How to Recover Deleted Data from SSD on Windows for Free

What is SSD?

SSD is what we usually call solid state drive. It is a hard drive composed of integrated circuit components. It offers faster read and write speeds, is lighter, quieter, resistant to vibration, produces low heat, has a more practical size/formality/durability, and is less prone to failure, making it the standard drive type for modern laptops, desktops PCs and servers.

What's more, unlike HDDs, SSDs are storage media that use non-volatile (flash) memory to save and access data. In other words, there are no moving parts, which makes a big difference compared to other hard drives. So, more and more people prefer to use SSD drives.

However, while SSDs have many distinctive features, just like traditional hard drives, data loss can also occur due to various reasons, such as accidental deletion.

Can you recover deleted data from SSD?

Can delete files on SSD be recovered? Actually, SSD data recovery is indeed possible, but one of its features - TRIM can complicate things a bit, your success rate may greatly depend on whether you have the TRIM command enabled or not. 

TRIM is an Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) command that enables the Operating System to inform the SSD which blocks of data are no longer considered in use and can be erased internally to prepare new blocks.

When TRIM is enabled, the SSD TRIM command allows your OS to notify the SSD that unused data can be erased internally. This is done to speed up subsequent write operations, thereby improving the overall performance of the SSD.

However, it eliminates the possibility of recovering data on the device, because when you do a "delete" operation, it will completely wipe the data blocks, and those deleted files are just marked as free space, waiting to be overwritten by new data.

But that doesn't mean you don't have a chance to recover deleted data from SSD. Fortunately, as long as you start the recovery process as soon as possible before the TRIM command has a chance to trigger, or use a reliable SSD recovery application, especially if a TRIM-enabled SSD fails, you can easily recover deleted files from SSD free.

How to recover deleted data from SSD on Windows

Next, we will discuss how to recover deleted data from SSD. As said above, no matter how you lost data on SSD, as soon as you notice the loss of files on SSD disk, immediately disable TRIM on SSD. So the first way is to disable TRIM.

📝Note: To increase your chances of recovering data from an SSD, you should stop using a SSD as soon as you notice data loss to avoid overwriting deleted data.

Preparation: Disable TRIM Command

The sooner you take action, the better your chances of recovering your SSD data. Now, follow the steps below to disable the command.

Step 1. Click the Start button, type cmd in the search box, click Run as Administrator.

Step 2. Type fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 1 and press Enter.

If you want to enable it, you can input fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify 0.

 The Best SSD data recovery software- MyRecover

Whether you have the TRIM command enabled or not, using a professional data recovery tool can make the recovery easier. Here, we recommend you a reliable SSD data recovery software-MyRecover. 

It’s one professional data recovery tool with advanced scanning engine and powerful data recovery algorithms, can help you recover permanently deleted files from hard disk, external hard drive (SSD/HDD), USB flash drive, SD card and more even if you have emptied the Recycle Bin.

● This tool can detect and recover more than 200 types of files, including photos, videos, Word, PPT, Excel documents, audios, emails, web pages, compressed files and more.
● It is suitable for all kinds of data loss situations - accidental deletion, disk formatting, system crash, virus attack, etc.
● MyRecover can scan and recover data at high speed and recovery rate.
● It perfectly works with NTFS, FAT32, exFAT, ReFS in Windows 11/10/8/7 and Windows Server.
● The interface is intuitive and simple, making it easy for novices to operate.

Click the download icon to run ADR for Windows and let it help you retrieve deleted data from SSD drive with a few clicks.

Step 1. Launch MyRecover, hover the mouse over SSD you want to recover, click Scan.

Step 2. It will run Quick Scan and Deep Scan automatically, after finding any deleted data, it will be displayed in the scanned files list. You can search your photo in the search box in the upper right corner. And you can also find the lost or delete files based on their Type, Data Modified and Size.

Step 3. Select the files you want to recover and click the Recover x files button to recover deleted files from SSD.

Bonus: How to recover deleted partition SSD

If you accidentally delete your SSD partitions or find that one of your SSD partitions is missing, you can let professional partition recovery software help you. AOMEI Partition Recovery Wizard is that one.

As a Wizard utility in AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, it allows you to recover deleted or lost partitions in Windows 11/10/8/7. As long as no data is overwritten on the deleted partition, it will quickly and completely restore lost or deleted partitions.

To recover deleted or missing partitions on Windows 7/8/10/11 with AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, you can download the demo version and follow the steps below.

Step 1. Open this tool on your computer, select Partition Recovery Wizard on the left side of this panel, choose the disk that contains the lost SSD partition, click Next.

Step 2. Select Fast Search, and click Next. (Fast Search can help you find lost partitions quickly. While Full Search scans every sector of the disk, it is correspondingly more time-consuming. If the Fast Search fails, you can choose Full Search.)

Step 3. Next, your lost SSD partition will be detected, select the one you want to recover, then click Proceed.

Final words

To sum up, if your SSD has lost data due to accidental deletion or other reasons, you should disable TRIM first, or you can check your Recycle Bin first for recovery. However, based on the particularity of SSD, you'd better use professional data recovery software, such as MyRecover to recover deleted data from SSD as soon as possible.

In fact, the best way to protect data is to prevent it before it happens - to make regular backups. AOMEI Backupper allows you to create automatic, full, incremental and differential backups according to your needs. You can try it out.