r/datarecovery

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for advice before I spend money on recovery software.

I accidentally formatted my 2TB WD HDD about a year ago. Only ~5GB was written after formatting.

Recoverit scanned the drive twice and found 470k+ files (1.07TB) with actual photo/video thumbnails. I also started an R-Studio scan to compare.

However, I've seen many negative Reddit posts about Recoverit, and my attempts to buy it failed (SBI UPI and PayPal both say "bank declined for security reasons"). Only option left is credit card

Questions:

Since Recoverit shows real previews, is

that a good sign the files are recoverable?

These are ~1TB of irreplaceable family photos, so I want to choose the safest option. Thanks!

Also im trying to scan with diskdrill but its showing 67hrs to just scan and rstudio 2months 3 days although i know it comes down to 5% of what it said. Still its so long. Pleaseeeee helppp!

Hey, I have a 1.5gb video in MOV format that's corrupted. I tried to recover it with free software but it couldn't but it recommended a disk drill but I don't want to buy a year's subscription for one video. Is someone who already has the software willing to help me out?

Hello, everyone. I was wondering if someone could help me choose a portable hard drive.

I've owned a Toshiba Canvio 4TB for a long time, perhaps for over 4 years, and I never had an issue with it aside from its sensitive plugging (any small movement makes it disconnect). Only recently I started hearing small ticking sounds (I hope this isn't too dangerous!)

I mainly use it for long-term storage and I don't frequently run it, and that's why I'm going for HDD. Also I can't afford SSD anyway.

I now want to buy a new one but I'm very conflicted about these:

Toshiba Canvio Basics/Advance 4TB

WD elements

Segate One Touch

Seagate Basic

But I always hear that Seagate has high fail rate and I see more complaints from this brand than the other two. However, I saw some people recommend it because Seagate uses a "detachable USB bridge" and that makes it easier for data recovery? But I'm clueless about all of this.

I tend to trust Toshiba more but I wanted to hear the experts' opinions and what brand do you receive issues from the most?

10 years of memories, gone like that. I had the same issue as this poster:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254972924?sortBy=rank

Which was never answered in the iCloud community, as far as I can tell.
This happened to me once or twice, I noticed that my Windows iCloud was doing this and went to Recently Deleted to restore them. I thought it was weird but I very naively underestimated that this was an issue.

I didn't notice that this happened recently, probably about 5 weeks ago, because now they are permanently deleted from the Recently Deleted folder. Apple support cannot help. I've spoken to two of their reps, they both said the photos are permanently erased.

I am trying some recovery software online, but most likely in vain.

I guess this is the experience that will finally make me go analog and trash my smartphone. If anyone out there has any advice, I'd love to hear it, but I accept that those memories are just gone.

Hi everyone,
I’m hoping someone can help because these videos are extremely sentimental.
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S22+
PC: Windows 10
This is exactly what happened:
I connected my S22+ to my Windows 10 PC using USB.
My camera videos were in DCIM/Camera.
Using Windows File Explorer, I Cut the videos from DCIM and moved them into a new folder on the phone called Videos.
I then Cut the Videos folder from the phone and Pasted it onto my laptop.
Windows said the transfer completed, but it finished much faster than I expected for about 80GB.
The folder on the laptop exists but is 0 bytes and contains no files.
My laptop’s C: drive never increased by 80GB.
My phone now has about 80GB more free space.
Gallery, My Files, Recycle Bin and phone search can’t find the videos.
Windows search only finds WhatsApp videos, not the missing camera videos.
I have no Google Photos, OneDrive or Samsung Cloud backup.
I have stopped using the phone since this happened.
I’ve spoken to several phone repair/data recovery places and most said they couldn’t help because it’s a modern encrypted Samsung.
My questions are:
Has anyone seen this exact MTP Cut/Paste failure before?
Is there any forensic software or recovery method that has actually worked on an S22+ in this situation?
Is there anything else I should check before giving up?
These videos are irreplaceable, so I’d really appreciate any advice.

