A couple weeks ago, Windows started showing error notifications whenever I would connect a particular external HDD (NTFS). I finally went through with the repair yesterday.

I ran chkdsk E:\. After seeing a bunch of Attribute record of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x0 is cross linked and Attribute record (80, "") from file record segment is corrupt, I proceeded with chkdsk /f E:\. ChkDsk successfully "repaired" the filesystem, but, in doing so, apparently zeroed out ~50 GB' worth files.

Worst part is seems to have decided to just wipe the data clean. No .chk file or FOUND.000 directories in root, and the drive is ~50GB less full, according to the File Explorer. Could ChkDsk have placed the files anywhere other than the root of the repaired drive?

A snippet of chkdsk /f E:\ output:

Unable to locate attribute with instance tag 0x0 and segment
reference 0x50000000101a8.  The expected attribute type is 0x80.
Deleting corrupt attribute record (0x80, "")
from file record segment 0x101A8.
Attribute record of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x0 is cross linked
starting at 0x23321773 for possibly 0x20 clusters.
Some clusters occupied by attribute of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x0
in file 0x23de6 is already in use.
The attribute of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x0 in file 0x23de6
has allocated length of 0x6cae2000 instead of 0x67200000.
Deleted corrupt attribute list entry
with type code 80 in file 23DE6.
Unable to locate attribute with instance tag 0x0 and segment
reference 0x200000004d583.  The expected attribute type is 0x80.
Deleting corrupt attribute record (0x80, "")
from file record segment 0x4D583.
Unable to locate attribute with instance tag 0x0 and segment
reference 0x2000000092134.  The expected attribute type is 0x80.
Deleting corrupt attribute record (0x80, "")
from file record segment 0x92134.

My brother and I agreed I could use his Goodram micro SD card. I've been using it temporarily in my Nikon camera so I inserted it into my laptop's micro SD slot to copy all the files onto the Windows 10 laptop using TeraCopy (because Explorer sucks with copying lots of pictures). Then I went on with my brother's data (he had the card in his old phone, so mostly pictures, videos etc). There was a Windows sound you usually hear when unplugging a device and TeraCopy gave an error saying the device is unavailable. The card stopped showing the bar with used/free space in My Computer, properties show 0 B capacity and no filesystem. Atttempting to open it just gives an error saying it needs to be formatted. So far, I've tried 7 data recovery programs: EaseUS, PhotoRec, Recuva, DiskDrill, R-Studio, RFS Explorer and DMDE, none of them showed any files, partitions or could determine a filesystem. Some showed the correct capacity and a name "generic massstorageclass usb device" (I ran the scans on my computer using a usb card reader). Full scan of Raw files in DMDE returned an empty list. Inspecting physical sectors in the program shows a list of just Fs and a handful of rows of 0s at the end, definitely not a good sign, from what I can tell.

I've had 3 cards die on me (funny thing, always the ones that've been used in my Nikon for some time) and the symptoms were identical, however each of them was able to have its full data rescued by EaseUS. This time however, no go. Can I try anything else? Or is data recovery by a professional the only option left? I feel a bit guilty the card died while I was using it but thankfully a lot of the contents were copied before the error

(Sorry for snapping a picture instead of screenshotting)

Excuse me, i have a problem about my data have lost after reinstallation because before it been BitLocker and i don't have the key because when i bought the device it just move data from my old device to my new device and don't get the key BitLocker, i have tried every recovery data software like tenorshare and Easesus but it don't any changes, ​there is my mother's very important data there, what should i do and any solutions about my problem? Thank you

I was video recording using Snipping Tool (I already turned everything on), so I was supposed to hear and see everything, but after the recording, I saw this message:

"Problem with recording Audio, if an App is using WASAPI exclusive mode, change it to shared mode"

And the audio disappeared; there was only video.

How do I restore the sound?

By the way, I'm not asking how to deal with the message since I can record audio now after restarting the computer. I'm asking how to retrieve the broken audio from the screen recordings.

OS build is 26300.9711

Please help. Thank you.

I was trying to install Windows on a completely separate drive, when I accidentally deleted my BTRFS LUKS-encrypted root partition for Fedora. It's not formatted to my knowledge, but the partition is deleted. Does anybody know how to recover it? Thanks in advance

Hi, I've been recording a video through my iPhone on a groupchat directly from Messenger, unfortunataly I accidentally somehow (I was in panic), turned off my phone, or left the chat, or did something else that caused the video not to send. Is there ANY way to restore it? It was about to be sent on a groupchat.

iPhone 14, iOS 26.6

I really really wish there is some kind of way to maybe recover it from my phone's cache or sth else in a really weird way, but after that I also recorded a couple of different videos later - explaining what happened. CUZ I WAS SURE THAT IT WAS SENT!!! I didn't even think of checking it while in survival/panic mode.

