Replaced the nvme in my laptop and want to use the old drive as an external. After sitting unused in an enclosure for a while I noticed for some reason it was stuck in read only mode so I couldn't reformat it. Followed some guides online using diskpart to remove the write protection, but that didn't work and for some reason removed the E and F partition letters instead. Now it no longer shows up in file explorer. I don't care about any of the data on it as it's all been copied over, I just want to wipe it and reuse it. Anyone know a way to basically "factory reset" a drive to get past all this hooey?

I have Seagate USB3 1TB HDD. I cannot access it neither via Mac nor Windows. It doesn't show. in Windows, I checked Disk Management and it says "Unknown, Not Initialized". There's no storage mentioned, nor unallocated. It's just blank.

I did check it with some common recovery tools I found like MiniPartition tool, EaseUS, 4DDiG but no luck, they don't see drive. I also checked Device Manager, the USB device is correctly recognized, I'm even able to "safely" eject it.

If I remember correctly it was ex-Fat. Model is Seagate One Touch (STKY1000400). It's relatively new drive, I bought it several months ago and used only couple of times to store files.

Is it possible to recover data from HDD? Will taking it to repair shop help? Or this won't solve it?

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Hey,

Any chance that PRO forensic software could retrieve 1 - 2 month old deleted Messenger app messages ? Device is Iphone 12 (IOS 16 or 17) and it was used heavily during this time period.

Ikr they are stored in smth called "SQlite database" and I m wondering whether it underwent the "vacuuming" that people are talking about, if not, after how long smth does happen with these types of files.

No iCloud or iTunes backup, already tried "Download your information from Meta"

Thank you for taking your time to answer.

Best Regards

Accidentaly deleted my videos from my PC ssd and just recovered 30gb of IMOV and MP4 files using "windows file revovery" but once it opens, any of them plays. Can someone helps me please?

Hi I was using my hdd in pc and suddenly it doesn't load so I tried to restart the pc and it just shows like this. And also it shows RAW in disk management. As I can see the free size in the pic, so my datas are still there how to access it? I can't lose those data . 🥲

I was migrating my workstation and I copied one of my VM's .vhdx files to another computer's C: drive - it would be there only temporarily, for a few days at most. After the copying finished, I made sure it's in the destination and deleted it in the source (the source is going to be fully formatted later anyway).

Now I couldn't continue the migration process as I had other stuff to do, eventually I went to sleep and then woke up only to find that the vhdx file is completely gone. I found out that the computer rebooted at night to install updates - and this probably nuked my file? It is possible that there was little space left, but definitely enough to install updates.

Is there any way to recover from this? There's no Windows.old folder, the file is nowhere to be found and the disk only has 50 GB of space taken while the vhdx file had 200 GB.

Both computers have SSDs in them, chances of file recovery software working are minuscule - the moment I realized what happened I shut it all down and started trying ntfsundelete and testdisk. None found the file, only some vhdx fragments were found with dmde - but even those are full of zeroes. Is there anything else I can do?

The data was semi-important, it can be recreated (with a few exceptions) but this will be time consuming and imprecise.

Hi, I accidentally jarred and disconnected my external drive while a Veracrypt container on it was mounted, and now I can't open the container, which is a few hundred GBs in size.

I'm leaning towards some kind of disk write error causing this. Is there any hope that I can use a disk utility to scan and correct any errors on the disk and make the file usable again?

The host drive is NTFS. Here's the Crystaldiskinfo readout (the end is pasted on due to my small laptop screen size).

Hello

I have a WD elements external HDD ( 1tB). It used to work properly but recently , I tried to connect the hdd to the pc and it is not showing.

The hard disk light is on and the hard disk is making a sound. The HDD is showing up at the windows taskbar but in file explorer , it is not showing up

I have attached few photos . Please help me. Something initialise is coming in the disk management , I don't know what to do now. Disk Management is also unresponsive when I pressed properties .

Please help me

Thank you

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i found some old backup files for an old sony xperia phone i owned , tried to access the files using xperia companion but it doesn't seem to recognize the files, how can i access the data that's in those backup files?

