Is it possible undo a restore or use undelete in any way?

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I have a pc with 3 drives, c.d.e

I have a ssd on c with just windows 7 and store all my documents on the other drives.

Unfortunately I recovered a c drive backup onto the d drive. Don't know how I did it, but I did, and now my entire d drive is gone.

I tried an undelete software but it foUnd nothing. It's as if acronis did a secure erase before recovering.

Is there anyway to get my data back

And yes, the irony of a backup program losing my data is not lost on me

Thu, 08/23/2012 - 13:07
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Do you have a backup of your drive D before it was overlayed?

Unfortunately, what happened to you has happened to others as well. You were probably matching drive letters rather than matching drive characteristics. If restoring via the bootable CD, the drive letters differ as the backup is of Windows and the CD software is Linux and the drive letters may differ. Most Windows 7 has non-lettered partitions at the beginning of the disk and not shown in Windows but are shown when a restore option is presented. You probably restored C over C but when in the CD, the drive C in Linux CD is not the drive C in Windows--as you have discovered to your dismay.

If your current drive C does not have a name, take the time now to assign it a meaningful name. I use
Win7-_C
as my drive name and the name does include the drive letter. This helps with identification when doing restores but the best match is to know the size of the partition/disk.

It is a little late but you may have an interest in reading item #3 at this link. This information could be helpful in future restores but of no benefit in your present situation.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618

Maybe some of the data recovery programs could help but the commercial ones would charge several hundred dollars for their services.

Thu, 08/23/2012 - 13:43
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Thanks.

I did recover to the C drive. I took all the precautions, but somehow, it overwrote the D one. I know that computers dont make mistakes like this, so I missed something, but I cant work out why simply restoring a 30gig partition to a 2Tb hard drive would result in nothing at all being found on the 2tb drive?

Usually all the files are found by undelete but not after acronis. helluva destructive program is this one!

So frustrating that actually doing the right thing and investing in a backup program is what desctroyed my data!

ARRGGHHH!!

Thu, 08/23/2012 - 17:11
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Most recovery programs rely on the file system data to recover files. If that data was overwritten by the restore then the finding anything is unlikely. In most case, files are fragmented and can't be reconstructed properly even if a file header is found.

Not all recovery software works the same -- try several different ones. Also, some work on an existing partition and some need unallocated space to scan. Make sure you're running the search on the correct type of space.

If the old partition can be recovered that may help, but it's probably gone if TI expanded the 30GB partition to fill the drive.

Did you start the restore in Windows and TI rebooted to run it or did you do it when booted to the TI CD?

Thu, 08/23/2012 - 19:29
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Sorry to hear it poggs, Murphy really got you this time. I suspect Acronis does some sort of wipe when doing a Restore, although to be honest even w/o such a wipe I've never had any luck with data recovery software programs--I even have an expensive one that hasn't worked worth a bleep for me.

Hopefully you have some sort of backup for the d: drive, especially as it was your DOCS? A hard lesson to learn for sure. I backup my Documents in two different places every day (an onboard 32Gb flash stick and a NAS) and my computer in two places once every week (to an external USB drive and to a WHS2011 system). I do this cuz I've been where you are now, having found myself crashed hard w/o an adequate backup.

Thu, 08/23/2012 - 20:55
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you can recover your earlier 2tb partition, but 30gb of that data was overwritten. so you can recover the left over. "Acronis disk director" may be able to recover your 2tb partition. you only lose 30gb.
"getdata recover my files" may also recover your 2tb partition.

Tue, 09/03/2013 - 03:51