whatifwe wrote:
Arch Stanton wrote:
Whether it's in a bin or not is of little importance. A bin is essentially just another folder. What is important is whether this a drive that supports TRIM and that nothing is written to the drive after the accident. If this is the drive that the OS is ran from the chance that deleted data is being overwritten as you waste time by searching for a (free) tool, install them etc. increases by the second. If this is an SSD drive chance that data was trimmed is close to 100%.
So what do you suggest?
Okay. I suggest that:
- If this is an SSD (or trimming SMR drive) you accept your loss.
- If other type of drive, prevent it from being written to by either
image it using ddrescue or similar
or use some write blocker and scan for your files using DMDE, R-Studio, UFS or similar.
Deleted file recovery is probably most uncertain type of recovery unless drive was prevented from being written to immediately after accidental deletion. On modern OS with SSD it's almost guaranteed you will not be able to recover the files, made a little video to demonstrate:
https://youtu.be/NyLQbxnPurc
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