"How to" instructions

General cases

• Recover deleted files and folders.
• Recover data if Windows does not start.
• Recover data after format of a non-system hard drive, a thumb drive, or a memory card.
• Recover laptop data if the laptop does not start.
• How to recover photos from a camera memory card.
• Recover deleted disk partitions.
• Recover deleted folder.
• Recover a RAW filesystem drive if one of the drives turned to RAW filesystem.
• Read data from a RAW drive on Windows.
• Recover video files.
• Recover information from a hard drive.
• Retrieve data from a hard drive.
• Recover data from a Seagate hard drive.
• Recover data from a WD hard drive.
• Recover data from a device with Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
• Recover a RAW drive or RAW partition.
• Recover deleted photo.
• Recover Word file.
• Recover Excel file.
• Recover PDF file.
• Recover data off an USB pen drive.
• Recover data from a Mac hard drive.
• Recover data from a hard drive.
• Repair a hard drive.
• Recover a memory card, including that from a digital video or sound recorder.
• Recover data from an LVM partition.
• Recover data from a Linux device.

External drive recovery

• External hard drive recovery - 3 ways relevant in 2023.
• Recover data from an external hard drive in case of logical problem
• How to get access to the external hard drive data in case of enclosure issue
• Recover external hard drive data if you deal with hard drive failure
• Recover an external hard drive attached via USB or FireWire.
• Recover deleted files from an external hard drive.
• Retrieve data from an external hard drive.
• Recover disappeared files from an external hard drive.
• Recover data from an external hard drive with bad sectors.

Filesystem recovery

• Recover NTFS, the most common desktop filesystem.
• Recover APFS, a brand-new MacOS filesystem.
• Recover ReFS, the latest fashion Microsoft filesystem.
• Recover EXT, the widely used Linux filesystem.
• Recover ZFS, the next-generation Linux filesystem.
• Recover XFS, the filesystem commonly used in NAS devices.
• Recover BTRFS, which you probably see in a NETGEAR NAS.
• Recover BTRFS-based NASes like Rockstor NAS server.

NAS recovery

• Recover data from a NAS.
• Recover data from a NAS drive.
• Recover data from Buffalo NAS.
• Recover data from Drobo.
• Recover data from NETGEAR ReadyNAS.
• Recover data from QNAP NAS.
• Recover data from encrypted QNAP volume.
• Recover data from Synology NAS.
• Recover data from Austor NAS, WD My Cloud.
• Recover data from TerraMaster.
• Recover deleted files from a NAS.
• Recover data from degraded Synology pool.
• Recover data from NAS after factory reset.
• Recover data in case of Oyen Mobius RAID controller failure.
• Recover data from an iSCSI LUN.
• Recover data from a RAID array.
• Read NAS drive in Windows.
• Recover files from NAS - 2023.
• Recover data from a Windows Storage Spaces RAID10 pool.
• Recover files in case of Synology motherboard failure.
• Recover files in case of Asustor system failure.
• Recover TrueNAS data, free NAS OS based on ZFS filesystem.
• Recover data from deleted NAS volume.
• Recover data from degraded Synology pool.
• Recover data from failed Synology.
• Recover data from TRAID.
• Recover data from QNAP Virtualization Station.

Knowledge base

• How to get access to the NAS data.
• Why a NAS can fail?
• What is NAS recovery?
• Differences between ReclaiMe Standard, ReclaiMe Ultimate and ReclaiMe Pro
• How to test system memory (RAM) using Windows Memory Diagnostic.
• Whether is it possible to recover overwritten data?
• What is the difference between Quick and Complete format?
• What is the difference between DAS and NAS?
• How to troubleshoot hard drive capacity problems.
• How to fix "Access Denied" error.
• About filesystem types.
• File deletion implementations in different filesystems.
• How to fix unallocated hard drive.
• How to fix KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR.
• What is RAID recovery?
• How to install TrueNAS storage system on a Windows PC.
• How to setup TrueNAS storage system on a Windows PC.
• How to recover data from QNAP RAID5.
• How to recover data from QNAP RAID0.
• How to recover data from QNAP RAID10.
• How to recover data from Asustor RAID5.
• How to recover data from Asustor RAID0.
• Signs of external drive failure.

• How to set a PC for data recovery.
• Computer turns on and then turns off.
• How to solve BIOS issue.
• Windows 11 black screen.
• How to fix 0x80070570 error.
• How to fix 0x00000024: NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM error.
• Windows detected a hard disk problem - how to fix.
• Windows was unable to complete the format - how to fix.
• How to connect a memory card to the PC.
• Why should one use a card reader device.
• What's the best backup drive?
• How to fix "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable".
• Why a storage device is not showing up in My Computer?
• How to fix "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error"
• How to recover data after unsuccessful "Scan and fix Removable Disk"
• How to get access to the USB drive which is not recognized be the PC
• Software RAID, hardware RAID or NAS device – what to choose
• Top 3 NAS recovery software
• External drive recovery software – Trusted rating 2023
• Top 3 ZFS recovery software
• How to recover data from Synology RAID5.
• How to recover data from Synology RAID0.
• How to recover data from Synology RAID10.

Data recovery FAQ

• External drive recovery - FAQ
• Recovery of deleted files - FAQ
• RAW filesystem - FAQ
• QNAP data recovery - FAQ
• BTRFS recovery - FAQ

• Laptop hard drive recovery - FAQ
• NAS data recovery - FAQ
• FAT data recovery - FAQ
• ReFS data recovery - FAQ