Man,you are a lifesaver....My best friend just died recently in an accident,his family gave me his hdd,but it was non responsive,with your tutorial,i was able to recover all of his pics.....Thank You!!!
You seriously saved my life here!!!! my backup Hdd with 10 years worth of photos decided to go kapoof even though i always took good care of it. Thanks a lot!
just stumbled upon your channel and quid you're awesome! I don't understand how you don't have a bigger fan base. I will be showing my friends your channel! you make everything much more understandable. cheers man!
still useful in 2024/2025; chatgpt recommended those same tools; unfortunately i failed to rescue my backup hdd disk, while inside my computer; i have removed it from comp, now i need to figure it out how to connect it as external disk; thx for sharing, have fun
Backup is your best friend. Either backup in the old, slow way... or just buy a new disk, _dd_ the old to the new one and start using the new one. HDD:s are cheap nowadays, so I would definitely recommend that.
I created an image file but didn't save it in the directory you used (mine is in a folder under my user directory), nor do I seem to have the "/Data/RecImgs" directory inside of /mnt. Using "photorec image.dd" returns "No such file or directory." I ended up using photorec to access the drive directly and ignored the image I made, although I'd like to know how to work with it. I'm a brand-new Linux user and overall this was a great intro to the tools I was interested in, although not totally beginner-friendly. Another note I had & something I had to figure out on my own was that the right and left arrow keys are used to select / deselect individual file type selections, while "s" will simply select / deselect all. Again, great video, overall. Thanks.
So you can only backup jpg, gif, png files with this app? So then how do I restore video files and other stuff? This is confusing, and I didn't know what to do in testdisk after searching through the HDD. Could you redo this tutorial but with normal / user-friendly apps please? And is there an app that will allow me to backup the HDD to multiple USB sticks because my disk doesn't have enough space?
its not really 'backup' its restoring, and if you look at 5:09, you can see that at the top theres an option called "Custom Own custom signature", now.. i havent used this software (yet).. but im gonna take a guess and say with 97% certainty, that you can choose your own file extensions using that option, and even more advanced things now, regarding backing up the harddrive to multiple usb sticks, theres a few possible solutions, one would be to just splice the file into many smaller files, you could do this manually using some software or by doing something like.. rar file splicing (common feature in rar applications, like for example winrar)
@@himanshukhare1992 Run TestDisk, Advanced (and not Analyze), Boot, RebuildBS, List. If you can see your files, choose Write, confirm, Quit. If it doesn't work, try PhotoRec.
I had to do an emergency backup of an SD card containing a RPi image, using a Windows machine as the card was required for something ASAP. Turns out the image was corrupted and I lost some very important data. I can't mount the file at all on any of my linux machines. Could I use this tool to obtain data from an .img file?
Hi,Here is a problem: I have a 200GB internal pc hdd that was partitioned to have winxp and ubuntu 10 running on it. My windows xp needed to be redone fresh so I booted to an Ubuntu 16.04 LiveUSB to erase the partition using GParted. I then decided I wanted to resize my existing Ubuntu partition. I think I was going from about 100 to the full size of my hard drive. I started to see the task and waited about 5 min. I realized that the process was going to take a very very long time and so i used the" back button to start" to cancel the operation.but i don't validated the "apply botton" Now my problems begin. the pc not booting at all. Any hint about? Thanks in advance
I have one driver that i was using to make a bartop with arcade games in it to backup some data, but i forgot about it and one day turned the system on and it got bad blocks, and since i didn't want to mess with it and didn't have installed anything anyway i started formating it, but just as i pressed the format disk i remembered it and turned the system off, but of course the damage was made, so the question is: will it help me restore this hd or my data?
i'm attached New HDD Direct to Motherboard, how to rescan internal Hardware / i want to Use HDD without Reboot ??? in Linux i'm tried lot of commands finding this solution from two weeks please help
If you want to move all files with jpg OR jpeg OR png extension, then the command find should be: find . -type f \( -iname "*.jpg" -o -iname "*.jpeg" -o -iname "*.png" \) -exec mv '{}' ../dest/ \; Thanks for your interesting videos. :)
On my drive 32 hours does not even begin to make progress on the drive. It gets stuck with many bad clusters at the beginning. I believe that most of the disk later on is good. Is there any way to do the backup starting at the middle of a partition or maybe start at the end and go backwards?
