Dude, thanks for real. Just recovered my 100 Hours Dark souls 3 save. I thought it had cloud sync with Steam, imagine my face when i booted up the game after formatting the PC and my saves weren't there...thankfully i went to play it right after reinstalling windows and the program was able to restore it with no problems.

It worked! My child deleted my files, and I was away on a business trip, so I was afraid I am too late - I saw it 7 days later but it still worked. Thanks!

Thank you so much, your video has been a tremendous help, thought I'd lost my data for good, but thanks to your know how and tips, all data was restored perfectly :)

Perfect Timing with this video. I deleted Steam drive yesterday, instead of the Thumbdrive I meant to format.

As always, thanks Rich. You make it simple and fun.

@IgorVasquesBarata

3 ай бұрын

What if I do it using the SSD card running the system?

Rich! Great video thanks for sharing!

you have no idea how much greatfulf I am for finding this video. man you the best. keep up the good work.

Glad I found your valued information - thanks

Thank you so much for your invaluable information, highly appreciate it, keep it up the outstanding job, have a great day.

Awesome (yet again!) 😊

Thank you so much lost 17000 photos of my families life. I thought I had a house fire without the house fire until I found your video I want to say thank you so much. I was depressed all week about this and thank God it was able to recover.

@yourlinuxguy

2 ай бұрын

How did you recovered all those? I can't recover them. You didn't use the hardrive? or you did it asap?

@11palomito11

Ай бұрын

GOD OF WHAT??

@raimi7899

20 күн бұрын

Are you really recovered that 17k photos???!

@yourlinuxguy

20 күн бұрын

@@raimi7899 Use Autopsy, I recovered all my photos fron a pendrive where I didn't write anything after deleting

@yourlinuxguy

20 күн бұрын

@@raimi7899 I used Autopsy, to recover 100% photos from my USB

You just saved my life. Can't thank you enouph 🙌🙌

Always go into data recovery attempts with a very high expectation of failure. Having thoroughly tested and attempted to use many products over the decades, few have any value at all. Recover (phonetically think bruvva) is the correct pronunciation from what the company told me many years ago.

TY so much for the educational videos!!

Awesome video, I checked your channel, your video is funny! You earned a subscriber, Take care!

I once had a hard drive that wouldn't boot at all. I had to learn how to use Test Disk and Photo Rec which are Linux based recovery tools. I had zero experience with Linux but I finally figured it out and got all my data files and photos back. I then trashed that HDD for a new one and reinstalled Windows. I've used Recuva to get back files and photos before even long after I realized I had deleted stuff. Luckily the files weren't overwritten and recoverd nicely. It works well.

take my like ! other 99% youtubers show paid application and dont even mention that, i recover half of data from my old Western Digital from 2006! most pictures are fine ! some videos and very few music can be played . Thank you very much!

You saved me, thank you so much. With the latest version, it make the original file name and folder possible, great app.

this video saved all of my data from my sd card thank you for this video! :)

Amazing Info. Simple explained and very effective

Great video. I used to use hiren’s booted like over 20 years ago and about 9 years ago I got robbed and lost all that plus some and I couldn’t remember the name of the software. I had the image of hirens on a cd and other doftware to fix pcs until I got robbed 9 years ago. Thanks for sharing and keep it up.

Once again, magic! Thank you again!

Thank you so much! I was just wasting my time searching on youtube thank god you helped me .

This sounds amazing, gotta try it out soon :D was close to buy software, thank god i found your video.

I believe it's pronounced Ree-cuv-ah. As in "recover".

@Ian_Staff

7 ай бұрын

It is a corrupted spelling of "recover", but it would have benefited from an extra "v" to hammer the point home 😆

Thank you, this works ! Now i just need to buy a 1tb hard drive to retrasnfer my data to so i can then copy it back to the original (currently formatted) hard drive later.

Subscribed, this is an exceptional content and your explanation is articulated and on point, it was a masterclass on fixing problems.

