Hello I was in an accident on 8/13/2023 and have dash cam footage of the incident. I removed the sd card and found the correct footage on my computer but didn't save it correctly. I had put the sd card back into my dash cam and when I went to try and retrieve the footage it started on a whole new set of recordings. Is there any way I can get what I need for the lawyers back? Preferably cheap or no cost option. Thank you
I have an old HDD containing a lot of my childhood photos, it was produced in 2008 and hasn't been used for roughly the last 7-8 years. Will it be safe to just plug directly into the pc or do I need some adapters? Not very knowledgeable with how HDDs work but heard there is some liquid inside that if just sitting there, can dry out and cause the drive to malfunction upon plugging into pc and I don't want to risk damaging pc components.
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Hey folks,
I dropped my phone s20 ultra which broke the front and back glass. After the drop I got an error from the phone, saying "to prevent damage to sd card, its being set to read only" . Two days later the phone stopped recognizing the card and now even the card readers do not recognise it. Upon closer inspection of the sd card, it shows a small bend ~2mm above the bottom edge.
Before I ship it to data recovery pros, is it even possible to get the data? After reading this forum it seems it may be possible given that the bend is at the very bottom and the card was working for 2 days after drop.
Attached picture to show the location of damage.
It's a samsung 128gb microsd card. I have plenty of photos of my 2.5yr old kid growing up, which haven't been backed up.
Any trustworthy recommendations for Phoenix, AZ area and expected cost?
Long story short I had to copy some videos on to this. My coworker copied it, maybe it wasn't ejected properly but she said she did. But I tried to plug it in to my computer it says the hard drive can not be read. I tired running the first aid on Mac and it says it worked but nothing. plug it into PC . it asks to initialize. There are very important work files and photos on there. Anybody have any other ideas? Is this a Mac thing? Can't fix it on Mac? Crucial X10 Pro 2TB. I look at the disk manager on PC it says 1830Gbs unallocated. Does that mean there is no more data on it?
Maybe need to bring it to a computer shop to get the data off of it?
Anything will help
What is better for data recovery UFS Recovery Pro or DD Rescue ? I had to ask such a question but upon searching, no one else has ?
I have a 5TB Elements external HDD that I was using with my Windows PC. I recently switched over to Linux and wanted to store my Linux Timeshift backups on the HDD, but Timeshift said it required ext4 partition (I had ntfs originally).
I used the Disk Management utility in Linux to create a 2nd ext4 partition with 300GB. That seemed to work. However, after writing my first Timeshift log, I noticed there was nothing there after it said it finished. After that I then noticed my mount to the original ntfs partition was gone as well.
I still see both partitions in lsblk, but they cannot be mounted. I tried plugging into my Windows PC, but all that does it cause Explorer to permanently hang until I unplug it.
I tried a few things on Linux side:
I installed testdisk and gave that a run. I had it scan just the original ntfs partition. When I entered the LIST command, it appeared to hang. If I unplug the drive after that, the list command finishes and it then displays the files it found.
I then tried running ddrescue: sudo ddrescue -d -r0 -n -b 4096 -c 256 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/nfs_backup_share/elements_rescue.img /mnt/nfs_backup_share/elements_rescue.map
I don't have a drive big enough to store a backup locally, so I'm trying to write it out over to my NAS.
However, it's going at ~109 kB/s, so at the current rate it's going to take about 250 days.
ddrescue output shows a single bad sector.
Do I have any hope here or do I just need to try a professional service like Ontrack?
Current statusipos: 498073 kB, non-trimmed: 1048 kB, current rate: 419 kB/sopos: 498073 kB, non-scraped: 0 B, average rate: 225 kB/snon-tried: 4678 GB, bad-sector: 0 B, error rate: 0 B/s
rescued: 450232 kB, bad areas: 0, run time: 30m 5spct rescued: 0.00%, read errors: 1, remaining time: 192d 1htime since last successful read: 0s
dmesg shows the following:
Mon Aug 10 22:50:58 2026] usb 1-10: USB disconnect, device number 5
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: new SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=2620, bcdDevice=10.20
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: Product: Elements 2620
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: Manufacturer: Western Digital
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: SerialNumber: 575858324541304541504143
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb-storage 2-7:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] scsi host6: usb-storage 2-7:1.0
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:04 2026] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD Elements 2620 1020 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:04 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:04 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Spinning up disk...
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:05 2026] .........ready
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:19 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 9767475200 512-byte logical blocks: (5.00 TB/4.55 TiB)
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 4096-byte physical blocks
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 47 00 10 08
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[Mon Aug 10 22:52:01 2026] sdb: sdb1 sdb2
[Mon Aug 10 22:52:01 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
^[[A[Mon Aug 10 23:00:03 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:00:33 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:01:10 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:01:47 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:00:33 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:01:10 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:01:47 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:02:24 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:03:01 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:03:07 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=216s
[Mon Aug 10 23:03:07 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: Read(16) 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 90 00 00 00 08 00 00 00
[Mon Aug 10 23:03:07 2026] I/O error, dev sdb, sector 167936 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x800 phys_seg 207 prio class 2
My hard drive was on a risky place (I know, not responisble), and accidentally fell (maybe less that a foot) on a hard surface. When I try to plug it in, it does weird ticking sounds (if a hard drive can cry honestly that what it would sound like lol).
How screwd am I? can I recover the data myself? Professional and expensive help needed?
Last Thursday, August 6th, I accidentally deleted about 7,000 photos and videos from my phone (a Samsung M52). I tried using recovery apps, but they hit a limit and started duplicating files, creating over 50,000 photos in my gallery, which forced me to delete everything again. A friend explained to me that when a file is deleted, the system simply marks that space as available; downloading new files overwrites that space, making the original data permanently lost.Google Photos backup didn't save everything, and Google Drive stopped sync once it reached the 15 GB limit. Since these files are extremely important to me, I'd like to know if there's still any real chance of recovering what was deleted before noon on Thursday, or if the data overwriting makes recovery impossible. Does anyone know what I can do or if a professional specialist could help me out?
SSD NOT WORKING TURNED RAW 2 YEAR OLD UNDER WARRANTY ANY WAY TO RECOVER THIS
