Trying to recover DATA from a SSD

[GabrielFerrazTPU]

Hello everyone and Good morning, afternoon and night.

 

A couple day's ago, my syster asked me to format her computer but forgot to mention she had some file that i needed to backup up. Currently i'm trying to recover it, she's currently using a SAMSUNG EVO 860 500GB(excellent state). What softwares should i use? Besides RECUVA, EASEUS and RECOVERIT, because i couldn't find her files in it? Since it's not a lot of files, paying for a company to try recovering them would be very expensive.

[WereCatf]

Just now, GabrielLP14 said:

A couple day's ago, my syster asked me to format her computer but forgot to mention she had some file that i needed to backup up. Currently i'm trying to recover it, she's currently using a SAMSUNG EVO 860 500GB(excellent state). What softwares should i use? Besides RECUVA, EASEUS and RECOVERIT, because i couldn't find her files in it? Since it's not a lot of files, paying for a company to try recovering them would be very expensive.

Did you format the SSD under Windows? If you did, Windows probably TRIMmed it and no files on it are recoverable with any software, whatsoever. The only way to recover anything in such a case would be a professional company that would have to access the Flash-chips directly.

[GabrielFerrazTPU]

3 hours ago, WereCatf said:

Did you format the SSD under Windows? If you did, Windows probably TRIMmed it and no files on it are recoverable with any software, whatsoever. The only way to recover anything in such a case would be a professional company that would have to access the Flash-chips directly.

Hmm, yes i did that, thank you so  much, well i don't think i have a choice then.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

While SSDs have many advantages over HDDs that can compensate for their higher prices, one disadvantage of sorts is that, when they fail, they almost always fail irrecoverably.

 

The reason I said that disadvantage was "of sorts" is, while HDDs sometimes can have the data recovered after they fail, there is no guarantee of that. Added to that is any drive, no matter if it's HDD or SSD, can fail irrecoverably at any time without any warning whatsoever. The only protection for that is to have backups.

 

Before making any kind of a change on a drive, be it reformatting, changing settings, adding or removing programs, adding or deleting data, etc. it should be backed up so, if something goes sideways while or after making the change, you can recover from it. By keeping backups updated as frequently as practical, you are far better protected from sudden, unexpected drive failures.

[GabrielFerrazTPU]

1 hour ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

While SSDs have many advantages over HDDs that can compensate for their higher prices, one disadvantage of sorts is that, when they fail, they almost always fail irrecoverably.

 

The reason I said that disadvantage was "of sorts" is, while HDDs sometimes can have the data recovered after they fail, there is no guarantee of that. Added to that is any drive, no matter if it's HDD or SSD, can fail irrecoverably at any time without any warning whatsoever. The only protection for that is to have backups.

 

Before making any kind of a change on a drive, be it reformatting, changing settings, adding or removing programs, adding or deleting data, etc. it should be backed up so, if something goes sideways while or after making the change, you can recover from it. By keeping backups updated as frequently as practical, you are far better protected from sudden, unexpected drive failures.

Agreed, since my NAS isn't operational yet, i still do manual backup, but she usually ask me when to do it, but usually she does it herself, she has backup for most of her data, but the data she lost was only the "last week" data. Before that i have it all.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

1 hour ago, GabrielLP14 said:

Agreed, since my NAS isn't operational yet, i still do manual backup, but she usually ask me when to do it, but usually she does it herself, she has backup for most of her data, but the data she lost was only the "last week" data. Before that i have it all.

That shows the importance of keeping backups as up to date as possible. I have a policy of making an image of my bootdrive/partition before I update the OS or programs, make any changes to settings, install or uninstall programs, etc. so my ample asset is covered "just in case". I also update my data backups immediately after adding any critical data. It sounds paranoid but it has saved my bacon data and boot drive a few times.

 

Btw, if the NAS will be connected to the network and powered up all the time, I suggest you continue to also make manual backups.

[GabrielFerrazTPU]

15 hours ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

That shows the importance of keeping backups as up to date as possible. I have a policy of making an image of my bootdrive/partition before I update the OS or programs, make any changes to settings, install or uninstall programs, etc. so my ample asset is covered "just in case". I also update my data backups immediately after adding any critical data. It sounds paranoid but it has saved my bacon data and boot drive a few times.

 

Btw, if the NAS will be connected to the network and powered up all the time, I suggest you continue to also make manual backups.

I'll do that once my NAS is installed, by the way i'm thinking of getting a DS1019+. What do you think?

[Lady Fitzgerald]

2 hours ago, GabrielLP14 said:

I'll do that once my NAS is installed, by the way i'm thinking of getting a DS1019+. What do you think?

Sorry, I'm not familiar with NASes enough to make a recommendation since I don't use one (nor ever needed one). You will have to ask someone else abut that.

[GabrielFerrazTPU]

I See but thank you anyway, have a great day XD

[Lady Fitzgerald]

1 hour ago, GabrielLP14 said:

I See but thank you anyway, have a great day XD

You too, thank you!