HDD GURU FORUMS

Hello,

a client use the windows recovery to reset / reinstall the system and he lost all his data. I had quite some of that cases in the past. On a HDD I could use r-Studio or UFS and I would find at least a good portion of the data. Now I have a SSD and I did the same and there was not one file which I could find.

Is there a new function in Windows which wipe the drive when reinstalling windows or is that a thing of the SSDs?

I heard that some of them use something like a encryption to spread the data evenly across the drive - so a generation of a new key would turn all old data into garbage. Could that be the case?

This function is called TRIM. All the data is gone, sorry.

OK - thanks for the info. I will google that and have a look how that works.

It works very well. Forensic and data recovery people love it! Less files to sift through...

encryption could possibly account for this behaviour as well

if client did reinstall it depend if client did quick or full format.no way you get any data back if client did any full format

if client did reinstall it depends if client did quick or full format.no way you get any data back if client did any full format