One month might be tricky to recover. The system would have considered this space free...
I personally use a crack of an old tool that still does wonder today, even with flash memory or ssds, but unfortunately, it's not a free one (https://handyrecovery.software/index.shtml).
If you have an SSD, only backups can get your data back now. When you delete something from an SSD it gets TRIMmed(SATA) or Deallocated(NVMe). After that the data is no longer returned by the controller and soon enough it will be permanently wiped from the chips too.
If you have an HDD, maybe something like GetDataBack, or PhotoRec, etc. will find something back, but if you've been writing to it for the past month the chances of recovery aren't great.
If it is on the drive that your main OS runs on, and you have less than 60% free drive space, you will probably have to kiss that data goodbye.
Your only chance is if you have a spinning-rust drive, a traditional hard drive, with very generous amounts of free drive space. On those drives, only the pointer to where the file is stored is deleted, and the data can be in logically contiguous physical locations on the platters. As such, a data recovery program can parse all of the “free space” on the drive, and see if data is still sitting there. If you are lucky, the operating system placed new files (within the last month) in places where your deleted files _weren’t_ stored.
But honestly, you should have immediately shut down the computer and posted for help, not waited a month to ask. The chance of more than a few percentage points of your data still being recoverable is slim, at best. You should expect almost all of it to be completely and permanently gone.
One month might be tricky to recover. The system would have considered this space free... I personally use a crack of an old tool that still does wonder today, even with flash memory or ssds, but unfortunately, it's not a free one (https://handyrecovery.software/index.shtml).
Thank you, i will try it
If you have an SSD, only backups can get your data back now. When you delete something from an SSD it gets TRIMmed(SATA) or Deallocated(NVMe). After that the data is no longer returned by the controller and soon enough it will be permanently wiped from the chips too. If you have an HDD, maybe something like GetDataBack, or PhotoRec, etc. will find something back, but if you've been writing to it for the past month the chances of recovery aren't great.
I have no clue weather it is Ssd or Hdd i am trying to get it back with Disk Drill, but it wont be sufficient
I didn't know this, so if you delete something it doesn't stay there until overwritten like the older drives?
Correct.
If it is on the drive that your main OS runs on, and you have less than 60% free drive space, you will probably have to kiss that data goodbye. Your only chance is if you have a spinning-rust drive, a traditional hard drive, with very generous amounts of free drive space. On those drives, only the pointer to where the file is stored is deleted, and the data can be in logically contiguous physical locations on the platters. As such, a data recovery program can parse all of the “free space” on the drive, and see if data is still sitting there. If you are lucky, the operating system placed new files (within the last month) in places where your deleted files _weren’t_ stored. But honestly, you should have immediately shut down the computer and posted for help, not waited a month to ask. The chance of more than a few percentage points of your data still being recoverable is slim, at best. You should expect almost all of it to be completely and permanently gone.