I accidentally use CCleaner to delete the file. Is there possible to use Recuva to recover?
I accidentally use CCleaner to delete the file. Is there any way to recover?
Maybe, but you need to give us more information.
What type of drive were the files on?
SSD, HDD, Memory stick, SD card, something else?
How did you delete the files? What part of CCleaner were you using?
Were these user files, System files, Registry entries, something else?
Have you been using that drive since you deleted the files?
- Drive Type: The files were on my primary SSD (the C: drive).
- Deletion Method: I deleted the files by using the Recycle Bin cleaning feature inside CCleaner. I did not use a secure wipe function.
- File Type: It was a folder on my Desktop containing study materials like videos, photos, PDFs, and DOCX documents.
- I have continued to use the computer and the C: drive normally since the files were deleted.
Thanks for the information.
(Although it’s not clear if the files were in your Recycle Bin or in a Desktop folder, but that doesn’t matter anyway).
It’s not good news I’m afraid. Recovery of deleted files from an SSD is rarely possible.
Particularly if it’s your C: drive
It’s the way that SSD’s work, the TRIM and garbage collect/wear levelling of a SSD mean that unlike other types of drive the data of the deleted file gets pretty quickly ‘wiped’ by the SSD’s controller and so is no longer there to be recovered.
For example, yesterday I deleted around 80 image files from my own SSD C: drive.
Today Recuva cannot find any trace of them, and only finds 3 screenshots that I had deleted in the last hour:
With no previews being available I did not have great hopes, but just for interest I did recover those three to an external drive, however once recovered then as I expected none of them could be opened. (The file data had been ‘garbage collected’ by the SSDs controller and only the filenames were still left to be found on the File Table).
You can give it a try to see what Recuva can find on your own drive, it won’t hurt anything to try, but don’t be too optimistic of getting any of the deleted files back.
With SSDs it’s more important than ever that you make regular backups of your files, so that if you should lose them for any reason (accidents happen, drives fail without warning, you could get hit by malware/ransomware) then you can simply get your files back from your backups.
Thank you for your response