Good Day to you all. I recently had a break in to my home and burglars stole my entire desktop, along with 2 of my laptops as well as 3 USB 1TB hard drives. I’ve lost a lot of my files such as family pictures etc…Now my question to you is - Last year some time before I formatted my Desktop I copied…

[image] Ihsaan: Is there anyway these ‘DELETED FILES’ can be recovered from the WD My Cloud using any recovery software etc… First, do a forum search, using the magnifying glass icon upper right, for “recovery” or some variation on recovering data from the My Cloud. This question on how to re…

Indeed. Recovery MAY still be possible though. Best solution is to remove the drive from the MyCloud enclosure, hook it to a computer, and attempt file system recovery with TestDisk, or something similar. Testdisk is free, and knows how to deal with EXT4 file systems. If you are mostly interested …

Ok, I have successfully statically compiled Testdisk and Photorec. They appear to be working. I pushed them to my Google Drive here, along with the source tarball (for GPL compliance.) Since it is statically linked, if you wanted to compile it yourself you would need to get all the necessary libra…

I downloaded your testdisk to my gen1 My Cloud. I then ran the following command. ./testdisk --help It displayed the help instructions. So I guess it will work on a gen1 system.

Good to know! Now we are armed and dangerous the next time somebody needs to recover data from their MyCloud without voiding their warranty by opening the box and removing the drive. :stuck_out_tongue:

Nice write up will test at some point on my Gen 1. [image] Wierd_w: Instead, recover to the USB stick. (remember the location we looked up with df earlier?) Gotta add one comment here for the non computer literate who read this, make sure to use a USB stick/drive that is larger than the cont…

Testdisk tries to look at filesystem metadata to determine what inodes a file previously had allocated. If you are unable to recover a media file with testdisk, attempt recovery with photorec instead. It ignores the filesystem type, and reads raw sectors from the drive sequentially, then checks the…

Thank you so much for all the help and info. I think I may be able to navigate myself around the instructions you have provided. However I will only be back home in 5 days time. So I will then attempt it and get back to you with any further help I may require and with feedback. Just a note, I ha…

Hello Wierd_w, I have a problem when starting the testdisk. It always says: Terminfo file is missing. Extract all files and subdirectories before running the program. Do you know how to solve this?

Researching the issue, it looks like Testdisk cannot find your terminal capabilities database. See this page for more details: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO-16.html For reference, the singe bay myclouds put this file in /usr/local/modules/files/terminfo You can point your session …

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The best time to recover files on a disk is as soon as they were deleted. Once they are deleted and disk activity continues to the disk. The longer the acrivity occurs the less chance there is to recover the files.

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