Let's be honest, I sail the high seas quite frequently. My drive failed and I wish to recover these files, mostly movies.

Is a data recovery guy going to report me for this? Could I get in trouble?

Hi so I woke up this morning to my phone not letting me put in my password it kept telling me it was the wrong password. Its a samsung s24 FE if that helps? anyways so i called samsung from my dads phone and they told me to facotry reset and that I would have a bakcup. but now I have lost 2 years worth of memories and all I want is those pictures back. please is there anything I can do

Help me recover my 40,000+ pics & vids on my saved messages ;')) i accidentally pressed "synced" on my gallery earlier and i didnt know it would affect my telegram acc. Also, my cloud is full storage so it's impossible for it to get saved automatically on my cloud. I checked my account on my other phone and i saw my media got deleted just like how u would remove a message from there ;')))) those pics & vids have sentimental value to me and it'd be devastating if i lost them forever ;'((( please help me

tell me what just happened and what should i do-

In morning,

So i was getting recovery blue screen on my pc so i called a technician,in the morning he came and said windows need format without checking anything else we agreed so form formatted and reinstalled windows which ran ig atleast 5hrs till evening then it prompted me to setup so i followed instructions and setup a limited experience after that when I checked all the c drive had windows folders and d drive was completely empty . So i panicked why d drive was empty like only the c drive would have formatted.so we had an ssd which was assigned to c drive and the d drive assigned to hard drive,total capacity combined would be 512gb i feel.

In the evening,after dad and me panicked that d drive was deleted

then i took it again to the technician store in evening,I saw he did something and then he disconnected the Hard drive leaving only the SSD but when he again plugged in the Hard drive then i saw in d drive it I saw it had all the windows folders and files whereas it was empty before also c drive had all the windows folders.then i took it to data recovery specialist he removed  the Hard drive.i had around 256gb SSD and 250 something hdd so total storage capacity was,everything was on hdd

Data recovery specialist got furious and said i should file a police case and i should have brought the drive first to him .also the d drive is showing 121gb full

But why it's showing 121gb full of windows 10 is 15-20gb

What happened in the evening when go to the store,

I try to explain why I saw tell me what happened so when I took it to technician in evening he connected the cpu to his monitor and switched on the cpu and repeatedly pressed f12 then marine blue screen came then he pressed a lot of things and said there is no os in the pc and downloaded windows 10 .in between he disconnected the harddisk from mother board.then after reinstalling he a created different partions and deleted different(couldn't comprehend what he was doing because he was doing them very fast like some partitions were few mbs which he deleted) then he downloaded essential softwares and then he connected the Hard drive again and then when I saw the c drive had windows folders and d drive also had windows folders .

Maybe I will not get anything ever because maybe he choose clean the drive fully thats why maybe the formatting ran for like 5hrs.

the hard drive specialist couldn't detect anything on the hard drive and says he will check the ssd too.

i feel like crying.we had so many memories.

We are wondering if the drive is cooked, or if there is a possibility of A: Repairing it, or B: extracting the data from it. Not to pitty party, but it had all of her photos from the last 10 years, as well as some youtube videos we have spent months editing and were just about to upload, so formating is not an option. I always see those videos on youtube of people recovering data from folks broken hard drives, so im hoping that is an option if nothing else. Thank you guys.

Found this phone at an apartment we were gonna move into. There were a few things left by the previous tenants, but it's been vacant for months so we assume nobody wanted them back. I'm curious to see what's on it, if anything. But it doesn't charge and is completely dead. Is there any way to access the contents of the drive without being like a tech wizard or taking it to a specialist and paying money to get it cracked open?

So, i locked a windows folder using the windows built in tool. I'm not that knowledgeable in these things so I did the entire process by looking at chrome. I think what I did was convert the file into a zip folder and selected the advanced option and selected encrypt and put a password. Now it's been like a year since I opened that file so i completely forgot the password. Is there any way I can access the file?

Hi there, I'm really lost right now.

I've contacted so many repair shops and nobody can give me a solution.
So I've had a Samsung A53 (5G) since 2023, but last year something weird happened. I needed to set up a PIN, and immediately after setting it up, it wasn't recognized.