Long story short, my phone had a lot of photos, I tried to transfer photos from my phone to hard drive and i stupidly turned off I cloud after I seen some YouTube video and lost all my photos.

What should I do? I don’t have money to go to a shop to recover my data.

I bought a license for R-Studio Data Recovery version 6, but I can’t find anywhere to download that version.

https://preview.redd.it/odfonbfybabh1.jpg?width=1158&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c14d9cf6b74728519d53e9011239d9bcd0749c04

Their forum, which had a few posts about this, is no longer online.

Can anyone help me with this or point me to where I might find it?

Thanks.

And PLEASE no scammers like come one now help a fellow person being that’s already beaten down with nothing. I’m not rich or anything I’m just a simple person who wants their Gmail back. Can someone please help me. My Gmail was hacked and when trying to recover it with Google recovery, it’s only trying to send a verification to SAID EMAIL that I’m trying to regain access back to.

Hello and good day,

This might seem like a simple post but it's actually pretty severe. I will try to keep this short and understandable.

1. I don't have any File History set up, no Restore Point, or any of that.
2. I have no Cloud saves.
3. I'm trying various Data Recovery Softwares like Disk Drill but they're not helping me much right now

Problem: I deleted all my files that were ON the Desktop. Please do not ask how, it happened. They were too big for the recycle bin so they were permanently deleted. But I've read that the data is still there just inaccessible.

I'm trying Winfr right now, the command prompt since I'm getting the feeling that this one is the most reliable.

Question: Is it possible, by whatever means, to CHECK ALL FILES that were ON the Desktop at a certain point in time, like 2 weeks ago, and bind them together and extract them? Because so far I keep getting all the files extracted separately.

The files I had on the Desktop were not shortcuts to the files, but the actual files themselves.

So is it possible to say: Find all the icons/files that were on the Desktop/Desktop folder in the month of June 2026 and extract them to another drive?

Device Specifications

File System NTFS - SSD

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz 2.80 GHz

Installed RAM 16,0 GB (15,9 GB usable)

Storage 932 GB SSD NVMe KINGSTON SA2000M, 932 GB HDD ST1000LM035-1RK172

Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB), Intel(R) HD Graphics 630 (128 MB)

System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Windows Specifications

Edition Windows 10 Home

Version 22H2

Installed on ‎24/‎03/‎2021

OS Build 19045.7417

The PC itself is not corrupted or working strangely, I just deleted some very important files and I'm trying to get them back. They were no more than 80 items total: mixed files - photos, text files, video files, even trec files because I use Camtasia, all on the (OneDrive)/Desktop, and all important info I need. Also other folders which I forgot to add were on there.

Hi, so I pressed the wrong button in a rush to fix a program and now I’m not sure what to do. I have an easystore WD wx91aa880x2d, 3rd Gen external hard drive that had steam games and gaming clips from steel series on it. I haven’t downloaded anything new on it or messed with any of the settings. I tried the disk drill recovery and it still only found 3 items on the drive after 2 scans. I even tried to see if a Point-In-Time Restore would help but nothing. I’d really appreciate any kind of information on what to do. I’m a huge techie but I’ve never had this issue before and I’ve tried everything I could think off.

Hello!

a 16 GB Lexar flash disk I have been using as a media USB drive on my OSMC on Raspberry Pi was working a few weeks ago. I had not used it since then, but recently plugged it into my OSMC and nothing. It flashes once then stops. Normally it would keep flashing for being read of course.

Plugging into my W10 machine, it flashes a couple of times and then stops. It prompts that the drive must be formatted. I did NOT do so!

I think it was formatted last as NTFS.

I looked at the disk management in Windows, and it shows as 14.63 GB (it was pretty close to full), and shows: healthy (primary partition).

Is there a chance of recovery?

I have not tried chkdsk or any other programs.

Thanks!!