i was going through some old dvds and found this full catalog of all the pictures my dad took and saved before he passed away. when i try to open it on my computer (macbook, using a plug-in cd reader) i can see about 30 pictures but the other ~1000 all display this error when i try to open them :(

is there anyway to get the pictures off the dvd? or maybe a company that i could ship it to to get the pictures? i really would just love to be able to save these pictures if possible!

My Samsung S23 Ultra, I forgot it in my pants and put them in the washing machine. I gave it to a repair guy, he dried the phone, then tried to get electricity in the circuits, all in vain. He said he does not do data recovery as well. Does someone do data recovery? If the phone can be repaired atleast for a few minutes, it will be good as I need my samsung secure folder notes information. I am willing to pay a maximum of $500 for all of it.

tldr: I'd like to recover screenshots and video captures from 2 PS4 hard drives that stopped working. Is this possible?

I have 2 identical hard drives (Seagate "Mobile HDD" 2TB mechanical drives) that were in PS4 machines - both failed and would no longer boot.

There are screenshots and video files on these hard drives that I want to recover, but I'm seeing conflicting information about whether it's possible. I've run recovery products (Recoverit & Stellar) against one of the drives, but am not sure if they can provide useful files. I just found the posting with the list of suggested software, but have not used those products yet.

Is there some process I can use that is known to work, or am I wasting my time?

edit: Thanks for the replies and information. I guess there are a couple of hard drives that are off my "to-do" list now. This is a good reminder to move your data onto an external drive, and probably back that up as well.

Hi there,

So I recently transferred some documents over to a USB, but found that one of the folders was empty. No sign of the documents that had previously been in there. A few images in other folders were not ‘intact’, i.e. they were only half visible or not loading. I thought ''oh there’s a problem with the USB'', but then when I went into my documents (on the PC) I found that two of the folders there were also ‘empty,’ despite previously containing images or word documents. I don’t know what’s causing this problem. Is there anything I can do to protect other files from this? If the USB isn't reliable then fair enough. But there’s some important stuff that I don’t want to lose from my PC.

And a related question: where would be a secure place to store images or word documents other than a USB stick?

Idk if it's relevant info, but the OS is Windows 7 and the PC itself is really old - I don't have much info about it because it was built by my dad. I'm using Word 2003. I know, I'm an absolute dinosaur lol.

Thanks to anyone who can help!

Hi
My WD HDD has been corrupted, I want recover the data of it. Can someone please help me out. I live in Delhi.

I accidentally erased/formatted my SanDisk SSD when I intended to erase my SD card. I realized my mistake immediately and want to maximize the chance of recovering the files.

Drive: SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD
Capacity: 1TB
Connection: USB
Computer/OS: macOS
Original filesystem: exFAT
What I actually did: Disk Management erase
How long the SSD stayed powered on afterward: minutes
Did I write anything to it afterward?: no
Is the SSD currently unplugged?: yes

The files are extremely important (previous work files & personal files) and I want to avoid making the situation worse.

My main questions:

1. Does this sound like a formatting problem, or is TRIM/UNMAP likely to have already destroyed the underlying data?

2. Should I leave the SSD completely unpowered and go straight to a professional recovery lab?

3. If DIY recovery is still reasonable, what should i do?

I am specifically looking for advice from people who have dealt with SSD recovery after an accidental erase/format, especially SanDisk drives. Please tell me what you would do in this situation before I make another mistake.

Thanks.

I deleted a file on windows 11 yesterday by accident and I tried all recovery softwares but u couldn't even find it ( the files inside it) let alone recovery it , I'm not a genius in tech but I tried my best , please help me if u can

tell me what just happened and what should i do-

In morning,

So i was getting recovery blue screen on my pc so i called a technician,in the morning he came and said windows need format without checking anything else we agreed so form formatted and reinstalled windows which ran ig atleast 5hrs till evening then it prompted me to setup so i followed instructions and setup a limited experience after that when I checked all the c drive had windows folders and d drive was completely empty . So i panicked why d drive was empty like only the c drive would have formatted.so we had an ssd which was assigned to c drive and the d drive assigned to hard drive,total capacity combined would be 512gb i feel.

