SSD make chance of recovery even worse as they have garbage collection. I wouldn't even boot up until you are ready to attempt recovery. SSD are slow to erase and must erase before they write so in the backup the SSD controller will erase blocks marked as unused. Unlike a magnetic HDD where the file remains until it is overwritten w/ an SSD you can lose the data simply by letting SSD sit idle even if the file isn't overwritten.
that's nasty!can you make a clone image using a program designed to image corrupt hdd's? this way you can poke and probe without fear of this garbage collection performing.
That might actually be a very good idea to do before anything else.
I suppose whether or not an SSD will garbage-collect abandoned data after a format would be highly dependent on whether the formatting OS issued a TRIM command to the drive to explicitly signal that the data is no longer needed, specifically TRIMming the entire drive as a whole. I am not entirely sure whether or not that happens during a disk format operation. But such idle garbage collection is only a concern if the answer to that question is yes.
I don't know about other OS but I do know Windows 7 specifically (both install DVD and OS internally) fire TRIM on a format for all blocks in the format. Ironically this was considered a good thing when it was announced (because otherwise a format won't solve various performance problems).
