Joining late for the party but I've had success with TestDisk when recovering deleted partitions etc. It's free and can be found on Google

So, the tale of John O. Years and years ago when I was a tiny Tet out in Washington, I was doing my own freelance computer repair service. It was going pretty good, except for the part where I was having a ton of vehicle problems. At the time, I had a shitty work van that I bought from an automotive audio shop, like mobile music but more generic. Was having issues with the engine, was sucking coolant into the engine, shit sucked. One evening I got a call to come out and do data recovery from a mac drive. Shit, I can do that in my sleep. I load up my kit, grab my book of disks and my hard drive toaster, and head out to his address. Coming up to the house, the first thing I notice is the dogs, three smaller spaniels of some sort. As I get to the house, I knock on the door and he lets me in, and the first thing I notice when I get in there is the smell. The entire house smelled like an ashtray, there was a thick crust of ash and tobacco residue on everything. I try to breathe thru my mouth to avoid smelling it but thats a mistake, I can taste it in the air. Looking around, (and looking back now) it seems that the place I'm in is a place I should not be. On the door, various photographs of people from around town. not candid shots, but almost like he was keeping photos of friends. Behind the door on the right hand wall, floor to ceiling carvings and sculptures and glass spheres and snow globes, all of dragons. Many are actually rather pretty and cool, but from wall to wall, multiple shelves, down to the floor in places. In many places, they couldn't reach to the floor, because the floor was stacked waist high with porn magazines. Playboys. Hustlers. all sorts, in stacks on stacks lining the wall in the room, out of the room, down the hall and into the other room, and probably more. I didn't dare look. On the other wall across from the wall of dragons was two tables end to end and shelves on the wall, all covered with empty and partially empty bottles of alcohol. There were binders full of papers on one of the tables, and under the tables hundreds and thousands of porn DVDs. On a small card table next to the door, he had the laptop and printer and the nasty keyboard, covered in who knows what. A lotion bottle sits next to the ash tray to the right. Yes, I wore gloves. I've learned that lesson years ago. John was a dirty old man in every sense of the phrase. Short, unshaven, a fat stomach that pushed past his shirt, thin grey hair, and absolutely zero filter. Smoked like a chimney and drank like a fish, and loved to brag about shit he's done in his life. He has a hard drive, and says he needs files off it. Cool. Plug it in to his new nasty laptop, it spins, and just craps out. Ended up putting it in a towel in the fridge to get the info off it, recovered via testdisk so didn't see what it was. don't wanna. during the service we talk about stuff and he learns about my vehicle issues. He gives me a loan to fix it. I spend the next couple of years in contact with him to pay off this loan. During this time I also meet a friend of his, jim, who needs my computer services too. Jim ends up having me fix stuff for him regularly, and we get to know each other. after a few years, the loan is paid, and I don't hear from john for a while. Time goes by and I get a call from jim. he tells me that john has died and he wants me to help him clean out his house since I knew them both. I reluctantly agree. It turns out john had gotten a big head and withdrew thousands of dollars and went to the casino, and lost everything in twenty minutes. It broke him, and he drank himself stupid, had a heart attack and died. we cleared out the house and sent the wall of dragons to the local thrift shops, jim had to go through the house because john's got weapons all over the damn place, and a loaded crossbow on the wall. we pulled bags of bottles out of there and crates of nudie mags. Jim took a hammer to the computer, he had found that john had cheese pizza and apparently john thought that if you paid for it it's legal. Not sure where I'm going with this, but witnessing someone turn from a disgusting motormoth braggart and into a complete implosion, a smouldering crater with his skeletons out in the open stuck with me.

