I will be saving $624 - $1350 USD - the prices quoted to me by two professional services. So I will take my time and start learning. I don't need my files on the messed up drive anytime soon. I don't know anything about that, fstrim or these other applications. I see on Amazon that they are cheap, so I My computer's main hard drive isn't big enough. You are the 3rd person who said the thing to do is to copy an image of the overwritten/formatted drive to another drive. From that moment, you would work on copies of this > the failed disk, image it in full to a suitable big hard disk, then > You would have to prepare a Linux system with fstrim disabled, connect On Saturday, Januat 3:28:09 PM UTC-5, Carlos E.R. My big problem is that my computer hard drive is much smaller than 1 terabyte. Is there Linux data recovery software you would recommend? They told me they outsource data recover, and if it worked the company would charge me about $1,350 USD since the drive holds a terabyte. I just got back from taking the drive to a Microcenter service desk. From what you wrote the possibility of recovering data I disconnected the drive as soon as I learned what happened. > erased by the garbage collector at any time. > in a new physical block and the old block is just discarded and will be > immediately erased when writing new data, because new data are written

> Physically : in a rotating hard disk, overwritten data are immediately > I read that it is harder to recover data from an SSD hard drive due to the different technology. > The other day I was in a rush, I was trying to format a thumb drive, and accidentally formatted the SSD hard drive instead. > I have an external SSD hard drive, about 1 Terabyte. On Saturday, Januat 2:53:24 AM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote:

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