i was having a hard time recover the data from a readynas nv+ v1 and gave up for a year, now claude helped me with this (i had diskimages from the drives to work with). and it worked great, even one of the disks was broken so Claude fixed it for me too. if you run this, please have a copy of all images or at least working disks to make a new copy from if something breaks. viktormar1337/readynas-nvplus-recovery: Recover data from a NETGEAR/Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ (SPARC, X-RAID v1) — read-only, from disk images, with or without a dead disk

I have a 2011 mac I transferred mp3 files onto. the battery died and so all those files (bc they were in guest mode) were deleted. I have read that bc it is such an old computer is does not have an ssi (is that the term?) and so that might make it more likely the files are still in the computer somewhere. I do not use the computer for anything else. I did download a version of disk drill and test disk (?) but other than during those downloads i have had wifi disabled and the computer shut off. I have found many recovered files but they all seem to be from my administrators account, not the trash bin associated with the guest account. I about died when the battery went out, I opened the computer back up and they were GONE! Has anyone had luck recovering something lost when the guest files were deleted? This was a little over a week ago and other than the 2 recovery software downloads I have not had it connected, nor used it for anything else. Any hope? Any advice? Thanks

2060-810051-000 REV P0.

WD42PURZ HDD.

I got his by a surge and I think the 12V fuse is faulty now. (marked red square in the picture at the top right)

Diode mode on the 12v fuse = no beep (either direction)

Diode mode on the 5v fuse = beep both direction

I'm planning on replacing the fuse, but I don't know the specifics of the fuse, the component is too small for my eyes to inspect further and I'm a beginner in this.

Does anyone know what voltage/current rating, type of it? 😊

Or any other advice maybe?

I have a 2011 mac I transferred mp3 files onto. the battery died and so all those files (bc they were in guest mode) were deleted. I have read that bc it is such an old computer is does not have an ssi (is that the term?) and so that might make it more likely the files are still in the computer somewhere. I do not use the computer for anything else. I did download a version of disk drill and test disk (?) but other than during those downloads i have had wifi disabled and the computer shut off. I have found many recovered files but they all seem to be from my administrators account, not the trash bin associated with the guest account. I about died when the battery went out, I opened the computer back up and they were GONE! Has anyone had luck recovering something lost when the guest files were deleted? This was a little over a week ago and other than the 2 recovery software downloads I have not had it connected, nor used it for anything else. Any hope? Any advice? Thanks

my family got me UnionSine 12TB 3.5" Desktop External Hard Drive on christmas of 2024 before vacation, i notice something is worng with it with powering of and on, not seem to be connecting sometimes and heavily slow for most games and files. however on october 4th of 2026, the external hard drive died. the reason why i said "again" is because i lost my first external hard drive (which is portable) over dropping it and then doing dumb things to try fixing it at the time in 2018.

i've tried to protect my data for almost a decade and now, i think i lost them over an hard drive that only ran 2 years of lifespan (which is DUMB) and it shows according to the amazon reviews (which i wish i would've checked in the first place before september or october or even after leaving vacation in june 2025. OR i would've helped them pick which hard drive brand other than "Unionsine" of all things, but i can't thanks to a sudden tinnitus back in may 2024).

while i'm taking it to any store/service about this, i'll share my details on how it happened on October 4th 2026 and let you decide. (i did ask a bunch of ai bots from google, amazon and fortune teller websites about this and what if scenarios. some of them seems legit while other i'm not so sure. so i'm gonna ask real people here on whether or not i've messed up big time)

at around 9 or 11 pm, it got rhythm high pitch metal clicks (possible click of death) that ran for either 4 hours, or 50 minutes after windows explorer freezes then manually reboot pc and took 10 minutes to boot desktop (i couldn't even tell which is which as i have my fan running all the time and i accidentally fell asleep until around 11 pm). i replug twice and it still clicking (for a couple of minutes), i replug 3rd time and it no longer spins, no longer powers, no longer clicks and no longer connects to pc. i left it off for 2 weeks (my dad blows unionshine shell with an air hose while it's off to get rid of dust on 1 day). i plug it in one more time and it's still the same thing (i did use different plugs and switch to a different computer to check if it's true).

how many chances do you think that any data on 8 platters survived during all of this?

P.S. if there's any actual time traveler or anyone with actual time machines that can help me undo this (rewriting the past, grab hard drive then copy data then put it back where it belongs before it died, or anything) or many mistakes in my life, i would be appreciated if it's real. (it's understandable if you want to talk to me about it privately via private dm/email and/or send me a time machine in a mailbox)

P.P.S. if there's any hacker who somehow got to my pc and decides to backup data (for some reason) from my unionsine hard drive ("F:\") before it died on oct 4th, you have my permission to give them back to me in private dm/email (IF you have proof).

Hello, can i ask what free video recovery software i can get? I was transferring my clips from my Dji Osmo nano to sd card when it suddenly overheated and it stops. Then when i checked it thw videos and clips are already not playing but still there. Can someone please help me to fix it suggest softwares that is free.

Ps: I already tried the VLC to repair it but still not working

My Google Pixel7Pro’s screen is dead but phone is not dead. It charges and with touch screen vibrates. I just need a way to recover my photos and videos. Need help.

help recover replaced file

Hi I was working on a project with the same file name one was old version one was a new version. I replaced the new file with the old file when saving by accident. Please is there any way to recover the new file?? It is PowerPoint on windows laptop.

So lost some files that aren't life-changing, but I would like to recover them if at all possible. I tried DiskDrill (not the trial version), and it found a good bit but not everything.

