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How to Recover Lost Data in Any Storage Device
A universal data recovery walkthrough covering hard drives, SSDs, SD cards and USB sticks — how to scan safely, find what you need, and get it back without overwriting anything.
The most important rule first
Once you notice files are missing, stop writing anything to that drive. Every new file saved to it risks overwriting the very data you are trying to recover — this matters more than which tool you pick.
What the recovery process covers
Scanning the affected device with a recovery tool, filtering the results by file type so you are not wading through thousands of unrelated fragments, and saving anything recovered to a different drive entirely.
Need to recover something?
The guide below walks through a safe recovery process, and the downloads page has the tools used.