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I am unable to recover my files from my old WD My Cloud 2TB NAS. I removed the drive from its case and installed it in my PC. I installed two different software's to read Linux extensions but none worked. (FTK, Linux for windows) I do see the drive in disk manager but it doesn't show any information. I have enabled SVM in Bios and installed Ubuntu via WSL in Powershell. I used Windows PowerShell to identify the drive which it did. I then attempted to mount the drive and I get an error code. \.\PHYSICALDRIVE2 WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 0 WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 \.\PHYSICALDRIVE1 WDC WD20EZRX-00D8PB0 1 2000396321280 WDC WD20EZRX-00D8PB0 \.\PHYSICALDRIVE0 WDC WD40EZAZ-00SF3B0 1 4000784417280 WDC WD40EZAZ-00SF3B0 \.\PHYSICALDRIVE3 Lexar SSD NM610PRO 1TB 3 1000202273280 Lexar SSD NM610PRO 1TB PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> wsl --mount \.\PHYSICALDRIVE2 --bare The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. Error code: Wsl/Service/AttachDisk/0x8007045d I am at a complete loss. AMD 5600x Gigabyte B450M DS3H Wifi Bios F65a Nvidia GeForce 1660 Super 32gb DDR4 Ram Lexar 1TB SSD NM610 Pro