What do I do if Desktop Settings was open along with multiple other programs, and while using another program, it seemed to glitch and set parts of the bar with the icons far apart and off the screen, despite that I hadn't been using Desktop Settings during this?
hey there, i use testdisk when pushed it's quite useful. as for the file naming well that is another matter. i did toy with the idea of writing a script to pull the info from the doc and rename them - using.... another utiliy (fileprop?)... wonder if you'd thought of that. in the meantime - another good vid - thanks.
I have the SAME HDD! Linux wrote over my partition and rooted it, and all my stuff is gone... Can I still recover my stuff or is it stuck on that Linux partition now?
possibly, the more 'empty space' there is on the harddrive, the more you MIGHT be able to recover wherever linux has put files on the drive, you wont really be able to recover things from
Любитель линукса а ты случайно не встречал сборки на базе линукс для программного ремонта накопителей, как альтернативу pc3000; mrtlab и прочих комплексов по ремонту и восстановлению накопителей?
I can't even boot my dual boot (Ubuntu and Windows). Is there any way of mounting the crashed hard drive as an external drive on a different computer and recover files? I have ten years worth of Olympus raw image files and host of other very important documents. Thanks for any suggestion.
Grab yourself either one of these: For 2.5" drives: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XLAZODE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 For 3.5" / any IDE drives: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VS4HDM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 You can then boot via a different drive / computer using Linux (make sure you have space on the healthy drive for everything you want to recover from the corrupted one), access the crashed drive via a USB port, and _attempt_ to use these tools to recover data from it.
This works fine on macOS too. All Unix platforms with the supported tools - hell with the Windows subsystem for Linux you might even get it working on Windows
hello can i mount the image.dd in some directory like in another external hard drive?thre reason behind is because i'm trying to recover data from 2TB corrupted external hard drive
You could try and mount the file as a separate hard drive by giving it a folder in /mnt but I don't really know the command. Google is usually a good friend :)
Nice tutorial Quidsup ... best i have seen........... I use these recovery tools quite often . But GeeZus it irritates me how you lose ALL file names. I recently recovered 93,000 + photo's , 200+ movies and over 500 short home video's .................32 hrs to recover it all ......... over 9 yrs of a family's life, for a little ol Granny. It was both a case of Happiness and joy at having gotten the photo's back ................ And stress and anguish coz the poor ol dear didn't know what to do next. How do you put them back into folders and photo albums. ALL the info that was with them is gone. She mentioned that it would take her years to get it all sorted And some types of movies get broken down into their VOB sections ..............you try putting them back together !!! especially when there are no file names surely someone out there can improve this wonderful software further
Darren Moore Its due to the loss of the File Allocation Table. The data recovery tools can see a file but without the FAT table they have no idea what it's called. It was like that 20+ years ago doing file recovery in DOS. Cheers
Darren Moore Been there before and ended up using batch renaming programmes such as pyrenamer or metamorphose2. I just renamed all the photos by date taken based on exif data and sorted em chronologically. Should help the wee gran get her photos into folders without too much cutting and pasting ;-) ***** life saving vid mate, brilliant!
I've broken my android phone. I've lost it and when I found it, it was inside my wash machine. So the mobile is not turning on. If this process do you think is possible to recovery something? ;)
Boot from a live CD or flashdrive and move a portion of the files to another unit (a second flashdrive or external hard drive) and also run *sudo touch /forcefsck* so your Linux distro will run a file system checking after you reboot. You probably solved this issue already, anyway this is a possible solution and hopefully will be useful for someone else. Prior to proceeding as mentioned above, download the ISO of a Linux distro and then use the *UNetBootin* program to create a bootable Linux live CD inside a USB flashdrive using such ISO file.
HELP HELP HELP while installing ubuntu i clicked on delete data and now my whole harddrive is formatted and all the partitions are removed please help me how can i get my data back
You could use these tools to try to find files on the partitions you formatted that haven't already been overwritten ... otherwise, you are doomed and your stuff is gone forever.
