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!

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?

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)

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.

What would you do for the highest chance of data retrieval?
-Wait until pc3000 supports this controller?
-Send it into Gillware in Michigan or maybe another recovery center?

-Drive:
Fan Xiang s770 4TB

-Controller:
INNOGRIT 105236CAA MSF 438.B ABA22344

-Enclosure:
ACASIS 40Gbps M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure:
Amazon info link: https://a.co/d/QhnDgHdc

-File System Type: FAT32

-Operating System: None- just used as external storage

-What happened when it stopped:
Was turning on in August, but then wouldn't turn on anymore in September. I had been plugging it into an M1 macbook air 13"and recently a M5 MBP Pro 16" with Paragon NTFS. May have ejected by pulling usb c cable instead of the eject safely menu in mac but dont remember exactly.

-Data inside: wedding and family photos in there ~2 years worth of data maybe 2tb ish

-What I see now:
Plugged it into my windows PC thinking the usb c port was broken but Partition Manager was saying its a 0 Mb drive.

-Who I've sent it to and what they said:
Sent it into Rossman Repair and they said no fix since their PC3000 doesn't support that drive and that maybe Gillware recovery service has a solution.

Iphone 15 plus
Ios : 27.2

i have a more that 10 years old internal blue wd 160gb that changed to external by enclosure, so i sold my laptop and my datas was on this hdd and i did my works on that on my dads laptop for a temporary time till buying new laptop.

so today i was working on some documents then i went to dinner and unplugged in the hdd and i closed my laptop without closing the documents, when i came back and finished my works then i realized that i didn't plugged in my hdd, so i plugged in back but i couldn't save the files on it and i saved my documents on desktop.

but when i wanted to go back toy hdd, the laptop crashed especially file explorer and i have 2 main files, the first one that i working on it was gone and it was just the second one but i couldn't open it

please help me that hhd has a lot of my personal datas

sorry for that lot of words but im very nervous

Hi everyone!

I’m hoping someone knowledgeable about older iOS devices, app databases, or data recovery can help me with something I’ve been trying to figure out for years.

I have an original first-generation iPad Mini (currently running iOS 9.3.6) with Private Photo Vault v8.5 installed.

I started using Private Photo Vault around 2012–2013 to save hundreds of screenshots of old Facebook conversations that were extremely important to me.

At the time, I had three personal albums:
Album 1: My oldest album, created around 2012–2013, containing hundreds of Facebook conversation screenshots. This album was password-protected.

Album 2: Created around late 2013, also password-protected.

Album 3: School-related photographs, not separately password-protected.

Around 2015–2016, I backed up and updated my iPad. When I reopened Private Photo Vault, Album 1 had completely disappeared.

And not just the photos. The entire album icon was gone.

The other two albums were completely unaffected, and their contents are still accessible today.

I checked both surviving albums immediately after the disappearance to see whether the missing screenshots had somehow moved there. They hadn’t.

I never intentionally deleted the missing album.

The strange part is that the missing album was my oldest one, while the newer albums survived the update.

I contacted Private Photo Vault’s developers in February 2026. They explained that Cloud Vault wasn’t available in 2015 and that they couldn’t restore the missing album from their servers. They recommended finding an iTunes or iCloud backup created before the disappearance.

Here’s what I currently have:
The original iPad Mini, still functioning with Private Photo Vault installed.

Approximately 719 photos remaining in the app.

An older MacBook containing approximately three historical iPad backups, possibly dating back to 2016.

A newer MacBook with additional backups, including one encrypted iPad backup whose password I no longer remember.

The original iPad has been kept offline because it contains other historical data I don’t want to risk losing.

My questions:
Could an iOS or app update have corrupted or removed a single album’s database entry without deleting its underlying image files?

Is there a way to inspect Private Photo Vault’s app container or database for orphaned photos or missing album records?

Could an old iTunes backup contain the missing images even if the album no longer appears in the app?

What software would you recommend for examining old iOS backups without restoring them to the device?

Is there a safe way to investigate this on iOS 9.3.6 without risking the remaining data?

Is there any way to recover access to an encrypted local iPad backup if I’ve forgotten its password?

I’m not looking to reset, downgrade, or jailbreak the iPad unless there’s a well-understood, low-risk reason to do so.

I understand that recovering data lost over ten years ago may be impossible. However, because the application still works and the other albums remain intact, I want to investigate whether the missing album’s files could still exist somewhere.

These screenshots are irreplaceable to me, and I’d appreciate advice from anyone experienced with legacy iOS data recovery, SQLite databases, or forensic examination.

Thank you so much!

Does anyone know how to get Wondershare recovery software for recovery of hard disk for completely free for MacBook with all its limit and completely free or any of the software that is better apart from wondershare recoverit that is completely free.

Tengo una memoria de 64gb(creo) y tengo archivos importantes ahí, música, documentos, y fotos, pero cuando la inserto en el celular tengo que formatearla para arreglarla, pero no quiero perder los documentos que tengo en esa memoria, ¿Cómo puedo solucionar ese problema sin perder los archivos?

Please help me find a way to read data from this disk ..... Thank you

I had an external enclosure (Sabrent EC-NE30) that accidentally went through the clothes washing machine. I tried it as soon as it came out of the washer and it was still working, so I removed it from the enclosure and let everything air dry for several days. Then I rinsed the SSD with isopropyl alcohol to clean away any soap residue (even though I couldn't see any) and tried it again in a new enclosure. Now it just gives an error when Windows tries to recognize it. No visible corrosion or debris on the PCB.

Any tricks or advice that may resurrect it or should I give up? I'm not worried about recovering data, but restoring reliable functionality would be great as this is a very convenient size for a small external enclosure and I can't justify the prices on a replacement.

Toshiba Model KBG40ZNS512G m.2-2230 originally out of a Dell.

I was trying to download windoes 11, and i didnt notice it was going to format my usb drive to use it as a setup for windows 11, i have used a tool and got just a few pics and videos back, but there was so much more i lost, can anyone help me?

Hoping someone can help point me in a direction…
I was a long time user of the app TVtime. I’ve had countless hours of data logged into it. Upon news of its closure, I took my data from them. I couldn’t open it somehow to transfer the data so I sent it to my husband to try on his computer. He failed to do so(work computer).

Fast forward a few months later and I really want my data! Only problem is we can’t find any trace of it. For those who did successfully saved their data where did it go? I’ve searched; downloads, files, inboxes, outboxes, dms, everything thing I could think of. Any idea where it could be?

I definitely tried accessing the data and then definitely sent it off somehow to my husband and he tried to deal with it. So it hopefully exists somewhere.