data recovery

Hey everyone! Thank you for this very cool forum Community! I don't know if anyone can assist me. I found this forum while searching for answers for my problem. I was performing a backup two nights ago and didn't get too far using terminator in Debian Linux 11 Bullseye & monitoring i/o (drive...

On a debian system, if I copied files that were owned by root without chmod to all first onto a flash drive, would that cause the flash drive to become unmountable? If so how would I go about recovering the data that was on the drive?

I am definitely not the first to post about an Areca recovery situation here, In fact, when googling the topic this is one of the first results: https://hardforum.com/threads/how-to-recover-an-areca-raidset.1741024/ However haven't found anything yet for my situation. I have a client that I...

Hello, on WIndows 10 when i connected another external HDD to my USB hub, it somehow interuped connection to one of my earliíer connected drives. Now when i reconnect the hub and that drive, it shown empty drive, no files on it. I tried to connect directly to different USB port of my computer...

Scientists have found a new challenge in trying to recover data stored on old media. "Flippies" and other long forgotten and archaic data storage techniques were used by scientists in the 1970's to store important information that is useful for today's researchers. First a machine that can...

Louis Rossmann has been fighting for the right to repair electronics for years. While perusing his channel, I noticed this amazing hard drive platter swap video recently done in his shop. This completely amazed me and I thought some of the tech guys here would like to see it. Mr. Rossmann's...

Hello, "chkdsk /F" probably somehow modified my file and now it has zero KB size. It was huge truecrypt container file. Here is the chkdsk log. Here is how looks part of the HDD where WinHEX shows beginning of the file Here is how looks part of the HDD where is an unreadable sector HDD SMART...

Hi, Recently while organizing my desk I put the wrong power cord in my Seagate Backup Plus Desktop 5tb drive. I had a funny smell, realized what was going on and unplugged it. The drive didn't spin, click or anything after putting in right cable cord. I used a sata to USB 3 docking station to...

Have an 840 Pro 256 GB with a lot of data on it that I would hate to lose. The drive failed randomly on me Wednesday, and guess who doesn't have backups? Yeap, I am competing for dumbfuck of the year award. The most frustrating thing to me is that this isn't the first time I've been bitten by...