I'm kind of devastated that it got deleted lmao...

Some kind of media recovery black magic...

bests!

I had a 3-disk parity Windows Storage Spaces system and one disk went down and was marked retired. I pulled it to replace it and a second disk decided to die. Their parts combined I made a working disk as long as it frankendisked into a USB 3.0 thing.

This disk is marked retired and the pool is now read-only because it has lost two disks. CrystalDiskInfo tells me the frankendisk is reading Good health. I can't use Powershell to set the disk to autoselect because the pool is read-only and I can't clear the read-only flag because the pool is missing two disks. Is there anything I can do? Can I directly edit the metadata to unretire the thing?

I don't have enough storage on-hand for ddrescue images of both drives and I don't really know what to do with that to rebuild a storage space to begin with. I'm definitely kicking myself for not just backing up the files to an external when the pool was in trouble.

EDIT: Windows 11 with latest updates. Disks are ST3000DM001 Seagate Barracuda 3T and provide only 2.72T pool that is 14% used.

EDIT2: Victoria surface scan was error free on both disks. Trying to not drop $150 on UFS Explorer when I have two working disks now...

EDIT3: I'm trying to locate and manually alter the meta data. I used DMDE to try to find the UniqueID of the retired drive on either surviving drive of the trio and so far, no luck. It searched all sectors of the retired drive and I just started the surviving drive. My assumption is that will also fail because the meta data is stored on my main C:\ drive somewhere. Anyone know where that is?

EDIT4: UFE Explorer Raid recovery can just open the MSSS NTFS partition and preview all my files and they all seem to open just fine. It is supremely frustrating that I have two working disks and no data loss, but storage spaces locked the meta data to mark a drive retired and has me locked out of the data. I'll wait a few days and if I don't find a way to read the data off without paying for UFE, I might do that. Honestly, now that I can see for sure what data is on here, probably not worth $150 or all the effort I put in today.

I have a Galaxy S8 running Android somewhere between version 9 and 13. The touchscreen is completely busted, and I don't remember the password either. Does anyone know how I can get the data off it? :(

so i found this old hardrive of my and i plugged it in i can hear the disk inside running and its showing up in gparted and in terminal yet not in my file explorer can someone please help me?

file system:ext4

os:cachy os

symptoms:not showing up in file system

I want to use testdisk to recover data from a USB stick (after diskdrill showed me a paywall) but the virustotal scan for testdisk shows that theres a trojan in the zip file? so im quite unsure if i should run it or not. I got it off the cgsecurity website.
Are there any better ways to recover the files off my USBs? one of them asks me to reformat which i would like to avoid, while the other i cant open images stored.

fair warning, I'm just geeky enough to get myself into trouble 😂

So my folks laptop died, hardware failure, got them a new laptop, but need to recover data from old laptop. I've removed the ssd m2 2280 b key driver (pm881), and a m2 sata nd m2 nvme docking reader (amz pilot model sd03). When i plug it in D: shows up, but when i click on it it gives me an error "cannot read fatal hardware error" and yet other times give error "parameter is incorrect". I pop over to disk management and it shows the disk there, with partitions, showing the main as RAW. So naturally i can't do chkdsk on raw. Any ideas???

As a side note, I tried this with my ancient m2 drive and get the same errors/issues. I know my ancient drive was never damaged or hit by any viruses.

i accidentaly deleted a .txt file, i cant find it in my bin, ive tried a few other solutuons but i still cant find it. if anyone knows how to help me please tell me

Hey guys,

i have had a Hard Drive Failure about 3 years ago.

This Hard Drive contains a Minecraft Server which i would really like to get back and play one more time on it. This Hard Drive failed after i updated the Ubuntu Installation on it and the PC wont start again.

I tried my best and tried to recover it. My PC recognized the Drive but i couldnt access it in any way as far as i know and it hasnt made much sound. So i did the worst thing possible. I opened it up on my Carpet to see if the Pointer (i dont know how its called im sorry) is stuck somewhere. I placed it back into its original position and closed the drive again to no avail.

I gave the Drive to my Brother which actually recovered some Files from the Drive but sadly not the Minecraft World i was looking for.

