Recover from SSD
Posted: 30 Oct 2024, 03:30
Hello. I'm looking for some advice on how to recover some deleted files from a SSD using Photorec. I've used Photorec in the past on HDDs and SD cards and it worked ok.
So here's the situation: I have a small laptop which I use for astrophotography.
I just got home from a session and I had about 100 .fits files on the internal SSD of the laptop, on the only partition which is a NTFS with 512 bytes sector size (checked in System Information).
Some of these files I didn't need (bad calibration frames) so I wanted to delete them.
However... I mistakenly also deleted 39 .fits files which I do need, these were all the photos from tonight's session.
So I immediately went on another laptop, downloaded photorec to an external SSD, then connected it to the photography laptop and started to fiddle with it.
The laptop is an ASUS Slate Oled 13 inch, kind of a mix between a laptop and a tablet.
What I tried:
1. Photorec with default settings in GUI mode, ran the search on the partition.
Recovered 6 unrelated files, as follows:
- .mlv file. 2,158,074 KB
- .gpg file, 32 KB
- 4 .swf files, 2,458,789 KB / 2,479,596 KB / 3,133,597 KB / 2,501,190 KB
2. Photorec with default settings in terminal mode, ran the search on the partition. 0 files recovered
3. Photorec with default settings in terminal mode, ran the search on the drive. Multiple unrelated files recovered, mostly .exe, dll, txt, ttf and one .swf. All except for the swf have a size of at most 5,382 KB. The swf file is 2,458,789 KB
4. Photorec in terminal mode, made sure the sector size is set to 512B, and only the fit and fits files are enabled in the settings: 0 files recovered.
The paranoid setting is on but with brute-force disabled.
The recovery location is set to the external ssd where I also have the photorec executable.
What's strange to me is that there aren't any .fits file even though there should be hundreds of deleted .fits files on this drive.
I tried running photorec multiple times, I always select 512B as the sector size because I checked and the drive is formatted as NTFS with 512B sector size.
After it runs, I get a question: "Create an image_remaining.dd (254510 MB) file with the unknown data (Answer N if not sure) (Y/N) and I always select N
Some other information that I have:
- The path where all the files were: C:\Photography\N.I.N.A\SH2-200\OIII\2024-10-29\LIGHT\
- I also have the names of all the files from the logs of the photography software
- Each file was exactly 50,676 KB
Does anyone have any suggestions?
So here's the situation: I have a small laptop which I use for astrophotography.
I just got home from a session and I had about 100 .fits files on the internal SSD of the laptop, on the only partition which is a NTFS with 512 bytes sector size (checked in System Information).
Some of these files I didn't need (bad calibration frames) so I wanted to delete them.
However... I mistakenly also deleted 39 .fits files which I do need, these were all the photos from tonight's session.
So I immediately went on another laptop, downloaded photorec to an external SSD, then connected it to the photography laptop and started to fiddle with it.
The laptop is an ASUS Slate Oled 13 inch, kind of a mix between a laptop and a tablet.
What I tried:
1. Photorec with default settings in GUI mode, ran the search on the partition.
Recovered 6 unrelated files, as follows:
- .mlv file. 2,158,074 KB
- .gpg file, 32 KB
- 4 .swf files, 2,458,789 KB / 2,479,596 KB / 3,133,597 KB / 2,501,190 KB
2. Photorec with default settings in terminal mode, ran the search on the partition. 0 files recovered
3. Photorec with default settings in terminal mode, ran the search on the drive. Multiple unrelated files recovered, mostly .exe, dll, txt, ttf and one .swf. All except for the swf have a size of at most 5,382 KB. The swf file is 2,458,789 KB
4. Photorec in terminal mode, made sure the sector size is set to 512B, and only the fit and fits files are enabled in the settings: 0 files recovered.
The paranoid setting is on but with brute-force disabled.
The recovery location is set to the external ssd where I also have the photorec executable.
What's strange to me is that there aren't any .fits file even though there should be hundreds of deleted .fits files on this drive.
I tried running photorec multiple times, I always select 512B as the sector size because I checked and the drive is formatted as NTFS with 512B sector size.
After it runs, I get a question: "Create an image_remaining.dd (254510 MB) file with the unknown data (Answer N if not sure) (Y/N) and I always select N
Some other information that I have:
- The path where all the files were: C:\Photography\N.I.N.A\SH2-200\OIII\2024-10-29\LIGHT\
- I also have the names of all the files from the logs of the photography software
- Each file was exactly 50,676 KB
Does anyone have any suggestions?