Question regarding a stock Verizon Galaxy S3, rooted with TWRP recovery installed:
My buddy accidentally wiped out all his pictures and videos by performing a "move" from the phone memory to the external SD card using the Samsung file manager. The SD card appears corrupted and now the files are no longer visible in the phone memory.
Is there a way to mount the phone partition on a PC as a drive and use an "un-delete" program to attempt a recovery of the files? Alternatively, could I somehow create a bit-for-bit backup of the phone partition in an image file that could be mounted as a drive in a PC and then use an "un-deleter" on it?
Any ideas?
Thank in advance...
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i accidentally deleted the FAT32 partition on my memory card (microSD). does anyone know how to rebuild the formatting without formatting the whole card? i can view the files with file recovery software and i know they are there, but would rather rebuild it than buy software specifically to recover deleted files... any help is greatly appreciated.
Just woke up, but there are free recovery tools.. google better
As far as i know, you cant put back the partition without overwriting the old files. some can still be recovered afterwards placing a new partition, but most will be broken.
in a sdcard reader all the same undelete tools on pc's which work on harddisks work on the sdcard
If you need only certain files like pictures, movies and office files I can recommend PC Inspector Smart Recovery. I use that when I recover erased pictures from SD cards.
First post- I did search but found nothing.
Is there a tool to undelete files on the internal SD memory after a full reset?
I thought I'm safe to factory reset the phone (Samsung Captivate) after backing up to internal SD with MyBackup pro, but the SD looks to be reformated. I know the files are still there, because actual deleting of few GB of info takes quite a while, so it's just the directory that got reset. A full scan will find the files. If I could remove the internal storage, there are tools to perform this operation on a Linux computer, but what about internal storage that's accessible only through USB?
My work requires encryption of the SD Card. After doing a factory reset, Android reports unable to mount SD card and to format.
Using twrp, i can view the file structure when i mount the sd. I cannot view the data partition because the device is encrypted.
Using my PC, i can view the file structure, but when i try to open a pic or zip file, it says the file is unreadable/corrupt. I would think that it if were truly encrypted, i would be able to view the file structure.
I can even take a nand backup and save it to the SD card, so i know twrp can read/write
I plan to format the card, but since i can see the files in twrp, i just want to make sure i am not missing something. Or, get an OTG cable and see if i can copy files off SD Card to a thumb drive...
I inserted San-disk 32 GB SD card in my Phone running Android 6.0.1
I formatted the SD card as Internal Memory in my Phone
After few days When I rebooted my phone a message was seen in Notification area as :"REINSERT MEMORY CARD"
I tried it several times but it is not working
I have some Photos and Important files in the SD card
Please help me to recover it.
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Get a usb memory card ready. If your memory card is healthy you can recover your files. If not your sorry your files will be hard to recover.
niraj_gharat said:
I inserted San-disk 32 GB SD card in my Phone running Android 6.0.1
I formatted the SD card as Internal Memory in my Phone
After few days When I rebooted my phone a message was seen in Notification area as :"REINSERT MEMORY CARD"
I tried it several times but it is not working
I have some Photos and Important files in the SD card
Please help me to recover it.
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Try Connect with otg card reader..... n open in twrp file manager
Twrp Manager only works in Rooted Device... am i correct. ??
skyrajparmar said:
Try Connect with otg card reader..... n open in twrp file manager
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Get Card reader for PC, and use PhotoRec (or more advanced but perhaps more difficult to use, by same programmers, TestDisk).
PhotoRec on WikiPedia:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoRec
TestDisk on WikiPedia:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk.
Try PhotoRec first, it can probably recover files if either of them can (and is easier to use), and Testdisk if that fails.
If anything can recover your lost files, one of these can.
Be sure to read the documentation thoroughly [Especially for Testdisk].
Hi all
Samsung S7, standard rom, encrypted SD card (Samsung 128 EVO)
My 128GB SD card held a huge amount of photos amongst other things. One day, the card stopped mounting (and I therefore couldn't decrypt the files). Taking the card out and putting it in a card reader connected to the phone, it would mount but didn't give me the option to decrypt the files. I copied all the encrypted files to my laptop, and formatted the card. A different volume name was generated. I copied all of the files back to the card, but the data couldn't be read. I imagine a new key was generated when I re-formatted the card.
Data recovery tools can see the files, but they remain encrypted.
Renaming the volume label to the original name and trying again didn't work either.
I have not changed my pattern code, not done a factory reset, and have not updated the OS since.
How do I go about recovering the encrypted data. I have all the files, but no way to decrypt them using the phone. Is there any way to restore the files?
You can try this
I am very hesitant to overwrite back all the encrypted files to the SD card so as not to write over the old files (which I can see in a data recovery tool, although they are encrypted)
So, I will try the following.:
1. I will connect an old SSD and format it as external storage and encrypt it using the method you linked.
2. I will copy the 80GB of encrypted data backed up on my PC onto the SSD (probably using wifi)
3. I will then try decrypting the external SSD drive using my phone and see whether I can read the files
4. I will report back
Ideally, I would like the volume to have the same volume name as the original SD card volume. I wonder if this plays a part in the encryption/decryption process
If any other suggestions are forthcoming, I'll take them too!