Thank you! So tired of these "guide" that just end up as ads and all of the link in google is for paid software, like I get it that it is a profitable business to sell that kinda software but I know there is free software that can do the same or better so thank god for this guide man it is so annoying to accidently delete your data even tho it isn't important data and mostly just personal stuff (music, video, etc) it is still something that I wish I could just recover to save time so I'm waiting on the scan rn

thankyou so much man due to this i am able to recover my sisters wedding photos

Have used this software before to rescue data. Works wonders!

@dee1380

3 ай бұрын

This my 1st time... I agree!!! It worked!!!

It Worked!!!! Mannn, thanx!! I thought this was a video sellin a gimmick at 1st..but I was desperate & took a chance anyways.. I been tryin 2 recover files I lost in a folder due 2 a virus since Monday(5 days), it has been frustratin, to say the least....sleepless night, daily routine flow interrupted, overeating, etc. Malware made 1 of my folders completely empty & unable to open...alot of those files have been there for months, & due to finance draw back, I have not been able to back them up like I normally due. I followed this video step-by-step, & it worked!!! I was able to see & retrieve every missin/deleted file, data, music, pics, video, documents, etc.!!! And I saved those files to a new folder on anotha installed drive as recommended.. The program is free!!! It will ask u to upgrade, but it isn't necessary to upgrade the program to retrieve your missin files....the free version takes care of it all.. Whew!! Thanks again!!

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Thanks bro this video helped a lot

It sounds to me that they named this as if it's ghetto slang stereotype lol. Example "Hey bruh, you able to recova (recuva) my drive dawg?"

thank u so much dude, that saved my life

Thank you very much! You saved my work!!!!!!

A little misleading in that formatting the drive was a quick format, which simply overwrites the FAT and marks the space as free. Also, Recuva's capacity to restore files will depend on the colour of the circle before the file name-green for a very good chance of recovery, yellow for 50/50, and red for near zero.

@CyberCPU

7 ай бұрын

Quick format is always the default. In order to do a longer format you have to actually uncheck the quick format selection.

@soulstenance

7 ай бұрын

@@CyberCPU Point is that quick format is practically identical to just deleting the files if not entirely identical. It also won't damage flash memory like a full format would since no bytes are actually being overwritten. If there is a tool that can recover reliably from a fully formatted drive that would be quite something. This is great information for the average user who might not have known this was possible though.

@CyberCPU

7 ай бұрын

@@soulstenance it isn't possible in most cases. In the case of an accidental format, it's likely it will be a quick format. I don't know of a way to reliably recover files from a regular format.

@soulstenance

7 ай бұрын

@@CyberCPUFair point. 😁

@edbel6861

4 ай бұрын

​@@CyberCPUdoes it work with Android phones

Best tool to 100% delete date from an old drive is a hammer. 👍👍

@jason_a_smith_gb

7 ай бұрын

Done that. I always bin drives that way and break SATA port.

crazy dude🔥

Question: did you also made a video about mirroring drives? I had some dataloss after installing Windows while using mirrored drives... got the data back though, after seeing this video about deleted data recovery. If not, could you do a video about that?

Going with what you said on recovering "accidently" dot dot dot.. A good video on that line would be if someone has a USB-drive or any that when plugged in does not show it or say's it's corrupted.. I have, for a few clients attempted to bring back from the dead, those mentioned drives.. It took me a couple weeks to figure it out, but most of them I was able to recover data or make it usable again. The only ones I could not "FIX" were those with physical damage and a couple that were literally fried.. I believe this could make a very viewed video.. How many times have you went to plug in a usb-drive to have it not show up?? Yeah, me too.. Many of your other viewers may find that very handy.. Loved the video, I find them very informative & helpful... Thank you for sharing..

