data recovery

My computer recently underwent a major windows corrupting error, and I had to use linux on a usb to load up and mount my drives and extract all of the information. My drive when initially plugged in showed all of the data from the extract....for some reason....now the folders are empty? The...

I have a Pixel 7 Pro and from time to time will back up my photos to my desktop. I'm still running Windows 7 Pro (yeah yeah I know time to upgrade but I like it). I haven't had issues in the past with transferring as long as I broke the data up into smaller chunks. This morning was different. It...

My custom built desktop PC of 9 years displayed a graphics card error popup window and then a minute later stopped displaying video completely and permanently, so I took it in to a tech repair shop. I just called the repair shop yesterday to see what progress they were making, and they said...

Hi everyone, I have a 2.5'' SATA SSD that I was using on my old laptop, and it had a D drive where all of my important data is kept. Now the laptop had a faulty charging port and I think that short-circuited the motherboard and it just would not turn on anymore. I have taken the SSD out and put...

I'm absolutely freaking out right now. I upgraded my PC from old gen intel CPU and asus rog strix Z390-E mobo to a AMD 5 Ryzen 7800X3D cpu and rog strix B650E-F mobo. I saw online when you switch mobos and cpus ESPECIALLY from Intel to AMD you should fresh install windows. Like an idiot I...

I'm absolutely freaking out right now. I upgraded my PC from old gen intel CPU and asus rog strix Z390-E mobo to a AMD 5 Ryzen 7800X3D cpu and rog strix B650E-F mobo. I saw online when you switch mobos and cpus ESPECIALLY from Intel to AMD you should fresh install windows. Like an idiot I...

I have an Acer lapttop with 2.5" 1TB SSD with SATA interface. It used to work fine, but earlier this week I got an error message saying "No bootable device" on it. I have looked into some youtube videos and tried changing some bios settings (boot mode from UEFI to Legacy and vice vera), but it...

I have an old Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB with a larger format than the current 2.5/3.5in. (the disc is approx 6x4x1inch ) I am looking for a way to get some of the data from it. Does anyone know of a docking station or other method that would work in this case. S/n 5YD2KAAZ if that is relevant.

I believe at some point, I deleted many folders of pictures that I didn't want to delete (namely all of my pictures from undergrad). I know that sometimes, you can use a data extraction tool and as long as the sectors haven't been over-written, they can be recovered. The problem is that I have...

Hello, Like the title says my RAID 0 is gone after a force restart. My PC got stuck searching for duplicates and wouldn't respond for a few minutes so I had to do a force restart (restart button). After it restarted my RAID 0 which is Drive D was gone. Disk Management tood only says "Error"...

Ok I've got a 99% full 512 GB micro SD card, no matter which card reader or USB port I try Disk Management just shows "Disk 1 Removable (*:) No Media. I've tried changing the Drive Letter, I've tried disabling and enabling the device in Device Manager. I've tried putting it into my laptop...

I have got this SanDisk G RAID Mirror (2x HDDs, 36TB, https://www.westerndigital.com/products/external-drives/sandisk-professional-g-raid-mirror?sku=SDPHH2H-012T-NBAAD) about 10 days ago and used it to back up the data in my NAS since I was selling the NAS very soon. I formatted this G RAID...

I recently replaced my motherboard, GPU, and CPU. However, at some point during the move, my secondary drive became Unallocated according to Windows Disk Management (pic) and now I cannot access it: The drive has important stuff on it (I know I know, I'm a fool for not having more recent...

I have a Sony Vaio SVS131A12W laptop that I formatted over a year ago, and I'm curious about the possibility of recovering the formatted data. I understand that formatting typically erases the data on a device, but considering the time that has passed, I'm wondering if there are any potential...

My Seagate NAS – BlackArmor system don’t turn on, it may be out of order. I’ve got a NAS device with four disks combined into a RAID 5 system. What should I you do with all the data that’s still on the disks? There is no way to access the files by just connecting the disks to the computer. I can...

Hello, I have an Western Digital My Book 4TB external hard drive that I use just to hold videos, pictures etc. but a few days ago it wiped itself seemingly out of nowhere. There was absolutely no data on the drive at all. It wasn't a big deal since I had the files backed up so I went ahead and...

Can anyone please help me resolve a troubling issue with my Seagate HDD, which had been running with Windows 10 on board? One day the PC booted up just fine. The next day it wouldn't boot up the system at all. I've made the ultimate arse of myself by not having the backup I should have been...

This one’s quite a lengthy read, but I’d appreciate it if you’re a tech wizard who could help. I made an audio file of this story to make it easier to digest: Backstory: So, a few days ago, I was trying to design a script for my controller while simultaneously asking ChatGPT questions on...

Hey all, I was doing some upgrades for my computer, and I'm migrating to a new system with an NVMe SSD instead of a SATA SSD. I couldn't find the sata power cable for my new power supply (I've found them now) so I decided the easiest way to copy my data over to my new computer would be to use an...