Hello all, my pc buddy isn’t responding. Probably out doing stuff, oh well. Moving on.. what happened? Was using win 10 pro, had WSL kali, and Ubuntu going, both upgrading/fixing dependencies, and dist-upgrade. Had 2-3 tabs open in Firefox, one for college (blackboard), one was another for a radio station for music/background noise, and another prob related to college stuff. Word was also open so I was probably doing a virtual lab on JBLEARNING.com. So, follow instructions, do a screenshot and paste into word. As all of this was going on, hey my amd 6700xt and 6600 have a new driver available, let’s install it! So it’s installing while all this is going on, then BSOD, not sure how far into the install but I specifically remember the error code was amd*(gpu-related).dll, yada yada please wait while we report to msft and reboot for you. Pc reboots, no gpu output as expected. The ROG logo showed up (booting windows), and screen goes blank. I presume Windows loaded fine and was on the login screen, but of course couldn’t see it. fudge right? No onboard output, so wtf. what have I tried? -Reboot, then I force it to do the Windows “diagnose” BS. Go into CMD from there as the objective is clearly to remove the AMD drivers and fall back to basic display adapter. Well, diskpart shows my two nvmes when in reality the two 1tbs should be “one” physical drive as it’s raid 1. Hmm, looks like this pre-Windows boot isn’t loading the NVMe RAID drivers so C:\ isn’t accessible. Damn! Can’t even go back to a restore point! -shoved a bootable win10 usb install disk into pc and boop, fires up. Goto the part where it wants u to pick a drive to install on. Hey there’s my 2 nvmes! Then I shove in my AMD RAID usb, install the drivers, bam, there’s my partitions. Cool. Shift+F10 (I think) to get into CMD. Well fudge, the raid drive is there just not “mounted”, as in can’t access the media/file system. Shoot! -rotate my chair 90 degrees, now I’m playing off my server (2022 datacenter) off a kvm switch as it’s in the basement not the 2nd floor office. Hmm…. Ok let’s make a Windows 2 go flash drive. Fire up Rufus, make the drive, shove into pc n reboot. (Long time later) windows desktop. Ok, now we’re getting somewhere? Diskpart shows the two nvmes yet again. As expected, no access. That’s ok, I’ll just install the raid chipset drivers and the raidx utility from AMD. Reboot, wtf? Still can’t access the “drive”. -Alright so now obv we have an issue. Shutdown, insert my hiren boot “cd”, Windows PE fires up fine. Of course I can’t install the NVMe raid drivers since it’s such a lightweight version of Windows (figured I’d try). Sure enough diskpart shows the nvmes again but no access to C:\ or whatever letter it would assign if the array was functioning properly. Now I’m using some tool for data recovery to “deep scan” one of the drives. Hopefully I can just get to my desktop folder and copy my “college” folder as that’s where all my assignments and stuff are. That’s really all I care about salvaging. Probably less than 200 meg of data. It’s still scanning, drive is in good Health and it’s happy. (Still going as of now) -the weird thing i have 8x 1tb Samsung SSDs, 7 are EVO’s and 1 is a QVO - all identical firmware. Anywho, 4 of those are on raid 10 which pull up as a drive letter (I use it to store backups as for some reason the SATA raid never has a problem, even without drivers windows 2 go can see it and I can access). Also the other 4 drives are deticated hot spares (global spares?) just in case - right?? Been there before, had a SSD/HDD setup before on 10 and one drive pooped, another, then u guessed it, everything went to the trash and I swapped my config. -what I probably should have tried remember initially how windows WOULD boot but no output? Assumed it was sitting at the login screen? Well, should have tried to RDP from the server to the pc. It has a static IP of 192.168.1.19. Maybe I could have pulled up the GUI off the server and reinstalled the AMD video drivers -here is also a consideration, but I’d like solid advice on this one as again, it’s crucial data I want to recover - a whopping 200mb or less. go into bios, set to ACHI (on nvme’s), make one of two dynamic so I can *maybe* access the drive. I mean, they’re raid 1 so it’s a 100% mirror right? In theory it should work ALTHOUGH when setting up the array in the bios (NVMe, sata, don’t matter) the drives need to be unformatted Blah blah. Also, they need to be “initialized” in preparation for making the array. This leads me to beleive the bios is writing data to the drives making them say, hey I’m gonna be a member of an array, I’m special. Then ya make the array and now they’re “bound”, blood brothers I guess. So with that said, the drives must have a portion of data written saying “that other guy who matches my data signature is also me, I can’t work alone”. Of course whatever data it is, has to be stored at the very beginning of the drive in raw storage. Idk let’s say it’s only 128kb worth of code or something. U have the NVMe firmware and whatever else specific to the drive (serial number, sequence data blah blah) then that part of code associating this drive to that one, and then of course all your data - efi partition, NTFS partition, and all the other stupid ones Windows tosses in there. -so where to go from here? ideally, I’d like to break the array. I’ve contemplated simply removing one of the sticks (after disabling raid and selecting ACHI) and see if it can figure out wtf is going on. Or perhaps leaving raid on (that little part of data right?), then removing one of them. Maybe bios will see one drive is “down” and figure it out? -things to consider in bios AND windows 2 go, the NVMe raid array is “offline” - zero clue why. I didn’t mess with anything in there as of yet. Well actually no, I did clear the cmos but that still retained the raid arrays. Again, the sata array shows up totally fine, it’s online and happy, all the spares show up too. But wtf is going on with the NVMe raid?? NOTE, the cmos was not cleared until after I did the whole win2go/install raid drivers/reboot/check to see if I can access the “drive” any ideas? It be nice if I could just salvage my college folder at a bare minimum. After that, then try to recover one of the disks as a whole (so Windows can physically mount it as a letter) and remove that half-installed driver. also under disk management (computer management, whatever), the drives do pull up but for me to assign a drive letter I need to convert one of em to dynamic, from gpt. From what I’ve read online when u go dynamic u can’t convert back to gpt. Basically, I’m not quite sure if it’ll help or set me back even further. after all, it would be nice just to get windows back n working like it was yesterday prior to the BSOD. I don’t mind a fresh format either, so long as I have my college folder (finals are in like a week). -Pc specs x570 asus/rog dark hero WIFI on 4402 bios (latest last I checked, feb 02 of 2023 I beleive) 5900x OCd to 4.25 bclock set to 101.25 (could be lower now, probably just 100, not that it matters) 4x Corsair dominators, 3600, 64gb total (16g each) with docp enabled Xfx 6700ti and another xfx 6600 1000w seasonic 80 gold psu a (bleep) load of watercooling stuff. Let’s just say over 1800mm worth of radiators. Yes my case is packed! a crapload of fans, forget the brand, but non RGB. I do know they do 2500rpm, the 120mm’s at least. Same model line, 5x 140mm fans, just a tad slower but fastest fans I could find. They all match so yeah, irrelevant but good to know? 2x Kingston fury (rampage?) 1tb nvmes, latest firmware last I checked. Made in same country, same model, everything is identical about those aside from serial number 8x Samsung’s on raid10 (sata) as mentioned, no need for further details on those. They all match but one which is one of 4 global spares hardware NOT installed yet, or ever (could be helpful for anybody that has ideas) -one gigabyte NVMe pci-e 4.0 16x enclosure packed with 2x 980 pros and 2x Kingston rampages (fury’s, whatever) here’s the copy/paste off Amazon if you’d like to look it up ”GC-4XM2G4 (AORUS Gen4 AIC Adaptor, Full PCIe 4.0, Advanced Thermal Solution for PCIe 4.0 SSD)” ^again, never installed in pc, never setup, nothing. Just put the drives in the enclosure, closed it up and it’s sitting on top my case waiting to be installed after this mess is figured out. oh and should this get fixed, should I just put all 4 of my Kingston’s into that and put the two 980s on the motherboard? I plan on raid’ing the enclosure thingy - IF it has an onboard raid controller (that will eliminate the need for drivers as it’s made for my motherboard) Should it work, assuming butrificatuon isn’t a problem, put my main OS on that? How should I configure my HD’s in relation to my default boot drive? geez sorry for the long story. Still waiting on this hiren app to deep scan the drive anyway, thanks in advance. I really really need some help on this one, very very desperate OH and the server is literally a server, idk if it helps with ideas but yeah. It’s got like 10 NICs on her, U2 form factor, dual Xeon somethings, 384ish gb of ddr3, registered, ecc, blah blah. There’s also a quadro rtx 4000 in it, which I probably should have just shoved in my pc had I thought about it back then…. Full ipmi access, latest firmware. Supermicro something. So I could always do pxe boot, although I don’t quite understand how to mount a iso thru the interface as it wants a location, like \\yadayada\this.iso. I imagine it wants either \\Server\SAS-RAID\Downloads\ISOs\windows10.iso OR like linux, \\pci{03840283957302947}\somestuff\morestuff\noidea\modelnumber\sda1\Downloads\ISOs\windows10.iso ^its also raided, Intel 120gb SSD as boot, 6x 1tb sata3 SSDs on raid 0, also another array, 8x seagate somethings, 2tb each on raid 0, SAS drives plus a WD direct access storage, 14tb strictly used ONLY for backups. I mean we got a lot of terabytes here on raid 0, so B/Us are done frequently just in case For right now it’s just a storage server, static ips are set. 2022 datacenter. After college is done with it’ll become a lot more, and I’ll toss in my other 2 laptops as servers doing different roles. (That’s why I have the kvm balun, once the laptops are setup as servers they’ll be wired to the supermicro and I’ll just RDP to each of them as needed) ugh ok that’s my bit. Help!!

