Hi, I’ve accidently format logical drive (SSD) so is it possible to recover all files from that drive ?
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:
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?
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.
If this was a quick format and you’ve stopped using the SSD immediately, there may still be a chance of recovering at least some data. The biggest factor is whether TRIM has already been executed, since SSDs handle deleted/formatted data differently than traditional hard drives. Recovery success usually drops quickly once the drive continues to be used.
I’d avoid writing anything new to the SSD and perform recovery from another drive or system if possible. Recuva is worth trying, but if it doesn’t find the required files, you could also test a few dedicated SSD recovery tools. I’ve had decent results in the past with SysTools SSD Recovery on a formatted SSD where I needed to scan for lost partitions and recover files to a separate drive.
Whatever tool you use, make sure recovered data is saved to a different disk to avoid overwriting anything that may still be recoverable.
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You have also missed the point - the OP had not accidentally deleted files, they had reformatted the drive.
That means that the files the OP wanted back had not been deleted, and so had not been given a ‘deleted’ flag, which means that they would not have been trimmed or garbage collected.
They could possibly be recovered using the special method; provided that new data had not yet been written to the drive and overwritten them, and provided that it hadn’t garbage collected since reformatting.