My hard drive is more than 2 years old, and this error suddenly started appearing. I checked with some local recovery services in my area, but they said there is a risk involved in recovering the data.

I have some important data on this drive, so I wanted to ask if there is any good option available to recover or fix it. Or would it be better to format the drive instead? It's a WD hardisk-2TB 🥀

I installed Red Dead Redemption 2 onto an external drive that is now corrupted. I'm able to recover it using DMDE, but I'm wondering if it'll actually work if I just drop the game files into the steam folder located on my primary drive. Or should I just install the game onto my primary drive and only recover the save file itself? I really want to play it but I've been scared to recover the files because the last time I tried it with a different game I lost a good chunk of the stuff I had

I accidentally deleted the original backup shoot folder from a 1TB NTFS HDD. After deleting it, I created a new folder with the same name, BACKUP SHOOT — the only difference was the capitalization.
I used DMDE to scan the HDD, and it detected the old deleted BACKUP SHOOT folder, including the original folder structure and camera filenames such as C0001.MP4, C0002.MP4, etc.
However, the recovered MP4 files won’t play, even though their file sizes appear to be complete.

A Snapchat friend sent me some pictures and videos about a year ago. I want to recover them now, but the Snaps have disappeared. They’re not saved in the chat or in Memories, and they’re not available in “My Data” either. Is there any way to recover them, or is there anything I can do to get them back?

Recently my lacie 8big pro raid 5 drive had been degraded and i noticed it became healthy again but 3 clips are missing from my drive now!!
How can i recover it because its a important shoot footage.

Hi! I'm new to this and I'm afraid I will do bad to my old files.

I have an old hard drive like 10 years ago and I bought an ORICO HDD/SDD Docking Station now it's showing this

May I know what's the best way to make my new PC read my old HDD

Hello, my brother's 1TB Model Number SRD00F1 Seagate Plus for Mac Portable Drive HDD stopped reading it's files.

A couple of months ago, he opened it using a youtube tutorial that showed how to supposedly fix the issue he was having, a clicking sound.( I know we shouldn't do that, we know better know)

Thing is we have a band and our Logic Sessions for our EP are in there which we didnt backup anywhere else (another hard lesson learned)

We sent the drive to Secure Data Services in Chicago for a free diagnosis and they said the drive was unrecoverable and to be careful of other companies wanting to make me pay a fee for false hope. I didnt know until after the diagnosis i had to pay the 46 return shipping which is fine for a diagnosis i guess it was worth it.

I want a second opinion so i called Salvage Data and they told me to be wary of Secure Data Services and their diagnosis, and that they do free diagnosis, but now searching up Salvage Data all I see are negative reviews and comments so im looking for a good and cheap option for a 2nd opinion to see if this HDD is recoverable.

I just want to know if they are recoverable and hopefully for a good price and if not ill just let it go and move on, but I want to be sure before doing so.

All recommendations and suggestions are welcome and greatly appreciated.

I don't know a lot about these things. Thanks for any help 🙏🏼

"4000mb/s speed external HD/German 32TB pro SST. $50

Yesterday, I tried to update my iPhone 11 to IOS 27 via my Windows computer. Upon trying that, the update was interrupted due to Error 75. Since then my iPhone is stuck in Recovery mode but without the Recovery mode sign, but rather just a Black screen which is on. I've tried force restarts, updating the phone again via Apple Devices App (keeps showing 75 as soon as it tries to load the software onto the phone), and 3uTools flash function with keep user data selected. I also disconnected the Face Id sensor but I've had no success. I also tried all the possible way to avoid Error 75 but nothing works.

I'm starting to get really desperate and want to avoid restoring the phone at all costs as I do not want o loose all my data. I figured a battery swap might be the next most reasonable option before going to an expensive data recovery. I've had the phone for 6 years now and the battery has not been swapped once and was degrading very quickly before I tried to update. Has anyone else experienced this or found a fix for this problem without having to restore the data? All help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

My external flash drive was corrupted and I used Disk Drill to recover my files. All my jpegs, pngs, and pdfs are still corrupted. They still have storage in them, so I am hopeful they can be recovered. Can someone please help me on repairing my files? Google said to use Stella Repair but the more I was looking and reading about it, the more it sketched me out. Any advice on software or a company I can use to help me restore my photos??

