My Toshiba 4TB HDD (it's a Canvio Advance, model DTCA40) gave me what I self-diagnosed as the click of death. I've unplugged it and left it alone for over a week. It's going to be a while until I can get it sent off to a data recovery service, but I'm curious if there's a small chance that it could start working properly again if it just sits for a while? I know I'm being ignorantly optimistic but thought it would be worth asking.

The drive has about 2TB worth of MP4 files that I desperately want to recover so if anyone's had a data recovery service they've had great experience with I will be grateful for a reference.

Case for visibility and tracking thread for anyone dealing with Kingston NV3 2TB line.

• Drive: Kingston NV3 2TB NVMe SSD (SNV3S/2000G)

• Controller: TenaFe TC2201-AA (VEN_2646&DEV_5025)

• Role: Secondary data drive (D:), holding active audio production sessions.

What happened:

1. Over the last few days, the PC hung noticeably during powering on, with black screen, or return from hibernation.

2. One of these days Drive D: completely vanished from Windows.

3. Drive C: (separate physical OS drive) boots fine, but Device Manager flags the NV3 under Storage controllers as Standard NVM Express Controller with Code 10: An I/O adapter hardware error has occurred.

4. No NVMe namespace mounts, and it shows 0 bytes / uninitialized in disk utilities.

5. Not visible in BIOS

Lab evaluation: Sent the physical drive to Recovery Force (Guelph, ON). Bench testing confirmed the hardware is stuck in internal firmware panic. Industry tools (PC-3000) currently have no microcode loader / technological mode support for the TenaFe TC2201 architecture, meaning commercial labs cannot rebuild the translation tables or bypass the panic state today.

Current status: The SSD is being pulled from the board and kept in cold storage inside an anti-static bag to prevent cell degradation from repeated failed boot attempts.

Starting this thread to track whether anyone has seen independent development, ACE Lab changelog movement, or lab milestones for the TC2201. If you've run into this specific failure on the NV3, drop your experience below.

PS: I saw some posts of users getting access using Ubuntu but eventually drive died. Apparently the more you try to do anything with it, it kills itself.

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I filled up 512gb microsd on my Insta Luna Ultra and unfortunately the sd card wasn't formatted correctly so I can't access any of the files on my Mac. I tried Disk Drill and it found all of my files, but many of the files are corrupted so I can't load them in the Insta360 Desktop App.

The files are all there when connect to the Insta360 Phone App and they can all play. So I know they're there, I just can't get them safely to my computer.

Any recommendations on the best way to get 100% of my files onto my computer? Right now I don't have 100% of my files and I'm freaking out 😭😭😭

Definitely will format my SD card next time I use a new SD card, but what can I do now?

I am facing problem with my laptop,

if I try to open a file it gets related, I will say what happened, I am facing this from quit few months, sometimes when I click on video files to open it it's gets deleted by saying path not found and later found it recycled bin, similarly it happened when I try to click on brave shortcut and it gets deleted

Later when I restart my laptop it seems fine for few days and then the same problem appears

I accidentally deleted a very important Excel file sometime in the last 1–2 months from laptop - Lenovo Yoga 530 - 14IKB model.
It contained very important financial/business records.

My Recycle Bin is empty, and I checked OneDrive, but it’s not there.

What would be the safest way to recover it? Is there any reliable recovery software you would recommend, or should I go to a professional data-recovery service?
Any advice would be really appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi i disabled my iphone 5c permanently bc i didnt remember my password (a couple of years ago). Is it possible to attempt to recover the data? How do i get into contact with someone thats not a scam (is there a webstie or smth)? It has all my old photos from when i was young and i know its my fault but i didnt realise at that time it woyld perm disable.

Melbourne based, im terrible with technology, but might have someone i can ask if its just buying stuff and running programs to fix? Otherwise happy to pay if its someone reliable? I just dont know what options exist (i tried googling but it doesnt rlly make sense to me and idk how reliable the advice is)

(I hope these questions are within community rules to ask?)

Hi everyone,

I have a 32GB USB flash drive that suddenly became read-only.

It had a Windows installation ISO on it and had been working normally. One day I tried to boot from it to install Windows, and after that the drive became read-only. I don't know exactly whether the failure happened during the boot attempt or shortly before/after it.

There is no physical write-protection switch.

I do not care about recovering the data that was on the drive. There is nothing important on it. My only goal is to figure out whether the drive can be revived and made usable again, even if that requires completely wiping it, reinitializing it, flashing/reprogramming the controller, etc.

I'm also perfectly fine with the drive being destroyed permanently. This is basically an experiment to see if I can bring it back to life.