Hi, today when i turn on my pc i saw my partition with games and important files and that partition with recovery is missing, and the space is unlocated, youtube films are lieing about their programs. How to fix the problem?

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Use to have a calculator vault app that had some photos and other things on it, but deleted the app, is there a way to recover the data that I had on the app? Got an iPhone btw

I recently deleted a bunch of important photos from an SD card I mistook for another one. I don't know how to get them back because I don't know what apps or websites are safe and free to use. These photos are for a client and I really need to get them back. My onedrive has been completely wiped also. Please help!

My brother has a drive with photos he wants to recover but forgot the password. He had an idea of the password so I made a dictionary list of a few thousand, but not super confident it contains the password.

It's a WD My Passport Ultra WDBZFP0010BBK-05 external hard drive. Takes a micro USB B cable. It has a WD Drive Unlock utility on the drive to input the password.

The drive itself is 1.0TB WD10JMVW-11AJGS2 10 DEC 2014. It looks like there is PCB on it, so I can't connect it via SATA.

Can you clone a drive like this since it has the WD security on it? Is something like this possible to recover at a reputable shop?

Recently one of my ssds failed It became super slow and started laging my computer after a few restarts and troubleshooting it now shows as empty in disk manager and any interaction with it freezes my windows, chkdsk tells me it's ntfs and that it's deleting corrupted records then it stops with 2 unknown errors

I'm fairly tech savvy but since it being purely present causes windows to be slow as hell I have no clue on how to proceed

I am considering trying to send it in for recovery but I'd rather not spend more than 200 bucks on it. I know there is one important folder on it but I don't rember if there was more losing it would be awful but not life ending

Any suggestions?

Updated Info:

File system:ntfs

Manufacturer: sandisk

Model: SDSSDA-2T00

I came back from vacation today and wanted to transfer my photos from my cell phone to my PC. I accessed the cell phone via USB. I wanted to exclude several folders with Control +x to create space on my phone. After the transfer, all but one of the folders were empty and the photos were no longer on the phone. Almost 800 of my vacation photos have disappeared. I am very desperate. Is there any way to save the photos? I have a galaxi s 20

Sorry for the noob question. I'm stuck in recovering data from a failed ssd. Here is what happened:

I hibernated my windows laptop Tuesday evening. Next morning it didn't react to pressing the power button. After 10 minutes of this, for some reason it finally started, but it said insert bootable media. It seems like that the entire SSD is unallocated (corrupted partition table I presume).

I bought a new, larger ssd and installed windows because I needed to work.

Today I booted Linux from live usb on my laptop. I tried cloning the faulty ssd (connected with SATA to USB adapter) to my new SSD with ddrescue. You can see the (lack of) results on the screenshot (sry for the terrible pic).

I'm kinda clueless about data recovery, probably my fault, but I couldn't manage to find similar issues, and what might cause it.

How should I proceed? Did I do anything wrong?

Thanks in advance!

A coworker let one of our bigwigs store all his personal stuff on a .PST unbacked up saved locally and it got deleted by accident when transferring to a new computer. The coworker was let go for other reasons but now I'm responsible for recovering it and I am not very experienced with data recovery. Its a windows 10 computer, SSD, NTFS, I read that TRIMM being enabled is very bad for data recovery, turns out that's enabled. Is there any hope? I think my company would send it off to a specialist but is it even worth it? Probably going to lose my job over this. Fun times! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The title speaks for itself. Any advice? Have no prior experience with data recovery so I thought to ask here.

Was wondering about buying the tech edition with the USB stabiliser for reading damaged/corrupted ext drives, any suggestions?

I have an external WD My Passport Ultra HDD (USB-A) that is recognized by RecoverIt but not in Disk Management (Win 11). I've been able to grab the files off the drive that I want to save, but I'd like to reformat the drive completely. Is there a way to do this if it doesn't show in Disk Management? Thanks.

