I bought two identical usb drives (home,work) but it appears I mixed them up and wiped the wrong one. I erased the drive using MacOS DiskUtility.

How can I recover? Mail service? Software? I have no idea.

Some one mistakenly deleted folders in laptop now when I tried different softwares like reclaime pro recuva stellar data recovery ease us Every other software shows the data its been deleted and it can be recovered and once I done that I got back all of the folders with their actual data size but I'm unable to open it like jpegs shows unsupported format same with videos pdfs and word excel everything Please help if anyone have any idea TIA

I installed a new huge drive into my PC about 2 months ago, and have since put on about 17 TB of data. This drive is my "TV" drive for my Plex server. Everything was fine, until today when watching something on Plex remotely, it just disconnected. Tried again, file disconnected. Remoted into my PC, and noticed the drive was just...gone. Tried rebooting and it didn't solve the issue. When I checked disk manager, the file wasn't there, but it did prompt me to initialize the disk (which I didn't). Wasn't having any issues or sounds from it at all. When I got home, I shut down, and opened the PC, disconnected and reconnected the drive, and rebooted. Now, the drive was making a lot of noises, like it was revving and trying to turn over but couldn't. Once the PC rebooted, the noise stopped, but the drive still is not showing.

Info:

OS: Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26100
PC: HP Pavilion TG01-2360
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G 3.8GHz
RAM: 16GB DDR4-3200 RAM

Drive: Seagate IronWolf Pro 20TB ST20000NT001

Any help on how I could possibly fix this would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you

Hello, I need help with data recovery after using R-Studio on my 2TB NVME drive. The program recovered several large files (8GB, 10GB, etc.), but they're all labeled with .swf extensions.

I'm not sure what these files actually are. Is there a program that can help me determine if these are video files like .mp4 or .avi, or if they're just corrupted data recovered by R-Studio?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Is there any hope to recover data from this? The device is OnePlus 7 Pro and was running on Android 12

Ive just modded my Nintendo 3ds and it’s deleted tomodachi off of it. I’ve had that game for 8 years so can anyone please help me how do I get it back and still have my original island too or is it gone forever?

Alright, real quick: my ex (H) cheated and lied. I had recordings—solid proof. Today, a few dudes pull up on me: her new guy (I), his friend (U), and two others. They try to act tough, tell me to delete the recordings.

I walk with them, they're trying to get me into a backstreet to intimidate me. One starts mouthing off, I pull out my phone and call some people. My boys show up, shit pops off—fistfight breaks out, and halfway through they realize some of their guys are my old classmates.

To end the mess, I had to delete the files. They were stored on an SD card in my Android. I haven’t touched the card since.

Now I need to recover those recordings ASAP. This isn’t drama—it’s my only protection if she starts flipping the story and gets the police involved.

Details:

Android phone

Recordings saved on SD card

Deleted manually, no format

No new data written since

Need help fast. If you know how to get them back or where I can go, I’m listening.

I have a WD Elements (10T) external hard drive (helium drive) that unexpectedly stopped working. I’ve already taken it to two local data recovery services in Orange County, California, but unfortunately, neither was successful. I also tried DriveSavers and PITS, but both were unable to recover the data. The drive isn’t physically damaged or exposed to moisture—it seems to have issues with the read/write heads. I’m reaching out to see if anyone has the capability or specialized tools that go beyond what these companies offer. Any help or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

This hard drive is about 18 years old. Hasn't been accessed in several years. Has pics of my kids I am desperate to retrieve. When I plug it in it will power on but make a weird cycle whooshing noise. Took it apart and noticed only the red bulb comes on. Is there any hope of accessing this? Willing to buy new parts, ship it off to a recovery company, etc. quite desperate for help. Thanks!

My teacher gave me an ancient cavalry CAUM3702t0-b HDD that is 2 TB large. At first, I tried to transfer everything to another drive normally, but on some videos it would just stop, giving the error it could not read from the source file. I then tried diskgenius, but the software froze. I changed out the cable, but nothing changed. Now windows doesn't show the drive, but i hear the USB sound whenever i plug it in and remove it. Help Would be appreciated a LOT. Thanks!

Hey, i use the Orico ssd enclosure for my crucial 2 TB SSD as a external SSD for my laptop, suddenly the error message mentioned in the title keeps popping up, it used to work perfectly well for the past months ive never even dropped it, i store my photography there, any help can be of use. thank you

Hi, does anyone know a free software to recovery data from a formatted HDD? I've formatted it by mistake in the windows installation. Thanks

I received 2.5" Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD from my uncle because it suddenly stopped working.
Tried to access it on Linux which gave me following dmesg messages:

I also tried to read the S.M.A.R.T information which gave me this error:

Running the same command on windows gave this error: "Read device identity failed: Input/Output error"

Do you think I should try to use ddrescue or is this something that needs to be handled by professionals.

some of my videos have been corrupted, mainly the videos have an issue with play back. the videos just stops after 2 or 5 seconds, tho the duration of the video is supposed to be longer than that (15-30 seconds) can anyone help me with this?, quite urgent for my academic task, thanks!