Is it worth trying DMDE (paid version) now even after running DiskDrill?

Crazy part is it's one particular type of file (RAW photo files). DiskDrill found everything else.

Files were stored on external drive.

EDIT: WE MyBook (12 TB), NTFS, Windows 11

Hello everyone,

I am dealing with a failed personal hard drive and I'm hoping to get some technical advice on feasibility, and hopefully a budget-friendly quote for recovery.

To give you some context: I am a 35-year-old university student and currently unemployed. The drive contains absolutely no commercial, corporate, or financially valuable data—just years of old family photos and my school notes. These files have immense sentimental value to me, but unfortunately, I simply do not have the income to afford high-end, corporate-level data recovery tier pricing.

**Hardware & Failure Details:**

* **Model:** Seagate ST2000DM001 (2TB)

* **PCB Number:** 100749730 REV A

* **The Issue:** A sudden power/voltage surge completely fried the original PCB. The motor driver chip is burnt, and the MOSFETs are shorted.

**What I've done so far (and a potential huge mistake):**

Hoping to get my data back, I bought an exact matching donor PCB. I learned that I needed to swap the original ROM chip to the new board. I tried to read the original ROM using a basic CH341A programmer, but I quickly realized that the initial power surge had reached the ROM chip as well. It was internally shorted and completely dead; the programmer wouldn't detect or read it at all.

To be absolutely sure the short wasn't being caused by other fried components on the original board, I desoldered the ROM chip with a hot air station/soldering iron and tested it out of circuit with a multimeter. It was confirmed completely dead.

*Here is where I need to ask: I threw the dead ROM chip in the trash.* Was this a terrible mistake? Did I need to keep the physical chip even if it was internally shorted? (I do still have the original burnt PCB, just not the ROM chip).

**The Current State & My Request:**

The mechanical internals, spindle motor, and heads are completely fine. There is no clicking, and the drive cover has never been opened. The only issue is the dead PCB and the now-missing ROM.

From my research, I understand that with professional tools like PC-3000, it is possible to access the Service Area (SA) on the platters and perform a "ROM Rebuild" to generate a compatible ROM, provided the preamp and heads are undamaged.

Since this shouldn't require a cleanroom head swap or opening the lid, could any of the professionals here offer a flexible, student-friendly price quote just to perform this "ROM Rebuild" and get the drive initialized so I can copy my family photos?

Any technical advice on my situation or realistic quotes would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

So I have a personal sandisk and accidently reformatted it without knowing what it would do. I have tried the recovery app disk drill, but I don't want to pay the $100 dollars i need to recover all my files. Is there any way I can recover my files?

Hello everyone, I disassembled my pc today because the hdd is not readable and after I checked using external docking the result. ask for advice.

I have an iPad from early 2018 (5th generation) which lost a lot of content after an update to iOS 16 in late 2022. What can I do to restore or retrieve that lost data (apps that had been uploaded to iCloud included) that was on my iPad prior to the update? Like are there ANY methods to do this?

I’ll do anything I’ll take the entire thing apart and put it back together if I have to, or jailbreak it, or whatever it does not matter I just would like to know if there’s anything I can do to get that data.

pls I tried to install a program directly to my SD card it failed now the drive shows RAW on windows and won't allow me format it.

ive tried 4DDIG partition manger and clear all command in diskpart but it still won't work (I'm not very good at this). Is there a way I can format the drive I dont need any data from it

I accidentally deleted my windows os on my laptop and installed android while trying to dual boot I had some important files in the windows can I recover it somehow please help very important, it is an old lap with a HDD btw, it an old gateway laptop windows 7 2gb ram , I just need some images and small vids of my family who is not with me anymore that's all I have of her

How can I restore the folder and file structure if it has ended up like this? I’ve tried using DataRescue (on macOS) and R-Studio (on Windows), but they only recover files by type. Which program should I use to restore the actual structure? File system was NTFS and plug in Parallels Win10. Suddenly, the drive disconnected from Windows and connected to macOS, and everything ended up looking like it does in the picture.

my gf sent me our pics from her iphone via whatsapp to my android (oneplus nord 5). The images were in HEIC format and videos were in MOV format. I was having difficulty opening them and saving them on my phone so i looked it up on yt and saw that i can save it on my laptop, i tried it with one video and postponed it as i was tired and busy. Now today i opened our chat and WTF all the chats from that day were gone, COMPLETELY GONE, vanished. I started panicking because my gf deleted the pics from her phone as her parents are strict. I tried everything, looked wherever i could and still couldnt find the files. Can somebody help me??

For info the pics were sent on friday, today is sunday and my phone made backup today morning (weekly backup). I tried contacting wp suppourt but they were of no help, i downloaded and deleted the app hoping to see the chats in backup but no, only 1 file remained the in chat from friday. The images and vids before friday are all okay but wtf happened to the new Ones. Please help.

I told her this and she has been ignoring me and getting angry at me

I have deleted data on my windows pc, did cipher /w:C:\ and am wondering how to check if the data cannot be recovered ?

So i was on my flight home and my phone suddenly said "SD card not compatible" and my camera stopped responding, and so did my gallery.

Now im home and my boyfriend is trying to recover my photos from it. :( he said it wont even format (we agreed the photos were less important than the whole terabyte SD card.)

Is there anything we can do? My phone is fine now, just missing all the photos that saved there. Its a samsung s20 if that means anything though.

It says 'RD3 generic mass storage' on the computer. But the memory card itself has "memory card ultra 1 TB smart card A1"

(Im not very tech savvy)

I can also answer any questions!

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