Y’all might find this article interesting. It’s hard to say whether or to what degree CCleaner contributed to the problem. I guess the OP had bad luck with the SSD. Thank goodness, my computing environment has been OK over the years. Yes, I’m completely paranoid about data loss, although my “crucial data” encompasses little more than a home-translation business I’ve run for the last fifteen years or so.

I also have a backup “main computer” that I update regularly, and two eSATA drives for backups as well – plus four laptops. I back up any new work or changed data daily on three NASs: two single-bay Synology drives and an old WD MyBookLive. The machine also has a 1tb WD SATA drive, on which I keep my pictures and other less important stuff. I run CCleaner on it every evening before turning it off I’ve never used the wipe function. To add to my previous post (on CCleaner), the machine I’m writing this on has a 256gb Samsung 840 Pro (with 13.8tb written according to the Samsung Magician software) running Win 7 Pro 圆4.This drive has the OS, my programs, and my “important” data. Has anyone else had a similar experience?

In our situation, SSD drives simply do not hold up. Once it arrives, we will mirror the current SSD C drive onto the new SATA drive and then replace the SSD with the replacement drive. We are now awaiting the delivery of a new WD Black 2TB Performance SATA hard drive. We then updated Windows 10 and installed all of the software that we use from the original CDs. We replaced the damaged drive with another Western Digital Blue 2TB SSD that we had on the shelf and recovered the operating system using HP’s recovery software. The result was we transferred an incredible amount of garbage – some of the dating back nearly 20 years – to the new machine. It had been our practice to use laplink’s PCmover Ultimate each time we replace an aging workstation with a new PC. We recovered our data files from external backup. And essentially none of the damaged files were recoverable. The result was the identification of 1,647,965 “damaged files”.

Apparently, a high level of read writes to a SSD drive wipes them out.Īfter recovering the system, we ran Wondershare Recoverit to try to recover the files on the damaged drive. Fair warning – we just lost a less than one year old Western Digital Blue 2TB solid-state drive.įollowing the disaster, we read the fine print of CCleaner and its specifically says not to use the app on SSD drives.

Do i need ccleaner on ssd drive