Good video, however, when you delete it from the SD card, just because it does not go into the recycle bin does not mean they are deleted. They don't get really deleted until you remove the SD card because they are stored in a temp location and sometimes depending on availability, in memory. To prove that, simply hit CTRL + Z and your files will return. To permanently delete the files, hit Shift + Delete.

@kevinmoysen8765

6 ай бұрын

You have no idea how much you saved me with this comment thank you so much

@yourpcmd

6 ай бұрын

@@kevinmoysen8765 you bet

I was trying to find a way to convert an Mac APFS to NTFS, without data loss, to share a bunch of files with a PC user. My Partition Wizard program would not convert APFS to NTFS without data loss. I even called the company and ask if it was possible. They said not possible. Then I got the idea to use the data recovery component of my Partition Wizard to "recover" files from the APFS partition and "restore" them to an NTFS partition. It worked great.

It works thank you so much 👍

Hello, I Watched your video discussing Recuva. Thanks for sharing such a informational video. Could you provide guidance on which software is better between Recuva and Stellar for data recovery? I'm currently facing data loss and I'm uncertain which software to try. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

for the goatee, I subscribe good sir...

Please talk about special tools and techniques that can enable the recovery of a corrupt database like Oracle (I mean recovery of blocks and datafiles and clusters).

I've not even watched the full video yet and even though I am supposed to be excited that deleted files from a formatted drive are recoverable, I can't ward off the scary feeling that nothing is permanently deleted especially when we sometimes sell off our phones, laptops (with drives in them), etc... SCARY!!

Test-disk and Photorec are wonderful alternatives Test-disk fixes ruined partitions data and Photorec recovers files even if the drive is fully not accessible

You are a lifesaver!!!

Hi Rich, thank you for the great work. Just a quick one. If the files i needed to recover on the drive / computer were saved on the desktop, documents or downloads. How do I go about that?

I recently bought a second hand WD Elements 18TB external USB hard drive for backup purposes. I initialised the drive on a Win 10 pro system and created a new simple volume but when formatting the drive I un-checked the quick format option and did a full format - it took 28 hours to complete. I did this believing that all data on this drive belonging to the previous owner would now be permantently deleted and un-recoverable. In your video you formated the SD card leaving the quick format box checked. Could you comment on the difference between quick and full formatting and whether or not a full format really does completely reset the drive to factory state? Nice work, just found your channel and subscribed.

In case of a formatted drive, restore the deleted partition with Testdisk instead. Only works if nothing else happened to the formatted drive after it being formatted. Also of course it only works with quick formatted drives. He forgot to mention the important difference between quick and full format I guess.

Just remembered a 2TB drive I had shelved a couple of years back as it was partitioned in half and had data on both partitions, when it lost the partition. I did not know how or if I could recover the data so I just shelved the drive. Any thoughts ?

Subscribed! Will this also work with corporate encrypted storage devices?

@CyberCPU

5 ай бұрын

No. I highly doubt it.

FANTASTIC CHANNEL!!!!! CAN I RECOVER A USER PROFILE? After a windows 10 update, a temp user file created which I didn't understand at the time. Black screen and 2 days of learning and through a series of watching you I got the system back but not my desktop or anything else. THANK YOU. Took me 2 days - slow learner. Problem is (if I have it right) the original user profile was deleted in my amateur process. I can see a new profile. There was a time where I could see all my files under the original profile but now that folder is empty. Can the original profile contents be recovered or do I have to rebuild my system once I have recovered the files. I lost all my setup for 365 including outlook important file structure and saved emails.

Bro u help me a lot coz I was about to delete another folder just to delete another folder I mistakenly selected that was too big to even go to the recycling bin

Recent new Subscriber here - Thank you for all your great Tech detailed computer help and advice videos! - I had a back up external storage 4TB SATA hard drive and somehow it was corrupted from a possible bad USB port on my computer - The SATA Drive ended up as a RAW Format with 2-4% used space? - I had almost 3.5 TB of files on it - Luckily I did have one other storage back up with most of the same back up files on it - Scary moment for me. I tried using a recovery program I found online to recover the files but it did not work - is it possible that all the Data is completely lost? or is there still hope for data recovery?