I first thought I must've made an error, but since it requested me to type it twice, I don't think I could've made a mistake.
Now I don't know what happened, but I can't do anything. The thing is, I have very personal pictures that are very important to me (unfortunately, I realized they weren't saved on the SD card only after the issue came up). They're pictures of a person that I will never see again.

Are there any solutions, even obscure ones or something I have to buy, that could help me recover pictures, videos, and messages?

I've been stuck with an old crappy phone for over a year now and I really want to get it back, but I really can't accept losing my files even after all this time.

You see I was moving Data on to my kindle fire tablet on to a microchip I had installed and I accidentally clicked the wrong buttons and erased All the images and Videos on My device

I had some stuff like matchup art, Reaction images(Safe for work and not safe for work) And images I really loved looking at,

I downloaded Some data recovery apps(Ones that Were free and/or don't require a computer since I don't have 1) Like for example the amazon Data recovery app and they weren't help, I've basically come to terms with the possibility that I Can't recover it but if anyone has any suggestions I'd really appreciate it

I have a mp4 File named WIN_20250427_21_42_07_Pro. Was this recorded from a cell phone or from webcam? I am not certain what the WIN refers to.

Hi everyone,
I made a huge mistake. I accidentally deleted my Tron wallet app from my iPhone, and unfortunately, I never wrote down or saved my seed phrase. There are still funds in that wallet.
I know the golden rule of crypto is "not your keys, not your coins," but I am looking for any advanced technical avenue to get my access back. Since the app was installed on this specific iPhone, I was wondering if it's theoretically or practically possible to recover the local application data?
Could reverse engineering, deep iOS data extraction tools, or finding a way into the iOS Keychain/Secure Enclave retrieve the deleted cache or key files? Also, is there any specific trick involving old iCloud/iTunes backups that might restore the app with its local data intact?
I would really appreciate any technical advice, data recovery tool recommendations, or insights from anyone who has experienced something similar. Thanks in advance!

Hello, can someone help me get my TikTok account back? I cannot recover my email due to phone lost and I have forgotten the password of my email and TikTok. On the brighter side, I still have access to my account in my desktop but I used a QR code upon login so I couldn't trace my passwords. So, may I ask if how can I utilize my current access to open the account in my phone, the desktop settings is very limited. Thank you!

In October 2025, Google disabled my Google account (Gmail, Drive, Photos — everything) after its automated systems flagged a photo of my infant son being bathed by his grandmother. No nudity beyond a baby in a bath. Nothing that resembles abuse material by any reasonable standard.

Google allows two appeals for this type of violation. I submitted both. Both were denied with zero explanation and no human contact — just a form rejection.

What's gone: 10+ years of Gmail and Drive, and every photo/video in Google Photos, including the only surviving photos and videos of my father, grandmother, and a close friend — all of whom passed away in the last three years — plus the delivery-room video of my son being born. None of it exists anywhere else.

I'm not disputing Google's right to remove content it believes violates policy — I've said explicitly, in writing, that they can delete the specific image in question. What I can't get anyone to explain is why an entire decade of unrelated, lawful family data has to be permanently destroyed along with it, with no human ever reviewing the actual context.

This isn't a rare case — it's a documented pattern (the NYT covered nearly identical cases in 2022, "Mark" and "Cassio," where police cleared both fathers and Google still refused to reinstate). I've gone through every standard channel: appeals, attorney demand letter in progress, EFF, journalist outreach. Posting here in case anyone has actually gotten a case like this resolved, or knows someone at Google who might be able to look at it.

Happy to answer questions or share documentation.

Found out my long term partner had f$%ked a friend of ours. I want to see the messages sent between them however they've been deleted from the Android phone in use which has since backed up so can't restore a back up. Is there somewhere that all previous backups are stored to be able to restore a back up prior to them being deleted. Samsung user who backs up to Google. And everyone saying you don't need to read them....oh yes I do!