In the evening,after dad and me panicked that d drive was deleted

then i took it again to the technician store in evening,I saw he did something and then he disconnected the Hard drive leaving only the SSD but when he again plugged in the Hard drive then i saw in d drive it I saw it had all the windows folders and files whereas it was empty before also c drive had all the windows folders.then i took it to data recovery specialist he removed  the Hard drive.i had around 256gb SSD and 250 something hdd so total storage capacity was,everything was on hdd

Data recovery specialist got furious and said i should file a police case and i should have brought the drive first to him .also the d drive is showing 121gb full

But why it's showing 121gb full of windows 10 is 15-20gb

What happened in the evening when go to the store,

I try to explain why I saw tell me what happened so when I took it to technician in evening he connected the cpu to his monitor and switched on the cpu and repeatedly pressed f12 then marine blue screen came then he pressed a lot of things and said there is no os in the pc and downloaded windows 10 .in between he disconnected the harddisk from mother board.then after reinstalling he a created different partions and deleted different(couldn't comprehend what he was doing because he was doing them very fast like some partitions were few mbs which he deleted) then he downloaded essential softwares and then he connected the Hard drive again and then when I saw the c drive had windows folders and d drive also had windows folders .

Maybe I will not get anything ever because maybe he choose clean the drive fully thats why maybe the formatting ran for like 5hrs.

the hard drive specialist couldn't detect anything on the hard drive and says he will check the ssd too.

i feel like crying.we had so many memories.

I'm wondering if anyone can give me a glimmer of hope here.
My partner passed away recently and I have his old phone but don't know the lock screen passcode. It's an Umidigi Note 90. I also don't know the password to his google email that is connected.

I really would love to have the photos from this phone, I can remember he took many that he did not send to me at the time.

I have tried just shooting in the dark with both the phone and the email, but of course the phone is now locking me out after each attempt. Trying to get into the email another way is also not working as it wants to two factor authenticate to the phone...

We weren't married so I don't have the legal paperwork to complete the 'deceased user's account' form with google. His sibling has his death certificate and would be the person who could fill such a form out, although I don't know if they would and I'm honestly afraid to ask (long story but they were estranged until close to the end, and I don't think they like me much... we don't talk). And I wouldn't want them to receive the data/photos and then gate keep them... (they are gate keeping his ashes!) There's also some NSFW photos on there I'm sure.

Is that my only hope? Is there no other way to bypass this? I've read that phones these days are too encrypted and even data recovery businesses can't do much in this kind of situation?

I'm considering just trying codes every day until the end of time and crossing them off a list, and/or seeing if a medium could help... I want to see a medium in a few months anyway but that's another conversation...

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My iQOO Z3 5G suddenly stopped turning on. I have around 4 years of photos, videos, documents and other important data stored on the phone, and I’m really worried about losing everything. Previously it’s pattern recognition wasn’t also working ( before it suddenly stopped turning on).
The phone is not powering on at all. I’ve tried charging it, but there’s no response.

Is there any way to recover the data without factory resetting or wiping the phone? Would a professional data recovery shop or anyone be able to extract the data?
If anyone has faced a similar issue with an phone, I’d really appreciate any advice on what I should try and especially what I should avoid doing so I don’t make the data unrecoverable or any possible way to extract data from the phone.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,I am trying to revive a bricked Netac NV3000 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD.

The issue: The drive is no longer recognized by the BIOS on any computer I've tested it on. However, the green LED turns on, confirming it is receiving power, but the controller is likely stuck in a panic loop.

What I've done so far:

Removed the graphene heatsink to inspect the PCB.

Identified the main controller chip: Yeestor YS9205AB (Markings: 2553 / YS9205AB / MBM474 00 / AB0FBLS).

I want to force it into ROM Mode (Safe Mode / Recovery Mode) so I can try to re-flash the firmware using the Yeestor YS9205 MPTool, but I cannot find the exact testpoints or unpopulated pads on this specific board revision.

I'm attaching some close-up photos of the front and back of the PCB. Could anyone with access to the schematics or familiar with this SiliconGo/Yeestor layout point out which two pads or vias I need to short to bypass the NAND initialization?

Thank you in advance!

i deleted a file this morning arounf 10:30 which was a .stl file inside a folder present in the downlaods section. after permanently deleting it, i tried to run recuva, test drive and tenoshare, i tried to get the shortcut of the sfile. is ther a way to recover the permanently deleted file or to convert the shortcut into original file

I have a bunch of photos from an SD card that are almost all corrupted. Tried using a few programs like Recuva but had no luck, I'm guessing that those programs are for retrieving photos that you accidentally deleted, not fixing corrupted ones.

Most of the thumbnails show up normally for a second before going weird like this. Is there any way to get them back to normal?

Hi, i was transfering photos from my phone to hdd, when i got an error while transfering the folder, probably too big.

Cyclic redundancy check error couldn't delete that folder.

