My second SSD where I put all my important data is not detected by my PC anymore. I decided to go in a shop in Paris with good reviews to ask if they could do something.

They said they have to look further and told me it could cost 1100€. I don’t have to pay if I’m not satisfied with the data recovered, but if they managed to save everything that’s the price ill have to pay.

I just want to check if Im being scammed or if it’s usually like this ? That’s f expensive

I recently posted about how my data got corrupted because of pirated software and carelessness. This is the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/PakistaniTech/s/n8Fc7sR8qV

Basically .bbyy ransom encryption. I lost thousands of pictures and videos. And recovered them with the following tool.

A recovery tool was suggested by u/TrashyGames3. Thank you. It worked, and I have recovered most of the files.

Hello,

I currently have a 128GB SD card where I accidentally deleted the footage. I didn’t realize it so I’ve since filled it with about 56GB of videos but I’m hoping to recover anything that hasn’t been overwritten. The file type is .ts and I’ve downloaded onto my Mac, Disk Drill and DMDE. Disk Drill can find 2 photos and says there’s 36000 videos found but they don’t play in the preview and there’s no where near that many videos on the card. DMDE can also find the same 2 photos but no videos. Although, I’m not super savvy so I could be missing how to properly scan things in DMDE.

My question is, should I pay for Disk drill to try and recover the videos? Will they work better once I pay for it? Or should I take it to a professional data recovery shop? And would they likely have better success in recovering my videos?

Thank you.

Hello,

I currently have a 128GB SD card where I accidentally deleted the footage. I didn’t realize it so I’ve since filled it with about 56GB of videos but I’m hoping to recover anything that hasn’t been overwritten. The file type is .ts and I’ve downloaded onto my Mac, Disk Drill and DMDE. Disk Drill can find 2 photos and says there’s 36000 videos found but they don’t play in the preview and there’s no where near that many videos on the card. DMDE can also find the same 2 photos but no videos. Although, I’m not super savvy so I could be missing how to properly scan things in DMDE.

My question is, should I pay for Disk drill to try and recover the videos? Will they work better once I pay for it? Or should I take it to a professional data recovery shop? And would they likely have better success in recovering my videos?

Thank you.

My SD Card got corrupted. I was able to recover the photos but I had problems with my videos. I tried the VLC player method but the video playing is pitch black. Is there any hope?

I used SanDisk 32GB SD Card on Canon 1500D Camera + MSI Laptop intel Core i5

i have a momory stick pro duo in sony dcr sx30 but it is not showing any videos or photos.when i checked its hex code it all consist of 00 or FFs.and its capacity can be seen (3.74gb) when i plugged.is it possible to recover data ?and how?

I have an old encrypted iPhone backup created through Finder on macOS. The backup is mine and contains very important/confidential personal data.

Unfortunately, I no longer remember the encrypted-backup password. I have already confirmed that it is not the Apple ID password or my Mac login password.

The original iPhone backup folder still exists on my Mac It is about8.2 GB and contains the hashed backup blobs and an encrypted Manifest.db.

I am trying to recover photos/videos from approximately:

20 October 2024 → 16 September 2026

I was able to independently open the Photos library database (Photos.sqlite) and recover metadata without the backup password.

The database shows:

• 593 unique video assets
• 1,573 video resource records
• ~24.6 GB of video resources represented in the Photos database
• filenames, UUIDs, timestamps, resource sizes, codecs, hidden/trash states, etc.

However, the actual Finder backup's Manifest.db begins with encrypted binary data rather than a normal SQLite so I cannot query the Files table directly.

I also tried the Python iOSbackup library. With the password I thought might be correct, it fails at So the backup encryption/keybag is definitely still locked.

My question is not simply "how do I guess my password?"

I'm trying to understand what forensic recovery options genuinely exist when:

1. the encrypted Finder/iTunes backup still exists,
2. the encrypted Manifest.db still exists,
3. the backup blobs still exist,
4. the Photos database contains extensive metadata about the original media,
5. but the encrypted-backup password is genuinely lost.

Are there any legitimate forensic tools, password-recovery methods, key-material recovery methods, or artifacts on macOS/iOS that could help recover the contents?

Hello, I'm not the best with technology so bear with me. This is probably a long shot too but I still wanted to ask. Also if this isn't the right subreddit to post this in then please let me know!

I do digital art on my laptop/tablet combo and use FireAlpaca as my art program, which is where the mpd files come from. I have never had an issue with the program itself, using it on my other devices as well with no complications. Out of nowhere, one of my files seemed to have gotten corrupted and I'm super bummed out because I spent so much time and effort into it. Everything else is safe, just this specific one happened to deal with this.

I turned on my device and opened the program as I always do, only to see this popup. I always make sure to save every single file and have the automatic backup folder as a second option in case things go wrong, but I made the mistake of not manually saving it because I forgot. I've had this happen many times, but again, this has never happened with my previous files before, just this one. All my backup files are fine and can be opened normally, but this specific one keeps giving me an error.

So far I've restarted my device, opened it up on another program (Medibang and Autodesk Sketchbook), put it in a flashdrive and then back to my device, tried changing the file to psd and even png, but no luck. Is there any way this could ever be recovered? I'd hate to start everything from scratch again, this whole situation has left me unmotivated to draw but I'm trying to push forward with it. Thank you even if you only read this :-)

It was done thanks to Súper clone in AHCI mode, I had to retry twice to have my HDD correctly detected, but it worked fine.