Oh... how I remember DOS many years ago, very simple just to load a prog.. then later trying to bring in a bot from a friends computer to an IRC channel 10 years ago gave me the sweats.. now this just scares me because I don't understand it.. all those instructions mean something in plain language.. it would be good if someone would define them.. If you know what they mean, you can understand better and remember them and what they do.. an old granny just saying ;)
Man,you are a lifesaver....My best friend just died recently in an accident,his family gave me his hdd,but it was non responsive,with your tutorial,i was able to recover all of his pics.....Thank You!!!
May his soul rest in peace.
You seriously saved my life here!!!! my backup Hdd with 10 years worth of photos decided to go kapoof even though i always took good care of it. Thanks a lot!
one of your best quids -- one of your best
just stumbled upon your channel and quid you're awesome! I don't understand how you don't have a bigger fan base. I will be showing my friends your channel! you make everything much more understandable. cheers man!
Thanks
Thank you for reminding me of the testdisk utility!
Helo, r-studio recuva and encase 4.2 is better for recovery filea/ jpg? or is the same like photorec?
still useful in 2024/2025; chatgpt recommended those same tools; unfortunately i failed to rescue my backup hdd disk, while inside my computer; i have removed it from comp, now i need to figure it out how to connect it as external disk; thx for sharing, have fun
Great video ivan, very helpful, you de man.
Excellent video pal. cheers.
Backup is your best friend.
Either backup in the old, slow way... or just buy a new disk, _dd_ the old to the new one and start using the new one. HDD:s are cheap nowadays, so I would definitely recommend that.
I created an image file but didn't save it in the directory you used (mine is in a folder under my user directory), nor do I seem to have the "/Data/RecImgs" directory inside of /mnt. Using "photorec image.dd" returns "No such file or directory." I ended up using photorec to access the drive directly and ignored the image I made, although I'd like to know how to work with it. I'm a brand-new Linux user and overall this was a great intro to the tools I was interested in, although not totally beginner-friendly. Another note I had & something I had to figure out on my own was that the right and left arrow keys are used to select / deselect individual file type selections, while "s" will simply select / deselect all. Again, great video, overall. Thanks.
my external drive has been corrupted i think i tried test disk on windows and it coundt find any partitions .. what are my options
Also macOS same as Linux i use ddrescue and Testdisk from Terminal on my Mac Pro 2010 to recover data from damaged or corrupted hard drives.
Great video...worked for me first time. Big thanks ;-)
Would TPM cause trouble in the recovery process, or just the bitlocker password is enough to decrypt it? Good vid btw :)
So you can only backup jpg, gif, png files with this app?
So then how do I restore video files and other stuff?
This is confusing, and I didn't know what to do in testdisk after searching through the HDD.
Could you redo this tutorial but with normal / user-friendly apps please? And is there an app that will allow me to backup the HDD to multiple USB sticks because my disk doesn't have enough space?
its not really 'backup' its restoring, and if you look at 5:09, you can see that at the top theres an option called "Custom Own custom signature", now.. i havent used this software (yet).. but im gonna take a guess and say with 97% certainty, that you can choose your own file extensions using that option, and even more advanced things
now, regarding backing up the harddrive to multiple usb sticks, theres a few possible solutions, one would be to just splice the file into many smaller files, you could do this manually using some software or by doing something like.. rar file splicing (common feature in rar applications, like for example winrar)
thank you so much, you are the best! ;)
No partitions found when i run testdisk?any help please. also getting a lot of input/output errors in dd_rescue
Did you get the solution? Please tell me !!!
@@himanshukhare1992 Run TestDisk, Advanced (and not Analyze), Boot, RebuildBS, List. If you can see your files, choose Write, confirm, Quit.
If it doesn't work, try PhotoRec.
How does testdisk compare with ddrescue? Thanks for the AMAZING video!!
The corrupted hdd isn't showing up through the sudo fdisk -l command. 😭
It mounts on windows but freezes file explorer as soon as I interact with it
What the heck I don't know, the command; sudo apt-get install testdisk is not working for me
base of screen should be white or off white to read it clearly. all black and blue can not read.