I Can't Thank You Enough !!! :)))

I have questions for you I have window 11. and edge browser and I delete collections. I don't have them backup. Can I recover them if I know the name of the folders in collections. If know name of the folders that get delete? If, how do I do it? Thanks Linda

To me this defines the reason to have an OS partition and a Data partition on your drive, if not on a separate drive. Just one more level of protection for stupid mistakes.

@senritsujumpsuit6021

5 ай бұрын

Am getting a Network Attached Storage device because of this It’s a home cloud server of drives that can have many backups at once

Hi I am totaly disappointed to recover hdd 300 data old family photos and video Delhi nehru place charges extra money and not source but I try daily another way but I day I see your video and use portable tool it's working first time see my lost pics I am happy recouca use many times but potable tool recovery my pics without charge TKS your support

Thank you sooooooooooo much!!!!

Hey man so my external hard drive with 3tb changed to ESD-USB and changed its storage to 32gb because I downloaded windows media creation tool will this work because im not sure I’m scared because I had important stuff on it if you could could u make a video on it

I am JB George, thank you so so sos much for this video guiding me to recover pictures from formatted SDcard

In your windows key, your ad showed a windows oem key. It will only work on the computer that you first install it on. A retail key will work on a new computer if you upgrade to a new computer.

How u doing sir I was watching some of ur videos. I just recovered some of my files from an unbootable windows drive I used a version of Linux from a usb but I can’t see anything on my download folder is that something that can only be recovered from the windows drive itself? I need to see if any other program can give me access to the download folder files before I try to restore the boot manager on that drive any suggestions?

thank you sir! 🙏

Hi i want to ask you this question, if the drive which i need to recover data is not available, i mean even the Drive like D or F i do not have these drives so what do i need to do?.

Bless. Works 1/12/23 actually free!

Just a little confused, if the usb was formatted already (this is why i am trying to recover the files lost due to formatting) I will still format a second time?

How does Recuva function on Shift+Del 'eted files? I tried a quite poor software that costed money and tried it on an SSD with TRIM. Of course it didn't work. I guess SD-cards are functioning simpler than SSD's, but still flash memory cells?

Hello, my drive automatically converted to dynamic, and then I converted it into basic but lost all my important data. I used Wizir to recover the partition but didn't get a single file. Please help.

thanks for the help

Awesome awesome video!! By the way, pronunciation of the software has to be re-cuh-ver (as in the word 'RECOVER') 😜

I have a rewritable 750mb gold dvd with 2 large very rare and special audio files that was written in the early 2000’s, that says the appears blank with the same used space as the audio files. I have a version of nero 1999/2000 ish that allows access to them, but I’ve for gotten which version it was. When I do remember which version it was, I’ll experiment on another disk that I don’t care about.

will this work with an external HDD that was use with a Playstation 5 and Playstation 4 gaming console? the thing is the PS5 and PS4 does not recognized the external HDD and it keeps saying the file drive is unsupported when I plugged it in. I don't want to format the drive again because I fear I might lose all video games and save data that are store on there. I have not format it yet, so it is just sitting around until I can find out what to do next. In my case now, my laptop does not recognized it, well it does recognized the hdd but it does not have an assigned drive letter to it. So I can not access the HDD when I plugged it in. Should I format the drive in windows so i can use Recuva to try and recover the data? Any feedback is much appreciated. Thanks

Thanks bro thank you so much ❤❤❤❤❤❤ I was running behind (recover it) but it's paid

Thank you! Finding genuinely good data recovery software can be challenging, as many are just disguised advertisements for paid services that capitalize on the urgency of data recovery needs. Your authenticity is appreciated.

16:05 Do I have to worry about data being overwritten if the data I’m trying to recover is on an HDD?

