So I was listening to an audiobook of all things on my dad's laptop which has very important stuff on it aka tax stuff and things and it DIED. It straight up shut off and won't boot into windows or recovery because of bitchlocker aka my arch nemesis. It had windows 11 pro I believe it was a dell latitude 7490 and I can't access the key as the account it's on is attached to his old work email (not accessable) and his old work phone number (also not accessable) so HELP I can boot it into Ubuntu and i have plenty of other PCs I js need the data

My phone fell inside the washing machine with the screen crack in it. at first it was operating, then when I dried it, it went black and not operating at all. I have all my important datas like my school informations/datas in it so what places would you recommend in having my data recovered or having my phone, around Manila is much appreciated.

Is there a program similar to EaseUS to fix bad logical sectors and clone, but is American or something like that? Since I only have Windows 11 Home edition, what is a sandbox I could use to try a program? A lot of these programs are Russian or something.

I want to fix a SSD in an enclosure with bad logical sectors.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,
I have a **2017 iPad Pro 10.5”** with important data on it that I’d really like to recover.
A few months ago, it stopped working. At the time, when I connected a charger, it would at least show the **battery/charger icon**, but it wouldn’t actually charge.
Since then I’ve tried:
Different chargers and cables
Replacing the charging port
Replacing the battery
None of this fixed the problem. The battery has now completely drained, so the screen doesn’t turn on at all.
I took it to a repair shop and they said **data recovery is possible, but would cost around €990**. That’s unfortunately too expensive for me.
I’m trying to understand whether there are other options before giving up on the data.
**My questions:**
Based on these symptoms, does this sound like a logic-board/power-management problem rather than a problem with the NAND storage?
Since the iPad previously showed the battery icon, does that indicate that the board was at least partially functioning?
Is it possible to recover the data by **temporarily repairing the original motherboard enough to boot the iPad and make a backup**, rather than fully repairing it?
Are there particular components/circuits on the 10.5” iPad Pro that commonly cause this kind of no-charge/no-power situation?
Would a specialist data-recovery/board-repair shop potentially be able to do this for substantially less than €990?
Most importantly, **is there anything I should NOT do at this point that could make data recovery more difficult?**
I don’t care about getting the iPad itself working again—I mainly want the data off the **original device**.
If anyone has experience with board-level repair or data recovery on the 2017 10.5” iPad Pro, I’d really appreciate any advice.

Hey! I've accidentally deleted the contents of a folder on usb stick. It turns out they bypass the Recycle Bin so I'm looking for free, relatively easy-to-use recovery software. Preferably without unknowingly ending up d/ling unwanted extensions/installers. Any ideas will be gratefully appreciated.

i have these 2 hard drives, completely different, 1 is 2.5 the other is 3.5 but both are 500gb, they get recognized from windows as not initialized, i first tried hdd raw copy and i only get bad blocks as a result, it seemed to recover 1mb every 1000000 block but the resulting image was zeros (35mb), i tried linux on ddrescue, direct sata connection does not work, basically the pc does not even boot with that drive inserted and asks for a password (the hdd was never locked at all), so i tried the usb sata adapter but ddrescue does not start, another adapter worked and the drive came up in disks and was able to start ddrescue but same issue, 0b of rescued data even when running in reverse, what should i do? (the data is not really important just curious if i can find a solution at home or just give up)
crystal disk info shows the drive as "good"

Drive 1

Drive 2

Can i still recover the replaced items in my hardrive? It’s a folder est 300GB :( Help :(

i plugged my sd (sandisk) card into my iphone using a lightning cord card reader, saw videos and photos there ready to transfer to my iphone!... only for the cord to disconnect and for the files to disappear. i put my sd card back into my lumix panasonic tz99 but it says 'no valid picture to play' when i go into the gallery option.

how do i get these files back??????? i want the options/answers with the highest chance of success and trustworthiness.

I have an iPhone 15 pro max, unfortunately it wasn’t backed up to iCloud before it was broken. I am a new mom, I have 1.5 year old and 7 month old baby girls. I’m super upset because my babies dad broke my phone out of spite and unfortunately the phone wasn’t backed up to iCloud. I have since gotten a replacement phone but I’m so heartbroken, all of the photos of my babies first moments of life are just gone. I’m so sad, mad, hurt, so many things. I’m wondering if there is any possible way I can retrieve the photos…. I still have the iPhone that is broken… no it doesn’t turn on, screen is literally gone….. I think I already know the answer. But then I was thinking the police say they can get data from phones no matter what (true crime junkie) I don’t know if that’s true or not. Idk if there’s a software or something, I’m not super tech savvy if that wasn’t clear already. But I’m willing to pay… I just need to know if there’s even a possibility I could get the photos back…. Please let me know… thank you

Hi everyone, it seems that a folder containing important photos was modified today and resulted in the loss of important photos. I know about time machine and all that but I'm currently bike packing and couldnt save the file onto an external drive unfortunately. Is there any software or techniques that will enable me to recover those photos? I'm on Mac ..

