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Hello there all! Im facing this problem with my OS disk right now... My specifications are: Motherboard: Asus Prime Z790-A Wifi OS Disk: NVME M.2 WD_Black sn770 OS: Windows 11 Pro 22H2 (I think... is there 23H2? ...) (CPU, Graphics card, and secondary disks being some SSD and HDD). This past week I have been experiencing random high disk usages at my OS disk, that would freeze Windows for some minutes. Events were showing there was some kind of problem with RAID disk E/S Today after a freeze, I was just really tired of not being able to at least shutdown properly the PC, waiting for 15 minutes watching the freezed screen.... so I "hard shutdowned" it.. after waiting a bit, and trying to boot it again, as I did some other times this week (bcause, as I say, it is happening a lot theese days..), I stumbled upon seeing that I could not boot the windows system on my NVME M2. It took a few tries for the motherboard BIOS to even recognize the disk. When trying to boot it, it says it does not have a bootable sector.... I took an SSD with windows 11 from an old computer, and when connecting it to the PC, and accessing the Disk Management, I can see how the NVME M2 disk appears: As "RAW" format, without being able to access its data, but showing the partitions: EFI system partition -100MB Basic data partition - 1800GB RAW Recovery partition -760MB 2MB Unallocated all partitions show "correct" status I wonder, if there is any way to recover the file system data, as well as to reuse the NVME M2 disk (WD_Black sn770) as system disk, again.... Translated with DeepL.com (free version) I can add the screenshots that show the info about the disk thorugh the DiskManagement of the booted Windows, at an old SSD Thank in advice for any comment here!

Hi new user here, My question is that can I move my whole SSD and connect it to a completely new build which is completely not identical to the old one? Will it work? Is it possible? What other options do I have? Should I clone the SSD somehow? The reason why I want to do this because I have several apps that are very specific and needed for my work and it's very difficult to transfer them. I am using Windows 10. And I am switching from an I5 7400 to I5 13600K. Thank you!

I think i might've posted about this before, I was trying to figure out what the problem is But found out that It's my garbage PSU, which has long transfer time while switching to AC-DC-AC So when i'm idle it's fine, but when i'm gaming and my GPU use more than 150Watt and a power outage occurs, My PC just restarts (don't know total power consumption) I'll have to face this problem until i get a good UPS. But my question is, Is that going to damage any of my hardware? Except data losses There shouldn't be any power surges in this right?

I guess this was really stupid. I thought I understood well enough how this stuff works to convince myself it WASN'T a really stupid thing to do, but I guess I was wrong. Here's the short version: I have a Marvell 92xx SATA 6G PCIe raid controller card which hosts a 4-HDD RAID10 array that serves as my personal data storage and archive server. I pulled drives out while the system was still up, but I offline'd the array via Disk Management (Win11) before I did so. As soon as I pulled the second drive, I got a concerning notification from the controller itself saying the virtual disk was down. I plugged the two disks I had removed back into the system expecting the controller to take them back up once more and bring the array back online. But, that didn't happen. Both the controller card's firmware and Disk Management report them as unformatted disks. The controller card flags the virtual disk that is the array with a red X and reports it as "offline" with only 1 of the original drives still associated with it. The other three are labeled "unconfigured" (why THREE are labeled as unconfigured when I only pulled TWO drives is a mystery to me). So, my question is this: How fk'd am I, and how can I go about unfk'ing myself? The drives should still have maintained parity, right? Can I reassociate the drives with the array somehow? I'll never do it again. I swear.

