Hi folks!
Heavy problem here. I tried to recover some accidentally deleted files from an absolutely flawless SSD. The results are 100% unreadable files. Any tips to get this fixed?
Thanks in advance
Sonny
By the way: It is all kinds of files: mp3, mts, GIMP format... everything uneadable.
What's the OS?
Windows 7 Home ...hmm... still I ask myself, if this is a rethorical question
So what I found out is, that all files bigger than "just a few bytes" contain just NUL bytes. That's strange...
So, that's what the scan says. All files were pretty readable until a few seconds until I made a stupid mistake. Is there REALLY no way to get those files back?
Not rhetorical, but wrong. I should have said what's the file system. But pondering on it, if the SSD has TRIM enabled then the answer is almost certainly no, it will not be possible to recover those files. Or any deleted files. This is due to the TRIM command unmapping the physical clusters of a deleted file and sending back a default zero-byte cluster on a read - or a recovery. Once unmapped there is no way to retrieve the data clusters. As long as the SSD has power the unmapping and subsequent emptying will continue in the background. There's more detail on the forum if you search, it's too late now (in both senses of the word) to go into detail here.
Aww sh*t! Somebody will kill me for that...