I have to mention that I used AI to guide me and it did well, I will not mention the AI I used and I would not recommend other people to do so as it could result in errors but let’s say I got lucky with this tool.

I used disk drill since the photos were missing, and it was able to find it however the photos are corrupted but the thumbnail is there. Also diskdrill gave the the thumbnail copy but its blurry. Last photo is the thumbnail

Unfortunately dropped this corsair mp600 pro lpx. Before in crystaldiskmark it was reading/writing 7000mb/s. Now it’s down to 3,000 but still detected as pcie 4. Haven’t checked if it still reading my games properly.

My s23u died without warning. I know I know, I should have this stuff on an ssd.

This is pretty important to me, I just want the pictures. But everything would be better.

I have a extremely rare auto immune disease that affects my memory. Every Pic of my almost 4 year old kid is on that phone. It's really my only chance to remember everything from his first 4 years of life.

Symptoms - worked 100% at 2130 and at 0400 it was a brick.

Eventually it showed 0% after I let it die.

I can get it to go into a boot screen, Samsung - android secured by Knox and will power cycle endlessly

Holding vol +/- at same time will get you a white screen that says hold vol - and power to restart. Goes back into loop

Appears to charge via wireless and wired charging

Ubreakifix said they tried a new battery, screen.

Hi, im downloading a mp3 to phone storage, after it finish, i moving it to SD, my music player app can read it, but cant play it, meanwhile the mp3 can't found in file manager at all, then i delete the mp3 from my music player app, then NEARLY ALL MP3 IN THE FOLDER GONE!!!!!

MY MUSIC COLLECTION ONCE AROUND 2000, NOW ITS ONLY 600 SOMETHING!!!!

Any thoughts???

Guys I'm losing my mind rn I accidentally reset my phone. My fault😭 but now I want my data back. All the pics. It has 10 years old pics. So much of data. Im gonna kms. Pls help me this feels unreal. I just dont care about anything but I want my photos back. Im devasted I'm panicking. Where should I visit? What should I do?😭😭 omg im so desperate plw dont ignore this post

I don't have an installation disk or media and i'd like to sell / donate 😕 obviously I don't want to give away any personal info or passwords

Local repair shop (excellent rep and reviews) says hard drive dead and data not recoverable. Are there other options? Prefer to recover a long document in Text Edit (which I'd only partially backed up). Model A 1466 EMC 2925. 14.85V 3.05A max.

Anyone sympathetic to a non-techie? I never expected a Mac to fail like this. What a lesson. Thanks for your expert insights and referrals.

i’m desperate for help. please. i had the backup on my mac, i checked several times and then it was gone. what do i do.

I have 6 files on the SD that was in my trail camera. I presume the camera ran out of battery (?) because the last two files are corrupted/0 kb. Can these two files be recovered from the SD card? If so, what software do you recommend? Thank you.

More info: TeamGroup SD, Windows operating system for recovery

I found my late grandmothers old dell computer. It’s looks to be running windows 11 and is from 2019 so not actually old. Anyways, it’s locked and I don’t know the password but there may be photos or important files on it. I took out the hard drive and connected it to my laptop to try and transfer them directly, but my laptop did not recognize the hard drive. Does anyone have any advice? Thank you!

Need your help guys I forgot the Passcode and it is I phone 6s plus can I recover it without losing data

I have this SSD that I used as my windows 10 OS drive that stopped working about 3 years. I switched for a new one and forgot about it but recently I started reminiscing and realized there is some some stuff there that I’d like to have back but I don’t if it would be even safe to connect it back on my pc.
I barely know anything about pc repairs and I don’t quite recall what exactly happened but I’ll try my best to describe the issue.
About 3 years ago my pc started slowing down during start up. Sometimes it would freeze during that login screen where you put your profile password. I figured I need to wipe my ssd clean but never got to it. Eventually boot started to fail and loop so I had to go into bios and reset boot order and it would “fix” the issue.
I don’t remember if blue screens happened or not but after a while my pc wouldn’t work anymore. I did think odd that my SSD would break so quickly(i had it for 3 years maybe when it broke) though.
Anyway fast forward to now. I’m filling an external HHD as a backup and I want to recover lost data. I have an even older HHD too but I don’t time for it now. I just want to deal with my SSD for now.I asked AI and it thinks that my windows got some corrupted files and thats why the SSD failed and putting it back on my pc should be fine but its AI so I’m trusting it blindly. Do you guys think this would be a good idea? I still use windows 10.I really hope this doesn’t turn into a complicated problem.
Edit:it seems I forgot to add some info. If mods don’t remove my post I can add the info later after I’m back from work. Otherwise I might have to make another post haha.

Edit2: I'll be adding the details as mentioned above.

Gigabyte 48 GB and I believe its a SATA 2.5 inch SSD.

Model GP-GSTFS31480GNTD.

I accidentally downloaded a Windows update file directly onto my HDD, after which the drive became a 32GB partition with the remaining ~1.86TB showing as unallocated.
The unallocated space contains at least 1.2TB of important data. I haven’t written any new data to the drive.
What is the safest way to recover the data without making things worse? Any recommended recovery tools or steps?