Please read for full context but TL:DR: Cut-Pasted files from one drive to another. Target drive now missing most folders and is repoting to have way more free space than it should have, pretty much meaning that those folder are genuinely deleted. Target drive is now called what the source drive was called. This was a standard Cut-Paste operation through Tera Copy, not a clone. Source drive seems more or less fine but it reports 790GB of used space when checking via Properties yet selecting all folders and copying them to another drive results in only 468GB of data. There also is a massive folder missing. No guaranteee that I didn't remove that manually, though. --- I have a drive on which I store all my Downloads, Pictures, Documents, Videos and Music. By that I mean that I use those folder as my default Windows directories for such files. There also is a Other Files, Programs and Games folder on it. Other Files simply contains stuff like .iso, .dmg, .exe and, well, other files. I try to install all of my programs into the Programs folder and the Games folder is home to some standalone DRM-free games and also the install location of my Steam instance (my actual Steam libraries are on different drives). All of those folders are at the root of the drive. --- Now, I recently ran out of space on the 1TB 970 Evo and got me a 2TB 970 Evo Plus. Just like I did when I upgraded to the 1TB 970 Evo from my old 500GB 960 Evo, I just copy pasted and veryfied all folders via TeraCopy. This pretty much worked as per usual but it also resulted in a different folder and file count on the target drive. While this is pretty normal for simple Copy-Paste of large amounts of files, I hung onto the original files on the 1TB 970 Evo and didn't format it right away, just in case that I wanted to manually check everything. --- Now I've been using the new 2TB drive since around November 24th as my main drive without issues. I gave it the old drive letter Y and the 1TB 970 Evo the letter A to have it be in front of my boot drive so that there is no chance of confusing the two. As for drive names, I just call the 970 Evo and 970 Evo Plus. So they were 970 Evo (A:) and 970 Evo Plus (Y:). All current letters in my system: (A:) (C:) (D:) (E:) (V:) (Q:) (Z:) --- Now to the actual issue: Today, I decided to finally do something about the "unnecessary" and now somewhat outdated copy of my drive (1TB 970 Evo (A:)). That 'something' was to just select all folders and CUT-Paste it onto the 2TB 970 Evo Plus, the drive that was currently in use. Doing something like that has never really caused me any issues up until now, to be fair. But yeah, considering that I also have almost all of my programs installed to that drive, this certainly could have caused issues for them. What actually happened is far worse, though... I once again used TeraCopy and let it run for a bit. The "Skip All" option was selected. --- I only let it run until around 0.3% were completed and then stopped it because WHY THE FUCK WOULD I NOT WANT A BACKUP, RIGHT? It had transfered around 56000 files if I remember correctly but I assume that those are just tiny, not too relevant program related files. As I didn't let it run for particularly long, maybe 1-3 minutes, there was no way that it moved or deleted a lot of stuff. Anyway, afterwards I just turned off my system and took out my old 1TB 970 Evo and replaced it with another 2TB 970 Evo Plus I had bought at the same time as the first one. Upon boot, I noticed that the system still showed the old 970 Evo with the (A:) drive letter. And what this resulted in is just inexplicable to me. The drive, ONTO which the folders were supposed to be pasted, was missing folders! Like the Programs folder, it was completely gone! I only noticed that when trying to open a program. I restarted the system and let the disk check (the one that comes up while booting) run. Now, suddenly, even more folders are gone and the Programs folder reappered and appears to be perfectly functional. All programs that I have tested run fine. But I now have 1.55TB of 1.81TB free, which is not how it should be. This is 265GB used. I do not remember how much used and free space was reported right after the Cut-Paste operation. And another thing, the 2TB 970 Evo Plus is now called 970 Evo! It was called 970 Evo Plus, guaranteed! As for the 1TB 970, it seems fine and fucked at the same time. It reports 790GB free via Properties which could very well be a correct value as I had relocated a big folder when I ran out of space. It was 113GB large. However, when selecting all folders and checking their size via Properties, it only reports 468GB of data. Copy-pasting them with Tera-Copy only detects 470GB. Oh, and the entire Games Folder is missing. The one that my Steam install resides in. Not sure if I took that thing off of htis drive manually, though. I might have and remember something along those lines regarding that folder but I just cannot understand why I would have done that. That was a pretty massive folder, too. --- Moral of the story that I even had been taught before; Always make backups... My last one was around a year ago, and due to not much having changed in my Games folder I can find out its approximate size. Maybe it makes up all of the missing data, I don't know. I just hope that nothing is corrupted. But still, can anyone please help me in finding out what happened or on how to fix it? I would greatly appreciate it!

