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Hi, can anyone tell me where should supporting questions concerning data recovery goes in the forum hierarchy?

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pointed to the dedicated Data Recovery section; use that forum for drive/RAID failures, file-undelete, filesystem damage and imaging/tool-specific recovery questions. To get useful, fast answers, include the technical detail responders need rather than just "my drive died."

When you post, include these items (paste short text output rather than screenshots when possible):

  • Operating system and version.
  • Drive make/model and interface (SATA, USB enclosure, NVMe).
  • Exact symptoms and error messages (e.g., not detected, clicking, filesystem errors).
  • Recent events (power loss, drop, format, partition changes).
  • SMART/dmesg/Windows Event entries (paste output).
  • Whether the drive appears in BIOS/UEFI or Disk Management.
  • What you already tried and with which exact tool/options.
  • Whether you can/did create an image and where it lives.

Immediate steps before doing more work: stop using the source drive (do not initialize, format, or run write-mode repairs). If the problem is logical, create a full image and work from that. If the drive is noisy or not spinning, avoid long tests and consider professional service. A common imaging workflow on Linux:

ddrescue -n /dev/sdX /path/to/imagefile /path/to/logfile
ddrescue -d -r3 /dev/sdX /path/to/imagefile /path/to/logfile

Replace /dev/sdX and destination paths; write the image to a different physical disk at least as large as the source. Mention these steps and any logs in your thread so helpers can suggest targeted next actions.

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thanks

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