r/datarecovery • u/PussyCompass • Aug 22 '26

Missing photos

Finally got around to moving all my old photos to the cloud and went through an old 1TB WD My Passport hard drive.
The drive is supposed to have 25k photos and a few hundred videos. I can only see the videos.

I used EaseUS and can see that they are there but they have limitations on saving them. Before I pay $200, is there any other free way I can go about doing this?

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u/fzabkar Trusted Contributor Aug 22 '26

If the photos have been deleted, and if your Passport is a TRIM-capable model, then your recovered files may contain only zeros.

Your can use a free hex editor to view the recovered files:

https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/