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My brother messed up his drive and all of the data is gone and the entire drive partition is unallocated. I have found a free data recovery software called recuva that seems to work, the problem is that the drive does not have a file name because it is unpartitioned. If i partition the drive and give it a drive letter, will the data still be recoverable? Also if there are any other free data recovery software tools that you know of please tell me. Alternatively if there is any other way to recover the data i would also like to know.

I just moved my hard disk to a new system and like 75 percent of the data is no longer there does anyone know how I can recover the data with all of the file directories still in tact?

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!

I lost my Partition please see the attach image. I tried but unable to recover. In device management showing full HDD without partition but in MiniTool partition wizard showing all Partition. I also try to change but not working Please help I need that partitions.

Hey guys! 1. I'm new here ? 2. So recently I was recording a review of the 2007 released Dell Vostro 220s (I know it's random af, don't ask), and I accidentally DELETED all my footage! I wanted to know if there was a way or a recomended software to use to retrieve it? Many of the ones I use have a FREE data limit to about 500Gb, and I deleted about 5GB worth of footage... I've tried the software 'Recuva', but that claimed my videos were 'UNRECOVERABLE'.. for some reason? The footage I was using, was recorded by a DSLR camera onto an SD card. I then transferred that data to my 32GB USB drive via my laptop when it was deleted.... HELP?! ?

I've lost my USB with no backups for some of my work. But the DOCX file I want shows under my recent files in LibreOffice. It's clearly saved a thumbnail of the document. Is there any way I can access this, so I can get a better view of the thumbnail? Any help is appreciated

Hey Peeps, I'm hoping someone with a little more know how with Android phones can help me out. I was restarting my phone about an hour ago (HTC M8 running android 6.0), when it got stuck on the Verizon (my carrier) splash screen. After it sat there for a few minutes, it showed the "Optimizing Apps" window. Which is weird since I haven't done any OS updates in months. Once that was done, the phone booted but was different. All my app data is gone. Oddly, all my text messages, photos, and all data are good. But my setting, updates (oddly) for all the apps, and worst of all... ALL of my contacts are gone (and I've already checked to make sure all contact to be shown, not just SIM card, phone, etc.). Does anybody know any ways to restore any of this? My saved games I'm not too worried about, but my contacts is a bit of a problem. I've tried restoring it up, but it looks like I have no back ups I can use. I'm pretty sure they are set up, but not too sure now... Thanks in Advance!