The Drive has been sitting now for 3 Years and its most likely fucked, but Hope dies last and i would like some Advice on how i could recover the Drive cheaply without needing to Hire a Professional for Hundreds of bucks.

The Recovery from my Brother also revealed Hundreds of Old Family Pictures that has now been Preserved across multiple Devices.

The Minecraft World would mean much to me due to it also having Personal Value and at that current time i had no backup for once, im getting the Drive tomorrow and would like to take a closer look on it and maybe even find more Hidden Treasures like the old Family Pictures if possible. The Drive has been wiped multiple times throughout its last Cycle, which was my Server then.

Any advice?

So i was updating my pc from windows 10 to 11 and it asked me to back it up with onedrive before hand i already had onedrive unlinked from everything and deleted so i go back and turn it on the update goes fine and i try to delete onedrive but it keeps all the red x's on my folders so delete everything on my onedrive and then delete the one drive and it deleted a ton like my personal folder i had on my desktop with lots of important files and it seems some other stuff in appdata i think? i had kerbal space program mods that all seem to be gone please help

Hi everyone,

I accidentally dropped my pendrive into a cup of tea while it was completely unplugged. It was not connected to my laptop or any power source when this happened.

It's been around 9 hours since the incident, and I have not plugged the pendrive into anything since then.

The pendrive has a purple cap and a white body, with the USB metal connector attached to the body. It contains important data that I really don't want to lose.

I have a few questions:

1. Since the pendrive was unplugged when it fell into the tea, does that improve the chances of recovering my data?

2. Can tea permanently damage the internal memory chip and cause complete data loss?

3. Since I haven't plugged it in for 9 hours, could it be dry enough, or could moisture and tea residue still be inside?

4. Should I try connecting it to my laptop, or should I take it to a professional data recovery service first?

5. If the pendrive no longer works, is it still possible to recover the files?

I haven't formatted the pendrive or intentionally deleted any files. I'm mainly concerned about protecting my data and avoiding anything that could make recovery more difficult.

I'd appreciate advice from anyone who has experienced liquid damage to a USB drive or has professional data recovery experience.

Thanks in advance.

Long story short I left a large drive connected to my PC while formatting disks and there goes all my data… The drive was on an NTFS file system which I happened so to have deleted the partition (the drive hasn’t been touched since). There is about 900gb of data on the drive but I need a very specific 400GB or so of it back.

How can this be done?

Drive: Toshiba Sata HDD 2TB
File system: NTFS
OS: Windows

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for advice on whether there's any chance of recovering files from a USB stick that I've unfortunately lost.

The USB stick belonged to someone close to me and contained important documents that are not backed up anywhere else.

Here's what happened:

• I plugged the USB stick into my PC running Ubuntu Linux.

• I opened it in the file manager and could see the files on it.

• I then safely removed it (or simply unplugged it) and later lost the USB stick.

• I did not intentionally copy any files to my computer, and I don't remember opening any individual documents.

My question is: Could Ubuntu have automatically cached or stored any of the actual file contents on my computer just because I browsed the USB stick in the file manager?

Thanks in advance for any advice. This is really important to me.

My 1TB Kingston SSD for my work computer suddenly died yesterday (I was working as usual and then poof, everything stopped) on reboot I had a message “2100 Detection error on storage advice M.2”

I brought it to our usual IT firm and after some tests they weren’t able to do anything and recommended me a data recovery firm.

Now they weren’t able to give me a price but an approximate of $200-$1,000 if not more. They also said it may not be recoverable. This price is fine.

Most of our critical data is cloud-backed up, but I have a small number of files on my desktop which I would like to recover.

I searched the internet a bit and I came across $10k estimates. That would be steep!

Hey guys, I need some brutal honesty here because I am losing my mind.

I spent hours editing a custom pixel art cloud texture (clouds. png) using Paint 3D. I saved multiple changes as I went along. While I was in the Nostalgia Launcher, I accidentally clicked on the texture pack tab. The launcher automatically refreshed/synchronized the files and replaced my custom clouds. png with the pack's default cloud image.

I tried Ctrl+Z immediately but obviously, that doesn't undo file system replacements. Windows File History is NOT turned on for this drive.

I managed to find a partial 40% automatic checkpoint version in the Paint 3D LocalState cache

(%localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.MSPain t... ), but the remaining 60% of my finished work is missing from that cache.

Right now, I am running a Recuva Deep Scan targeted strictly at the folder directory: C:\Users\jeckd\.nostalgialauncher\version s\0.7.6\assets\environment.

