Data recovery stupid mistake!

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randomwalsh

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SO I was stupid.

I backed up my data before I formatted my ssd and reinstalled windows and all other programs and copied the data back on.

I have only now discovered that when backing up I never overwrote the existing backup and now I have lost 2 days of work.

My question is, is there a way to recover the files from last night before I formatted and reinstalled and copied all my data back over?
 
yeah using getdataback to create a image of my ssd now. well work on the image and hopefully be able to pull the files through.
 
I'd be very surprised if you got it back. If you'd just formatted - then maybe. But you've written a crap load of new files to that drive - thus, filling the 'empty' spaces where most recovery software will look for it. Essentially... you've more than likely overwritten your old data. Good luck though...
 
Tander said:
I'd be very surprised if you got it back. If you'd just formatted - then maybe. But you've written a crap load of new files to that drive - thus, filling the 'empty' spaces where most recovery software will look for it. Essentially... you've more than likely overwritten your old data. Good luck though...
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Some times you get lucky.
 
I wouldn't be so sure about an ssd still having your old data. As soon as you hit delete, the OS told the SSD firmware that the data in those memory cells can be removed. You might be lucky if the garbage collector decided it didn't need to empty those cells for wear leveling for the format but I wouldn't count on it.
 
randomwalsh said:
I backed up my data before I formatted my ssd and reinstalled windows and all other programs and copied the data back on.
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If this was a hard drive, I'd have said that there's a good chance you'll get your stuff back. But since its a SSD, this is going to be much trickier. Recuva may be able to get some of the drive's contents back, but any sectors that got overwritten with the new files might have lost that info forever.
 
yeah it didn't work :( had to work it back in my own time to redo the work. I tried multiple recovery programs.

thanks for all the suggestions!
 
Alexfranky said:
Visit SysInfoTools Software for all data recovery software an affordable price.
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Keegan said:
Recuva is very good and quick.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-file-recovery-programs.htm

Good luck.
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Guys, if he has already tried various recovery softwares and failed, those two are not going to do anything more than waste his time. Fact is he overwrote the drive with new data. Getting the old data back after that was a very slim chance, at best.
Anyway OP, I guess you can put this down to lesson learnt. ;)
 
Tander said:
I'd be very surprised if you got it back. If you'd just formatted - then maybe. But you've written a crap load of new files to that drive - thus, filling the 'empty' spaces where most recovery software will look for it. Essentially... you've more than likely overwritten your old data. Good luck though...
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