I have a Gigabyte GA-AX370-Gaming K7 motherboard. After being assured by another web forum (I know, stupid move, should have come here) that this mobo could be adjusted to run Win 11, I followed the tutorial to make the specified BIOS changes. Rebooted and BRICKED !!! No POST, just a black screen. So now, I'm trying to figure out how to go about recovering BIOS 1. Yes, happily, it's a dual-BIOS mobo. I have read several different methods on various sites, but no one seems to agree on a definitive method. Has anyone actually done this successfully ? If so, how ? Thanks in advance for your help. Oh, also, is there a certain level of BIOS required before enabling fTPM will actually work and not brick the mobo ? The one that I had on BIOS 1 was f10.

I have a WD BLUE 2 TB SSD and have a Folder where all downloads go to. Yesterday that directory was EMPTY all Approx 20 GB! All that was loaded at the time was Firefox. All those Family pics, video, movies, and a hodgepodge of other files... What happened? Does anyone know a cheap or free way to undelete or recover these files?

So I linked my phone to my computer and copied the files from dcim to a folder I created on the computer, then I went back to dcim camera and selected all the photos and deleted them because I'd already transferred them but when I hit delete the whole dcim folder got deleted from the phone, and along with that the folder I'd transferred the files into disappeared and I can't find it in trash nor using the everything app. I really need to recover the photos, please help

Hey guys Guys I need help with my recording. I was live streaming using Streamlabs when my computers plug got yanked and the computer shutdown. The stream I was recording doesn't open now and I need the file to edit it. The images are what it looks like and what a normal one should look like. If anyone could help me recover the file it would help me so much. Thanks

i tried to dual boot my pc with steamOS and my storage drive got converted to efi system partition type is there any way to recover data

Hey everyone, My friend's usb seems to have died on her (windows won't recognize it and it won't light up). Is there any possible ways to recover that data? Any advice would be helpful! Thanks in Advance.

