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Help!!! I have cloned from my target drive to my source drive by mistake using True Image 11. Is there any way to recover the original data on the source drive?

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You've discovered why Clone is riskier than Backup and Restore. Truly, almost no one should use Clone. While Clone saves a step and saves a bit of time compared to Backup and Restore, it comes with risks as if you don't do it correctly you can end up with a non-booting system.

I suspect that you misidentified the disks when choosing the source and target for the Clone, because the Linux environment enumerates disks differently than Windows does. That's why we recommend that you add a recognizable label to every disk, so you can uniquely identify it without using the drive letter.

Your options at this point: it depends on what you did prior to the Clone. Did you make any sort of system backup, either with Acronis True Image Home or with Windows' own protection? If so, you can use it to restore the working system. If you have no such backup, then you are likely faced with re-installation of Windows. If your system came with a recovery partition (as many Dells, Sonys, and other major brands do) you could restore the system to factory state using that recovery process, rather than manually reinstalling Windows.

After returning to a working Windows installation, you could add back your data files if you kept a backup of them.

My best advice: Do not Clone! Instead, do one extra step and create a full disk Backup to an external drive. If ever you need to return to that image state, you would do a full disk Restore/Recovery. There is almost never a need to Clone, and it is risky.

Too bad. That is a real drag. :(

In future, do not Clone. There is no need. Do full disk Backups.