Thanks You
ok so long story short, a kid unplugged a usb stick from an ipad without ejecting it and while it was still writing to it apparently, and that corrupted the whole drive. explorer showed literally nothing on it after that, like an empty drive, but storage used was still showing full so i knew something was still physically there, just not visible anymore. lost like 1700 files of student coursework across multiple classes lol not fun. tried testdisk and dmde first since theyre free but got nothing usable, either empty results or files with random names and zero folder structure, basically unsortable garbage. easeus actually pulled the real folders back, class names and everything, took maybe 5-10min to scan the full drive but it worked and you get to preview before recovering so youre not just hoping. saved me honestly