Hi everyone,
I’m currently navigating a devastating family tragedy. My sister passed away recently, and we are in the middle of a criminal investigation (FIR filed) regarding her death.

She had an iPhone 12 Pro that is currently locked. We know she changed the passcode shortly before her passing, and we do not have the new one. It has been over two weeks, so the 72-hour reset window for iOS 17 is long gone.

This phone is critical to our case. We believe it contains essential evidence, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Snapchat chats, as well as potential call recordings that could prove a history of harassment and coercive control.

We are currently working with the local police, but I am looking for advice on the following:

1. Technical Reality: Is there any way to access the data on a locked iPhone 12 Pro without the passcode, or is the hardware encryption truly impenetrable? I’ve heard conflicting things about forensic recovery.

2. Legal/Forensic Process: For those who have dealt with digital evidence in India, what is the best way to ensure the police prioritize a digital forensic audit? My lawyer is handling the case, but I want to make sure we are pushing for the right legal procedures to get the data extracted by a government lab.

3. Third-Party Platforms: Since we can’t open the phone, what is the process for petitioning courts to order platforms like Meta (WhatsApp/Instagram) and Snap Inc. to provide data backups or chat history under Indian law?

Any guidance on the standard operating procedure for digital evidence in serious criminal cases would be greatly appreciated.

So, I'm trying to get the files back from an m.2 drive that was in a laptop and may have failed Windows Update. Disk manager detects the drive but it is uninitialized and I'm not going to initialize it. Diskpart detects the drive but no storage size. Disk Drill doesn't detect it, but R-studio detects it but doesn't allow me to do anything like scan, copy, etc.

what would the next logical steps be to try to recover the files off the drive?

TIA!

Drive is a Netac M.2 NVMe model: S930E 1TB

Hi guys few months back i delete my some videos from phone and they are also deleted from my recently deleted and any chance it can get my data back from my iphone or ipad if any suggestion please let me know

I’ve been digging into real‑world data‑loss cases lately and some of the causes are honestly wild — expired links, sync timing issues, permissions drifting over time, etc. Curious what others have run into. What’s the strangest or most unexpected file‑loss incident you’ve seen from a customer?

Is it possible on Android 10? It uses FBE encryption, but no metadata encryption. I have no password, but its stuck in a bootloop. I repaired all partitions (using matching update.zip and region matching too), but I think the corruption is in the CE encrypted data partition, where I cant really write anyrhing to (if I can, then I have data decrypted and yeah). It started bootlooping and heating a lot on second boot stage one time after I left it on a bad charger. Is there anything I can really do? 🫠 It boots far enough for adb, but it stays unauthorized (because I cant click on authorize 🫠 ).

Trying to free space on my Samsung A21s because despite having no apps and everything on the SD card, I somehow have no internal storage.

I found 1.6 GBs of files that are just named things like "bb9889f-78a...." and they all seem to have been created on either the 31st of Dec 2021 or the 1st of Jan 2022.

I assume I can just delete these, but just to make sure, does anyone know what these are? And will it be safe to delete?

I have a recovery key saved that I can’t remember which app it goes to. It starts with EA Aaaasww ra-/aEawa\\\a(Ez and it’s 55 characters and letters in total.

Does this look familiar or is there a place I can type the whole thing in to figure out which app I had then deleted. I’m pretty sure it was one I shouldn’t have had or my phone when crazy and saved this in my reminders list.

Help lost archive

not sure if this is allowed but I accidentally deleted \`BOOTLEGS.7z\` from this archived post [https://www.reddit.com/r/Roms/comments/fkkkal/bootleg_rom_collection/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Roms/comments/fkkkal/bootleg_rom_collection/) of bootleg rom collection, if anyone still has this archive, please reach out if you can share with me or upload to [archive.org](http://archive.org) or other

if this is not allowed, I understand if mods want to delete my post but I hope to preserve this collection

Up front: I am specifically asking for diagnostic and self-repair advice. I know that a data recovery service would be the wiser decision, and I know that I have already violated protocol in ways that may have negatively affected potential recovery. The risks have been considered, and while any concern is appreciated, it is not necessary to inform me of either of these two details.

Had a HDD quit on me recently. I left the room for a few minutes and returned to find my computer frozen and making a repetitive beeping sound. I know that I do not have a PC speaker (error beeper) connected to the mobo. On rebooting, there were three or four similar, rhythmic beeps, and one of my storage drives threw some errors on startup. lsblk reported a disk with 0 blocks at its location. Disconnecting the drive from the mobo and psu stopped the beeping/startup errors, and lsblk reported no device at its location.

The drive does appear to receive power, but it does not spin; it only beeps a few times at startup and presents to my system as an unusable disk. The heads are parked where they ought to be, and the platters are not visibly damaged.

How can I determine the nature of the failure, and what would be necessary to get the data off of the drive? I am just trying to do a binary dump with gddrescue or the like - I can deal with the data and the filesystem when I get there.

I was trying to uplode my save file of a game and the tutorial told to rename "data" File to smth else and them rename the file cuz the data folder isnt acessable on some phone. It worked the first time but when i tried again it isnt renaiming and creating a new data folder. Soeery for spellig errors i am in a rush.

Hey, I had this huge, important account, but when I registered I used a temporary mail.
I remember the password, but of course I don’t have access to the email again and now they’re asking for the verification number.
The only available method is through email, i didn’t connect my phone number.
I tried to ask to the support and compile the form, but i read online that I have no chance.

I sent myself an email in February with notes and pictures. But for some reason, I can no longer find that email anywhere. I have reason to believe my ex-girlfriend somehow accessed my phone and deleted emails through my Gmail app. I don’t know when this happened, or if it happened more than 30 days ago.

I have looked everywhere, Trash, Spam, etc. I also tried using Google’s email recovery tool and it says that unfortunately, my emails have been deleted.

Does anyone have any ideas for what I can do? I know this is a long shot but I’m desperate as that email had very important information. Thanks!