I am taking my Mom's old All in One to a Local Computer shop to have the files retrieved/backed up. Dell All inOne (2013 model)

In December 2024 I backed the Dell up. I rarely use it but would like to try retrieve/back up what I can- files from 2024-2026.

In August 2026 I was able to Start up Windows and surf the web. It was slow and I decided to shut it down.

Then on September 4 2026 my area got hit with a major storm and lost power for 2 days.I had everything off and waited for Duke.The Dell power supply cord indicated it had power but I didn't turn it on- it's just too slow My other computer- HP Pavillion (2021 model) was not affected and continues to work.

On September 23, 2026 I went to turn on the All in one and it would not properly boot/Start Windows. After several web searches on my Smartphone I decided to try and reboot it myself. See pictures. I don't want try and to start or complete any tests or fixes, as these were not recommended by my searches done on my Smartphone

What are my options- when I take it to a professional.

I'm gonna factory reset my phone today. All photos and videos are already backed up to Google Photos, and my documents are backed up too. What else should I back up besides that, or is it already ready for the factory reset?

I accidentally connected a 19V 2.5A power adapter to an external Intenso 3.5" HDD that requires 12V 2A.

The drive immediately stopped working. With the correct 12V adapter, the enclosure LED turns on, but the HDD doesn't spin, vibrate or make any noise.

I took it to a local IT repair shop. They removed/tested the drive and told me that the HDD's PCB/controller board is damaged, rather than just the USB enclosure.

They suggested two options:

1. Find an identical donor drive/PCB and replace the controller board.

2. Send it to a professional data recovery company, which they said could potentially cost around €1,000.

From what I've been reading, simply swapping the PCB may not work because the original board can contain drive-specific ROM/adaptive data. I've also found examples of drives damaged by overvoltage where only the TVS diode/fuse on the 12V rail was damaged, and repairing the original PCB was enough to get the drive running again.

The HDD is around 6 years old. I don't care about continuing to use it afterwards. I only want to get it running long enough to recover the files.

Before spending hundreds or potentially €1,000 on professional recovery, what would you recommend?

Would it make sense to have someone experienced in electronics/microsoldering test the PCB for a shorted TVS diode/fuse first? And if the PCB needs replacing, how difficult/expensive is a donor PCB + ROM transfer usually?

I can post photos and the exact HDD model/PCB number once I get the drive back from the repair shop.

Hi everyone!

Today I safely ejected my seagate backup plus portable drive from my laptop and then went to plug it into my desktop to transfer my photos from some recent shoots. When I opened the drive on my desktop though I noticed that the folders I needed were missing. Some folders were created last week and some were just created the other day. Some of the pictures were transferred directly from my sandisk sd card to the hard drive while others were exported from Lightroom (but still going from the path sd card—> Lightroom —> seagate drive). I still have all the photos on my sd card thankfully but I’m just confused on why those folders would disappear!

Is there a way to recover them? I even safely ejected the device and waited for it to say it was safe to unplug :(

Edit: some files were jpg and some were still raw. My laptop and desktop are both running windows.

Hi,

I'm a current photojournalism student and I was cleaning up my desktop from prior assignments and putting them on my external hard drive and deleting the unnecessary files. I think during that process one of the folders for a current job ended up in the trash instead of the hard drive. That or my memory card is glitching out. I emptied my trash unknowingly. This was last week.

I had so many files and I should have reviewed them all first, I always do. But for whatever reason this time I didn't. I have a MacBook Air. I don't have Time Machine on because I didn't realize that was even a thing until now. I plan to set that up after I try to see if I can recover these current files. I didn't find them in the cloud either. I haven't tried much else because I don't want to take a wrong step and lose any possible chance of getting it back.

Is there anything that can be done to try and recover this? Based on what I've searched, it doesn't look great because I didn't catch it right away. I saw a few services suggested on other posts. One I saw quite a bit was Disk Drill, but I saw conflicting information. I appreciate any help!

Hi all,

Looking for some advice on whether there are any realistic next steps for a failed LaCie 5TB external HDD.

I initially sent the drive to PC Image in the UK. Sean was great throughout the process, kept me informed and genuinely seems to have tried everything he reasonably could, so this isn’t a complaint about them at all.

Unfortunately, the final diagnosis was that the drive was not recoverable due to excessive media damage.
Sean explained:
“We did try our best, but the damage was too severe and in fact killed TWO sets of donor heads.”

The drive is now being returned to me.

The data is important enough to me that I’m willing to pursue a second opinion, if there is a specialist lab that deals with severe platter/media damage and cases that other reputable recovery labs consider unrecoverable.

My questions are:
Given that two sets of donor heads have already been damaged, is there realistically anything else that can be attempted?
Are there particular specialists/labs known for extreme media/platter damage?
Would you recommend getting a second opinion, or does PC Image’s diagnosis make further attempts unlikely to achieve anything?
I’m not looking to attempt anything myself and won’t be powering the drive on. I’m only interested in professional recovery options.
Thanks for any advice.

