janareed

Yup, confirmed that trim option is not disabled (as expected for anything other than very old SSDs or Windows XP OS). So, as you explained, OS w/ TRIM wiped out files disk storage location space immediately upon deletion and they are fully gone. Able to get back valid recover for very small files that stayed in the Master File Table/MFT. Better than nothing. I started this topic question and for me is done and can be closed out. Thanks for the support.

Typo - SQL queries that recovered okay are ‘small’ and probably in mft and thus worked

Makes sense. I will check into that. At least the SQL queries were recovered. In addition to being plain text they are same so gues that is why they worked thanks for the help

Yes, drive is a LITEON CV8 8E512 SATA disk / Solid State; Delete did not go thru recycle bin; Data loss oddly seemed to happen after a robocopy with just the copy:DAT option that locked up (command was start /wait robocopy /E /R:1 /W:5 /copy:DAT "%UserProfile%\Desktop" "userprofile%\OneDrive\Desktop") The header's varied on the docx files, some just zero and others random data. Some examples attached. Retried a few that are all small files, < 200kb Seems what is recovered is not getting the full docx file. Also, if I scan with the filter for office documents it finds nothing at all, zero files, but if I scan without the .docx filter, it does return lots of docx files with the green/excellent scan result, but all give the 'word found unreadable content' message when opening the recovered doc. Seems that recovered is not all the 'parts' of the zip for a word doc. Again, since it's global rather than a few stepped on files. I do have to start the program with a right click and 'run as administrator' or recuva is blocked from running. Questions: Does recuva need to be running with real full admin? I can do that, but only after a request to get it temp for few days (work computer). Will recuva always fail to pull office documents if drive is encrypted? (I know I said the drive was not encrypted, bitlocker is off so it should be, but I am double checking that next week). Thanks for your time and advice. HeadersAndResults.pdf

Recovered about 40GB of data from C Drive's deleted 'desktop' folder from c:\user\userid\desktop after its content, not the folder, all been perm deleted. Recuva seemed to be working very well until trying to view any of the recovered O365 office docs. All corrupt, won't open or repair. Lots of text files and SQL queries recovered okay. The C drive is NTFS and not encrypted. Anything else to check on the source drive? Bitlocker is installed but off. Symantec is installed and running. Since all the docx. xlsx recovered files were consistently invalid content, rather than a few corrupt seems odd. Data was deleted day prior to running RECUVA from a 500GB C drive with about 100GB used. Expected at least some Office O365 word and excel files to recover successfully. ? Thanks.