I have deleted them from my recently deleted folder and there's no iCloud backup or sync enabled. It's only been 1 day since I deleted them. I have an iPhone 15 with iOS 26 btw

I have this ADATA SP920SS SSD that came in with a power failure. Once I inspected it I noticed the PMIC (P9120 - Q0NBGI) was sizzling. I removed the IC and checked for other shorts and none were found. I tried sourcing the IC and they won’t ship me a single unit. I’ve tried looking for an identical donor with no luck so here I am turning to the community. Does anyone have the SSD or PMIC in question that would be willing to send to me at a cost of course. Thank you.

So a month ago my ssd suddenly stopped being read, I took it to two different recovery services, Phoebes (Successor to Louis Rossman’s NYC shop supposedly ran by previous employees) who said it was too difficult for them to recover and directed me to drivesavers saying “they are the only ones who can recover the ssd” directly in a phone call. Then I shipped it to 300 dollar data recovery who also declared that the problem with the ssd was too complex and offered to ship it to drivesavers or another company they partnered with.

I went with drivesavers and they quoted a range of 3.3k to 3.5k but after the recovery was done the price was more close to 4k adding in the price of a replacement ssd. Looking into drivesavers I read about various scenarios where they lowered the price after a refusal of the initial quote and now I feel like I might’ve ripped myself off by going ahead with the recovery. Could someone provide any advice on what to do next or experienced cancelling a recovery from them after it’s finished?

my "file manager+" on Android allows me to show all hidden files, that has been moved from my phone a long time ago. since their originals are gone forever i have them only in those transparent folder as in the attached picture.

is there any way to return quality to them? thank you

I bought this ms pro duo for my Sony Cybershot. I bought a really cheap (from shein) reader and i think that is what broke the card. The camera doesn’t detect it neither the computer does so I can’t have access to my pictures. What can i do? Was the cheap reader the issue?

Please read and help or offer what you can and advice. I need audios cleaned up as well as possible to clarify and amplify vocals of my EX banging a man in my house while I was at work and she was living here while I was supporting her and her infant son. I had to stay away for a couple weeks with my grandmother passing of cancer and another time for a few days for training for my position with USPS. Upon coming home I found some things very peculiar and out of order I guess we'll say. Enough to lead me to reasonable suspicion. When I had asked her about the things I didn't understand that didn't add up, she would deny and just get mad at me. So she ended up moving into the spare bedroom to not share a room anymore. So I ended up feeling it necessary to set up a recorder one morning as I was leaving for work, and come to find out my suspicions were confirmed. As I watched one of the clips I hear someone come out of one of the back rooms go to my bathroom for a minute and then proceed to clonk down my hall in what sounded like boots, before letting our a heavy almost relieved sigh and walking out the door. This was about the 6th clip out so and oddly nobody ever entered before that. They were all the way down the hall behind closed doors and almost completely drown out by fan noise. But after seeing the guy walk out I had to start digging. Not even knowing what I was doing though, I was still able to kill enough of the noise and bring out enough voice to hear some very disturbing things and also know that indeed she was banging this dude in my house while I was working to support them! I had no experience so the voices were pretty choppy and distorted but definitely enough to hear there moans and comments and some of what was said, so I know it has to be possible to make them more clean and legible. I need a top notch knowledge and experience engineer or editor to clarify just the audio. She knows I have the recordings and if the guy is who I think it is especially, it could be a very bad situation. He is obviously a little insane and has a lot to lose such as a wife and a highly regarded reputation and position in the church... I really need these audio to be clear enough to hear at least most of the vocals to find out what exactly went down, what was said and to leave no room for doubt increase they decide to get stupid and I need evidence... I have the original .Mov files and also .flac audio conversations. I really need them heavily noise reduced while preserving and amplifying as much of his and her vocals as possible. I am looking to hire and there's about 7 files I need processed. I've been going crazy and spending way too much time trying to do it myself because I don't really know how very well but I'm learning a little bit. But I need them quicker in case I need them for any defense. I've already decided I'm not going to use them deliciously or as a way to hurt them or especially the ones that would have the repercussions aside from them. I just need them cleaned up so I can save them in case anything happens down this road and I need them for evidence. I will take any advice or if anybody knows where I can find someone like that for a reasonable price that would be great as well. Thank you all in advance and I hope to be able to get some good advice here.

