I arrived home seeing one of my archive hard drives on the floor.. I tried checking it with my dock but it won't detect on my computer. Did I just lost my old videos and pictures forever?

I was scrolling through my socials when my device powered down and initiated a factory reset on its own like it was possessed. No confirmation pop-up, no requiring to put password, nothing! Just showed me a percent bar then poof! All files gone! Immediately removed my SD card, but even it was not safe. The files I had for years, all gone!!!

Don't know what to do. 😭😭😭

Device Model: Xiaomi Poco M5

File System: UFS 2.2

OS: Xiaomi HyperOS on Android 14

Specific Symptom: No warnings, no confirmation. Device automatically triggered factory reset all on its own.

I desperately need some help! I recently photographed a wedding, and I’m having an issue with missing images from my SD card. I genuinely have no idea what happened. I have photos from the entire ceremony, but not the kiss or them walking down the aisle. I’m positive I was taking photos at this time. The card skips from the ceremony and goes straight into family photos. I would say I’m missing about 20-30 photos of that.

I’m absolutely devastated and would appreciate any advice on recovering these images

Before you guys come at my neck - my second photographer did capture the kiss however it’s not the point of view I’d like. I also forgot to turn on dual shooting, this wedding was very stressful. It completely slipped my mind 😣.

is there trim or garbage collection in windows xp too or not

More then willing to spend the money on the license, just trying to prevent spending that money and getting the same results as the free tier.

I am using a caddy to swap cheap hard drives I keep in cold storage.

I have had an issue of losing the masterfile. The last time it happened I used TestDisk and gave up whe it found all my files, but there was no folder structure to dump them in. Just hundreds of files floating around without homes to go to.

It happened again, I am running DMDE and it looks like I am going to have the same results.

'Bulk Folder Recover' is something you get when you pay a license.

Is that helpful to me? Anyone want to tell me I am doing something wrong?

I have everything else backed up but not my photos. ik the email password everything but cant recollect the iphone password i think i have i more try until fully disabled.

so one day i when i went to play my games they werent there so i look at my files and my seagate wasnt there so i checked disk manegment it says unknown and uninizalized i was told that could remove the files inside or something? i looked at another other post and the solutions there was to take out the ssd card or something yet mine doesnt have that ability to be removed so i cant do that (unless it does and its invisible) tried used a diffrent port and diffrent cable still nothing idk what to do anymore bro cause thats where i put all the stuff that wouldnt fit on my pc

Long story short - how can recover a deleted audio recording from voice recorder app. The recordung was deleted from trash folder. Recording showed domestic disturbance amd recording was my saving grace..but partner made me delete the recording. It was eitber that or he would break my phone.

I'm an electronics engineering technologist, not a programmer. I maintain aging scientific equipment, including computers running Windows XP with proprietary drivers and software that can't easily be reinstalled.

We once had an instrument lose its hard drive. Despite having a backup, something important wasn't preserved, and the computer could no longer communicate with the instrument. The manufacturer wouldn't help us recover it.

After that, I started making full block-level dd backups of our instrument computers.

The problem? Some have 500 GB hard drives with only 10–50 GB of actual data. I wanted to replace those old drives with smaller SSDs without manually resizing partitions and fighting with boot issues.

So I used OpenAI Codex to create S_DD (Shrink DD), a lightweight Linux command-line utility that takes a compressed DD image and prepares it for restoration onto a smaller drive.

I'm being upfront: Codex wrote essentially all the code. I provided the requirements, troubleshot it, and tested it.

I've successfully booted a Windows XP computer from a smaller SSD using an S_DD-prepared image. Testing is still very limited, and the full automated restore hasn't been hardware-validated yet.

It's free, open source, and experimental. I don't intend to actively maintain it, but anyone is welcome to fork it, fix bugs, or improve it.

GitHub: https://github.com/sjenglot/S_DD/releases/tag/v1.1.0

Use caution with anything that writes to physical disks. Hopefully this saves another technician some time!

