r/DataRecoveryHelp

Hi everyone,

I accidentally used Microsoft's Windows 11 Media Creation Tool on my 5TB WD external HDD, which turned it into a Windows installer.

After that, Windows only showed a 32GB ESD-USB partition.

In Disk Management it showed:

• 32GB ESD-USB (FAT32)
• ~2TB unallocated
• ~2.6TB unallocated

I scanned the drive with DMDE 4.4.4 (Free Edition).

Good news: DMDE found a 5.00TB NTFS partition (Volume 02) and I can browse all of my original files (pictures, videos, games, documents, etc.). Everything appears to be intact.

The problem is that I don't know how to restore the partition table so Windows recognizes the drive normally again.

I do NOT want to copy 5TB of data to another drive if I can avoid it. I'd like to restore the original partition so the drive works exactly as before.

I accidentally clicked the Restore button once, but it only asked:

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I clicked No because I don't think that's the correct operation.

My questions are:

1. Since DMDE can browse all of my files, is restoring the GPT partition table the correct next step?
2. In DMDE 4.4.4 Free Edition, what is the correct way to restore the partition entry?
3. Is there any risk of data loss if I restore the partition instead of copying everything off first?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can upload screenshots of the DMDE partition screen if needed.

I was clearing up storage space on my iPhone and accidentally deleted some sentimental voice notes from my boyfriend. He has an android device. I thought I had my iMessages backing up to iCloud but for some reason it was turned off. I’ve searched around my phone and tried google, but figured it was worth a shot asking here. TIA!

My phone ran out of storage while recording a video, I am able to open the video and watch part of it but more is missing. Is there anyway to recover this?

My dad cleared our iCloud and my sister lost important notes. They aren't in the "recently deleted folder," and there are no iCloud backups. Is there anything that can be done to recover the notes?

I made a post on a new account that got taken down but anyway I was playing RL split screen on my Xbox with a friend and I signed out of my account and a little bit later signed back in and almost everything in my inventory was gone does anyone know how I might can get my stuff back anything helps

I actually dropped my phone in water for the 100th time today and this time i was sure that it's not gonna survive. So i did start transferring my files and photos into my pc, but the thing is that my mom plugged out my phone mid transfer and only half it was transferred and when i plugged it in again to transfer the rest, it seems the screen is already gone. no touch, all black. And I'm on mint mate right now so no clue what to do. Don't have HDMI and stuff either. The phone vibrates when I plug it in but that's it. And also, I needed to log into my gmails but for that I'll need my passwords or my phone and now i have neither. usually i just go with OTP on my phone but phone is gone now. What to do?

I somehow mistake the "recent" folder and the "trash" folder in thunar and deleted it´s content, i did a shift-delete so no trash.

I unplug the disk since then, is there some tool than can help me to restore all those files to where they where?

The disk is formatted in EXT4

Wondering if I can do this. Unsure if the files would be in the PC recycle bin or in the external HDD recycle bin. I never saw one for the external HDD.

I'm having trouble unzipping a .7z file. Every time I try to open or unzip it with 7-Zip, I get a "Header Error" error message. I tried to restore it through Winrar, but it didn't help.

OS: Windows 11

7-Zip Version: Latest Stable Release

File Size: 3.83 GB

I tried downloading it again, but the error persists. Is there a way to restore the archive headers or force unzipping at least some of the files?

Any suggestions or tools you could recommend would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I made the grave mistake by canceling the import while its adding photos to my collection in lightroom classic and apparently it deleted my 700 raw footage, i saw that this happened to many people in the original forum and i tried everything and it didn't work.

anyone who faced this before and what did they do in order to recover the lost footage ?

Hello very niche reddit community… i need a hand,

My cousins and I did a karting race and ive filmed some part of the race with with my fx30 to do a cool little montage but something went wrong, a card was mistakenly formated and i lost the rushes of the begining of the race.

Since i didnt overwrite the files on that sd card i was able to retrieve them with a software but they are now unreadable while being mp4 files, i tried multiple video playerd but none of them launches the clips, even davinci wont put them on the timeline, can someone help me ?

And if you need any precision don’t hesitate to ask.

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Hi everybody, I'm going through tough harassement and digital theft by people that I used to call my friends. now I'd like to sue them but the problem is they have deleted most of my important proofs I've kept against them so I'd like to get this data back.

For context, I've been living with them for couple month and they have taken advantage of the fact that I trusted them to capture my ID, enter my bank account and even wondered to borrow a loan from bank, filmed me in the shower and stuff but now I'd like to sue them and make paying for what they have done to me but the police doesn't believe me 'cause of kinda lack of convincing proofs. It really hurts my feelings, I hate what I'm going through right now.

I would like to get my photos back or get more convincing proofs, can somebody helps me ?

thanks

I was tranfering files from my Android phone to my PC (using a USB cable) and doing it by cutting the file from the phone folder and paste it on my pc descktop but in this operation the folder pasted on my PC was empty and the folder on my Cellphone disapeared. All the doccuments on the folder went missing. I tryed a lot of programs on google play and no one could do anything, same on Pc. Need help!!!

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Hello Reddit, I have an odd question about possible data recovery via professional services.

So my SD card that had images/files from 2018-2020 was physically destroyed before I could back the data up. However when I turned on the phone it was originally on after removal, for a while. All of the images and galleries that were stored on the SD card appeared on the installed gallery app before slowly clearing and emptying, there were a lot of images that appeared as well.

I was wondering if it would be possible for a data recovery service to recover the cached files/thumbnails if possible? I did do minor app installs to try to recover them such as diskdigger which brought up around 5000+ files. (I am now aware to not do this and overwrite data but I was desperate.)

Details:

Device: Samsing J5 Prime

Android Version:8.0.0

Status:Device is off, letting the battery drain as it is off to ensure no data overwrite or TRIM

Unrooted

Original SD Card Storage: 28 GB

Used Samsing Storage: 15GB out of 16GB

Tldr:SD Card Physically destroyed, booted up phone a few days later and the images and galleries appeared on the phone before slowly vanishing.

Thank you for the answers. Bad or good. I just hope there is even a slim chance

To add more info

1.I tried to use PC recovery apps such as Diskdrill and such, but none were able to detect the device.

2.I turned the device off a few times. But did not initiate a factory reset.

3.The only files installed afterwards was Diskdrill which did detect 5000+ files.

I do not need the original files, I accept that those are long gone and would be happy with even just the thumbnail files and such since if there is a chance that they are still cached on the device since I didn't clear the gallery or cache data.

Hello, I have several hard drives of family photos. One hard drive I deleted. I didn’t reformat the drive or do anything else with it. Just highlighted and hit the delete button. How hard is it for me to recover this data and what percentage of the data can I get back? I probably had around 15k photos on that hard drive, organized in folders. I’m hoping the folder organization remains so I don’t recover random photos out of order.