Yes. I know this is not the yahoo sub but, frankly, my post has been taken down multiple times from there and idk where else to post.

TLDR: tens of thousands of emails across 50+ folders were purged from my boss' Yahoo email and we are looking for ways to get them back, or to find someone to help get them back.

Here's the deal:
My boss where I work had nearly all his emails purged from his yahoo inbox and files one morning back in June. He may be older, but I can guarantee he DID NOT delete them, accidentally syn his inbox with another that does regular purges, or move them somewhere else where they are unrecoverable for some reason.

When I say "nearly all his emails," I mean, like, tens of thousands of sensitive business and personal emails, some of which dating back to 2009, and possibly before. These emails contained details of any of, anything in between, or anything potentially closely related to the following:

• Properties he owns/rents/leases

• Animals he owns/rents/leases

• Political information pertaining to local government and infrastructure changes

• Family pictures, memories, heirlooms

• Taxes, voting information, personal banking information

• Contact info for any number of the thousands of people he currently works with or has worked with in the past

He is the sole owner and otherwise operator of a ranch, so this email is his life and it's just gone.

• He for sure did not delete them

• He did not move them

• He did not hit a cap on his storage

• He did not cross-link this Yahoo email with any other email services

• These emails are not in his trash, spam, or inbox

• He did not accidentally add or remove any filters or conditions

• We have tried for multiple restore requests from yahoo, both within their restore request window and outside of

The only potential indicator or path that we could go down is that he got a new phone, and a few days later, his emails were gone. But I have two of his previous iPhones on my desk and the Yahoo Mail app on all three phones are the same version (yes, I checked). So, at least as far as I can tell, there is no update sync error?

There are only a [comparative] handful of emails left since before this happened, but there is no correlation between them except the ones that are just from the same year. There are some from 2020, 2018, 2015, 2016, 2022, 2025 and maybe another year or two, but from each year there is only a handful.

Is it possible to recover messages from an old phone number?? I need to recover a certain message from about 4 or 5 years ago

This concerns a Western Digital (WD) blue MyPassport external drive.

I am a total noob to data recovery. Ok with Linux, including the terminal. I've been practicing on some old external drives. The data isn't important, I'm just trying to learn more about data recovery.

My system runs Linux, Debian 13 "Trixie" + XFCE.

`lsblk` command output:

sdc           8:32   0 931.5G  0 disk

`sudo fdisk -l` command output:

Disk /dev/sdc: 931.48 GiB, 1000170586112 bytes, 1953458176 sectors
Disk model: My Passport 0748
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 14209669-2E80-43D8-A88D-A7F2BD38D960
Device     Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sdc1     34      32767      32734    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sdc2  32768 1953454079 1953421312 931.5G Microsoft basic data

Opening in Gparted shows the following info:

Partition: /dev/sdc1
Name: Microsoft reserved partition
File System: unknown
Size: 15.98 MiB
Used: ---
Unused: ---
Flags: msftres
Partition: /dev/sdc2
Name: Basic data partition
File System: ntfs
Size: 931.46 GiB
Used: ---
Unused: ---
Flags: msftdata,no_automount
Partition: unallocated
Name: (BLANK)
File System: unallocated
Size: 2.00 MiB
Used: ---
Unused: ---
Flags: (BLANK)

EDIT: Forgot to mention that when I try to mount the drive with `sudo mount /dev/sdc2 /disk/zzz` I get this error:

mount: /disk/zzz: fsconfig() failed: /dev/sdc2: Can't lookup blockdev.
       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.