So I just finished a 20 hour backup and wipe of my C: Drive to fix contant BSOD and Hard Drive repair errors I was getting for months now. Since 4/10 whenever I would Shut Down or Restart my PC I would be given these errors. Just finished reinstalling Windows so now I'm at a clean slate. Gave...

Hi all helpful people on Tom's Hardware: Several of you have tried to guide me the past two months, and I've appreciated your suggestions and advice. Doing what I'm doing is a process that evolves, especially because I'm not experienced at all with data recovery from old storage types. You...

one of my clients has converted an HDD from basic to dynamic, and he is not able to access data. After conversion, the partitions shown are empty. he has not formatted the drive and needs his data recovered. Is there any way to recover the data?

I have a Toshiba 1TB external USB hard drive that is now showing as Unknown, Not Initialized and Unallocated 931.51GB in Windows 10 Computer Management. I've always thought that if you initialize a drive, it WILL erase the drive, yet some sites are saying the initialization will NOT erase the...

99% sure an SSD of mine is dead. Windows 10 disk management says the drive cannot be read due to a fatal device hardware failure. In Windows 11 it shows up in explorer but gives an I/O device error and disk management claims that its a RAW format with 0 bytes. Tried doing TestDisk and I either...

Hi, A while ago I managed to fry the PCB of a Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB HDD after using modular SATA power connectors from different brand PSU. After I removed the burnt diode that apparently had no super important job to do the drive spun up to medium speed and started ticking. I bought a...

I have an Ipad Pro that I inherited from my mother recently. She had data on it (pictures, videos, etc) that i wanted to make backups of and store. My mother however was not tech literate and did not know how to use the ICloud so there is no backup of her data on the cloud. She also did not have...

As mentioned, my drive isnt showing up in file explorer. Its a relatively old drive (around 3 years) and I wouldnt doubt theres an issue with the tech itself but Id like to explore ways to get my data back first. It shows up in device manager before removing itself around 5 minutes after being...

Hello. I am seeking help with my external usb HDD. The disk has it age but HD sentinel was reporting that it is in perfect condition with no error. Actually I think the problem may occured because my system hung during doing "short self test" in HD sentinel, although i am not sure if the...

Hi all I'm trying to recover videos from 2 external USB drives which are Bitlocker encrypted (one Seagate Backup Plus 4TB, and one Western Digital My passport Ultra 4TB) but results are quite bad. After deleting the files (SHIFT+DEL) I did not write on the disks, so there shouldn't be any...

i have a 2tb ssd (#1) with a broken windows 11 and 2tb of files and applications. i have a 120gb ssd (#2) that i installed windows 10 on to recover my files. all applications on ssd 1 are looking for their required files on the C drive but the drive was renamed D now. so generally its a...

Hey folks, I appreciate in advance any knowledge or advice you can share. I was upgrading from a Corsair CX600m PSU to an EVGA Supernova 750 P2 PSU. I had 2 SSD's and 2 HDD's as storage, with an M.2 as the boot drive. I replaced the GPU, CPU and Motherboard cables but kept the Sata cables in...

Hi folks, I have a few questions around a specific hardware situation. In short: (1) I have an old HDD suspected to be dead and whose data I'm looking to recover if possible, and (2) I'm trying to decide on a storage solution with which to replace it. To preface, I've read the pinned threads in...

I have a rig that runs Windows 10 off an SSD and has a Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD for storage. The HDD has become unrecognizable by Windows Explorer, although it shows up in Disk Management, previously as "not initialised", and when I tried to initialise it, Windows said the device does not...

I found an old backup file and have done a bunch of research but going in circles so hoping I might be able to get a little help. The backup is in a folder named BMR > USER-PC > image and there are two files - image.bmr and image.bmr$D I'm assuming that these are Bare Metal Recovery files but...

I would be especially grateful and thankful to anyone who can help me out with this problem. We have a surface pro 3 where Windows went nuts and we cannot get windows to boot at all. We’ve tried everything under the sun and at this point the only concern we have is getting the data off of the...

Hello, I was having issues with an external HDD and was trying to recover files. It was running normally and providing a drive letter despite being unable to see the files normally. But a few hours later it disappeared, and when I tried plugging it in again is beeped a few times, didn't sound...

I recently updated my Bios, it appeared to work properly. However something changed, the BIOS update applied, but Windows wouldn't boot afterwards. The Bios settings appeared to have changed and the NVMe drive (C: Windows) was non-detectable. Windows Boot Manager was lost as an option. I...

Hi. On my 32 GB Apacer microSD card the filesystem got corrupted. Either of due of a faulty USB port, or ejecting the drive while was some in process. Now the device see the microSD card as RAW a filesystem, and both PC and smartphone asks me to format the SD card. C:\Windows\System32>chkdsk...

I have this external hard drive that isn't working suddenly today, I think it's most likely related to how when I tried to cancel shutting off my pc everything just went black and I just press the physical power button to shut off my pc yesterday. When I start up my pc today it was starting up...

I can mount my encrypted USB, but the logical drive when clicked when unencrypted shows RAW. Any suggestions to get this fixed? Is there a way to copy the RAW logical decrypted logical drive data to a physical USB drive so I can run data recovery software on that physical drive because it will...