Data recovery from quickly formatted SSD drive

[Adhikari]

Hi, I’ve accidently format logical drive (SSD) so is it possible to recover all files from that drive ?

[nukecad]

You can try, but it’s unlikey because of the way that SSDs work.

You may have a better chance if it’s an external drive so may not have been TRIM’md/garbage collected as often as internal drives are.

For file recovery from a reformatted drive see the instructions here:

Recover non-deleted files from Crashed/Reformatted drive

The Free version of Recuva should be all you need, it does the same as the Pro version but without paying for Technical Support. https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva (Other recovery apps are avaiable). Note that you should change your computers Power & sleep settings to 'Never' before starting any recovery attempt. A recovery scan can take hours and if the computer sleeps/hibernates before it has finished then you will probably have to start all over again. Don't try to save anything …

PS. The only things that I have ever managed to recover from a internal SSD were some some system icons that had been deleted. (possibly by a Windows Update?)
Presumably the system partition they had previously been in doesn’t get TRIM’med and garbage collected like the drive partitions do?

[redwolfe_98]

i will just add a comment. one time i tried to recover some deleted files, really just to see what could be recovered, and the only thing that the program offered to recover were a few deleted JPG-files, which sounds similar to nukecad’s experience where he could only retrieve a few deleted icons, which are a type of image-files, similar to JPG files.