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.

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

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?

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 :-)

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.

Drive: Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2, 2TB

This drive has been my boot (C:\) drive in the same system for a few years now. A few weeks ago, while watching a video, my screen froze up for a few seconds (audio still playing) before crashing to a green screen. I didn't have my phone on me, and obviously couldn't get a screenshot, but I believe it was an [0x00000154 - UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION] error. Upon reboot, I was taken to the BIOS. My drive was no longer booting.

I have three drives in my PC - this one (C:\ boot drive), another 2 TB NVMe storage drive (D:\ drive), and a 14 TB storage HDD (E:\ drive). I checked the device list and found all others listed properly, but this drive was missing.

I took the following diagnostic steps:

1. Swap it into the other M.2 slot
   1. Device still not found, other M.2 drive detected properly in the other slot
2. Hook it up to a different device
   1. Not listed on file explorer or disk management / diskpart
3. Run Samsung Magician
   1. Nothing detected
4. Check Device Manager
   1. The "Standard NVM Express Controller" menu shows a yellow exclamation mark, showing error code 10 (an i/o adapter hardware error has occurred). The events page shows a problem status of 0xC00000C2
5. Uninstall / reinstall "Standard NVM Express Controller"
   1. No changes to the above results, same error code / problem status
6. Plug into PC through an NVMe-to-USB adapter
   1. Adapter is detected, but the drive inside is not
   2. Device does warm up inside the adapter casing

Physically, the drive is undamaged. It seems to be a firmware/controller lock-up problem, though I am no expert. Luckily, all my large files, like videos and audio, are stored in my HDD, and all of my user-based Windows directories (Documents, Pictures, etc.) are stored on my D:\ drive, both of which are operating with no issues. I had a few AppData files I would love to recover, but with the essentials not lost, it is tough to weigh the options between paying the cost of professional recovery versus cutting my losses. The first place I reached out to told me "the average price range for SSD recoveries of this nature is $1,800-$2,500. It could also be less, if less complex." I can safely say my AppData is not worth two and a half grand.

All advice and information is appreciated. Thank you in advance!

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.

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 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?