raspberrypi
MISSING DATA ON DRIVE
What happened?
i WAS TOLD TO REPORT THIS ON THIS LINK. i downloaded the inage software and alll my data is missing from my drive and its called bootfs(D) drive. all I want to do is retirive the lost data.
Version
1.9.6 (Default)
What host operating system were you using?
Windows
Host OS Version
windows 11
Selected OS
rasberry pi imager
Which Raspberry Pi Device are you using?
Raspberry Pi 3B, 3A+, 3B+, and Compute Module 3, 3+
What kind of storage device are you using?
microSD Card in an internal reader
OS Customisation
- [ ] Yes, I was using OS Customisation when the bug occurred.
Relevant log output
There are some tools you can use to recover data from Windows formatted disks, for example:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/windowsinsiderprogram/how-can-i-recover-files-from-a-formatted-hard-drive/4394383
But anything that's been overwritten is not retrievable.
Do you know what actually went wrong? Was it your C: that got overwritten or a separate USB/NVMe drive plugged into the computer?
Here's the corresponding forum thread about this data loss incident and here's my now closed issue predicting this would happen eventually :(
Thank you for this response. what went wrong was I downloaded the image software. I guess the image software downloaded to my d drive instead of the sd card on my Raspberry PI. you don't see the D drive as I would normally see through file explorer. but you can find it in disc management and now it's called Disk 0. there is a picture attached to this.
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Here's the corresponding forum threadhttps://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=390657 about this data loss incident and here's my now closed issuehttps://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager/issues/1087 predicting this would happen eventually :(
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No it wasn't my C drive it was a extra inter drive that i would save to. the Disk 0 drive in the screen shot is or I would say I should be that drive that I'm missing. It says it has 925.78 GB of unallocated space I'm just trying to figure out how to get that to an online and get that data. right now it says read only.
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From: Esau Galindo @.> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2025 12:04:28 AM To: raspberrypi/rpi-imager @.>; raspberrypi/rpi-imager @.> Cc: Author @.> Subject: Re: [raspberrypi/rpi-imager] MISSING DATA ON DRIVE (Issue #1161)
Thank you for this response. what went wrong was I downloaded the image software. I guess the image software downloaded to my d drive instead of the sd card on my Raspberry PI. you don't see the D drive as I would normally see through file explorer. but you can find it in disc management and now it's called Disk 0. there is a picture attached to this.
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From: Florian Wesch @.> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2025 11:57:38 PM To: raspberrypi/rpi-imager @.> Cc: softball209 @.>; Author @.> Subject: Re: [raspberrypi/rpi-imager] MISSING DATA ON DRIVE (Issue #1161)
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Here's the corresponding forum threadhttps://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=390657 about this data loss incident and here's my now closed issuehttps://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager/issues/1087 predicting this would happen eventually :(
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I'm just trying to figure out how to get that to an online and get that data. right now it says read only.
Please don't try to do that yourself - you'll only make it more unlikely to be able to recover any of your missing data. As people on your forum thread have advised, you should use a professional data recovery service.