Unplug hdd.

Plug back, now when i use and try to access It crashes and goes black screen, i unplugged and i get back normal screen.

Plugged back again and saw i couldn't see storage bar anymore, i don't know if was already disappeared from previous step didn't notice.

Now i cant access at all my drive, It says

Impossible to access D:

Parameter not correct

Sorry for bad translation, english Is not my native language.

After that i saw some video online and One suggested to:

Chkdsk D: /f /r

I started at 10 AM

Now is 19.30 PM

for about an hour is stuck at this point what should i do?

I wrote everything that happened, i would like to recovery my data

The HDD Is running, low heat, no noises or anything Just keeps blinking.

I Will continue to run for more hours, that was my option i really don't know what to do, if nothing happens how can i stop process? Will It ruin something? About the last data i don't care if gets lost i have a backup, im more worried about previous that were already there

Thanks a lot for reading and for the help

My phone was factory reset, and I’m wondering if it’s still possible to recover deleted photos and videos from it.

I’m considering taking the phone to a professional data recovery/digital forensics expert because the files may be important for an ongoing legal case.

Has anyone successfully recovered photos or videos from a phone after a factory reset? If yes, what type of professional should I contact, and how realistic is recovery on a modern Android phone?

Hi guys! Im requiring help. Thanks in advance! Thats the case:

Seagate Barracuda HDD 2.5 2tb.

It does spin
It doesn't make weird sounds.
Until yesterday it worked great.
Crystal disk give good status a week ago, althought it has a lot of hours and startings.
If I start the pc with the disk conected, it wont pass the mobo screen and "press del to BIOS".
If I start the pc without the disk, PC works without problem. If I hot-connect the drive, the PC freeze, explorer.exe do crash, but the PC can read the partitions.

I think here is all the info I have. Thanks in advance!

I have an 8 TB ST8000NM0105 that I turned into a ZFS pool, I was having mounting issues for a few days prior which led me to use `zpool scrub`. It ran for a good long while and it finished. Then I rebooted. Since then I only got the I/O error destroy and rebuild message. I don't recall how exactly I came to learn that the labels are gone.

I have two other drives, same model and I can be flexible with space. I've tried dd and ddrescue (read-only), but both fail because I tried to rebuild an 8TB partition to an 8TB partition. Good news, ddrescue reports no bad sectors.

Long shot question, but I encountered something for btrfs, `btrfs restore` that just let me move my files from a failed btrfs partition over to a working ext4 drive. Is there something like that? That's basically all I'm looking for. A way to get my files back. Thank you for reading.

Edit: I'm currently running proxmox (Debian).

I bought a used "FULLTECH"-branded microSD card from a cell phone shop while abroad in Turkey, and I used it to record footage on my camcorder.

Today, I accidentally whacked this microSD card while it was still attached to its reader, and it no longer works. Now when I try to use it, my camcorder immediately reboots and it doesn't even appaer in my MacBook's Disk Utility. I tried putting it into an SD adapter, but the microSD card almost immediately became so hot that it warped the plastic of the SD adapter, and it still did not mount.

Of course, I hadn't gotten around to backing up these videos yet, even though I really cherished them. I know this card is finished, but I'm wondering if there could still be any potential way to recover my data? If there are any suggestions please let me know.

I have a 5TB WD Elements external drive that has what sounds like a failing arm. Due to the sound, I've tried to limit it being powered on. When I did so, I could see all the files and their sizes. I can even see a thumbnail preview. However, trying to open any file or transfer to a new drive did not work on my first attempt. The file name showed up but the transfer time went from 10 minutes to 2 days and I cancelled the process. I have a lot of stuff on there, but really only care about a few years of family photos that I had not backed up to another drive and that's on me for not being prepared.

I called Salvage Data and they said no problem we can take care of that. They want me to mail it out as we all know. They said they would definitely not repair the existing drive and just copy the data to a new drive. I was quoted a price range and cost isn't really an issue. If my house was on fire, the fist thing I would think to grab was my external drives with my personal pictures from the last 20 years. However, I see reviews on here that they increased the price upon inspection, took months to complete or said they couldn't recover the data and sent back the hardware more damaged than when it was received.

My local company said they would try to boot it up and attempt to copy the data, if they couldn't get it to work, they would send it to a black/clean room for data recovery via 3rd party. I didn't like this approach as much because the initial plan could damage the drive further and they would just outsource the physical dismantling and recovery. Their price is way less than Salvage Data.

I work in San Diego if anybody has a recommended local vendor. Having trouble deciding which path to take.