accidentally selected “Delete All Videos” in VLC Player on my Vivo X200, and all my videos are now gone from my phone.

After deleting them, around 40 GB of storage became free. The videos are no longer visible in VLC, Gallery, or File Manager.

Unfortunately, Google Photos backup was turned off, and I don't have another backup of these videos.

I've been trying to find a way to recover them, but I haven't found a solution yet.

My questions are:

Does VLC have any Recycle Bin, Recently Deleted, or Undo Delete option?

Is there any way to restore the videos directly through VLC?

Has anyone successfully recovered permanently deleted videos from Android's internal storage in a similar situation?

These videos are very important to me, so I'd really appreciate any genuine suggestions or advice.

Thank you!

TL;DR: SD Card corrupted after a shoot while trying to import Footage, multiple Recovery methods tried, nothing worked thus far.

Hello dear beloved Redditors!

Me, an austrian media student finishing school this year, and my collagues are currently shooting a movie project for our A-Levels and just (supposedly) wrapped up with all the shoots. On our last day, and final wrap, we were all really happy.

Until I got to my laptop to import the footage. The SD Card somehow corrupted inbetween taking it out of the camera (Sony A7Cii) and putting it into my Laptop (Dell XPS 9520 from 2020 running Windows 11)

SD Card in Question: SanDisk Extreme Pro V30 256GB with 200MB/s
Card was mostly "empty" when we started shooting with it that day.

Windows Partition Manager shows the SD Card as RAW, File Explorer prompts formatting

I've tried many things. Many data carvers like Recuva and EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard, even Klennet Carver. They all found the files, but no luck, all unplayable.

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard found multiple hundreds of gigs of footage still left in the depths, and it also found our footage. But everything, every single file was totally fine and recoverable, except for everything we shot literally the day before.

The recovered files appear to have plenty of information in them, but can't be played.

The recovered files had plenty of information (as seen in their sheer size) and even the file path of the camera (.../PRIVATE/M4ROOT/CLIP) was recovered. As the files it recovered wouldn't play, i tried using untrunc in combination with a working file to see if it would fix the issue. The clips became playable, but only displayed black and a very annoying, computer / mechincal pattern of sound that blarred over everything else, tho sometimes bits of our voices could be heard through (some hope?). I'm totally lost and ive reached the ends of what I know...

I'm hoping that some of you are the wiser and know how to help me (or quite frankly all of us) out here. Your help is very greatly appreciated, may you have a wonderful day!

Hi, I’m having a serious problem with one of my HDDs and I’m trying to understand whether the drive itself is failing or if the problem could be related to the SATA cable, power, motherboard/controller, etc.

My PC has 3 internal drives:

• Disk 0: Crucial CT250MX200SSD1 — 250 GB SSD
• Disk 1: Samsung SSD 860 EVO — 500 GB SSD
• Disk 2: OOS1000G — 1 TB HDD
• E: is the partition on Disk 2

The problem started with files on E:. I could access the drive normally, but some files/programs on E: suddenly stopped working. For example, running an .exe from E: gave errors saying that the program could not be executed / was not a valid application.

I then tried copying an executable from E: to C::

Copy-Item "E:\Téléchargements\ChatGPT Installer.exe" "C:\ChatGPTTest.exe"

This returned:

>“The specified device does not exist.”

The file was not copied.

I also tried:

chkdsk E: /scan

but Windows couldn't even execute CHKDSK properly and returned:

>“Access is denied.”

Interestingly, chkdsk.exe itself exists and works from C:, and notepad.exe launches normally from C:.

Windows still reports the HDD as healthy:

Disk 2 — Online — Healthy
E: — NTFS — Healthy — OK

I also checked the physical disk:

Get-PhysicalDisk

and it reports the HDD as Healthy / OK.

However, when I checked the Windows System Event Log, I found many repeated Event ID 7 errors from Disk:

>“The device \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 has a bad block.”

These errors occurred repeatedly over several minutes.

At the same time, an NTFS event reported that the E: volume was healthy and that no action was required.

I also checked the Storage Reliability Counter. There weren't obvious read/write error counters reported, although the maximum read/write/flush latency values were quite high.

The important part

I had a very similar problem with another disk before.

That's why I'm not sure whether I should immediately assume that this 1 TB HDD is dying.

Could this instead be caused by something common to the PC, such as:

• SATA data cable
• SATA power connection
• motherboard SATA port/controller
• PSU/power delivery
• another hardware/controller issue

Or do the repeated Event ID 7 “bad block” errors strongly indicate that the HDD itself is failing?

I have not deleted or formatted the files. I’m mainly concerned about preserving the data now.

What would be the safest next step? Should I avoid chkdsk /f and other repair operations until the data is backed up/cloned?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Ciao a tutti, dovrei recuperare dei dati cancellati definitivamente 2 settimane fa. Ho controllato cestino backup ecc ma non trovo nulla, qualcuno/a che mi dia una speranza? Ci sono app valide non solo per foto e video?

Grazie mille.

Di ricerche sul tema ne ho fatte svariate, su tutti quei discorsi del trim garbage fbe e varie e quindi ho paura che più passa il tempo più diventi impossibile.