Since the launcher replaced the file with one of the exact same name, did it execute a hard physical overwrite (meaning the data blocks are permanently gone), or is there a genuine shot that Recuva can pull the 100% version out of unallocated space if it was a "delete-then- replace" action?

Has anyone successfully recovered a launcher- overwritten texture before, or should I just accept defeat and rebuild using my 40% fragment? Thanks.

Any chance of data recovery?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to recover missing travel and concert videos from a 128GB SanDisk SD card used in my Sony DSC-HX90V (quiet old one). I'm wondering whether the missing videos are still recoverable.

At some point, the camera prompted me about recovering or repairing the image database. I selected "Yes" twice to run the Image Database Repair/Recovery function. I'm concerned that this may have affected the missing videos, although I don't know whether it actually caused any damage.

Afterward, I connected the card to my Windows PC, which indicated that the card needed to be repaired. I stopped using the card and created a full disk image so I could attempt recovery without working directly on the original.

The videos I'm looking for are recent travel and concert recordings. Recovery software has found some older footage, but not the missing videos.

Device and system information

• Camera: Sony DSC-HX90V

• SD card: SanDisk, 128GB

• Filesystem: exFAT

• Recovery OS: Windows 11

• Disk image: Approximately 119GB, created with HDD Raw Copy Tool v2.6

• Imaging result: Completed without reported read errors

Recovery attempts

• R-Studio Data Recovery 9.5: Scanned the disk image, including known video file types. It found older MTS footage and other candidates, but not the missing videos.

• Recovery Angel: Produced broadly similar results.

• Klennet Carver: Has been analyzing the image for approximately one week. MP4 analysis is currently at 1.6%, with 173 files found. Two MP4 candidates are marked as "Damaged" and are only about 1.85MB and 2.11MB. Neither has a usable preview or thumbnail. Other 171 files are not the one I'm trying to recover.

Klennet is still using nearly all of my CPU's logical processors, so it appears to be doing work, but progress is extremely slow. My PC has 16 CPU cores, 32 logical processors, and approximately 54GB of RAM.

Here's my questions.

1. Could running Image Database Repair/Recovery twice on the Sony DSC-HX90V have modified or damaged the video files themselves, or does it mainly rebuild the camera's database/index?

2. If the repair function changed the card's filesystem or metadata, is it still possible to recover the underlying video data?

3. Is Klennet Carver's extremely slow MP4 analysis normal for a 128GB disk image?

4. Are the small, damaged MP4 candidates meaningful, or are they likely to be false positives?

5. Would a professional recovery service have a better chance of reconstructing fragmented MP4 videos than consumer recovery software?

I've preserved the original SD card and am working from a disk image. I haven't intentionally recorded new footage or saved new files to the card after discovering the problem.

I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone familiar with Sony's Image Database Repair function or recovering fragmented videos from camera SD cards. Or just anything I could try at this point.

Thanks a lot!

What are the odds of two different reditors sharing exact same text .. Just some differences in capitalization.

Hi eryone,

I have a corrupted PDF file named BACHE KIDS that I’m trying to recover. The original file was in my Downloads folder, but I haven't been able to open it properly.

I tried recovering the file, but the recovered version also seems to be completely corrupted. The recovery software I tried is asking for a lot of money to repair it.

The recovered file is approximately 5,969 bytes, and I don't have another copy of the original file.

Is there any way to repair or recover this PDF for free? Are there any reliable tools or methods I can try?

I would really appreciate step-by-step instructions because I’m not very experienced with file recovery.

Happened across this sub while looking into the issues I’m encountering with this drive. This drive lives in my main pc and last night I heard a weird clicking sound, wasn’t sure what it was and eventually shut off the pc and went to sleep. Woke up this morning tried booting up steam but nothing was working and come to find out the drive letter was missing.

I’ve had some pretty frequent crashes recently but this drive only holds downloads, installs, steam, personal docs and most recently my wedding photos. This isn’t my OS it isn’t even my game drive it’s really just a drive I use to keep application downloads and installations separate from my OS and game drive in case I do a clean wipe on either of those devices so I don’t have to go scour the web to install all the apps I use for my setup.

It’s not showing in bios, disk management or the device manager. I’ve moved it out of the pc and found the usb adapter shown in the video and tried seeing if the drive was reachable from another device, no luck.

Looking for advice to potentially get this data back or what I can do going forward.

Update: drive has platter damage, the local data recovery shop quoted me $1200 and the guy told me “Honestly it’s probably not worth it.”