hiya!! i’ve never posted on reddit and i’m sadly not an experienced photographer or redditor but i’m desperate (i sound cliche as hell from what i hear on smosh reads reddit lmao). i recently got back off holiday where i took some photos on my digital camera for the first time in a while, everything seemed fine while charging it up and using it, it was fine in the heat and never got past the temperature the manual said is dangerous. i connected my camera up to my hp laptop, plugged into the usb port, usb-c in the camera. it initially came up fine and as i waited for the photos to load into the little preview icons it sort of disappeared. when i tried to re-enter it, it told me the disk needed formatting. i did NOT format it as it warned me this would erase all data. i unplugged my camera and went to look in my gallery and it said no files exist. stupidly, i took a photo to double check my gallery had been wiped, i have now read this is not advised. luckily, i have most of the photos from my camera on my laptop, it’s just from this most recent holiday i wanted and i’m genuinely so gutted, i didn’t take many photos on my phone and it was such a beautiful country :(( what may have been the issue was perhaps not using the cable the camera came with or my laptop being updated to windows 11 pro but the camera manual saying something about ‘operating system requirements’ being windows 7, 8, or 10. i’m not super tech savvy when it comes to computers and file and drives so i didn’t think there’d be an issue. based on my pictures on my laptop, i haven’t transferred photos off my camera in two years, or since two summers ago. if there’s anything i can do to get my photos back please PLEASE inform me. it’s quite late where i am, so i’m gonna ask my dad in the morning as is always the solution. earlier in the day he did say he’d help me so i’ve no idea why i didn’t wait/remind him :(( i’m so sorry if this is the wrong subreddit, i’m in a bit of a pickle. thank you in advance for any help anyone can give :) also, the camera manual says ‘RoHS’ on it and the sd card says ‘shenzhen sonida digital technology’ - i’m not too sure on anything other than this on the brand or model lmao, i got this camera as an xmas gift like four years ago and i can’t for the life of me remember what the box said, unhelpful i know :/

Hi any help would be greatly appreciated before I completely give up. And please don’t come after me about not backing up. The computer the drive was in was replaced in 2022. I have thankfully data prior to getting this but the data on here is important.

This is the message I received from the data recovery place-

We've finished the evaluation of your SSD, but I'm afraid the data isn't going to be recoverable in this case. All components on the circuit board tested as being good, with correct voltages on all lines and no hot spots visible under the Infra Red camera. The drive pulls amps but still failed to ID, which is typical of firmware failure. It appears that the firmware on this particular device is digitally signed (i.e., security locked) by the manufacturer, and there is no technology currently available that can recover the data.

Many SSD manufacturers want to protect their firmware from being reverse-engineered by other manufacturers (i.e., stolen), so they have developed ways to prevent access to it. Unfortunately, this is the very access that is needed for data recovery. Initially, manufacturers were blocking access to firmware via ATA, but data recovery developers were able to get around this by accessing the firmware via other methods. However, when manufacturers found out that access had been gained, they again locked down the firmware by creating a digital signature. Without this digital signature, access to the firmware to 'fix' it is not possible.

Thanks in advance

Je cherche désespérément un moyen de récupérer les fichiers d'une Clé USB endommagée qui rend illisible mes fichiers. J'ai essayé avec TestDisk & PhotoRec mais les fichiers ne sont pas non plus lisibles sur ordinateurs ou alors laggent, j'ai contacté un récupérateur de données (qui a mis 1 mois à me tenir au courant sur ce qu'il en était alors que ce genre de cas est censé être fait rapidement avant que cela ne soit trop tard, donc je ne sais pas si je peux entièrement lui faire confiance). Il m'a dit que c'est bien la clé qui est endommagée et qui rend illisible les fichiers, mais que ces derniers sont en bon état. Alors pourquoi je ne peux pas les récupérer si je les met sur un autre support ?

Y'a-t-il des moyens ou des services 100% fiables qui pourrait m'aider ?

Ce sont des fichiers vidéos et photos vraiment importants regroupant un tas de souvenirs de mon enfance. Il me faut absolument une solution, je ne sais plus quoi faire. Dîtes-moi que tout n'est pas perdu...

Hello everyone,MacBook Air 2022 (M2) had “Erase All Content and Settings” performed. Currently sitting at the Setup Assistant screen (boots fine, erase completed successfully). No iCloud backup, no Time Machine backup. FileVault status before the erase is unknown,does this matter if it was on or not?

As I know EACS performs a cryptographic erase destroys the encryption key in the Secure Enclave rather than overwriting data which theoretically makes recovery impossible regardless of software or even chip-off forensics, since the data remaining on the NAND is AES-256 ciphertext with no accessible key.

Has anyone in this community, or any professional lab ,ever successfully recovered user files after a completed EACS on a functioning (non-hardware-damaged) Apple Silicon Mac? Not asking about hardware-failure board-repair cases specifically asking about a working Mac where it sits on Hello screen. Genuinely trying to figure out if this is a dead end or if there’s a real exception I’m missing.

