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Forum discussion tagged with data recovery.
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Question Evil Disk Read Issue ?
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...- Assassin Iron Man
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- Apps bios boot files data recovery Disk Read Error driver pnp watchdog Drivers File Recovery frustraition issues Issues booting PC programs recovery software ssd tech support
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- Forum: Storage
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Question I plugged my C drive with Windows installation into another computer externally, now I can't boot from it ?
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... -
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Question Guidance on how to recover my data safely?
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...- marshy222
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- bsod crash data recovery drive virus
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Question Guidance on how to recover my data safely?
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...- marshy222
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- Backup bsod crash data recovery drive external virus
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Question Guidance on how to recover my data safely?
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... -
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Question Guidance on how to recover my data safely?
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... -
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Question Guidance on how to recover my data safely?
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...- marshy222
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- bsod crash data recovery drive virus
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- Forum: Windows 10
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Question Data Recovery Companies for Rescuing DOS-created dBase III-Plus files from a 90 MB Bernoulli Disk and 3.5" Diskettes?
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...- World Changer
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- 3.5" diskette data recovery bernoulli box 90 mb disk data recovery dos files
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- Forum: Storage
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Question Accidentally converted a HDD from basic to dynamic, and is unable to access data.
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?- firefalcon
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- basic to dynamic data recovery help partitions empty
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Question Does Re-Initializing a Drive Erase its Contents or Only Re-Creates the MBR
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...- Modify_inc
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- data recovery mbr not initialized Unallocated windows 10
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Question Dead SSD Data Recovery
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...- General_Cool
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- data recovery SSD FAILURE Testdisk recovery
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- Forum: Storage
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[SOLVED] Destination Folder Access Denied
Hello guys, Recently Windows <Mod Edit> up my computer and now after a format of my C drive, I copied all its contents using ubuntu and now I am copying them over. 99% of the files get the "Destination Folder Access Denied" error so pretty much out of the 40GB of files about 500MB get copied... -
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Question Hitachi HDD PCB fried after using different brand SATA power connectors, replaced PCB and copied BIOS but HDD not spinning ?
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... -
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Question IPad Pro Data Recovery
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...- chaosaquarius
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- data recovery iOS iPad
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- Forum: Laptop Tech Support
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Question Seagate External Slim SSD not showing up in file explorer
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...- Anon9023872
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- data recovery Help ! Seagate Backup Plus Slim
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- Forum: Storage
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Question Disk suddenly turned "RAW". Any chance of recovering the data?
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... -
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Question Problem trying to recover deleted files from a Bitlocker encrypted disk ?
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... -
[SOLVED] best way to intergrate a bsod windows files into a working install?
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... -
Question Shorted 4 drives after installing new PSU - Repair/Recovery advice needed.
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... -
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[SOLVED] Recovering data from a faulty HDD & choosing a replacement solution (+ what's the longest a drive has lasted you?)
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... -
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Question HDD file system changed to RAW ?
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...- JudgementKinsey
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- data recovery hdd
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- Forum: Storage
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[SOLVED] BMR Restore Help?
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... -
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[SOLVED] Surface Pro 3 Data Recovery
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...- xfile102
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- data recovery m.2 msata ssd surface pro 3
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- Forum: Components
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[SOLVED] All hope lost for this external hard drive?
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... -
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[SOLVED] No Windows detected after Bios update
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...- Nathan_56
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- data recovery harddrive windows
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- Forum: Windows 10
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[SOLVED] 32 GB MicroSD Card filesystem got corrupted. Asks formatting. Any chance to recover data before?
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... -
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Question External HHD just randomly died, please help!
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... -
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Question USB shows RAW
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...- thidisbogus
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- data recovery raw disk RAW drive Raw File System veracrypt
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- Forum: Storage
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[SOLVED] Laptop HDD suddenly not initialized - what to do?
