My father has this SSD drive working fine for 4 years. I've moved that drive to a new Desktop PC, reinstalled Windows 10, and everything was working fine. A few days later, all his documents and emails disappeared.
First partition (with Windows) is still working perfectly, without any errors. The second partition, with all his data, lost almost all folders - they just disappeared. But some other folders are still there, and working fine.
I've tried recovery tools like EASEUS and Ontrack, and they all find the full structure of all files which disappeared, but when I recover those files, they all are recovered in corrupt state. documents/images don't open (invalid chars), and the most important files (huge PST files with 1 to 5GB) are completely zero-filled (original size preserved, but full contents are byte zero), which I assume is related to the TRIM option for the SSD.
I don't know if my father accidentally did something wrong (like deleting all folders), but I suspect that this may be related to power cycling (sleeping/awaking).
I already changed cables, changed drive to another computer, but the files are still being recovered totally corrupted.
Other than professional services, what are my options to recover the files?
Is SpinRite a good option? Or should I use forensic software (which one?) for recovering the PST files?
UPDATE: As far as I checked, it's really about TRIM. Not sure if the SSD deleted those files already or if it's garbage-collected, but anyway, SSD returns zeroes for contents. Looks like I don't have any option here. SpinRite didn't help.