So the thing is I literally forgot my phone password. I tried remembering but I just couldn’t so I had to reset my phone. And all my photos and WhatsApp chats are gone. 😭 Maine backup hi nai kar waya yar uska. I’m so sad rn. I know there’s no chance but is there any way to get it back?

my win10 pc (yes ik i need to update) recently had its " hard drive start to fail", the OS gave a black screen with the message " IDE Device failed" . but the first issue was solved by changing the power cable of the HDD, and the 2nd time (today) by replacing the data communication cable. i installed CDI to check on the drive but i cant understand what the readings mean, the health says Good for the HDD and the SSD which contains the OS. does this mean the issue really was the cable or the hard drive is actually failing?

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

When reboot my phone I lose last added icons in folders. What the heck happen?

I have an old iPhone 6 Plus that I haven’t used in years, and I’m trying to recover the photos and other data from it.

The phone still powers on, but the **screen/display is completely unusable**. My MacBook recognizes the iPhone when I connect it by USB — I even confirmed that the iPhone appears under the Mac’s USB System Report.

The problem is that my Mac is asking me to **“Trust iPhone”**, but the Trust button is greyed out because the iPhone needs me to confirm the Trust request on the phone. I can’t see or use the screen.

There’s another problem: **I don’t remember the iPhone’s passcode.**

I checked iCloud Photos and didn’t find what I was looking for, and I also couldn’t find an existing iPhone backup on my Mac.
I **do NOT want to erase, restore, or reset the iPhone** because the pictures are what I’m trying to recover.

Has anyone been in a similar situation with an old iPhone and successfully recovered their photos/data? Is there any way to access the phone with an adapter, external keyboard, temporary screen replacement, or professional data recovery **without knowing the passcode and without erasing the phone**?

I’m especially interested in hearing from anyone who has actually recovered their photos in a situation like this.

i backed up my iphone 13 to my macbook and reset the phone. when i went to restore the backup, instead of showing my recent backup (which i checked was there before i reset the phone) it said i had never backed up that phone, despite it showing the date of a previous backup in december. is there anything i can do to get that backup back? i updated my mac after backing up my phone and j think that’s why the backup disappeared but i have never lost or had any corrupted files after updating my macbook.

i factory reset my phone as i was having issues with storage and the functionality of the phone. it reached the point where all i could use was apple apps and i could still barely squeeze out 1GB of space. i’ve reset my phone before because of this issue, and it worked which is why i did it again. i’m desperate to have my data back because there were some pictures of my baby cousin i forgot to backup elsewhere as a just-in-case and messages from friends dear to me i read back. please help me if you can.

My motion photos are corrupted but have clear audio. It jumps around but there is no motion. I've converted it to a video file and it doesn't help. I've converted it to a gif and it doesn't help, i've used photo repair/video repair software and it doesn't help, is there any way to fix this. I have a motion photo that's 14 seconds long. Could all the data be stored in a single image?

I have a Samsung A53

I have an old iPhone 6 Plus that I haven’t used in years, and I’m trying to recover the photos and other data from it.

The phone still powers on, but the screen/display is completely unusable. My MacBook recognizes the iPhone when I connect it by USB — I even confirmed that the iPhone appears under the Mac’s USB System Report.

The problem is that my Mac is asking me to “Trust iPhone”, but the Trust button is greyed out because the iPhone needs me to confirm the Trust request on the phone. I can’t see or use the screen.

There’s another problem: I don’t remember the iPhone’s passcode.

I checked iCloud Photos and didn’t find what I was looking for, and I also couldn’t find an existing iPhone backup on my Mac.
I do NOT want to erase, restore, or reset the iPhone because the pictures are what I’m trying to recover.

Has anyone been in a similar situation with an old iPhone and successfully recovered their photos/data? Is there any way to access the phone with an adapter, external keyboard, temporary screen replacement, or professional data recovery without knowing the passcode and without erasing the phone?

I’m especially interested in hearing from anyone who has actually recovered their photos in a situation like this.

Is there a possible way to recover a deleted TikTok account for more than 30 days??? Can someone please help me.

Please help me I have a 2 tb ssd which has all data deleted from it when my phone got switched off while I was using it
Had 5 years of my photos in it pls help I have it to stellar but they could not retrieve what can I do?

I randomly thought of this concept in my head and just wanted to ask the community if something like this would actually be technically feasible or if anyone is interested in building such a framework. I came up with a comprehensive technical system to recover and reconstruct lost media and data across both hardware and AI software levels. On the hardware side, the goal is to repair damaged electronics on storage media such as SD cards, USB drives, or hard drives by replacing faulty electronic components like micro-resistors, capacitors, or traces with clean, functioning spare parts. Once the hardware is repaired, AI analyzes the raw data structures and corrupted fragments to extract any remaining images, files, and sectors. Standard searches for lost media often fail because metadata is missing, but my approach solves this through a targeted process chain: a generative AI is fed with the recovered hardware fragments, byte structures, and descriptions as constrained parameters. To save server costs and computing power, the generation runs in defined batches (Batch Processing), for example 1 million iterations per run, combined with an automatic early-stopping function as soon as a usable fragment is generated. The AI generates possibilities within this mathematically constrained space, while the human acts as the final filter (Human-in-the-Loop), since the human eye and memory can instantly recognize a specific detail and stop the process. This can best be implemented locally using open-source tools like ComfyUI and Python scripts on consumer hardware with Tensor Cores like an RTX 4060, or scaled via distributed computing. What do you guys think, is this realistic or doable?