Hello, I have a unraid 6.9.2 server. It suffered a power loss and I lost all my shares. however it seemed the data is still there as the hard drives are still populated (see below). We have tried to find the data in the terminal, but we were unsuccessful. Also we noticed that my cpu on 50-100 % load. We checked it in the pining, and Xmrig (CPU crypto miner) was using the CPU. I am not sure how this happened but I use Xmrig on my pc where I accessed the server and was on the same network. My friend had a look and he said someone hacked in and did this then deleted all my data. I may or may not be in denial but I don't understand how they could have deleted the data without anything (logs) from the machine. Let me know if you can think of any other ways to see if my data still exists.

I have absolutely no idea as to why, but all of a sudden one of the user accounts on my Windows 11 computer reset itself after giving the " The User Profile Service service failed the sign-in. User profile cannot be loaded" message the first time I tried opening it today while using the computer in the normal course. It logged in the next time, but when it did, it suddenly reset itself and gave the 'Preparing Windows' message, and I have no idea why did it do so. Now all of the local files have gone missing (except the ones in the Recycle Bin). (Fortunately most of the relevant stuff is backed up on OneDrive, but still) I have no idea as to why it has happened, and would be very grateful for any help as to how to recover the files.

I honestly have no idea what else to do, decided to come here for help since ya'll so tech savvy, much more than me, and in hope that maybe someone from LTT actually reads this and helps me out. This is a bit of a mess and more than one screw up, I'll try to explain the best I can and sorry in advance for the long read. I have a 1TB SSD on my laptop, split into two 500GB partitions, C (for Windows, programs etc.) and D (for pictures, backups, documents, etc.). I had 200GB left on C and 100GB on D, and wanted to move some of that space from C to D. On the Disk Manager, I could shrink up to 40GB, which I ended up doing (only 30GB). But then, I couldn't just expand D for the same amount, as, for what I understand (and what a friend of mine who is a computer engineer and was helping me with this explained), it wasn't continuous and so I couldn't just add it to D. Ok, fine, I ended up just putting those 30GB back into C. When he came about to help me with this, we downloaded a tool to help move those 30GB, called Paragon Partition Manager 17 CE. So, with it, we shrank C for 30GB again, and then moved those to D. We left it running while I had lunch. When I came back, some error popped up, I don't recall exactly what, but basically it failed to finish (I have no idea why, seems like the SSD turned off in the middle of the operation - the pc didn't shut down or went to sleep, only turned the screen off from being away for like 30min, that's it). The result was me having a D partition in Disk Manager fully unallocated (all 500 GB of it). After this it was a whole search for tools that could help me get my partition back, as he said it almost definitely has all the data there, just can't "see it". So I got EaseUS Partition Manager, he did indeed find the partition and that it was in good state for recoverability (and it showed that it still had 400GB used of 500GB total, which was 100% what I had before all of this mess). We hit recover, it recovered it, and gave it a new letter, F. All seemed good, although now I didn't have access to the disk, we just changed the security settings on it and, supposedly, I sort of got access. So, it seemed we fixed the issue. Well, not really. After this, we got a couple prompts. One saying that the "Recicle bin of F was damaged. Do you want to empty it?". We got a bit confused, we denied it at first. Then we got another prompt from the notification bar saying there were some errors in F and that Windows needed to restart to fix them. We, changed the letter of the partition in Disk Manager from F to D to see if that would magically fix the issue, but nope. We didn't know what to do, if we could just ignore the prompts, I still didn't have access to the folders under D (even after letter change), but I feel it was because of when my friend tried to give me perms, something didn't get 100% right. So, and now I feel like this was the real screw up, I think I hit "Yes" on the recicle bin prompt and then we restarted the pc. While restarting, on the 1st screen, it now showed "Scan and Fix: Stage 1/2" and went on to do "something" I have no clue what, but it basically screwed me over even more. After coming back, I went to see the disk on "This PC", and D was there indeed, but now showed "260GB free of 500GB, instead of the 100GB it should show. Seemed like data got