recover data

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    Question Is it possible to use a recovered disk as my OS local disk again ?

    Hi everyone, Pretty simple question here, Lately, my OS drive died on me. I brought it to an expert an e was able to recover 100% of its content. I bought a new drive and reinstalled Windows 11. The question is: is there a way to use the data from the recovered disk as my working OS drive...
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    Question I enabled Bitlocker but the recovery key it gave does not work. So how to recover my files or turn off bitlocker ?

    I have windows 10 installed on a m.2 NVMe drive and windows 11 on a separate ssd. I turned on bitlocker for my windows 10 installation so that windows 11 won't have access to the files on Windows 10. It saved the recovery key on a flash drive and I printed it out as well. I went through the...
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    Question How to recover data from Asus Hypercard

    I have an Asus Hypercard installed with Samsung 960 Pro Series - 2TB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD. It was formatted for RAID and became my C:Drive. It crashed and now I would like to know if it is possible to recover the data?
  4. klear6

    Question Scraping an accidentally reset android device free

    Hey guys I have an emergency. :ouch: I have a Oukitel WP17 - which is like a giant battery with a display, that runs android. Good for self defense if you need it in a pinch too, I guess - it weighs a ton and is HUGE. On the upside I have 2 special needs kids that have dropped it countless...
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    Question How can I recover a disk showing no vol info but a drive letter?

    Hi, I ran an app called Recuva, found a bunch of pictures to recover, ran it again in deep mode and the OS would not start afterwards. I took the disk out and put it in a USB cradle and I get a drive letter but no volume information. It also causes Windows Explorer to hang. Disk Drill just...
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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...
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    [SOLVED] Restore files after format?

    I've used new Microsoft tool for crating bootable usb flash. I don't even know why the f they say choose backup location or smth like that. (Obviously it was not the case). I've chosen my hard drive partition. I thought I need to choose backup location. Now my hard drive has 32gb formatted with...
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    [SOLVED] Recover data from accidentally formatted hard drive

    Hi. I have a M.2 Sata with Windows 10 and a HDD 1 TB for data. I replaced the M.2 Sata with a NVMe. In the section of the Windows 10 installer (USB) where you select the partition you want to install de OS, there was the NVMe and the HDD. Accidentally I formatted the HDD (I had tons of data)...
  9. klear6

    Question Can I recover data from beneath an OS install?

    I had a Kali/Win 7 Aero Blue Lite install. Some fool installed XP over top of that whole thing. Can I get any data back?
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    Question Unable to downgrade Windows 11

    I am trying to downgrade back to Windows 10 from Windows 11 which I was able to successfully install on my "unsupported PC" following a YouTube tutorial by removing TPM stuff. I followed the instructions to downgrade back to Windows 10. I went to Settings, Recovery, and the Go back button was...
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    Question Raid 5 si3114 spanned drive disk failure of 1 of 4 drives how to save the data and access the drives

    I have a si3114 controller and set up as a Raid 5 spanned drive. i am running windows 10 I have 4 hard drives to make up my raid and one of them has completely failed. I remove the drive from the array and replaced it with a drive that is the same size as the failed one. when i go into...
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    [SOLVED] can't read hdd

    I have a 1GB MVME boot drive, a 256gb SSD secondary drive and a 2TB WD Black HDD. A couple of weeks ago something happened that made all the drives unreadable. I reinstalled Windows 10 on the MVME drive and then i was able to read and use the MVME and the SSD. I downloaded Recuva and I can...
  13. Zane Stewart

    [SOLVED] How do you format RAW without losing data

    My hard drive is dying/dead(?). The file system changed to RAW and I cannot open the drive anymore. Is there any way I can get my data back or format without erasing? The drive is called: Seagate ST31000340AS (I tried CHKDSK but it said "The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not...
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    Question How to recover deleted files from external drive ?

    How to recover deleted files from external drive ? I have tried to use easeus data recovery. It scans the drive for too long, then when I opted for recovery, it goes on and on. After 1.5 days, it only showed 1% progress. Devastated now. Please guide me what to do.
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    Question recover files from usb showing empty drive

    i have this usb with important files in it but windows can't read it the weird thing is right when i plug it in all the files show up but after a loading they all disapear
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    [SOLVED] Relatively old SATA HDD working, but cannot connect it and recover data

    Hey guys, I own 5 years old 1TB HDD that belongs to Seagate. I have important information on this HDD, one day I have opened a very old file from this HDD and suddenly it started to work properly. The next time I booted my computer it went into recovery mode, trying to defrag 1m pieces at rate...
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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...
  18. origamiboy2

    [SOLVED] 3 x Hard Drives suddenly unallocated: How to recover their data ?

    So about a month ago I switched out my motherboard from a Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro to an Asus x570 TUF. This switch caused 3 of my drives to become unallocated, which I was pissed off about, but I did successfully recover my important files using EaseUS. However today I uninstalled RGB Fusion...
  19. mikekazik1

    [SOLVED] Are docking stations more reliable than external USB hard drives?

    I had a Western Digital Passport from 2011 that died on me a few months ago. I was thinking about getting something else so I can do external file backups. I came across some hard drive docking stations that you can stick regular desktop hard drives into and have that be your backup device...
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    Question How to fix corrupted SSD?

    Long story short: My SSD is no longer recognized properly. The UEFI BIOS sees it is connected but doesn't find it to be bootable. I have tried to read the disk using different partition managers and they all say the same thing: it has one unknown partition on it, even though it used to have 2...
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    Question Why my SSD went bad all of a sudden?

    My HP Envy 4 laptop was running Windows 10 on a 240GB Kingston SSD. The disk had only two partitions and everything was working satisfactorily for about 4 years until recently, despite the strange high pitch noises coming from the disk while in operation. Last week when it was waking up from...
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    [SOLVED] Recovering data from a WD two bay external

    I am looking for help recovering my data from a Western Digital external hard drive. I removed the drives and installed them in a tower and ran smart tests and bechmarks on them, and they are both fine. The problem I have is getting the partition back or to mount. Linux says unknown partition...
  23. crash1988

    [SOLVED] I/O device error - Seagate Freeagent

    Hello, I've got a Seegate Freeagent Desk 1 TB external drive wich had been working fine for several years. Now, I can't access files with with file explorer and get the error "Location is not available: F: is not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error." I...