Thank you soo much!.🖖
I had to do an emergency backup of an SD card containing a RPi image, using a Windows machine as the card was required for something ASAP. Turns out the image was corrupted and I lost some very important data. I can't mount the file at all on any of my linux machines.
Could I use this tool to obtain data from an .img file?
Hi,Here is a problem:
I have a 200GB internal pc hdd that was partitioned to have winxp and
ubuntu 10 running on it. My windows xp needed to be redone fresh so I
booted to an Ubuntu 16.04 LiveUSB to erase the partition using GParted. I
then decided I wanted to resize my existing Ubuntu partition. I think I
was going from about 100 to the full size of my hard drive. I started
to see the task and waited about 5 min. I realized that the process was
going to take a very very long time and so i used the" back button to
start" to cancel the operation.but i don't validated the "apply botton"
Now my problems begin. the pc not booting at all. Any hint about? Thanks in advance
Thank you for video.
I have one driver that i was using to make a bartop with arcade games in it to backup some data, but i forgot about it and one day turned the system on and it got bad blocks, and since i didn't want to mess with it and didn't have installed anything anyway i started formating it, but just as i pressed the format disk i remembered it and turned the system off, but of course the damage was made, so the question is: will it help me restore this hd or my data?
i'm attached New HDD Direct to Motherboard,
how to rescan internal Hardware / i want to Use HDD without Reboot ??? in Linux
i'm tried lot of commands
finding this solution from two weeks
please help
On the 2nd run, when I've retrieved the crucial data, I would just try to dd the whole drive to another.
If you want to move all files with jpg OR jpeg OR png extension, then the command find should be:
find . -type f \( -iname "*.jpg" -o -iname "*.jpeg" -o -iname "*.png" \) -exec mv '{}' ../dest/ \;
Thanks for your interesting videos. :)
Aldo mi ha risolto parecchi problemi nel recuperare dati personali e di lavoro, persona molto competente in materia! ;)
Grazie Marcello :)
You are the boss. But how to navigate and to save recovered file to usb stick memory?
Is it possible to restore data with the original folder structure?
On my drive 32 hours does not even begin to make progress on the drive. It gets stuck with many bad clusters at the beginning. I believe that most of the disk later on is good. Is there any way to do the backup starting at the middle of a partition or maybe start at the end and go backwards?
What do I do if Desktop Settings was open along with multiple other programs, and while using another program, it seemed to glitch and set parts of the bar with the icons far apart and off the screen, despite that I hadn't been using Desktop Settings during this?
very nice video. thank you very much
hey there,
i use testdisk when pushed it's quite useful.
as for the file naming well that is another matter.
i did toy with the idea of writing a script to pull the info from the doc and rename them - using.... another utiliy (fileprop?)... wonder if you'd thought of that.
in the meantime - another good vid - thanks.
why the app testdisk or photorec shows up but i cant enter any keyboard key !
I have the SAME HDD! Linux wrote over my partition and rooted it, and all my stuff is gone... Can I still recover my stuff or is it stuck on that Linux partition now?
possibly, the more 'empty space' there is on the harddrive, the more you MIGHT be able to recover
wherever linux has put files on the drive, you wont really be able to recover things from
Любитель линукса а ты случайно не встречал сборки на базе линукс для программного ремонта накопителей, как альтернативу pc3000; mrtlab и прочих комплексов по ремонту и восстановлению накопителей?
Can you recover a formatted ubuntu partition with this method?
Thank you so much! You helped me to recover a marriage footage!
How much time is this method going to take if I've got a nearly dead my passport 1 tb?
If is it formatted, is it still possible to recover data?
Please tell what do i should
My hard disk (500 GB) loss during install kali linux
How can i recover it
Given me any solution
hey quidsup can u help me I hv a serious prblm with my laptop hard disk
What about .bin files? I don’t see it on the options...
I can't even boot my dual boot (Ubuntu and Windows). Is there any way of mounting the crashed hard drive as an external drive on a different computer and recover files? I have ten years worth of Olympus raw image files and host of other very important documents. Thanks for any suggestion.
