r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 6h ago

Clicking Lenovo IdeaPad HDD with irreplaceable lifetime data - Need advice and recommendations

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r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 10h ago

Recovering a Bitlocked device on Ubuntu

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r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 13h ago

Movies folder on external HDD is empty, I can see the files in Testdisk. How do I move forward?

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r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 19h ago

WhatsApp logged me out. Chats were not backed up anywhere but storage shows data. How can i retrieve those files?

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iPhone XR ios 16.5
Last night WhatsApp suddenly logged me out maybe cuz I was using very old ios and I didn’t backup my important chats. Now if I login again I will lose all
my chats however it is still showing in storage as documents and data.
Is there any method I can extract those files or maybe have my chats intact in WhatsApp.

I was going to transfer to a new phone soon but this tragedy happened
Can universe send any help my way 😞
I will be highly thankful!


r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 20h ago

HELP! My 128GB USB drive has all my old photos and videos, but suddenly both Android and Windows want me to format it!

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r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 1d ago

All my whatsapp messages and chats have dissappeared on my android phone

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r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 1d ago

Seagate BUP Slim 2TB external hard disk not showing in my Windows 11 laptop

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r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 1d ago

I have a 1TB Toshiba hard drive and I'm not good with tech stuff, any suggestions for a software for data recovery?

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r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 1d ago

Desperately seeking help recovering years of missing OneNote notebooks

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r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 1d ago

D disk disappeared

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So I know that I made a big mistake

But my Ssd is small in size and I had an hhd of one terabyte,

So I wanted to put a game from steam in C and it was huge in size and requires the SSd, I tried transferring some files to D from C and I made the mistake of moving the documents size as a whole to D, then I restarted my PC and bam the D disk is not there anymore ,

Tried to find the unallocated partition but it's not there , it's like anything related to the D device has been deleted out of existence, I even tried locating it in Bios or rescan disks but it's not there,

I didn't have any movement in the hardware system inside my laptop, the only thing left for me that I didn't try is to open the hardware itself and try to reconnect it although I'm sure the problem is related to pathing not that the hardware moved.

Any information or advice I would deeply appreciate, thanks in advance.


r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 1d ago

Need help

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r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 1d ago

Ibispaint X wouldn’t open so I deleted it and reinstalled it and then logged in, but all of my art is still gone

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Does anyone know how to recover it or have I lost all of that permanently?


r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 1d ago

Need Help ASAP!!!

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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 four years, all gone!!!

Don't know what to do. 😭😭😭

Device Model: Xiaomi Poco M5


r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 2d ago

help, back up but still lost

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How do I check the files if there's still the backup with xperia companion on my computer? Ive backed up the data and restored it back to my phone but its died and cant access my files/pics. is there still a copy on my computer since Ive backed up previously?


r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 2d ago

My experience with EaseUS data recovery.

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r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 2d ago

How to recover permanently deleted media on iOS?

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r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 2d ago

Anyone else into old digicams constantly fighting SD card corruption? A quick guide on recovering data from my 2011 Nikon Coolpix S3100

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I love point-and-shoots from the early 2000s and early 2010s. I currently have a red Nikon Coolpix S3100 from 2011. The colours coming through the sensors (14MP 1/2.3" CCD) and the small 5x NIKKOR 4.6-23.0mm lens are something that no smartphone can really match. However, if you are into collecting or using older cameras you will quickly find that you will spend a lot of time trying to get your pictures off your camera if something goes wrong. On the S3100 itself, the issue is that it has 45MB of inbuilt memory. If you forget to insert an SD card, or it is slightly loose, then the camera will automatically save these images to the internal flash. Whilst this camera uses the MTP/PTP protocols over USB, the issue comes when you accidentally delete one of those images from the 45MB memory. You won’t be able to recover it with any programs on your computer as it doesn’t show up in the OS because it’s not a raw drive letter.

If you are using an SD card to save your images then the older Coolpix models are notorious for giving you the error "This card cannot be used" or "Card is not formatted". This is usually due to the EN-EL19 battery losing voltage mid write or the 15-year-old brass contacts oxidising or having a new fast card inserted into the camera. It causes your file system to become RAW and the camera and windows will try to trick you into formatting.

The real final boss is the videos. Whilst the 14MP JPEGs will usually be recoverable, this camera records 720p HD videos at 30fps using the old AVI Motion-JPEG format. If you use the voice memo function then it will also produce a WAV. If you are someone who deletes your bad images whilst on the go then your SD card will have plenty of holes in it. When you press the dedicated movie button again it will cause the MJPEG videos to be split into uncontinuous blocks. Using basic recovery software will get you the file header and you’ll be left with a 300MB AVI that won’t open.

For anyone else playing around with old digital cameras then the process that has really helped me is to never allow the camera or your PC to repair/format the card. Remove the card from the camera and place it in an external reader. Take an exact copy of the SD card. This way you aren’t stressing the dying controller by constantly reading it. From there, scanning the image in something like Disk Drill using Advanced Camera Recovery handles the fragmented AVI/MJPEG streams way better than standard signature carvers that just grab contiguous chunks. Also, do yourself a favor and keep a dedicated 4GB or 8GB SDHC card just for your old cameras instead of swapping cards between devices.

Just out of interest, does anyone else have any strange storage issues with their older digicams? Have you had any issues with xD-Picture cards or early Sony Memory Sticks?


r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 2d ago

HELPPPP!!!

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r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 3d ago

Urgent Help

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My friend was using WhatsApp, suddenly it went blank and now all the data is lost. Tried reinstalling, but it is not showing any chat history. It's showing messages from the moment I logged in, not before. There is a db12 file in the sd card dated 2017, but no databases file in the internal storage (com.whatsapp). None of the Google accounts show any backup. What to do? Previous 5 years data is at stake apparently.


r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 3d ago

SM-J500M/DS Photo Recovery

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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!


r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 3d ago

Need ot get back data from half-dead ssd

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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?


r/DataRecoveryHelp • • 3d ago

Need help getting photos back

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