r/datarecovery

Disk Management asked me to "Initialize" the disk (with MBR or GPT) and I did that. Why? Well for some reason I thought Initialize meant mounting it (English isn't my first language)...

The reason I even clicked Ok was because I wasn't able to mount the disk and it also said I might have to initialize ;-;

Now I'm lost. I have an AVHDX file modified from 30 minutes ago but Hyper V doesn't show a checkpoint for it and I have no idea how to add it to Hyper V. This is the first time I used it and I don't want to start all over again.

When starting the VM I get these errors:

The chain of virtual hard disks is inaccessible. There was an error opening a virtual hard disk further up the chain.

Trying to recover music session/project files on my Samsung Portable SSD T7 (2TB). Anyone know how to do this or know of any services that can do this? (Hopefully for not too expensive?)

When I connect it to my MacBook it doesn’t appear in finder or on my desktop like it usually does. Also doesn’t appear on my disk utility either. The blue light on the T7 comes on though when it’s plugged into my Mac.

All drives are external portables. I had plugged in my 6TB Micron Crucial X10, probably about 4-8 seconds passed before I plugged in my HDD and I heard the disconnect and reconnect tones from my laptop. When I went to check the drives the micron drive was now listed as Local Disk and no details would display. Trying to open properties did nothing, and attempting to open the drive makes windows explorer crash and restart. So I hit the drive with Disk Drill and recovered the same volume of data that was on the drive previously, I have 5.4 tb in an amalgamation of different data types and I’m not sure if I can do anything with most of it. The drive contained a large chunk of Steam games, which isn’t a problem because of cloud saves, but I lost a majority of my 2 tbs in roms for systems ranging from NES-PS3 and 360.

All of those are gone now, aren’t they? I haven’t formatted the drive yet, is there any possible way to re-access the drive?

Hello all

I use the DuckDuckGo Browser App on Android and today - I deleted all Downloads. They cant be found in the paper bin of the files app. i miss like 20 pdf Files, some of them are very important to me. can someone please point me to a good app for android or windows to get them back?

Hello.

I have a bit of a unique situation. I updated my iPhone 13 from iOS 26.3.1 to 26.4. The update removed the caron/háček character from the keyboard (which I'd been using as a "special character" — by itself) such that I can't type the passcode in despite being 100% certain what it is. The new keyboard has a different character where the caron used to be.

Does anyone have any recommendations on how I can access the device's data? I have no backups of the device whatsoever.

So I have this pen drive of 128GB

I didn’t realise it is getting full, but now when I am trying to open it, it is not opening - the error message is - “this drive may corrupted and unreadable” but when I go to disk management, it is showing “RAW” Healthy (Primary Partition)

Tell me how to recover or should I give it to someone expert in offline shop?

My WhatsApp storage was almost full on my android and yesterday my whatsapp was not opening, it shows restore or skip , and I just skipped then came log in and I logged in with the same email as previous and then all of my chats , medias , links were gone , and since MY BACK UP WAS OFF (I didn't knew) now I can't recover anything. It was all important specially the chats with myself.

I tried all the basic things like searching in the Google drive , files manager , reinstalling but got nothing.😭

I learnt the lesson very hard way. It was all important chats and medias , I asked some people to export chats to me , but the chats with myself has gone . Can someone (without scamming) help me in restoring all my whatsapp data , IF IT'S POSSIBLE.🙏

PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN. (And sorry if these types of posts are not allowed, I will delete it in 2-3 days.)

Yesterday, My whatsapp storage was full , and it was not opening, then came the que skip or restore and I SKIPPED. I didn't know what's going on. Then came the log in thing and I logged in with the original email. And boommm all the chats , Media everything was gone . And since my backup was off , I CAN'T EVEN BACKUP/RESTORE IT NOW. Every other chats/media can be exported from people as texts BUT the chats and data I sent to MYSELF can't be recovered, THEY WERE VERY IMPORTANT.

I tried almost every basic things , like google drive thing , reinstalling, file manager but got nothing 😭.

If someone can help(without scamming)me recover my data please help .

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Hello,

So I have this (very) old 40 Gb HDD that failed 15 years ago. I kept it in case I would be able to recover some data in the future.

Well, the future is now so I set up my old computer (which have an IDE port) and tried Disk Drill to image it but the disk made the computer freeze after a few minutes (It did that back in the days too, no surprise).

Then I created a live USB with HDDSuperClone and created a project to image the disk but in reverse (Told myself if it crashed that quickly with Disk Drill I'd better start from the end of the disk.)

It went through the first two phases fine, no freeze no crash, but now it's on phase3 and tells me it needs multiple days.
I'm afraid I'm loosing time imaging the empty space at the end of the disk, I'm not sure if the disk will survive 10 days like that.

Can I just press stop, untick 'reverse' and resume the job?
Do I need to manually save the project or is it automatic?
Or should I just let it continue since it already did 10Gb?