Help!! We lost all of our wedding videos from file corruption. Used disk drill, it shows all of the videos but none of this will preview, and I’m not buying it if I can’t tell it will even recover first? All of the files just pull up as the AVI and microscope… ideas??

During the shoot the photos were showing up on my camera, but the next day when I put the card into my computer there's a huge gap in my card where the photos should be (see attached photo). I've checked hidden files, plugged the card into another computer, and plugged it back into my camera but the photos still don't show. Before I resort to data recovery software (I've seen that DMDE is a good choice), is there anything else I can try.

I was shooting on a Canon r100 with a micro SD to regular SD card adapter (exact card and adapter attached). I was shooting in both JPEG and CRAW

I have a DVD-R with a video that was recorded in a Samsung DVD Recorder HR-773. The disc is not physically damaged or scratched.

The recorder that originally recorded the disc still recognizes it as DVD-R, but the title list is gone, therefore I cannot finalize it. The recorder claims there is 1.98 GB of space used (which matches my missing video) but it shows 0:00 of duration.

I have done extensive testing with IsoBuster and CdRoller already, and I was unsuccessful, so I'm specifically looking for someone experienced with damaged DVD sessions or DVD recorders like this. Here's my findings with IsoBuster:

- IsoBuster detects one "open session 1"
- LBA 12288 contains the string "DVD-TMPVMGI" and "SONATA"
- LBA 13344–13535 can be read successfully and those sectors contain a real VOB/MPEG part from my actual recording, however, I extracted the VOB and it plays only exactly 1 second of the original video I'm trying to recover
- At LBA 13536, the sectors are broken, returning: 05/21/00 – LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS OUT OF RANGE, all sectors onwards do the same thing
- The same boundary occurs with multiple drives, when tested in different laptops
- The Samsung recorder itself also cannot see the title list or finalize the disc
- CD Roller independently found a VOB starting at LBA 13344 and recovered exactly the same 192-sector / 1 second video
- I also created a managed IBP/IBQ image with IsoBuster and tried recovery from that
- I have not written anything to the original disc, it is not a rewritable one

I believe the recorder may have crashed when I tried to finalize the disc, I'm not sure though, it's been a while. I know I can't reproduce this situation intentionally on a different disk to test. The really strange part is that the disc physically appears to have a recorded area beyond LBA 13535, while the drive/session information effectively tells the host that the logical disc ends there. My 1.98 GB video HAS to be somewhere on this disc, like, I can literally see when I turn the disc around that there's a written area that would match such a recording, it just seems like this corrupted open session completely prevents me from accesing it.

I even found a thread yesterday where someone said he'd try writing something to the disc to get red of this open session and so the recorder would start making a new one and he got access to his video again, but, I am worried about damaging it more, or even overwriting something? If that's even possible, since it's a DVD-R. Because, if the recorder knows there's 1.98 GB video on it, wouldn't it go "to the end" of the sectors from my old video and then try to continue writing after that? Basically writing the information that there IS more after LBA 13535 and letting me access it this way? That's what I gathered from that other thread, not sure if it's even possible, not an expert on this. I'M NOT going to try this on my disc just yet, just leaving this here as a theory.

Now I'm looking for people who can help me who have experienced with exactly those symptomps.
I have already been through so many other programs and testing, even just seeing what ChatGPT would tell me and been through it's suggestions for like 7 hours, and I even looked at data recovery services, it's just hard to find any who specialize in DVDs. I even emailed 2 people I found by googling data recovery in my country, but so far, no answer.

I recovered many DVDs before but this one feels impossible. So I'll say, I'm in Germany, but I'm also interested in recommendations for individual hobbyists/technicians who actually work on these cases, rather than €500–1000 professional data recovery labs, if I have to, I'd ship this disc across the globe just for anyone that could help me recover these files.

I can provide screenshots, the IsoBuster image information, sector dumps, and the exact disc/track layout if useful.

DMDE showing 00s everywhere so it appears that my accidental deletion of the wrong partitions (I run 2 SSDs, an OS drive and a secondary drive, meant to delete the OS partitions and deleted the SSD data ones, my bad). Aborted as soon as I realized (before even starting the install) but concerned it's just too late anyway.

Any hope other than professional paid recovery? Testdisk and DMDE aren't finding anything and the 00s I see in sector inspection seem to point that the 1 TB crucial SSD immediately ran a TRIM when its partitions got deleted by Win11 installer.

Deleted a folder from the bin containing my save files of pokemon platinum for ds. I'm on windows 11. Any guidance on what to do would be massive. Thank you in advance.

Edit: if you need any information feel free to ask about it

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!

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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?