deleted. Still didn't have access to the folders, but this time I tried to change the perms myself and what was missing last time was that I needed to ADD myself again in the security tab, so I did that and now I could access what was left in D. Indeed data was missing, a lot of it. We ran the Partition Manager again, and this time he couldn't find anything. On the Disk Manager, now C and D were right next to each other and somehow those 30GB were AFTER D (not after C and before D as before). We decided to get some more data recovery tools, so we got Disk Drill and EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard. Ran both and both could find lost data in D, Recicle bin and that unallocated 30GB partition. We decided to merge those 30GB with D, since now I could (seems like the 1st program did indeed manage to move them after reboot/reboot finalized the move) and since it seemed like it had data from D anyway. Ran them again and indeed I think they found everything that seemed lost BUT it's a bloody giant mess. Nothing is where it's suppose to, most things have random names, etc. And the thing is, both of them, when I run them on D, they find 800GB worth of content to recover, which is around double of what I had (if I remove "existing data" it's around 700GB of recoverable data). Also, during the partition moving or whatever that stupid program/Windows did, I somehow ended up with C files in the recicle bin (which I only know because I ran the data tools on it, they don't actually show up in it). So, the thing now is, I have no idea what to do/if there's a way to revert this/get the files where they are supposed to be, with the names they are supposed to have. I have an external HDD with 1TB where I have a backup of D at 100% and some things from C (game save data, etc.),but its' from September (yes, I know, that's awful, and I have no idea why it's been so long since I did a backup, I really thought I had one from March or so, since I do one after each semester). So, with it, I can just copy over everything from it to D, but I'm afraid that I will actually lose stuff if I do it before recovering things, since I'll be adding data to it. I decided to order another 1TB external HDD just so I can recover things into it. But now I'm not sure if I should use EaseUS or Disk Drill (although I'm tending more into EaseUS), or if I, for example, use one to recover things, copy them over to the new HDD, and then use the other to scan things again, to make sure I got everything. can I do that? What happens after the first recovery (basically does it move the data into the HDD or copy it?)? Basically, my idea was to recover the data into the new HDD, copy back everything from the old HDD that has the September backup (it has 305GB worth of data in the D backup; my SSD only has 190GB on D at the moment), and then run through those 800GB and copy over whatever is left (which would be around 95GB, since I had 400GB at the start). I also ran AOMEI Partition Assistant and got some damaged sectors on both partitions (more on the D partition). I'll leave pictures of that (not in english, but I think everyone can easily understand the important parts). I know it can happen over time, just not sure if this fast/this many or if it could have been caused by this mess (I got the SDD in September +/-). Now, is this the best option? Is there a way to basically "reverse" what we did and the several screw ups (like move the partition again, etc., I don't know)? When I recover the data, is there a way for it to be organized again/recover the paths/names of the things so I can just copy-paste everything back into D (many files/folders are "organized", but most aren't)? And regarding the C files in the "lost" recicle bin, Should I retrieve those as well into the external HDD and the copy them over? I feel like that bit is going to be a bit hard, since many files (system files) I have no idea where they belong. I feel like the final solution would be to get all the data possible out of the laptop and then just fully format it, C and D. Ah, also, the recicle bin prompt still shows up when I open folders in D, and if I run a disk check for D the notification that tells me to restart the pc to fix the issues shows up again, so now I don't even shut down my laptop, just put it to sleep. Any help/explanation is MUCH appreciated. I find this so absolutely stupid and unfathomable how it happened. Besides my and my friend's screw ups, and not having a good backup from a more recent date, I feel like both the program and Windows did a major "opsi" that I really would like to revert. Sorry for the long read, I had no idea how else to put his, besides explaining it properly to give the best picture of what happened/what's left, so somehow someone can help me out with this. Thanks in advance to everyone! You're all awesome!