Hello,

Back in the first days of Bitcoin when you could mine Bitcoin with a sigle computer and Bitcoin core only I remember very well that I did exactly that. However I cannot really recall on which of the computers that I had back then I did that. Good news is I still own those ols pcs and their drives. 3 drives total, 2 of them being notebook drives, the 3rd is a regular hdd drive. And now I want to try to revover that wallet file.

Only one of the notebook drives could be attached to a usb adapter so I can make it external drive. The other two drives have strange ports, I will post pictures later. However when I plug it into a pc with the help of the usb adapter the drive is not getting recognized and when I look at it trough partition manager it seems there no partitions on it.

What should I do, how should I proceed? Should I create an empty partition and run r-studio (dont know if it is good or bad) hoping that the drive system was FAT?

Hello, just want to post and ask on this platform about an issue about my sd card, Its a newly bought SD Card (1Terabyte), when i try to move my files or pictures to it, it doesn't show the image but instead a black and white jpeg, and when i try to restart my phone, it says the SD card needs to be formatted for external usage, as if it was brand new all over again.

This happened 3 times now as of today. Though I have not lost any important files/picture 'cause I only copied them to the sd card. Can anyone help me address this problem or any suggestion?

Should I not use the sd card anymore or are there alternative ways to fix this?

It is forcing me to format the drive, please help? What do I need to do? I have my recovery keys and TPM info as well. I encrypted the bitlocker software with an older version of Windows. The partition was fully encrypted but now shows as Unknown partition. This happened when I booted to Windows 10 and it said 0% encrypted. Now I'm worried my data is gone because it won't boot Windows even when I try to boot the system volume of the troubled partition. The error I get is that the boot volume can't find winload.exe on the drive.

Hello, good evening, it is possible to recover data (photos) from a recently formatted phone without a backup.

I did a synchronization in Google Photos but of the 5000 only about 60 were synchronized (the most current), is there a way to recover the rest?

I'm sorry if there are spelling errors, use the translator, the phone is a Xiaomi Note 9.

I have an Android phone with a micro SDXC card formatted as internal storage on it, that has experienced data loss (after the SD card was formatted as an internal storage, most of the files that were in the internal storage of the phone, got corrupted or not supported and shortly afterwards most of them went missing), from which I would later be trying to recover the lost data. I haven't pulled the SIM card out of the phone since the data loss has happened, but now I would need to use it (the SIM card).

Would it effect, or be a problem for the data recovery of the lost and corrupted data, if I take the SIM card out of the phone and use it in a different phone to make calls and use mobile data with it? Or is the data on the phone's storage and the micro SDXC card formatted as internal storage on it, not related in any way to the SIM card, and it would not effect it, if it (the SIM card) is used in a different phone?

(Do I need to insert back the SIM card in the old phone when I am recovering, from it, or from the micro SDXC card?)

As the title says, I have a western digital 500GB SSD, that is relatively new, only a couple years and never saw particularly heavy use. But I got back after being away for a week and my computer wouldn't boot. The bios wasn't listing it as a valid boot device. Took it out, connected it to another computer, and Disk Manager lists it as uninitialized and nothing I do can seem to initialize it or even touch it to reformat it.

Tried initializing the disk from Disk Manager using MBR and GPT but no luck.

Tried DiskGenius free, but the application won't even open while the bad SSD is plugged in, I am assuming it has something to do with trying to scan all the drives and it can't with the busted one.

Tried HDDExpert, but it won't show anything about that SSD either.

Any suggestions? If I don't recover the data off of it its not the end of the world, I am more interested in what on earth could have happened and possible reformatting it to use for shenanigans.

Thanks in advance!

basicly i only need to recover a few files from a delte drive and i onyl want to recover thsoe sense if the whole drive was to it would fill up my largest drive. i only need to restor a disk image files and switch roms. Photo rec says it's going to take 3000 hrs and it's been running for 20 hrs and I KY restored a few GB off my 12 tb drive (it dose things in a weird way where it just stores everything in ram then weights it to the SSD and stops reading off the SSD during the wright prosses) also I am on fedora 40 kde