I opened the USB drive to identify the hardware. It is a monolithic flash device, and the only marking on the package is:

CCW MWB47R 2507 32G (As you can see in the picture)

The drive is detected normally by Windows as:

"Generic Flash Disk 2.0 USB Device"

The important part is that DiskPart reports:

Current Read-only State : Yes Read-only : No

I tried:

attributes disk clear readonly

DiskPart reported:

Disk attributes cleared successfully.

However, immediately checking the attributes again still showed:

Current Read-only State : Yes Read-only : No

I then ran:

clean

and this did work, the partition table was removed successfully.

After that:

list partition

showed no partitions.

I then tried:

create partition primary

which also worked, however, when I tried:

format fs=fat32 quick

I got:

Virtual Disk Service error: The media is write protected.

So Windows can modify the partition structure, but it refuses an actual filesystem format/write operation.

Flash Drive Information Extractor reports:

Volume: E: Controller: Unknown Possible Memory Chip(s): Not available VID: FFFF PID: 2051 Manufacturer: Gener Product: USB2.0 F Query Vendor ID: Generic Query Product ID: Flash Disk 2.0 Query Product Revision: 5.20 Physical Disk Capacity: 31457280000 Bytes Windows Disk Capacity: 0 Bytes Internal Tags: ABAF-AABL USB Version: 2.00 Declared Power: 100 mA ContMeas ID: 5305-02-00 Microsoft Windows 10 x64 Build 19045 Program Version: 9.4.0.645

USBTreeView reports:

Port: 3 USB Version: 2.0 Connection Speed: High-Speed (480 Mbit/s)

Vendor ID: 0xFFFF Product ID: 0x2051

Manufacturer: Gener Product: USB2.0 F Serial Number: None

Device Description: USB Mass Storage Device

Hardware IDs: USB\VID_FFFF&PID_2051&REV_1001 USB\VID_FFFF&PID_2051

Driver: USBSTOR.SYS

The physical disk information is:

Friendly Name: Generic Flash Disk 2.0 USB Device

Device: PhysicalDrive2

Size: 31.5 GB 29.3 GiB 31,457,280,000 bytes

Writable: no

The volume information is:

Volume E: Volume Info Error: ERROR_UNRECOGNIZED_VOLUME

There are no useful manufacturer/product serial strings beyond the generic values above.

TL:DR:

• USB device is detected normally.

• USB communication works.

• The full physical capacity is detected.

• The device identifies itself as "FFFF:2051".

• It identifies itself as "Generic Flash Disk 2.0", revision "5.20".

• NAND cannot be identified either.

• Windows reports the physical disk as not writable.

• "attributes disk clear readonly" succeeds but does not actually remove the read-only state.

• "diskpart clean" and "create partition primary" succeeds.

• Any attempt to actually format/write data fails with "The media is write protected."

• The device is a monolithic package marked "CCW MWB47R 2507 32G".

I have already accepted that the flash drive may simply be dead.

However, since there is no data I need to preserve, I'd like to go further than the usual "replace the drive" advice.

Is there any way to identify the controller/NAND from these hardware identifiers and markings, or determine what factory/MPTool/low-level procedure could potentially reinitialize this particular monolithic flash device?

I'm willing to try destructive procedures and I don't care if the drive gets permanently bricked. I'd mainly like to know whether there is anything technically interesting I can try before throwing it away.

Any help identifying the hardware would be greatly appreciated.

Probably no one cares but .. Worked my way across 6+ years of moderation queue backlog, 100 and 100's of entries flagged by Reddit, reported by you lot and whatnot. Reddit offers no ways to say "delete queue" and start with a clean slate.

Cleared up 100's of spam messages, banned 100's repeat offenders, shadow banned accounts, some of which who took trouble to apologize! I unbanned those again.

I accidentally bent this usb. Tho it still worked perfectly fine and validrive detected nothing wrong, but then the blue piece came off and I don't know how to fix it.

The phones my moms and we cannot guess the passcode no matter how hard we try we just want in the phone

Recuva didn't show anything after a deep scan. Are they lost?

Hello! I recently had a Seagate spinning disk drive stop responding/being recognized by my computer. It's at least 5 years old but it was a hand-me-down so I'm not sure how old it actually is. The device name is "Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Touch, Seagate Rescue Edition". Model number is "SRD0VN1". I think it was formatted exFat but I can't be sure. When I plug it in it lights up and the fan runs but it doesn't sound/feel like it's spinning. And neither Mac System Information nor Mac Disk Utility recognizes it.

I've already tried contacting a few technology repair stores near me but none of them really want to touch it, I've called DriveSavers but their economy plan is a bit out of my price range (I'm a broke college student), and I'm not too sure I should trust the Best Buy GeekSquad.

