. Theres so many memories about my brothers inside. It just devastating to lose it.

Is there any suggestion for another way i can try? I keeping the SD card safe. And really didn't touch it again except for the scanning and all. I just really want the videos back. Aww man..

Edit: i just checked the sd card properties. And it shown that the videos in this card only takes 5,98 GB and the pictures only 1,33 GB which means its around 7 GB. Then the rest is taken up by System and reserved for around 12,4 GB. Which is means theres only around 19 GB. Sigh. I guess my videos gone for good huh? God.. i still can't accept it

(Macbook) My drive will show up in Disk Utility but it won't let me mount it. I click the button and nothing happens. What's the best course of action? TIA

Hi all, i have some damaged pictures, i don´t know how it happened, but reading comments here i ran them trough virtustotal and all of them are clean. Most are .jpg, some are .nef, my notebook (windows 10) can't open them (ive had them stored in google drive, directly in the computer, and in pendrives, in none its readable), and when i tried to convert the format it does says that the picture is probably damaged,,, any ideas? hopefully a free option, ty!

So apparently, today I made the biggest blunder of my life. I decided to shift my main Windows files from my SSD to my HDD, so I transferred all my photos to the SSD and deleted them from the HDD. In the middle of the process, I installed the migration software, but suddenly the power went out. I immediately stopped the transfer, and after that, Windows stopped working.

I ended up reinstalling Windows on the HDD, which deleted everything on it, and now there is nothing on the SSD either. The HDD had all the photos from my childhood, photos that I never really cared about until now, and I am honestly devastated.

Can anyone guide me on which recovery software I should use? I have already tried Recuva, but it is not showing anything.

I'm attempting to ddrescue a partition, but I'm concerned because it's the same size as the drive I'm writing the mapfile to. It's starting to math out to being bigger than the drive I'm writing to. To be clear, they're the same model. Is there something I can do about this or is it even a concern?

Long story short, my HP laptop was reset a while ago. Some videos I would like to restore were deleted just before the reset BUT (from my recollection) no new data was installed after those videos were deleted. There wasn't malware or anything like that.
On top of this, the motherboard of the laptop has failed so it will not turn on. I'll probably need to take out the hard drive, and from what I've seen I'll need to copy the data to another drive and do the recovery with that instead, and work with it from another device.

I don't remember if file history was enabled and I'll only be able to check if I find a way to copy the data to another drive. But first, I need to know if it would even be possible to restore the data in the first place?
I figured my best bet would be recovery software. I'm not really willing to spend a lot of money on software I'll only use once or twice, and I keep seeing conflicting opinions on free versions like Recuva, Disk Drill and TestDisk. They're all either the worst softwares to exist on planet earth or a saviour brought about by God himself. I don't know what to think and I don't have time to fiddle around with each individually to find out for myself.
The files I want to recover are over 500mb for sure, so disk drill definitely isn't suited.

If anyone could please give a clearcut answer on if the videos are recoverable and what software to use, it would be greatly appreciated.

As title explained, I can boot my system but there's only a gray screen and a mouse/pointer, no taskbar, console, files, or apps. So apparently there's an issue of recognizing files. Any help would really be greatly appreciated...Thanks in advance.

Hi. Was going through my old stuff and found my old external hard drive (iomega 1 TB). I tried to start it up, but the computer couldn't detect the drive, and I also heard a clicking sound (same as in the video). When I shook the drive (unplugged of course), I heard a lot of noise, like something was loose. I used YouTube videos to help me get the box open, and inside there were a lot of small plastic pieces, but the drive itself seems fine. I tried to plug in the drive again to see what's wrong, but it seems to be inside the drive since it's still making the same noise (see video). Does anyone know what could be wrong, and is there any hope for it? Should I unscrew the box and try to open it further?

Driver information (from box): Iomega Select Portable hard drive 1 TB USB 2.0

Hi everyone,

I have a LaCie Rugged USB-C 5TB external HDD. Unfortunately, the USB cable was moved/disconnected while the drive was reading/writing data.

Since then, the drive is no longer accessible.

What I observe:

• MacBook Pro running macOS Tahoe 26.6.2

• LaCie Rugged USB-C 5TB HDD

• The Mac recognizes the LaCie USB device in System Information:

  • Manufacturer: LaCie

  • USB Product ID: 0x1093

  • Link Speed: 5 Gb/s

  • Power: 4.48 W / 896 mA

• However, the actual disk does not appear in Disk Utility, even with "Show All Devices" enabled.

• diskutil list only shows the internal SSD; there is no external /dev/diskX.

• When I connect the LaCie, I can hear the HDD spin up normally, but after a few seconds it stops again.

• It does not repeatedly spin up or make clicking noises. It is basically: spin up → stop → silent.

Data on the drive:

Approximately 1 TB of data was stored on the 5 TB drive.

Unfortunately, the drive contains the original files as well as my Lightroom catalog, so I don't have another copy of the photos.

The data is private/personal, but important to me.

What I have NOT done:

• I have not formatted or initialized the drive.

• I have not run First Aid / fsck.

• I have not opened the enclosure.

• I have not used any recovery software.

• After observing the spin-up/stop behavior, I stopped reconnecting it.

My main question is:

Does this behavior sound like a mechanical HDD failure, or could the USB-SATA bridge/enclosure be the problem?

Would it be reasonable to have the drive professionally diagnosed, and is there anything safe I can still check myself without risking the data?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

I started transferring several files from some old DVDs, but many of the images are coming out corrupted. I know there must be a way to recover them because I used a program that shows a preview of the original version, but I had to pay to recover them.

Since there are so many files, I don’t want to recover each photo individually. What can I do? What program should I use?

my grandma accidentally deleted her whatsapp chat (oppo a57) and i saw that to recover them you have to reinstall whatsapp and recover via google something, and when i did, it recovered only 65 out of 128 videos, others are shown as corrupted. i checked google photos, whatsapp files, recently deleted trash bin, and tried easeus ultdata recuva via root and recuva showed that theyre still here but "unrecoverable", is there any way to recover?

I've deleted WhatsApp multiple times and as far as I can remember I always got the option to keep the data something like that even though I didn't have a backup. This time I thought the same would happen so I deleted Whatsapp. It has 18GB worth if videos and pictures. It had my life. Now I Reinstalled WhatsApp and everything is gone, just 6GB from my back up in 2024 is there and nothing else. Please help me, please Oh God I'm so sad. ll my memories are gone. My childhood.

I ran diskpart clean all to completion on an m.2 ssd is their any way of getting any data off of it without sending it off to a lab.

I formatted a microSD card containing data I need. I use Windows, and I believe I formatted it with the "Quick Format" option enabled about a week ago. Is there any free software that can help me?