Quote from nikaredko on April 3, 2026, 1:50 pm

Pinning this. Summary for anyone who lands here searching for how to recover a formatted SSD:

• Stop using the drive immediately. Remove the drive letter in Disk Management. Every write after a format risks overwriting recoverable data – stop using the drive immediately.
• Quick Format vs Full Format matters. Is the data gone after a quick format? No – Quick Format wipes the MFT but leaves data clusters intact, which means you can still recover files after format. Full Format does a zero-fill pass – recovery is significantly harder.
• TRIM does not cause instant data loss. It flags blocks as available. Garbage collection erases them later, asynchronously. You have a window.
• Clone before scanning. Use a sector-by-sector disk imaging tool. Work from the image, never the original.
• Use “All recovery methods,” not Quick Scan. Quick Scan depends on file system structures. After a format, there are none.
• Preview before recovering. Confirm each file renders in the preview pane before buying a license.
• Check both the folder tree and “Lost & Found.” Large files and database formats like .lrcat often end up in the carving section.
• Recover to a separate drive. Not the original. Not the image drive. A third, clean destination.

Anyone who wants a full walkthrough of the recovery process can find one here.