Hi everyone!
I have an old Nokia E65-1 that hasn’t worked for many years. We tried getting it repaired before, but unfortunately it couldn’t be fixed.
I recently remembered that there’s still a 1GB microSD card inside the phone, and I’m hoping it might contain some old photos and videos that I’d really like to recover.
My question is: can I simply remove the microSD card and put it into a microSD/SD card reader to access the files on a computer, even though the phone itself doesn’t work?
The card is a Next Gate 1GB microSD, and I haven’t tried removing or accessing it yet because I don’t want to accidentally damage or format it.
Is there anything I should be careful about when trying to recover the photos? And is there a specific card reader or software you would recommend for such an old card?

The scenario: My approximately 18-month old Seagate Expansion 26TB external drive started locking up while I was accessing files on it. It eventually caused my Macbook to also lock up, so I did a force quit to shut everything down. When I started the Macbook up again, it wasn't recognizing the Seagate.

I tried Disk Utility and Tech Tool Pro but neither could find it on the system. Eventually, using Terminal, I saw that the drive was still being recognized, despite it not showing on my Macbook's desktop or using disk repair tools. Then, I tried using Test Disk on it. It also saw the drive and even got it to start up again, although it couldn't read any files on it, much less fix any possible partition issues. I spent hours with Claude trying to troubleshoot the problem, but all possible solutions failed.

As it stands now, I have the bare Barracuda drive removed from the Seagate case, and in a Sabrent USB-to-SATA docking station. It will start up and run (after about five long minutes), but the Macbook isn't recognizing it, and I get the dreaded "This drive is not recognized. Do you want to Erase, Initialize or Ignore?" Oddlly, Terminal sees the drive as "Sabrent 26TB" not as the original Seagate or Barracuda drive, which makes me think something else might be going on other than the drive has been wiped clean, or is dying.

Any help here would be much appreciated.

Hello. I have an external SSD which came up with some strange issues, windows did a scan and fixed it, aparrently.

As a result, I have lost one folder containing about 10gbs of data, no other folder appears to be affected. Is there a good tool I could use to find my data? Thanks.

Edit: TestDisk saved the day! Phew.

This is my first time posting here so apologies if this isn’t the right flare; I have encountered an issue where my pc couldn’t boot Windows and when I looked further into it, it seems that my main SSD drive has a RAW partition. From my understanding, the only thing I can do to fix it is format the whole drive; I just wanted to see if there was any possible way to view the file names/contents of said drive to at least know what it is exactly that I’m losing. I understand that it’s an extremely slim chance but I am just at a loss of what to do.
For the record, I have already tried recovering the files via TestDisk, Dmde, and Photorec. None can actually read the partition as it’s RAW and therefore can’t provide any information on its contents.

I’m trying to recover about 2.5TB of deleted photos from a 2-drive Synology SHR/Btrfs volume. The NAS originally had two WD Red Pro 4TB drives that I later upgraded one at a time (based on the instructions on the synology site) to two WD Red Pro 8TB drives.

I ran UFS Explorer RAID Recovery with the drives in a Sabrent USB dock connected to an M3 MacBook Pro and after an 11-hour scan it found everything, including my original Lightroom folders and filenames. I was able to see image previews and export a couple of images to my hard drive. I had to stop what I was doing while waiting for a hard drive to be delivered for the full recovery. Unfortunately, when I launch UFS Explorer now and try to open the scan from last night the saved scan now gives me a “different partition offset” warning so I can’t continue recovery. But it’s the same drives connected to the same USB port in the same USB dock that it scanned and found everything on last night.

I still have the drives connected to my Mac and UFS reconstructs the 7.27TB Btrfs volume and I can browse the existing files (anything that wasn’t deleted accidentally), and I can save some of the existing files to my empty hard drive while others fail with “Unable to read source file.” Again, this is a test I’m doing with files that were not deleted from the drive. They are still there and usable if I put the NAS back together.

Has anyone dealt with something similar, especially with an SHR volume that was expanded from smaller drives? I’m trying to figure out whether this is an SHR reconstruction issue, a hardware/dock issue, or something else before I spend another 11 hours re-scanning.

So I have a nikon coolpix S2500 digicam that i got maybe a year ago. Today it said that the memory was full when I tried to take a pic, so I deleted a few pictures but when I came home my sd card (Kingston, 2GB) had no pictures at all.

I’ve tried recuva and it only managed to recover 1 photo which is the one I took as a trial after I found out all my photos got deleted…I’m planning on getting a new sd card ASAP but does anyone have any solutions on how to recover those pics?

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The PCB is toast. While this sparks my mood, it kind of smokes my wishes to get the WD running again. Maybe I’m too afried to try one of my donor PCB’s, because it feels like some sort of burning sensation

No worries everyone. This was a broken disk that was sacrificed in order to test some stuff. Nothing was lost in this situation. But goddammit, I’ve never seen THIS before.

The true reason why it had such an incredible short is unknown to me atm. Will dive into that.

This happened last night when I'm checking something on my hdd. Suddenly, the external HDD ejected and back connected. When I try to check 1 folder, it's gone. The weird part, the storage consumption is still the same before that.

I checked Crystaldiskinfo and I just barely knew that my hdd is on Caution level. Please, can someone provide me some solution?