Hi guys, I have an Acer Predator laptop that has a 500GB primary SSD and a secondary 1TB HDD. I recently upgraded my SSD from the stock 128GB to the 500GB one. Today, I remembered that there was a file that I forgot to backup from the old SSD so I opened my laptop and reinstalled the old SSD...- anindyam1272
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- Corrupt data recovery hdd HDD + SSD Combo windows
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- Forum: Storage
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Question Inaccessible external hard drive
Hello, a friend of mine handed me the following external hard drive: WD Elements Portable WDBUZG7500ABK - hard drive - 750 GB - USB 3.0 Specs She had connected the hard drive to her phone and apparently the phone formatted the drive with android file system. She asked for data recovery from a... -
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[SOLVED] Is it possible to use recovered data from not booting windows 7 hdd by live usb linux distro ?
Hi, I have windows 7 laptop which is not booting currently but i have take data back-up from that windows user profile and desktop folder which are having default file permission, so planning to boot the laptop with live USB Linux distro and copy windows user profile and desktop folder. I'm... -
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[SOLVED] Data recovery from slow HDD
Hello! Several years ago my laptop's HDD started dying and I had it replaced. It's a Toshiba 1 TB 2.5 HDD from Toshiba laptop. According to HDD Sentinel it's at 9% life with 2848 bad and 13528 weak sectors.It's almost empty but I have previously scanned it with EaseUS Data Recovery and...- AndroidUser_1014
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- data recovery hard disk (hdd) problems hdd
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- Forum: Storage
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[SOLVED] HDD failing after hard shutdown
I had a windows update stuck on 0% for hours so decided to just hard shutdown my pc. After booting up again, windows ran a scan and repair on my second drive (not my windows drive). The repair was progressing extremely slow and the ETA was over a month so I rebooted and skipped scanning. Boot... -
[SOLVED] How to recover recently deleted files?
Hi, I just accidentally deleted 15GB worth of data a few minutes ago. Can you please recommend a method or software? Recuva shows files delete months ago. But not the recent ones. Thank You.- KatakuriChan
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- data recovery deleted files
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- Forum: Storage
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[SOLVED] better software to recover files
I have an old external WD UDS HDD. It's a 4TB "My Passport". I am trying to recover files. I did find errors on a surface scan. I have Minitool Partition Manager Pro, and was going to use to to get back whichever files are retrevable but I've found a rather large issue with the software. I...- barleysinger
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- data recovery hdd minitool partition wizard pro usb western digital passport win 7 pro 64 bit
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- Forum: Storage
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[SOLVED] Help meee
I'm so close to ruining a whole family's lives. I'm gonne be really honest. I'm 16. I was installing Windows 10 on some guys PC. I was getting paid. When I was choosing a disk drive to install his 2nd hard drive had "new" button glowing. So I thought they didn't formatted it. I clicked new and...- Pleaaasehelp
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- data recovery
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- Forum: Storage
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[SOLVED] Bootloop, BitLocker and Data Recovery
I have an HP computer that is on a bootloop (preparing automatic repair> diagnosing PC >restart because windows update screwed it again. I need to save the data in it, however the drive is encrypted with BitLocker now when I go to reset this PC it gives the message "You need to sign in as an...- Arunashamal
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- Bitlocker Boot Loop data recovery windows 10 Windows Update
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- Forum: Windows 10
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Question Recovering data off an external hard drive not working
Hi. So I've been trying to recover some data off of this external USB hard drive. It’s a SONY 1TB External USB hard drive, (specs here) I would have taken this to a professional data recovery service, but the data on this HDD is more of a 'nice to have again' kind of data than something very...- sds20020024
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- AOMEI data recovery diskmgmt easeus
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- Forum: Storage
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[SOLVED] Uncorrectable sectors can't create an image/clone or manually transport data
I've tried Chkdsk /r and /b and after using EaseUS there are 3 bad sectors and I can access like 99% of the data like pictures and videos fine but if I try to transfer it out using an image or cloning it to another HDD/SSD it keeps crashing and saying the device is disconnecting (it's an... -
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[SOLVED] RAW Drive Partition Data Recovery SUCCESS (EASY)
So I just had to post this here because I couldn't find this solution anywhere else on the internet (unless I'm not looking hard enough) Quick backstory, I work at a basic phone/computer repair shop, and I have had a few customers come in with computers that wont boot, upon mounting the hard...
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