Hi everyone, first time here. I was trying to set a Raid 1 on my dad's computer (first time doing that too) and I realised that the 2 drives need to be connected on the same way, but mine are m.2 and sata, so it didn't work. That was AFTER changing them to dynamic disks. I don't know if dynamic disks may cause some trouble, since microsoft doesn't recomment its use anymore, but it feels safer to come back to basic. The problem now is that I don't want any data loss, specially on the C: m.2. So I wanted to ask if there's some safe, free way to do that. The only way I can find is to copy all that data to my PC and format the m.2, but I don't if that may cause some problem with windows or any software, so I wanted to ask here first. thanks!

My D drive does not appear in file explorer and Premiere projects that where stored there will not open however, games and other programs that where stored on D drive will open. It dose not appear in disk manger and I have no idea what to do. If anyone has any information that could help that would be great I have impotent projects on that drive. Thanks, Ethan. PS, yes I know I should have backed up my drive im sorry.

My dad got me the album Demon Days by Gorillaz and I was wondering, if I rip the audio from the cd will the cd be blank? I want to keep the audio on the cd encase I want to put it into the cd player in my car while on the road.

Hello! one week ago, one day before a class trip, my phone just broke, without any optical marks, just a black/blank screen, but I know that it is still unlockable because I can feel the vibration when I'm drawing my lock pattern. I had the phone for 2 years now, and I'm really not in a great mood when I'm thinking about replacing or repairing it, because that's too expensive for me as a student. But that's not the real bad problem. I have a lot of photos I need to rescue, and although I have google photo sync on, it seems like it won't connect to my wifi, so that's not working, so no luck there. Today I'm back home, and I thought it would be pretty easy because the phone is unlockable. But sony f****d me there too, because you always have to change from "charging only" to "MTP Data Transfer" to transfer data or to rescue data with the Xperia Companion. And to enable MTP trough the computer with ADB, USB debugging needs to be turned on. As result, I have no clue how to access my data and would be really happy if anyone could help me out. ---- Phone Informations ---- Model: Sony Xperia Z3 (D6603) OS: Android 6 (Marshmallow) MTP not activated USB Debugging not activated If more is requested/needed ill add infos Leo

I use a Silicon Power A60 2TB external hard drive as a back up drive and as a vault to store files that are too large for my internal HDD. These large files are a waste of space on both of my laptops but i still want to keep them, so i put them on the external HDD. 2 Days ago i tried to extract a .rar file from the external drive to the laptop drive, but failed everytime due to a "Read Error", i safetly unplug the drive and conected again to see that the NTFS partition of 1.75 TB was unformated and windows was asking to formated. I panicked, then screamed "WHAT THE F***!?", i tried reconecting the drive a couple of times but didn't worked. The drive is 5 months old, and the 2nd partition, a FAT32 partion of 70 GB is working, so it doesn't seem to be a physical damage. (I still don't know what happen there, if anyone have an idea of what happen please let me know) I Proceeded to recover the partition, i used Wondershare Data Recory and (12 hours of scaning later) recover everything back to the same drive because i was confident everything will recover without problems. When it finished (12 hours later...) i quickly realised that a lot of files were corrupted, large video files, .rar files, .7z files, image files, the mayority of the files are damaged. Yasterday i tried the EaseUS Data Recovery, this time i tried to recover some videos in the "RAW" section and check if this software can recover the files correctly, but the files were corrupted as well. Do those files are forever lost then? There is no way to recover them? What is the best i can do to prevent this happen again?