いろいろコマンド打ってみたけどダメで… testdiskというツールを使用して参照も試してみたけどダメだった… 10-15年前のNASは独自方言が強すぎてあきらめましょうってGeminiに言われた… 最近のNASはGPT（GUID Partition Table）という規格で統一されたものが多いからラズパイでも読めるって。そっか…🥲

SDカード自体は強い構造ですが静電気やスロットの接触不良で意外とこうなります🫠 復旧、データ取り出しが出来たら初期化した後、カメラ側の接点も確認かなと思います🥹 PhotoRecはtestdiskって古いけど作りはしっかりしてるものをベースっぽいので見込みありますね◎

testdisk & photo_rec 다운로드 주소 : cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk… 중요) 복구되는 파일은 해당 SD 카드가 아닌, 다른 저장장치에 저장해야합니다. "아직 복구가 시도되지 않은 영역"에 복구 결과물이 저장된다면, 해당 영역은 복구할 수 없기 때문입니다. (6/6)

ive had a few sd cards corrupt on me so i had to format them but i recovered the photo thru testdisk n photorec on pc

USBのUbuntsuとかいうのを用意・起動して、SSDのパーティションが読み込めないことを確認。Testdiskをインストールし、中身を見てみるとちゃんとゲームデータなどが見えた、凄い…データのサルベージを開始

When you format a drive, your operating system doesn't really erase your files. It only deletes the index, which is like the table of contents that tells the system where your files are. The files themselves are still on the drive, untouched and waiting. It's like tearing the table of contents out of a book. The chapters are still there. You've just made them harder to find, but not impossible. That's why IT professionals can often recover everything so easily. Tools like Recuva, TestDisk, or even basic forensic software scan the raw storage and rebuild what the index used to point to. In many cases, they recover 90 to 100 percent of your data in just minutes. Your deleted photos. Your tax documents. Saved passwords. Old work files with client data. All of it.

They never left the drive. You just told the file system to forget where they were. When you delete files or perform a quick format, the operating system does not touch the actual data. It wipes the index. Think of it like a library where someone removed the card catalog. Every book is still on the shelf exactly where it was. You just have no map to find them anymore. The OS looks at the drive, sees no index entries, reports it as empty, and moves on. The data physically remains on the flash memory chips until something new gets written over those sectors. Until that happens the original files are completely intact and recoverable. This is what the IT guy did. He ran a recovery tool. Software like Recuva, TestDisk, or PhotoRec scans the raw storage sector by sector ignoring the file system index entirely. It looks for file headers and known data signatures directly in the raw bytes. Finds them. Reconstructs them. Hands them back to you like nothing happened. The difference between a quick format and a full format matters here. Quick format wipes the index only. Full format actually writes zeros across the entire drive. That is why full formats take significantly longer and why recovery after one is much harder or impossible depending on the drive. Secure erase tools exist specifically because people learned this lesson the hard way. Selling an old laptop or drive with a standard format leaves every file you ever saved fully recoverable by anyone with a free tool and fifteen minutes. The files were there the entire time. The drive just stopped advertising them.

Formatting a USB usually does NOT erase your files instantly. When you format a drive, the OS mostly deletes the map to the files, not the files themselves. Think of it like this: Your USB is a library. The files are the books. The file system is the catalog telling the OS where every book is stored. Quick format: “Throw away the catalog.” Full overwrite: “Burn the books.” So after a normal format, the data is often still physically sitting on the NAND flash chips untouched. That’s why recovery tools work. The OS marks those sectors as “free space,” but until new files overwrite them, recovery software can scan the raw disk, rebuild file headers, signatures, fragments, metadata, and reconstruct the files. That’s also why: “Don’t use the drive after accidental deletion.” Because every new write increases the chance of overwriting old data permanently. On Linux, recovery is surprisingly simple. First identify the drive: sudo fdisk -l Then create a raw image of the USB before touching it further: sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=usb_backup.img bs=4M status=progress (Replace /dev/sdb with your actual USB device. Getting this wrong is how people accidentally clone their regrets.) Then recover files using tools like: photorec testdisk foremost Example: sudo photorec usb_backup.img These tools scan the raw bytes directly and look for known file signatures like JPG, PDF, ZIP, MP4, DOCX, etc. Even if the filesystem metadata is destroyed. Sometimes recovery is nearly perfect. Sometimes filenames/folders are gone but contents survive. Sometimes TRIM or secure erase already wiped everything. SSDs and modern flash drives complicate this because TRIM can tell the controller: “these blocks are no longer needed.” At that point the controller may actually erase them internally. Which is why SSD recovery is often much harder than old HDD recovery. So the files were never “stored somewhere else.” They were still right there on the USB.

