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I made a mistake and need some advice. I connected my camera’s SD card to my computer, and it showed an error saying the drive needed to be formatted. I meant to cancel, but accidentally clicked “Yes,” and now all the photos are gone. Only a few were backed up to OneDrive — the rest are lost.
Is it still possible to recover those deleted photos using a Windows 10 PC? They’re not in the Recycle Bin, and I’m not sure if Windows has any recovery tools for this kind of situation. Any help would be really appreciated.
I’m in utter panic – my WD My Passport drive was accidentally formatted, and it held years of precious memories, especially videos and photos of my grandmother. I haven’t used the drive at all since the format happened.
Is there any way to get back data after something like this? I’m not sure where to start or what’s even possible. Would really appreciate some guidance or recommendations from anyone who’s been through something similar.
Just a shot in the dark..try using Samsung Flow or scrcpy (an open-source screen mirroring tool) if you had USB debugging enabled previously. Big if, I know. But if you can get scrcpy to run, you might be able to control the phone from your PC even with the ghost touch going on.
Did you ever turn on Developer Options?
No Smart Switch backup either. And I wasn’t using Secure Folder.
Do you have any sort of Smart Switch backup lying around? Sometimes Notes get bundled in that. Also, were you using Secure Folder by any chance? Notes in Secure Folder have a totally different storage path and might be harder to pull out.
I checked through my Samsung Cloud account..it seems Notes sync wasn’t turned on (yeah, I know… dumb move). I backed up everything else ages ago but didn’t realize Notes needed separate enabling.
First off, Samsung Notes are usually stored in internal memory under a protected data path, like /data/data/com.samsung.android.app.notes/. But, you can’t access that without root or special permissions Do you remember if you had Samsung Cloud sync on for Notes?
I dropped my Samsung A50 a couple days ago. The screen still turns on, but the touch input has gone completely bonkers..it has this random ghost touches nonstop. I was able to connect it to my PC and thankfully pulled out most of the photos, videos, and downloads through Windows Explorer.
But… I can’t seem to recover my Samsung Notes. Apparently they’re stored somewhere in a hidden folder that Windows doesn’t show. I even tried using a mouse through a USB dock thinking I could control it that way, but the ghost touch still overrides everything, making it impossible to do anything meaningful.
I also read that A50 doesn’t support USB-C to HDMI, so screen mirroring won’t work either.
Any ideas how I can either access those hidden Samsung Notes files or safely extract that data without relying on the screen touch?
Thank you so much guys..this is literally the first bit of hope I’ve had in days. Fingers crossed my phone doesn’t totally die on me by then
It sucks, but this is exactly why backup is so important. That said, if you’re not in a rush, try reaching out to someone who does board level repair. If the emmc chip (where your data lives) is fine, they might be able to clone it or extract data. Just make sure they’re not doing a factory reset during the process.
Low chance without a backup tbh. If usb debugging wasn’t turned on, ADB won’t work. Bootloader locked? That kills most recovery options too. I wouldn’t rush into replacing the motherboard unless you’re 100% sure nothing else is possible..’cause yeah, that’ll wipe everything.
I’ve used data recovery software from my pc in a similar case but only when the phone was showing up as an MTP device, which in your case it doesn’t. Your best bet honestly might be to try a software tool that can scan the device storage even in “dead” state..but I think most still need some level of access (like fastboot or debugging enabled).
There are some Android recovery tools that work via PC..if you can get the phone into Download Mode or Fastboot, those might be able to read something. It’s rare, but worth checking.
If the motherboard is partially alive (and storage is intact), some professional recovery services can read data directly from the storage chip without booting the Os. It’s not cheap though, and most local shops can’t do that..they just do replacements. Look for labs that handle chip-off recovery or JTAG-level stuff.
Bootloops really are a headache, especially when recovery mode is the only thing that works. Have you tried adb commands from recovery? You’d need usb debugging to have been enabled beforehand though, so kind of a shot in the dark unless it was turned on.
Hey Frisky, since the drive shows up as “unallocated” in Disk Management, it just means it hasn’t been set up yet — that’s why it’s not showing in File Explorer.
Here’s what you need to do:
Right-click on the unallocated space in Disk Management.
Click on “New Simple Volume” and follow the steps.
Assign a drive letter and choose NTFS (or exFAT if you’ll use it with Mac too).
Finish the setup, and your drive should show up normally.