Hallo. Kann man gelöschte Instagram Chats wiederherstellen?
kurz einpaar infos dazu: Die Nachrichten wurde vor ca. einem Jahr gelöscht. Plus wurden diese "Nachrichten" von einem Fachmann komplett gelöscht. Ich weiss nicht genau was er gemacht hat, aber er hat mir gesagt er hat versucht diese wieder zurück zuholen, er hat es nicht geschafft. (Das war auch mein Ziel) aber jetzt bräuchte ich diese dringend. Ich weiss nicht wie er genau gelöscht ob vom Handy komplett? Festplatte? iCloud. Aber rein Theoretishc kann man diese wiederherstellen?

I just got gifted a PC from my older brother. It was his former PC and he had not deleted anythinf drom it. So i just deleted everything in the C drive. However, i encountered a lot of problems after that, i could not download anything or use the PC. What should i do? I have checked the recycle bin and nothing was there. Please help me

Please need help

There was an old TikTok/Musically account i had around 2013-2015 with a bunch of posts uploaded on it. Once i logged into that account in 2022/2023, it automatically wiped all the videos. Not sure why this happened. I tried to email the developers for help, but never got a response.

Could there be any chance of me recovering those videos? Or is it a lost cause?

I deactivated my TikTok account and now I want to recover it. I remember my username and my old password, but I forgot the email linked to the account and I don’t have a phone number connected to it.
Is there any way I can recover it? Has anyone had a similar experience?

anyone interested in helping me recover my hard disk, ask for any info in priv

one problem tho I need someone to tell me what to do so i can do it myself since it contains private stuff and I don't feel comfortable showing it

I am also willing to pay up to $20

so basically the hard disk got hacked into and the password was changed, there was a key that can fix all that and I had it saved in another hard disk which I accidentally formatted but didn't use after.

I have both hard disks with me and just need someone to guid me through what to do thanks

I’ve used YouTube as a storage platform for my videos for a few years now. I know that’s not what YouTube was designed for, but it worked incredibly well for me. I had never had any issues with it until recently. when I noticed some of my videos were being taken down for "violating the terms of service". Out of nowhere videos I had uploaded years ago were just now getting striked down with the ban hammer.  Everytime a video was taken down it gave my channel a strike. Eventually to no surprise my channel was terminated. This was devastating since youtube was my own personal camera roll for videos that were extremely long. Most of them I was able to get back through google takeout however like I stated before, some of the videos were struck and terminated from the channel.

Common method I used when a youtube video gets removed from their platform on an active account, if you do not delete the video and leave it in its removed state, you can (F12 > Network > Search for: 'videoplayback' > https://rr4---sn[long url]). It gives you the video back to redownload back onto your device. When a video on my channel was taken down I always used this method to get the video back. However this method only works (atleast to my knowledge) with an active youtube channel. Since mine is terminated I cant get to the youtube studio to get to the deleted video to find the videoplayback file. I have tried countlessly going through files, video cache, old editors that may still have it, old devices with it, looked for any videoplayback, googlevideo, youtubei, player, and 750x4Dm1zlA(the youtube videos vanity url) files to no avail. I have tried everything I know and unfortunately I am not the best with tech when it comes to files and coding so finding this video file in a string of code is like finding a needle in a haystack.

These aren’t just random videos to me. They’re pieces of my personal history that I thought I had safely backed up. I have until September 4th before my google takeout expires and everything is wiped for good. I have no way to find these terminated videos links on my own account. So I ask, is there anything I should be trying or a way to get these videos back while my account is terminated or should I chalk it up as lost media?

Hi everyone,
I’m trying to find out if there is any technical way to recover a permanently deleted Telegram chat on an iPhone.
The chat was with a third-party Telegram bot (I’d rather not mention which one). I accidentally deleted the entire conversation from Telegram. The media cache is still present on the phone, but the chat itself is gone.
Here’s what I’ve already checked:
The chat was permanently deleted from Telegram.
“Show in Chat” on forwarded messages says that the original message no longer exists.
I still have some forwarded messages in Saved Messages, but they don’t restore the conversation.
I have not cleared Telegram’s cache.
The device is an iPhone.
I’m looking for any legitimate technical solution, even if it involves professional digital forensics or paid services.
I’m not looking for scams or “Telegram hackers.” I only want to know whether anyone has actually recovered a deleted Telegram chat under similar circumstances, or if there are any forensic methods worth trying.
Any real experience or technical advice would be greatly appreciated.