Well for whoever fell for this, If you only ran diskpart -> select disk 0 -> clean, your files may still be recoverable. Connect the drive to another PC if possible Use TestDisk to restore the lost partitions Guide: cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk…

昨日のボルダリング動画を編集しようとしたらうっかりrm *してしまったのでtestdiskで復旧する羽目になった。

hi harry i dm'd this on instagram too but idk i'll try here also in the hopes you'll see it! have u tried testdisk it's a real lifesaver

𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀 & 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 💀🔥 1.🧩Autopsy 2.⚖️EnCase 3.💾AccessData FTK 4.🛠️X-Ways Forensics 5.📂Sleuth Kit 6.🧠Volatility 7.🌐Wireshark 8.📱Cellebrite UFED 9.📧Email Collector 10.🔎DFF 11.🧲Magnet AXIOM 12.🕵️Oxygen Detective 13.🖥️OSForensics 14.📡NetworkMiner 15.📑RegRipper 16.📦Bulk Extractor 17.🖼️Ghiro 18.✂️Scalpel 19.🧮HxD 20.💽TestDisk 21.📸PhotoRec 22.🐧CAINE 23.🔬Axiom Cyber 24.🛡️Belkasoft Evidence 25.📊Fibratus 26.🌍Autopsy Browser 27.🐉Kali Linux 28.🧪DEFT 29.🧠Volatility Framework 30.🐍PyFlag 31.📜Plaso (log2timeline) 32.📂TSK (The Sleuth Kit) 33.🚨Redline 34.🚦Snort 35.📡Tcpdump 36.🔍Ngrep 37.💾dcfldd 38.🌐Wireshark 39.🧪SIFT (SANS) 40.🛡️Paladin 41.🐧CAINE Live 42.📱XRY (XAMN) 43.🌑BlackLight 44.🧮WinHex 45.💿Access FTK Imager 46.💽DC3DD 47.🦖Raptor 48.💾EnCase Imager 49.🧰Guymager 50.✂️Scalpel 51.♻️Extundelete 52.🌐Xplico 53.📂Foremost 54.🐪Hunchback 55.🛠️Autopsy Tools 56.💿OSForensics Imager 57.🔐Dislocker 58.📦Bulk Extractor 59.🧪SANS SIFT 60.🖥️Live View 61.📁LRR 62.💽NTFS-3G 63.🪟WindowsSCOPE 64.🦊Volafox 65.📑Amcache Parser 66.🐝The Hive 67.🚀GRR Rapid Response 68.🧠Rekall 69.🔎DFF 70.🔑SSDeep 71.🧰KAPE 72.🔒USB Write Blocker 73.🤖AIL 74.🗑️Rifiuti2 75.🧠VolDiff 76.📋WinAudit 77.🔍hfind 78.🧬YARA 79.📱Checkm8 80.📦Olefile 81.🐍Pyew 82.💾E01 Examiner 83.🔌USBDeview 84.📱Autopsy iPhone 85.🧪DC3-MWCP 86.💿X-Ways Imager 87.🧠Memoryze 88.📜EVTExtract 89.⚡Speedit 90.🔐SniffPass 91.🌐Nmap 92.🕵️OSINT Framework 93.🔍Recon-ng 94.🛰️OSINT-SPY 95.🌍Shodan 96.🧠Maltego 97.🕷️SpiderFoot 98.📂Metagoofil 99.🔎theHarvester 100.👁️Creepy #DFIR #DigitalForensics #CyberSecurity #ThreatHunting #BlueTeam

あれ？？この前testdiskインストールメディアでも動いてた記憶あるんだが

TestDisk失敗したっぽくてos wasn't found

Si no tienes un Respaldo de Datos y falla tu disco duro, puedes intentar recuperar tus datos o fotos con TestDisk o PhotoRec, software libre para varias plataformas. Obvio, mejor mantener tu Respaldo actualizado y olvidarte de problemas 😉 #BackupMonday cgsecurity.org/

𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄 🕵️‍♂️💻 1.🛠️ Autopsy 2.🧩 EnCase 3.📂 AccessData FTK 4.🔬 X-Ways Forensics 5.⚡ Magnet AXIOM 6.🧠 Oxygen Detective 7.💻 OSForensics 8.🧾 Belkasoft Evidence 9.🚨 Magnet AXIOM Cyber 10.🌑 BlackLight 11.📀 FTK Imager 12.🧰 Guymager 13.⚙️ DC3DD 14.🔄 DC3MWCP 15.📦 EnCase Imager 16.🛰️ X-Ways Imager 17.💾 OSForensics Imager 18.🖥️ WinHex 19.✏️ HxD 20.🔒 USB Write Blocker 21.🦖 Raptor 22.🛡️ Paladin 23.🌪️ Volatility 24.🔎 Rekall 25.🚩 Redline 26.🪟 WindowsSCOPE 27.🧬 Memoryze 28.🐧 LiME 29.🦈 Wireshark 30.📡 Tcpdump 31.🔍 Ngrep 32.🛰️ NetworkMiner 33.📜 Xplico 34.🔑 SniffPass 35.🌍 Nmap 36.🚨 Snort 37.🐪 Hunchback 38.💽 NTFS-3G 39.📲 Cellebrite UFED 40.🔬 XRY (XAMN) 41.🍏 Autopsy iPhone 42.🛠️ Andriller 43.🔌 USBDeview 44.🗑️ Rifiuti2 45.✂️ Scalpel 46.📦 Foremost 47.📸 PhotoRec 48.🧪 TestDisk 49.🐧 Extundelete 50.🧲 Bulk Extractor 51.🚩 PyFlag 52.🔐 Dislocker 53.🔄 VolDiff 54.📜 EVTXtract 55.🧩 Sleuth Kit 56.🛠️ RegRipper 57.⏳ Plaso 58.📧 Email Collector 59.📊 Fibratus 60.📜 Amcache Parser 61.📂 Olefile 62.🎯 Yara 63.🐍 Pyew 64.📀 E01 Examiner 65.🔎 hfind 66.🧬 SSDeep 67.📱 Checkm8 68.📋 WinAudit 69.🦊 Volafox 70.⚡ GRR Rapid Response 71.🐝 The Hive 72.🧠 Cyber Triage 73.📂 LRR 74.👁️ Live View 75.🚀 Speedit 76.🛠️ Autopsy Tools 77.🔬 DFF 78.🧪 AIL Framework 79.⚔️ KAPE 80.🐉 Kali Linux 81.💻 CAINE 82.📀 CAINE Live 83.🧰 DEFT 84.🛡️ SIFT SANS 85.⚔️ Tsurugi Linux 86.🌐 Maltego 87.🔍 Shodan 88.🛰️ Recon-ng 89.🕷️ SpiderFoot 90.📂 Metagoofil 91.🧠 TheHarvester 92.📍 Creepy 93.🛠️ OSINT Framework 94.🎯 OSINT-SPY 95.🔐 VeraCrypt 96.📡 Binwalk 97.🧬 CyberChef 98.📜 Chainsaw 99.🕵️ Velociraptor 100.⚡ Hayabusa #DFIR #DigitalForensics #OSINT #CyberSecurity #BlueTeam

اذا عندك مشاكل بالفلاشة USB؟ هذي أهم الأدوات المجانية اللي تحتاجها Rufus أفضل أداة فورمات إصلاح حرق أنظمة (تهيئة الفلاش إصلاح مشاكل كثيرة) github.com/pbatard/rufus • USBDeview يعرض كل أجهزة USB ويحذف التعريفات التالفة (حل مشاكل التعرف والتعارض) sourceforge.net/projects/usb… • TestDisk PhotoRec أقوى أدوات استرجاع وإصلاح (استرجاع ملفات إصلاح البارتشن) cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk • USBDDFixer ينقذ الفلاش بعد ما يخرب من الحرق ! (يرجع الفلاشة لوضعه الطبيعي) github.com/SimulatedRealityS… احفظها عندك... بتنقذك وقت الأزمات