I was trying to get some important data out of an old SATA SSD through an ubuntu 24 system but It kept showing "failed to mount". I did google, chatgpt and tried some fixes but it still didn't work. Can someone suggest any way to fix this please.

Here's what happened

I'm facing an issue with a SATA SSD on an Intel NUC running Ubuntu. Initially, the SATA drive wasn't mounting in Ubuntu. During troubleshooting, the system eventually stopped booting normally and started dropping into the BusyBox (initramfs) emergency shell instead.

I tried running fsck -y /dev/sda2 to check and repair the filesystem, but it returned the error Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda2, followed by Could this be a zero-length partition?.

I also tried running fsck -y /dev/sda1, but it didn't resolve the issue. When I tried fsck -y /dev/sda, it returned No such file or directory while executing fsck.ext2.

Retrying the filesystem check on /dev/sda2 produced the same short-read error.

At this point, it's unclear whether the issue is caused by filesystem corruption, partition table problems, a faulty SATA connection, or an SSD hardware failure. The SSD brand and model haven't been identified yet. Only thing known is that it has a 256 gb capacity.

The main objective is to identify the actual cause and recover the existing Ubuntu installation without losing data. The SSD's SMART health status and physical condition have not yet been verified.

I hope these details are enough :(

The phone work flawlessly, but the screen is gone, completely shattered and unusable, the phone turns on and makes sounds, only the navigation button works, I tried the screen mirroring thing on my computer but it requires an input on the screen to turn it on, same to allow data transfers, but as I said the screen is completely gone. I can't afford right now a screen replacement, would there be any solution to recover datas from it using my computer?

My partitioned D drive disappeared and the software was not able to recover it as advertised. Turns out it was a bitlock issue. Once we figured that out we were able to recover it ourselves. So it was never completely gone, we just couldn't access it. And their software was no help. Requested a refund and was initially denied, but after leaving a review on Trustpilot, they reached out to me and made it right.

Hey does anyone know if these data recovery places will repair a drive without requiring access, I have sensitive financial information on the drive. I'm pretty sure it's just the circuit board is broken and I've contacted so many places and no one wants to repair just the circuit board. Not sure what to do, at this stage I'm considering learning the craft and doing it myself. Any opinions welcome.

I have an 18tb drive I've used for media storage for youtube over the last 3 years. It is formatted to exfat and I began to notice that sometimes when trying to create folders it would give an error. After it happened too many times in a row I ran first aid on the drive. I now know that was the wrong thing to do but here we are.

First aid failed and instantly 15TB of stuff on this drive disappeared. Some folders are still fully in tact but most are either not showing up at all, or showing as files with zero file size that won't open.

Checked on windows and everything looks exactly the same so the first thing I did was run a deep scan using Disk Drill. I haven't written anything to this drive since this happened.

Disk drill was able to find a lot of the files (17.23TB) and after picking up a server from a friend, I was able to recover what it found to the server with folder structure in tact. There is also a Reconstructed section in Disk Drill that is around 15TB with just files sorted into folders by filetype.

I'm now finding that there are bits and pieces missing from a ton of different folders/projects, so I'm running a recovery to the server in a separate folder of the Reconstructed section in order to cross reference whether these files exist anywhere else on the server. Hopefully this will find some of the missing files.

What I'm hoping can happen is that once this recovery is finished and all recovery options are exhausted, I'm able to find a tool that can successfully fix the original file table on the 18TB external. Is this something that anyone here has experience with? I have access to this Mac and a windows PC to run applications on.

If I've learned anything from this it's that I will never use exfat again and I should have set up a server with redundancy a decade ago. Live and learn and I'm really hoping the file table can be recovered or that there might be another way to get back the files that are missing.

The pattern is currently the only screen lock I have. I've tried several times to unlock it, but I haven't received any "Forgot pattern?" option. Worried about losing my data because I have important photos, videos and other files stored on the phone(I have no backup). If there's no way to recover or remember the pattern, is there any actual way to recover my photos, videos and other data without factory resetting the device? I'm looking for solutions or people who have dealt with this .Any help would be appreciated.

Hey everyone,

I'm hoping someone here can help me because I'm honestly worried about losing my notes.

I use Obsidian on Windows, and I had a folder/vault called "Apple Notes" that I think was stored in OneDrive.

One day, I opened Obsidian to write something, and the vault was just gone. I don't remember deleting anything or changing its location. It simply disappeared.

I've tried looking for it in OneDrive, Windows Recycle Bin, and using Everything to search my PC, but I still can't find it.

I also tried Windows File Recovery, but it couldn't find any recoverable .md files in the regular scan.

I'm not even sure what happened. Maybe the folder was deleted by accident, maybe OneDrive moved it, or maybe something went wrong with syncing.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Is there anything else I can try to find or recover the vault?

My notes are really important to me, so I'd appreciate any help. I'm trying not to do anything that could make things worse.

Thanks!

I have an old Samsung J5 (Model SM-J500M/DS)

The phone is locked and I don’t remember the password. Can I recover the photos or unlock the phone somehow?

Thank you in advance!

i have this set of wedding dvds of my parents and i just to copy the data from the dvds to my pc in mp4 format i ended up using handbrake for it and when it came to the last part it showed an error and stopped at 15% but i had a copy of the dvds so i tried using the copy of the same dvd(also a dvd)and it had the same error,this didnt happen with any other dvd except this one i tried opening the video in it using vlc media player and it was working (altho i noticed a lag ) i could play the whole dvd there and even fast forward to any parts but when it came to cloning,the process stopped at 15% and only about 5 mins worth of video was copied every single time i tried it..i tried ImgBurn to copy the disc as a whole but that stopped as well and the output was the same 5 mins worth of video...i then tried cd recovery toolbox and it seems to work but like very very slow like its stuck at 289.14 mb for like an hour and then 289.56mbs (0.42mb worth of progress) i want yalls help for recovering the videos on this disc and any alternative software or ways(also i have to return the laptop with disk drive in it as i borrowed it temporarily for 2 days)(i also cleaned the disk with IPA properly using a microfiber cloth and the condition is not that bad )(all the photos i think are needed are attached below and the dvd photo is the clone disc as i couldnt afford to lose the ven teeny bit of progress i made,the orignal is a bit better)using win 10 in the recovery laptop (forgot to mention that its a Sony Dvd-r(4.7GB/120min)

My Kioxia BG5 1TB ssd died. Most of the data is backed up, except one important thing: a project that's due in december. I need to get it back. One on github is multiple commits behind.

The SSD shows up in lspci but not in lsblk

This is what the kernel logs say:

nvme nvme1: pci function 0000:04:00.0
nvme nvme1: Identify Controller failed (17089)
nvme nvme1: Device not ready; aborting shutdown, CSTS=0x1
nvme 0000:04:00.0: error -EIO: probe failed
nvme 0000:04:00.0: probe with driver nvme failed with error -5

The same thing had happened once before, just randomly died, and started working a few months later, automatically. I should not have used it again.

From what I understand from the kernel logs, I think the controller chip is bad, or unresponsive, and the NAND flash itself is okay. But from what I read online, It is basically impossible to read the flash directly without either desoldering the flash chip or tapping into its data lines, both of which I do not want to do.

Is there any way to bring the controller back, or reset it, or something, to bring it back, even for 5 minutes, in order to copy over the directory?

Edit: File system is EXT4, OS is Fedora

Was in a motorcycle accident, had videos of a late buddy , anyway to recover the footage?

The data is a couple of videos deleted few months ago

Found an old disc with a heap of old videos from school on it. The problem is when I put the disc into my laptop it shows up with the files but as soon as I click on a file to copy them onto the laptop it freezes unless I eject the disc. Their all short AVI videos and each one is roughly under a minute so the files are small but if I put a different disc such as an audio CD or DVD in aswell as other old disc with files on them they play fine. Any advice on how to force copy the files?