Dear LTT Forum, TIFU by deleting partitions on one of my friends M.2 SSD drives. I was troubleshooting something, took out the HDD, put a new one in to reinstall windows and then just copy the data from the old one. The part where i messed up, is that I didn't realize the notebook has an M.2 drive. So Win10 installation screen pops up, i happily click "delete" on all the patitions thinking it's just some of my leftover ones on the HDD I've put in. Instant regret follows, as I realize there are two drives and I just deleted his M.2 partitions with all the data on there still. Is the data gone? Can i somehow save at least something? The drive now shows up in disk manager, but it's waiting to be "initialized" and i get an error choosing bot GPT and MBR saying “The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error”. Any help is appreciated.

Just purchased a new PC everything is set up and working fine on the PC. However I am looking to recover information off of an older SSD drive like five years old. I don’t want to have to go through searching and activating programs I just want to recover files and folders. Definitely willing to pay for software that Will get the job done successfully and with as little difficulty as possible. The majority of these files are documentation as well as a few thousand photos. Any and all help and suggestions would be welcome. Thanks in advance

Hello Everyone, i recently failed miserably while formatting a flash drive, and ended up formatting my secondary HDD in my laptop :(. the HDD was encrypted with Bitlocker and it was just a quick format, i was able to get all my data back using "Get data back" and putting everything in an external disk, but my problems began here, after i had everything in the external disk, i moved everything back to the previously formatted HDD, and everything was fine, i even checked many files to see if they will open. an then i restarted the laptop and the first thing i noticed was that to open the secondary HDD i needed to put the Bitlocker key, and then the drive was empty.... why? how? i don't know.... any explanation? did i miss something, did bitlocker f* with me?. Regards

Last night when transferring files to my new hard drive, I accidentally perma deleted an important folder which contains school works, etc(it permanently deleted it since the folder size is big, around 15gb.) I was in panic so I tried to search methods on how to recover them. Fortunately, I stumbled upon EaseUS and it did recover the folder that I needed. Now I'm wondering how does recovery tools really work? The files aren't there anymore so where does the software look for? And how long does it take for a deleted files to be not recoverable anymore?

So, in preface, I am having a horrible evening. I opened Steam this evening and got an error for explorer.exe "integer division by zero at location blah blah blah." So I click ok to terminate the program as it says, and explorer restarts. Ok, no biggie, just an error. Well, then I went to open steam again, and same thing, so I went to the Steam folder to poke around a bit and found now "Steam can't write to it's folder". So I went and checked some other things and now all of a sudden my hard drive is not there (drive E: in this case). Figuring maybe a cable issue was causing this flaky behavior, I shut down and checked my cables, even swapped cables around between the drives. Fired back up and the drive is there, folders are in the drive, but all the folders are empty. Ran chkdsk, it apparently found no error. The interesting part is, the drive (when visible in This PC) shows the correct amount of storage used/free, but everything inside says 0 bytes. I am going offline and doing a full virus/malware barrage for the time being, but any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated. I am going to be extremely upset if nearly 2TB of data just erased itself from my PC.

So, I've got a new external hard Drive (Wd My Book 4tb), and I wanted to integrate it into my System (Windows 10 64/Bit), I´ve Formatted it to Ntfs Standard, Load some Data one it (All of My Media Content), disassembled it and put it into my System. First thing I noticed it took legit 30 mins to start up my Pc the first time... . So up in Windows, Bam nothing just a plain Drive Letter but not readable. So I checked it with the windows drive inspection, all fine. Then I looked into the partition manager and I saw This. Diskette 5, those 500Gb unformatted could be my Data. SO my Question now How can I bring the Hard Drive Back without losing my Data? I Already Backed the Partition Up to Diskette 9 (an External 8Tb Drive(But only the 500gb unformatted data)) You got any Ideas? Changing the Drive letter does nothing. Thanks in advance and sorry for my not Perfect English ^^.

Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/commonwealth-bank-of-australia-financial-data-breach-20-million-accounts/ The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has lost the records of over 20 million accounts, over 12 millions customers, when a subcontractor lost two magnetic data storage tapes containing the records in 2016. Now by lost they don't necessarily mean THEY don't still have all this information, but that others may now be in possession of said information. I didn't think anyone even still used magnetic tape. If they were meant to be destroyed anyway why weren't they scrubbed before moving? It takes 2 seconds. One magnet... all it takes. Even other archival media, other institutions, other data types, more care should be taken to secure or destroy the data before any attempt to move it or access for third parties is allowed. I'm not sure I like an institution like this not making such a breach known much sooner. I'm not sure if its a government institution, or a private one under charter, or what. Depending on their operations is that enough data to compromise accounts? Allow for identity theft? All data security starts as physical security. How many other institutions may operate similarly? May allow deprecated technology to be handled in a less secure manner than is prudent? We can take some solace in knowing most people wouldn't even know what these tapes were or how they could be accessed. But security by obscurity is no real security.

There's a huge glitch for iOS and OSX out right now! There's a certain character that if sent to you on iOS or OSX, it could crash your app permanently. However, it doesn't affect android but I'm not sure about windows. Heres a vid that explains it some more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUE9mCN7sek Just wanted to give you guys a heads up and not to interfere with this stuff.

Hi! I have recently upgraded my internal storage, and was trying to make a backup of my data. I plugged in a WD MyPassport 1 TB to my USB 3.0 port, left the drive in a stable position on my desk, started the file transfer, and left. When I came back the next morning, I saw all sorts of errors, and the drive was no longer accessible. Now, when I plug the drive into any USB port on any PC (tried 3 devices), it shows up in file explorer as "local disk" but there is no storage info, and after trying to access for some time (you can hear the drive spinning, and it lights up), file explorer freezes. The drive never shows up in disk manager (disk manager shows no drives if you try to open it when the external HD is plugged in). and chkdsk doesn't find the filepath. I have tried multiple restarts and different devices. I suspect that my PC may have gone to sleep during data transfer lastnight (although I believe my settings were to not do that, and my data transfer should have been done by then), and caused an unexpected removal of the drive during data transfer. At this point, I am NOT trying to get my data back; I have 2 1 TB drives in my PC, 1 with all my data. I was going to set up a RAID with them, and wanted to move all my data off first. I AM trying to see if I can restore the hardware itself, so that I don't have to buy a new drive. Anything else I can try? googling this issue did not seem to find meaningful results beyond the "try this new free magicfix software download free" variety. Thanks in advance. System specs are in my profile. Update: After waiting a long time, file explorer responded enough that I could right click and format the drive. That format was not successful; however, the drive now shows up disk manager as a "RAW" volume. I am currently pending the format for about 30 minutes. Would it take this long over USB 3.0 for a 1TB spin drive?

My 32gb pen drive is corrupt and I can't access the files inside. It is recognized by my pc but when i try to open it, it says that I should format it before I can use it. Is there any way i can repair it without formatting? I have tried "partition wizard" but I still couldn't access the files. What can i do?

Hello I really need help guys I just got home from a trip and my sd card seems to have gotten corrupted but only the last few days of photos and videos older and newer photos and videos work fine but these last days just my luck were the important ones. They show up on my phone as a black screen and an exclamation point. I have tried data recovery software with everything but those files appearing , any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am new to building pc's, I just built my first rig last year. I was only able to afford a single Samsung 840 Evo 250gb SSD and a single 1TB WD Blue drive HD to get the build started. The SSD is my boot drive and the WD Blue is storage. I now would like to add additional drive or drives as both a backup and additional storage. Is there anyway to add an additional drive or two without loosing my data? Create a RAID setup? Should I keep the WD Blue 1TB as a backup and purchase 2 or 3 new WD Black to set up my RAID? I have about $300 to spend on this what would you suggest? Any youtube videos that might help?