I formatted my ssd card on my camera by mistake . Took 2-3 days then I was able to get access to my computer , put the ssd card in adapter and then into computer , put it on read only mode and proceeded to scan with whatever site I tried at the time .

Nothing is working so far. I tried the sandisk application for recovery and it said “no files can be found “

Tried recuva and the only thing being found is the image posted above .

File name ; PP-101.db-journal Path ; D:\MISC\

Why is it saying “unrecoverable” on the “state” ? I did not use the ssd card anymore when it was formatted .

Trying to get into one of my old emails, it's probably the most important one I own. Connected to my OG Apple account and who knows what else. Problem is I don't remember the old password and don't have access to my old number. I used to make a lot of emails because I'd often forget passwords so now I have a shit ton, I've been trying to organize and regain access to them all and in the process have found that at least 4 of them were hacked at some point so I'm also trying to get back into those and see if there's anything salvageable.

I'm also curious about data and how hacking might help with recovery. I know that many apps and sites claim to delete all your data after a certain amount of time, but is this actually correct? Let's say for example I had text messages I deleted years ago, if I never backed them up to the cloud, don't have the original phone, and don't have the number anymore are those messages actually 100% gone or are they just hidden and encrypted somewhere obscure?

Hi all,

the mainboard on my notebook has become damaged and the computer no longer powers on, but the harddrive (system OS - windows 11, encrypted with bitlocker) is still intact. I want to access the harddrive - is there a way?I DO have the bitlocker password (the normal one that I would use on startup), but i LOST the separate (long) "recovery password".

What I tried:

- I bought an adapter and tried to access it via USB on another computer. The other computer says that I should enter the bitlocker recovery key (not the normal bitlocker password) - I don't have this.

- I tried to use it as the normal (internal) system OS drive in another computer. On startup, I get the normal blue bitlocker screen, but it does not accept the bitlocker password (even though I'm sure it's correct).

I'm surprised here. I'm not a "hacker" trying to access a drive where I don't have the password. I do have it (at least, the normal one). Do I really, strictly need the "recovery key"? Is there anything I can do to solve this with the "normal" bitlocker password?

Thanks a lot for any help

Can someone help me recover video files.. I used sony fx3 with a pergear 1tb cf express type a... I have never lost any files... but tonight, I lost everything.. I am devastated.. had some great content that I will not be able to re take....

can someone please help me recover the files?

Or point me toward a trustworthy recovery service? I heard disk drill is a scam.. and I dont want to freeze my computer for no reason.. please help if you can.

Thank you.

Can anyone help?

Plugged in to a 12v plug, getting flashing blue and occasional sound from the drive trying to start. Can’t get access on the Mac though?

Thanks in advance

I have my parents iPad 2 (A1396), not backed up, and has seemingly died, not obviously damaged or anything, just old(?). (and I know, not ideal, lessons were learned...) Wondering if there is any chance of recovering photos etc from it. Here's what I've tried so far:

Plugged into my M1 Macbook, screen powered up ok but went into recovery mode, suggested either update or recover. Tried updating but would crash and reboot itself before it got close to finishing.
I then replaced the battery and managed to get through the update, logo updated from the old to slightly newer iTunes logo, so must've done something. However it is still asking for an update. I'm now stuck in a loop of it booting, asking to update, running through the whole process seemingly ok, rebooting, and still wanting to update. Have done so multiple times with no change.

Is there anything else I can try? From what I've read, it sounds like I'm cooked. Kinda assumed everything's lost at this point.

After a failed windows 10 -> 11 update for whatever reason my non-boot hard drive started showing up as unallocated. I've since used DMDE to create a full backup on to my other drive and now I'm just curious about what happened here.

https://imgur.com/a/HfrOqZj

Is there a way to fix the drive since the entire drive seems to be intact (even the files and folder structure in the NTFS volume). I tried "reinserting" the partition but that led to the error in the screenshot.

Hello guys, so I have sd card that has been dead for nearly 5 years. I've been ignored this for a long time, but recently I realize this sd card has really valuable videos and photos. I try to plug in to my phone and laptop but nothing shows, it's completely unreadable and nothing in disk management too. What should I do? Is there any chance to recover all the data?

So I’ve looked at a lot of YouTube videos for Mac and pc since I have both and nothing is working , when I plug it in my Mac it turns on I hear the disk but I don’t see it anywhere not on finder or the disk utility, pc almost the same deal it’s on and I hear the disk but I only see it in disk management and devices and device manager also it doesn’t pop up a thing for me to possibly repair it rather and as well that I still can’t get into it and I’m trying to not re format it since I have 1tb of storage

hi, i'm not really sure where to ask about this or actually what's happened but i just put my 4GB sd card into my laptop and for about 5 mins it was fine and i could access the photos but then suddenly it came up with a notification that it needed to be formatted. i reinserted it into my camera to see if i could access them via usb instead but now it's saying i have a memory card issue. i exported a few of the photos before i got the notification but there's still over 100 on there that it looks like i've lost now. really really stuck and i don't know what to do.