Unintentionally emptied the bin. Please help

[whatifwe]

Hi. Unfortunately I unintentionally emptied the bin. I tried different softwares, Disk drill, EaseUS, Wondershare Recoverit.
Disk drill and EaseUS don't show a bin folder (as promised on video tutorials) and find thousands of other files that have nothing to do with the ones that were removed. Wondershare Recoverit has the option to look at the Trash but it doesn't find the files lost.
Is there a free tool capable of recovering just a few files removed from the bin? Please help.

[Arch Stanton]

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%.

[whatifwe]

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?

[fzabkar]

I suggest you tell us whether you have an SSD or HDD, and also tell us the model number.

[Arch Stanton]

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

[pepe]

SMR hdds also support Trim, which can also make this recovery quite difficult...
So a precise model number would be helpful, as well as ensuring the drive is not written to anymore.