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Post History: gareth_w
@nervv I had almost the exact same thing happen with a Kingston USB a few months ago. In my case it …In: USB turned RAW and contains important files
4 weeks ago
Sorry, @elix, if it’s a USB and you don’t have any backup elsewhere, data recovery software is prett …In: Deleted files from USB drive on Mac - any way to recover them?
1 month ago
Hey, found a vid that might be useful for you - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohCGgZGTDA8In: Lost files after Windows 11 update - How did you recover yours?
1 month ago
36 out of 40 from a mid-transfer power cut with no writes after – that's a good result for that …In: USB drive not showing up in File Explorer but shows in Disk Management??
1 month ago
yes, exactly that. in FAT32 every directory stores its own 32-byte entries for each file inside it – …In: USB drive not showing up in File Explorer but shows in Disk Management??
1 month ago
i'll weigh in on the general principle while you answer those questions, because the format adv …In: USB drive not showing up in File Explorer but shows in Disk Management??
1 month ago
I actually had a pretty similar situation to yours about a year ago. WD external, CRC errors, the wh …In: Is there any hard drive repair software that can fix bad sectors?
1 month ago
two different problems so two different answers.
@markus88 – HEIC is the annoying one, and I say …In: Best free photo recovery tools that actually work?
1 month ago
There are a lot of different hard drive repair software, you can lookup a ranking here https://ratin …In: Is there any hard drive repair software that can fix bad sectors?
2 months ago
If Windows asks you to initialize either drive, cancel it and don’t touch anything yet.
This actu …In: RAID 0 drive failure, can data be recovered?
2 months ago
The permissions stuff didn’t end up fixing it for me. I still kept getting the same message.
I fo …In: Suddenly getting “You don’t have permission” on my external HDD
2 months ago
Quote from chris_89 on April 2, 2026, 9:55 am
@gareth_w
yeah what @DataNerd said should do the t …In: Suddenly getting “You don’t have permission” on my external HDD
2 months ago
@bryan It just says “Access is denied.”In: Suddenly getting “You don’t have permission” on my external HDD
2 months ago
@chris_89 No, I don’t think so. I never set any password or encryption on it or anything like that. …In: Suddenly getting “You don’t have permission” on my external HDD
2 months ago