Having Trouble trying to recover videos from Samsung T1 500GB hardrive

[bhollehday]

I tried using Recuva to recover files off my encrypted T1 SSD, but it doesnt find anything. Is there something special you have to do for an T1 with Samsung encryption software?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a1cubzj30qeayy6/Capture.JPG?dl=0

I tried another software and it found partitions, but not sure if this is different because its encrypted, or if I need to recover them all or something?

 

[CountMike]

Has to be decrypted first.

 

[rgd1101]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from bhollehday : "Samsung T1 500GB Drive - How to Decrypt for data recovery"

Something got screwed up somewhere and I am in a scramble trying to recover this drive. Is anyone familar with decrypting a device like this? I found one article, but am afraid to ruin any chances I have without any other information...

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/3z83ff/how_to_remove_factory_partition_from_samsung_t1/

what do you mean decrypt? what did you use the encrypt it?

 

[rgd1101]

backup a little, exact what happened.

 

[bhollehday]

backup a little, exact what happened.

It started off with the drive not being accessible after updating one of my macs. It seemed to work on my PC, but then stopped working there too. And then it stopped working all together and said it was corrupt (Maybe I damaged it while troubleshooting somehow)

Now it shows FAT32 with a capacity of 128MB AFTER being unlocked using Samsungs encryption software.

 

[bhollehday]

Has to be decrypted first.

How do I go about decrypting Samsungs encyption software?

 

[CountMike]

With Samsung encryption SW. Always have to use SW that was used in first place. If it was encrypted by let's say Bitlocker than that should be used to decrypt.

 

[rgd1101]

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/support/owners/product/t1-series-500gb/
nothing to download.
can't recovery data if the partition is encrypted. contact samsung support

 

[bhollehday]

With Samsung encryption SW. Always have to use SW that was used in first place. If it was encrypted by let's say Bitlocker than that should be used to decrypt.

I am able to sign into the hardrive, but this is what I see. I dont know if I might have reformatted it somewhere in between troubleshooting it one time or what..

This is what I see when I plug it in

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/99tmiizohifijs6/AAAM8Gj2jc6qofyldgApOpBFa?dl=0

 

[bhollehday]

Samsung wont help, it looks like im on my own.

Can anyone help me out here?

 

[rgd1101]

If it was really encrypted, need the software to decrypt it first.
could try partition recovery if it might not be encrypted and just mess up partition.
But be warn, anything you do might lower the chance of recovery. could go professional https://www.seagate.com/services-software/recover/in-lab-recovery/

you probably hear it before, but where the backup?

 

[bhollehday]

If it was really encrypted, need the software to decrypt it first.
could try partition recovery if it might not be encrypted and just mess up partition.
But be warn, anything you do might lower the chance of recovery. could go professional https://www.seagate.com/services-software/recover/in-lab-recovery/

you probably hear it before, but where the backup?

This is what I see when I do the recovery with it :
decrypted:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/91st62l5tug4b5m/Decrypted%20-%20Recovery.JPG?dl=0

 

[rgd1101]

either the partition is corrupted or the thing is encrypted. if it encrypted there is no recovery until it get decrypt

 

[cora331]

Hi,if your lost video has been overwritten by new files,it's impossible to recover them.
The recover tool can only recover the data that has not been covered.
So it can't find anything on your device.