CompactFlash, SD, MMC, USB flash storage. Anything that does not have moving parts inside.
February 3rd, 2023, 4:57
Hi, I wanted to ask if data is recoverable from a formatted Samsung SSD drive from a macbook pro 2014. It's been formatted twice but never overwritten. I asked a couple of businesses and the answer has been negative. What do you think?
Thank you.
February 3rd, 2023, 5:17
Nope - Trim and garbage collection.
You can check by opening the drive in a hex editor and confirming it's largely full of 00.
February 3rd, 2023, 7:16
no hope at all?
February 3rd, 2023, 7:30
Lardman wrote:You can check by opening the drive in a hex editor and confirming it's largely full of 00.
February 3rd, 2023, 13:05
Launch DMDE.
https://dmde.com/Select your physical device and then OK.
Check the Advanced box. You will see your hexadecimal/text sector data on the right.
Drag the vertical scrollbar from LBA 0 all the way down to the end of the drive. If you see mostly zeros, then your data are gone.
February 4th, 2023, 0:17
fzabkar wrote:Launch DMDE.
https://dmde.com/Select your physical device and then OK.
Check the Advanced box. You will see your hexadecimal/text sector data on the right.
Drag the vertical scrollbar from LBA 0 all the way down to the end of the drive. If you see mostly zeros, then your data are gone.
How about Disk Drill?
February 4th, 2023, 0:44
Do you think Disk Drill can turn zeros into data? That would be the holy grail of data recovery.
February 4th, 2023, 5:00
fzabkar wrote:Launch DMDE.
https://dmde.com/Select your physical device and then OK.
Check the Advanced box. You will see your hexadecimal/text sector data on the right.
Drag the vertical scrollbar from LBA 0 all the way down to the end of the drive. If you see mostly zeros, then your data are gone.
Is it a program that even non experts can use? Or it's mainly for professionals?
February 4th, 2023, 6:22
You could have already answered your own question.
February 4th, 2023, 8:10
mate, fzabkar has given you so simplified yet detailed guidance what to do, you don't even have to be 'non expert' to follow it. You just need to own a computer and have a web browser.
My son could do it, and he's 2.
February 6th, 2023, 3:39
Has the TRIM function been enabled for sure you all say?
February 6th, 2023, 4:41
Since when the TRIM function was enabled on macbooks. I checked mine now and it is activated and I wonder if it was enabled a few years ago when a different OS was in place.
February 6th, 2023, 8:47
TRIM is drive-relevant, not OS relevant.
So, since most SSDs have TRIM enabled, if your computer has an SSD installed, TRIM is there.
And then, when you format it, TRIM detonates and you end up seeing 00's.
Did you see 00's all over the place?
February 6th, 2023, 11:33
February 27th, 2023, 14:33
I think you'll need to desolder nand chips and read them directly to be sure everything was trimmed off. Even reading all zeroes might be a result of unmapped sectors.
You can be pretty sure the data is gone only If that drive was secure erased. Otherwise, a tiny possibility to recover the data is still there.
March 4th, 2023, 13:21
sflx wrote:I think you'll need to desolder nand chips and read them directly to be sure everything was trimmed off. Even reading all zeroes might be a result of unmapped sectors.
You can be pretty sure the data is gone only If that drive was secure erased. Otherwise, a tiny possibility to recover the data is still there.
Do you know of anyone who uses this method?
March 7th, 2023, 14:59
whatifwe wrote:sflx wrote:I think you'll need to desolder nand chips and read them directly to be sure everything was trimmed off. Even reading all zeroes might be a result of unmapped sectors.
You can be pretty sure the data is gone only If that drive was secure erased. Otherwise, a tiny possibility to recover the data is still there.
Do you know of anyone who uses this method?
Anyone?
March 8th, 2023, 3:46
whatifwe wrote:Anyone?
No one does this to mac's it's just not applicable. sflx is confusing other types of nand recovery.
March 24th, 2023, 6:01
Hi,
What sort of formatting you have done. There are two types of formatting quick formatting and Full formatting.
Quick format
NTFS & FAT32 are the two most popular file systems formats that are widely used. When you ‘Quick Format’ a drive (which is the default selected option), it only replaces the existing file system table (directory table) or index with a new one. It doesn’t actually destroy the data on the drive. Thus, the data from a quick formatted drive can be recovered with the help of a data recovery tool.
Full Format
Unlike Quick Formatting, Full Format erases the data (overwrites existing data with zeros), rebuilds the file structure, and also scans the hard drive to check if everything is working fine. It basically scrubs the hard drive from scratch. It also repairs the soft bad sectors and marks hard bad sectors (caused by physical damage). As a result, full format takes much longer to format your hard drive or other storage devices.
Can you please tell me you have done quick format or full format. If you have done quick format then you can recover your lost data, but if you have full format then chances is low.
March 24th, 2023, 8:26
Amelia, That's not how SSDs work.
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