Thanks for the Video, recently reinstall my system with Dell recovery, on the process it asked me if I wanted to backup my Data which I DID NOT, will these worked after I Factory reseted with the Dell recovery??

Never lost any data. Going on 20 years ago. I really live on a computer. No tv. So computer was it for me. And today still no tv!

Noice. Thank you.

What happens if you instead, simply delete the partition on a hard disk instead of actually formatting it? Are the file names still lost or can you get them back?

@BeingMotivated_02

7 ай бұрын

did you find any software usefull please help me out>>>

Off topic question: About a year ago my Windows 10 Pro had a melt down and I spent a great deal of time fixing it, although I managed to loose my ability to log into my MS Account - I have a permanent license. I Could not recover my MS account as I had to supply a number of recent incoming email addys. I supplied many but MS would not accept them - they were from people in Real-estate and various Government agencies. All of them had very long addys, with many . this and . that as well as / this and /that. Can a Licensed MS tech phone MS and set my account straight again? My standard issue Outlook has been toast ever since. In general I need to know this so as I can be specific if this will work. I am in Canada so MS should be the same here.👍

Is there a way to securely delete just files or folders on a windows 11 sad machine to give it away? I really don’t want to format the whole drive

thanks. i successfully recovered jpg files from camera-fromatted sd card

wait. I don't get it. We download this in a different pc to flashdrive, then come back and fix it on the key PC? or just make this in a flashdrive and still can use the same pc?

Does the Recuva software need be installed before the data deleted?

Hey man I love your video and all And i have enjoy windows 11 after i installed on my unsupported pc....but now i want to go back to windows 10....can guide to that ...or make videos.....please ...thank you

Hey, I'm glad I found your video. I'm trying to recover a directory I foolishly deleted. I tried recuva but it takes HOURS to run and then tells me the swap file isn't large enough. Any thoughts as to how to proceed?

@Treythearchives

3 ай бұрын

I’m not sure on this but you may need a drive bigger than the one you’re moving files from. It actually sounds like your situation would be successful otherwise.

I got my hard drive with 4 partitions. When pluged in only two sections of it open ,the other two signals but i get this message you need to format disk to open. I have tried everything possible i know of to open ot without losing the data in those patitions. Can i please 🙏 😅 have anyone help on these thanks

thank u brother thank u so much

Hello, will this work for the windows 10 os drive. I formatted the drive :/c and reinstalled the os by mistake. I need to retrieve some pictures. Thanks

I am an Egyptian Rich you are an American, you already gived me a TANK, I like you.

Hi there, Your a pretty good instructor and I tried following the procedure using Recuva portable which I downloaded onto a flash drive. The laptop I'm trying to recover a specific Excel document was deleted both from the computer and recycle Bin. I hardly used this laptop since this file was deleted but it's been sitting in a closet for a year. Recuva found the Excel xlsx file and shows the size as being only 140 bytes, that the state is Excellent with No overwritten clusters detected. When I try to open it, it says Excel cannot open the xlsx because the file format or file extension is not valid? Not sure what to do next?

@Anthony-fh4yp

4 ай бұрын

Me again, I think I was able to open the Excel spreadsheet but there is nothing there. Only shows 1KB which I know should be quite a bit larger memory being used. There was around 12 pages of info that I'm trying to recover.

Hello. Can anyone suggest me something with my problem. I wrote the lyrics in a notepad on the computer. Somehow I lost all the text, although before I saw it it asked if I want to save it, I confirmed and all the text was deleted. Now I took that program and restored the old files, but it shows me my text completely in Chinese and with hieroglyphs. What does it mean?

thank you so much

Can I ask how would I unlock my local D drive that has bitlocker as I do not have the key to unlock. I have access to my c drive but all my files are on my d drive. Please note the CMD command prompt to disable stated that I have to do it from my control panel.

File recovered but file not open while click on recver file message appeared on screen paint cannot open this file, this is not a bitmap file or its format is not currently supported