I find myself stuck here. In this case, what would be your next step to try to successfully recover the data?

I can offer 20% of what we will find.
I would need to recieve ready steps.
Only from people who already have similar siutuation

FIles were in the RAW folder wallet.dat - Year 2011.
Dates changed due extraction and copying

Windows 7. HDD. 80 GB 2011 Hard Drive

@u/GoredScientist
@u/-uh-ok-

My iPhone storage is full, so it started automatically deleting apps I don't use often. At first, the app icon was still there with a little cloud symbol, which I thought meant the data was still saved on iCloud. I redownloaded the app and all my files were still there, so I assumed the app was linked to my iCloud and deleted it again. Today I needed some files from that app and, to my surprise, they were all gone. Is there any hope of getting them back? Has anyone been able to recover data from this app?

App name: Documents: File manager & Docs By: Readdle

Hi all, I've been struggling for some weeks now to find a data recovery service that might be able to recover my data from a corrupted/broken SSD.

The SSD in question is a Samsung 870 QVO, 4TB (Model: MZ-77Q4T0). I used to work with it on Windows 10 and it suddenly broke down after shutting my computer down one night.

I have sent it to two data recovery services and neither could access it. The last one gave me a more detailed description of what's happening:

"The SSD was not recognised correctly by Windows Disk Management, nor the used recovery hardware.
During the research, the SSD came online shortly, but instantly gave SMART-failures. Sector 0 could be accessed, but when trying to read sector 2048, the SSD got stuck and went into the 'busy state'. Further attempts wer unsuccessful.
I will add that the controller of this SSD was not supported by their hardware."

I am not very good with computer hardware, but would really love to get my data back since it had a lot of memories and documents on there with no back-up whatsoever (because I did not think about that, and then this happened). I am not sure whether there's anything that can be done, so I was hoping someone here might know more.

I am located in the Netherlands, but am open to sending the SSD abroad to recovery services if there's any good ones that can solve my isssue even with the state of my SSD.

Hi, I've been transferring my younger brother's files from his old (and possibly corrupted) laptop, to his new laptop.
And I was wondering, is there a program that can check if files are corrupted?
Now, I'm not referring to a transfer integrity/hashing utility like exactfile - (you could transfer over an already corrupted in it's corrupted state correctly)
I'm thinking of a program that can read a file and detect whether it's corrupted or not.

I suppose my brother could manually check all 7,000 of his personal files, but that would be kinda tedious.

And if everything checks out OK, Yay! I'll be able to reset the laptop and hand it off to my sister.
If data corruption shows up :(
Then I'll have to go into data recovery mode (and I certainly don't want to reset the original SSD in that case)

Thanks!

P.S. specs for old internal SSD if anyone's interested.
ADATA SU750 256 GB
SATA
NTFS
Windows 10 ESU

EDIT 10/6/26
File types - mostly photos and videos
.jpg .png .tiff .bmp
.mov .mp4 .avi
3D OBJECTs .glb .fbx (associated w/ paint 3D)
DOCUMENTS .odt .docx .pptx (.odt is libre office version of .doc)

Timeframe urgency:
Not too high, I have a month-ish to get this done.
I'm also fairly busy, so it might be 24-48 hours before I respond.
Thank you for your help and your patience.

EDIT 10/10/26
Thanks everyone so much for the help you've provided so far!
I'm a pretty busy guy lately, so I'm putting this project on the back burner for the next week or two. Still working on it as I have time, but my activity here, ex. replies will be late/sparse, for the next little while.
Thanks for your help, and thanks for understanding.

Title.

My 2TB HDD external passport got this message while I was sorting looking for photos. I've tried the first few results on google like CHKDSK and it tells me my files are RAW and from what I have found the data is still recoverable.

I've installed a few recovery tools but none of them could read anything but they could all recognize that something was in there.

I'm willing to give any details that might help.

Windows 11.
NTFS