I dropped my phone and the screen stopped working, I'm hoping I'll be able to transfer my contacts from my old galaxy Nexus phone to my new phone. Internally my Nexus works fine (it's recognised as a device when I plug it into my PC) but all I can find online is how to recover my data if I have USB debugging enable. My nexus doesn't have a password if that helps. I hope someone knows a solution.

i took a couple of pictures today around 4-5 hours ago but i accidentaly deleted them once i took them after that i took 5-10 more pictures is there anyh way i could recover them? any reliable software? my phone is a vodafone smart prime 6

Title gives a pretty good explanation of what happened: I downloaded the Windows 10 OEM to my 2TB external HDD, to be used on a laptop I'm attempting to re-image, thinking it would be a file on my HDD that I would select and use. To my horror, my 2TB external HDD has been completely reformatted from NTFS to FAT32 (note I have no idea what each of these actually are, I'm reasonably tech savvy just not up to date with tech jargon like this) My first reaction was to not touch anything; 'it definitely can be fixed as long as I don't mess with it' I installed a file recovery service (EaseUS free version) but upon completing a deep scan of the drive it tells me there are 2651.16GB worth of files to be recovered. On a 2TB HDD. Wat Had around 1.8TB of useable space initially, was about half full at time of format; only had games, videos and pics etc. on it, but would still be a nightmare trying to reinstall everything Any help here would be hugely appreciated, all I want is to reformat the drive to its original state with all the data that is (presumably) still on there intact. I haven't gone through with the recovery attempt with EaseUS yet simply because I have nowhere to install such a huge amount of data. Help pls and thanks! P.S. I am running Windows 10 OEM 64 bit, 2 external HDDs (D: and E:) and two internal SSDs; one m.2 (C: and F:) and one SATA. No issues with anything other than the single HDD

I made the stupid mistake of accidentally deleting some MTS files off of my Panasonic Camcorder SD Card, those were some important video files. For clarification, I deleted them CAM_SD\PRIVATE\AVCHD\BDMV\STREAM. I tried to use Recuva and other recover tools, but they replaced the file with the wrong video. Then when I put the SD card back in my Camcorder it says the videos are there but they can't be played. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi, a while ago I reinstalled Windows 10 but kept my personal files, thought it would only reinstall the Windows folder but It also deleted stuff from the Program folder and Program (x86) folder where I kept my pictures of Andromeda, Vega, Orion Nebula ect. Anyway to recover the pictures or do I need to spend the next whole winter taking the pictures, and if I now do recover these pictures somehow are they going to be corrupted? - William

So My primary server went down recently and I've decided to just start from scratch with it after removing it from AD etc (it was the PDC) I have another server which is now functioning as the PDC and was a DNS/DHCP backup server using DHCP failover on the IPv4 scope. Is there anyway of now converting the failover scope on server2 to be a main scope? I can't go back to server1 to recover or transfer it or anything as the drive has been wiped, is there a way of just telling the DHCP service to turn the failover into a scope and take over?

I'm gonna try to make this short so you bare with me My sister were trying to set a fingerprint password for her Samsung S6 Edge+. However her phone restared in the middle of it and when it booted up again she is required to enter a password that she has not chosen. I've been trying to find a solution for this all day but I've come up empty-handed. Tried different programs. I understand that you are not meant to be able to bypass the lock screen. But she doesn't want to lose her pictures and stuff on the phone but there seems to be no way to save it. You guys are my last chance, is there any way in the world that it can be saved? Both me and my sister would be forever grateful!

I deleted some pictures from my Snapchat memory, but now i regret it.... Can somehow i backup deleted photos from my Snapchat Memories?

So one day I was reinstalling windows and disaster struck... I deleted all the partitions on a hard drive that was not meant to have my OS. The HDD had personal data. I realized my mistake and I stopped doing anything to it, even formatting it. The hard drive does not appear on windows explorer, but it does appear in disk management as having a "RAW" file system. I'm trying to use recuva to get my information back but when choosing the desired HDD, recuva tells me it's "unable to determine file system type". I would appreciate some tips or advice on what to do. Should I give the HDD a format? Should I use another data recovery program? I'm just being very cautious not to ruin any information I may be able to recover. FYI, I'm trying to recover data from a western digital black 1TB HDD, if that makes a difference. Thanks. I attached some screenshots of the issue:

Hi everyone, I recently discovered a problem with one of my PS4s right before going on vacation to another country. I few days ago I came back to my country again and started to analyze the problem, but I unfortunately haven't found the solution. Here's what's up. The PS4 turns on, but instantly goes to safe mode and asks me to update the PS4 using a USB. So, I downloaded the PS4 update from Sony's website, but it then requested the other download, the "Complete System Software File". I went once again and downloaded the other file instead, but it alerted me that all the data on the PS4 would be delete. So, of course I didn't proceed with that. I don't want to lose the savegames I have inside (Before anyone asks: No, I don't have PlayStation Plus, so I can't re-download the saves). Here's what I've tried to do so far: [Booting into Safe Mode] - Rebuilding PS4 Database. - Applying Default settings. - Updating PS4 using USB, Internet and a Disc. [Connecting PS4 HDD to PC] - Tried to recover data using EaseUS, RecoverIt and other programs. - Booted my PC with the latest Ubuntu OS to see if I could access the Data (Thought this would make sense, as the PS4 is using a Unix based OS) All of these attempts were unsuccessful. After trying to recover the data using the PC I read online that the PS4's HDD is encrypted, making it very difficult to access it. So, today I was once again trying to solve this issue and I came across this: Website: https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps4/Files_on_the_PS4#Partitions Do you guys think it would work if I formatted that last partition and tried to update the system again? I really don't know what to do anymore. All I want is to recover the savegames. So, if you guys could help me with this, I would be very thankful.

So ... i was converting my Windows Server in to Linux and i backed up EVERYTHING .... except MySQL, i remembered this after i installed Ubuntu so the files did not get overwrote during the switch. I was able to recover the whole `C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0` directory and files inside. One problem ... i cant just copy that backup over to new MySQL install (i installed MySQL on my Main PC with Windows 10 just to test it and convert everything in to .sql files and back them up) If i try to do that with the files that actually need to be copied (ibdata, ib_logfileX...) MySQL wont start... Is there any way to recover the InnoDB databases and tables with ibd files or what can i do to recover it in some other way? I was searching around and everything that i found required some .frm file which i couldnt find anywhere, im guessing MySQL 8 doesnt use them anymore? Imma add some pics of files that i have in to attachments And inside the Data folder: The most important Database from there is that `admin_tracker`, i need to recover that, other stuff is not really needed .... Files inside that `admin_tracker` folder: Thank you for any help!

I decided to reset my windows, and beforehand i prepared in an external HD my backup of pictures videos, drivers, programs, and so on. After reset was finished, I was looking around about the storage options and came up with the "storage space" option, seeing my External HD there and not remembering how it ended up there I clicked to erase storage pool/space. Not knowing it deleted the partition. Since I realized my mistake i've been trying to recover the files. using programs like: EaseUS data recovery wizard Remo recover Hetman Partition Recovery No luck not even to find something from the deleted partition. Each scan takes 5 hours more or less, and I ran a few times. I didn't perform a deep format on this HD. Trying now with iMyFone AnyRecover. Please help. Thank you.

I'm attempting to recover lost data (pictures) from a phone via a data cable to a PC. (from HDD on board -- not removable micro SD) I do not believe these have been overwritten so a recovery software should hopefully do the trick. I wondered what suggestions you all have for me before I take shots in the dark. Thank you for all suggestions - Best, Inadaizz

My laptop fell on the floor and is fine except the hdd is broken and needs to be replaced. How do I save the data from that and move it to a new one? Is this possible and will it be just like turning it on as usual. I need access to some accounts that are locked from this computer.

Hello friends, lets pretend i have a 1gb file, and i overwrite all bytes with 0x00, then with 0xFF. Is it then possible to recover the files? My understanding is that only if i delete the files, the bytes are still set on the HardDrive, but overwriting an existing file, would change exactly these bytes, making it 'impossible' to recover the File. Am i correct?

Hi, Linus community, Two days ago a got a virus on my pc. At the time it was working fine, but when I restarted it, there was a black screen with a pop-up window of cmd command mentioning "C:\windows\system32>". Since then, I don't have access to windows nor can I access bios to boot from USB in order to format windows. What can I do to fix this issue? Can I recover windows or do I need to format it? If its the later, how do I access bios? Any suggestions?

My friend (who wishes to remain anonymous in every way) asked me to help them set up screen time on their mac and unfortunately he set a passcode but forgot. They don't have an Apple ID so there is no 'Forgot Password?' button. Also, they are not an administrator so they cannot recover it through an admin account. Is there a way to disable screen time through terminal or find the passcode through the library folders? Thanks.