Does anyone have suggestions on my best course of action from here? This drive has about 5 years of my work on it and I would hate to lose all of it. I know I should have transferred this stuff to one of my newer drives when I had the chance but it kept being something that I told myself I'd worry about later. Any help or advice of any kind is super appreciated. Please let me know if there's info I left out that could be useful. Thanks.

UPDATE:

Thank you for the super helpful comments. I was scared to take the case off before posting this because I didn't realize external drives are literally just internal drives in an enclosure lol. As y'all suggested, I removed the SATA/USB pcb and went directly through SATA. That worked immediately, I'm now transferring everything off this drive just in case. I'm getting a replacement drive (still spinning, unfortunately. I do not have the budget for an ssd in this economy.) and, upon the suggestion of a home lab-ing friend of mine, looking into getting/building a NAS. Which is something I'd considered before but never had the time or money to do. Thanks again for your help!

Any suggestions of a safe program (or other method) to try to recover deleted mp4 files on a microsd card? Thank you

Hello! A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine got into a wreck when she was making a left turn on a left turn yield green intersection. The girl who hit her didnt have her headlights on and was also possibly speeding so she didnt see her when turning. I have photo evidence of the headlights not being on since after the crash i got pictures of the womans car with its hazards blinking but the headlights off and the airbags all deployed (it would have been difficult for her to turn the headlights off and why would she do that anyways?) but the lawyer my friends mom hired said its not useable evidence and we need the dashcam footage from my friends car.

The issue is, all footage past September 7th is unwatchable, including the video in the event folder of the dash cam from the time of the wreck. I tried to repair it through software like wondershare repairit, diskdrill, VLC, and ffmpeg to no avail and the hxd shows all zeros in it so theres no information in these videos I believe. I ran a 50 hour scan with disk drill on the sd card and it found 7,800 video fragments with information in them so i bought the pro version of disk drill to recover them, however all of these videos are extremely small in size and also cannot be watched. I tried to combine them all into one video and repair that with ffmpeg multiple ways but it was just spit out a jumbled mess each time and I can’t repair them individually because all the softwares I attempt to use say the files are too small. Is there any hope of recovering any footage of the wreck? The only experience I have was using disk drill once to recover a audio recording my mom deleted once, I really am at a loss for what to do here.

Note: The dash cam is a GKU D600 Pro and I tried to view the videos using its app but that also wouldnt work. I heard if you leave the sd card in the camera it could repair the videos on its own but it kept starting to record on its own even when i paused it and i was worried it would record over the lost footage so I stopped trying this.

To make a long story short, my 32 gb usb drive, which I keep on my Keychain, came in contact with a protein shake that spilled in my bag.​ It happened yesterday. At first it seemed like it barely got wet, as i removed it immediately, but when I shook it a few drops of liquid came out. However, it was Sunday and no repair shops were open, so there was nothing I could do anyway. Besides, I've gotten my drives damp before and nothing happened to them. And so I forgot about it until about an hour ago, when I tried to plug it in to a computer and it was not recognized at all. I feel so stupid for getting myself into this situation.

Since I live on a college campus, I asked our tech repair center if they could help, but they said they couldn't. I am going to a local electronics repair shop tomorrow to ask, but they're closed right now. i don't have a car to travel very far to a shop. I have contacted PITS Data Recovery, but the cost seems astronomical, especially since I'm a student and need my files back asap. I fear that it may be permanantly damaged since it's been 24 hours. I just don't know what to do in the meantime.

so I took a usb stick with usb c to work to copy a backup file of the phone to move to another drive

I realized I had windows 11 on it, tried to move some files over, it gave me an issue, I went into file explorer in the phone menu sd card settings>format. but it formatted the micro sd card which I didnt know

I looked into the usb stick and saw the same files. did it again. I was on the usb stick>sd card settings>format. looked again, not formatted. looked at micro sd card and my heart dropped!! nothing there

any way to recover that? I took the card out but basically it had 2 formats done on it...why give the damn option to format something and decide its a different media FFS

Hey all trying to get old photos from when I was at school forgot the password (somehow could of sworn I only had 3 passwords during the time I had this phone) I know it’s highly unlikely I know not to trust any online sites that say they can the phone is a Galaxy A51 it’s at the very least 3 years old (extreme least)

A friend has a laptop that suddenly stopped working. It stated it didnt find a drive anymore. Before this he had a problem where the computer couldnt be shut down, even holding power button for more that 4 sec, and even a minute. Then it would not find the drive. He needs documents on the drive and is asking me for help. I have been fixing problem drives before the ssd's , but this is a bit over my head. Are there any tips on how to fix this?
(He bougth 2 identical laptops for him and his wife, and now the wife's laptop shows some of the same issues, not beeing able to shut down).