Update: used GetDataBack Pro on USB to copy the Documents folder to an external but it turns out that while I can see pretty much all the filenames, metadata, and structure I can't open most files (presumably TRIM deleted everything cause opening some pics in hex editor I see 00000's. Oh well, at least I know what I lost. Thanks for everybody's help.

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After about 1-2 min of googling about recovery, realized I needed to turn off the computer.

I have a couple of external hard drives, a laptop I'm typing this on, I think I have a USB drive I could use to create some bootable media if necessary.

The drive I deleted the documents folder is the main and only drive (Edit: 1TB? 512? 256? Don't remember size) SSD in my desktop (OS apps media).

The documents folder contained random stuff from games to media to documents.

What is the best workflow for recovering the most with least chance of fucking up my hard drive (since I have tons of other very important data on it that wasn't in Documents - the most important stuff is already backed up but I still don't wanna fuck the rest of my drive up by doing some crappy retrieval job)?

I don't really wanna have to spend money cause the quarantine is affecting me but I could spend some if absolutely necessary.

I don't have a way to extract the hard drive and connect it to my laptop.