Grab yourself either one of these:
For 2.5" drives: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XLAZODE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
For 3.5" / any IDE drives: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VS4HDM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
You can then boot via a different drive / computer using Linux (make sure you have space on the healthy drive for everything you want to recover from the corrupted one), access the crashed drive via a USB port, and _attempt_ to use these tools to recover data from it.
my external hard drive is not even recognized by the pc. even though I installed many softwares. how can i recover the data
Did you find a solution?
How did that hard disk drive get so terribly corrupted anyway?
OMG. I really should get back to using Linux.
Hy
This works fine on macOS too. All Unix platforms with the supported tools - hell with the Windows subsystem for Linux you might even get it working on Windows
*!!! PLEASE HELP ME !!!*
My 1TB Seagate external HDD is showing - *Not Initialized and Unallocated*. Please tell me anyone how can I recover my data.
Can you please tell me if you connected the HDD via USB or installed it inside the PC?
As I understand, it has been designed by plugging the disk via USB, I'm trying it and it works.
hello can i mount the image.dd in some directory like in another external hard drive?thre reason behind is because i'm trying to recover data from 2TB corrupted external hard drive
You could try and mount the file as a separate hard drive by giving it a folder in /mnt but I don't really know the command. Google is usually a good friend :)
Nice tutorial Quidsup ... best i have seen........... I use these recovery tools quite often . But GeeZus it irritates me how you lose ALL file names.
I recently recovered 93,000 + photo's , 200+ movies and over 500 short home video's .................32 hrs to recover it all ......... over 9 yrs of a family's life, for a little ol Granny. It was both a case of Happiness and joy at having gotten the photo's back ................ And stress and anguish coz the poor ol dear didn't know what to do next. How do you put them back into folders and photo albums. ALL the info that was with them is gone. She mentioned that it would take her years to get it all sorted
And some types of movies get broken down into their VOB sections ..............you try putting them back together !!! especially when there are no file names
surely someone out there can improve this wonderful software further
Darren Moore Its due to the loss of the File Allocation Table. The data recovery tools can see a file but without the FAT table they have no idea what it's called.
It was like that 20+ years ago doing file recovery in DOS.
Cheers
Darren Moore Been there before and ended up using batch renaming programmes such as pyrenamer or metamorphose2. I just renamed all the photos by date taken based on exif data and sorted em chronologically. Should help the wee gran get her photos into folders without too much cutting and pasting ;-)
***** life saving vid mate, brilliant!
I've broken my android phone. I've lost it and when I found it, it was inside my wash machine. So the mobile is not turning on. If this process do you think is possible to recovery something? ;)
iv ran out of hdd space on a linux mint virtual machine now it wont boot and cant get it into recovery mode what should i do ???
Boot from a live CD or flashdrive and move a portion of the files to another unit (a second flashdrive or external hard drive) and also run *sudo touch /forcefsck* so your Linux distro will run a file system checking after you reboot.
You probably solved this issue already, anyway this is a possible solution and hopefully will be useful for someone else.
Prior to proceeding as mentioned above, download the ISO of a Linux distro and then use the *UNetBootin* program to create a bootable Linux live CD inside a USB flashdrive using such ISO file.
What the heck I don't know, smartctl is not working for me
HELP HELP HELP while installing ubuntu i clicked on delete data and now
my whole harddrive is formatted and all the partitions are removed
please help me how can i get my data back
You could use these tools to try to find files on the partitions you formatted that haven't already been overwritten ... otherwise, you are doomed and your stuff is gone forever.
its not coming up in the list sadly :(
Oh... how I remember DOS many years ago, very simple just to load a prog.. then later trying to bring in a bot from a friends computer to an IRC channel 10 years ago gave me the sweats.. now this just scares me because I don't understand it.. all those instructions mean something in plain language.. it would be good if someone would define them.. If you know what they mean, you can understand better and remember them and what they do.. an old granny just saying ;)
I am surprised to know about your interest in such thing.
what about music and video?
Use for proprietary software they said. It is much more capable they said
If you need the files just get a quote from data recovery guy.com, they're pretty cheap or some other data recovery company
Ddrescue
How can you spoke so many bull$#1t pere second? For money?
Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command, after using sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdi