Help please! Double (wrong) cloning
I purchased true image to clone a 256gb sata ssd (almost full) inside a 1tb m2 ssd.
I entered and double checked the parameters and completed the job in about 30 minutes.
Everything good! until I realized that inexplicably I copied the contents of the source hard disk to a third destination on another 4tb sata mechanical hard disk ...deleting all the content and creating a 256gb partition on it (which instead did not do with the 1tb ssd .... in that case it kept the partition size at 1tb).
Help I lost 4tb of files and I can't recover them. I tried with different software but being 5-6gb videos each are all corrupted and chunked in small pieces and never complete files.
How could that happen!!!!!????? Thank you
P.s. I've been an IT systems engineer for over 15 years so I have a lot of experience and I don't think I made such a stupid mistake.


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I did something similar a few days back - not with ATI but with a file manager. It has dual panes, and I selected the files I wanted to delete, pressed delete, and somehow deleted a directory in the other pane. Like you, it contained a lot of video files. I managed to recover the files, but there were not recognised by any of the file repair apps I tried.
While I have never worked in IT, I have been using computers since the early 1980s - my first PC had a 8086 CPU and miniscule ram. Even the most experienced users make mistakes. For this reason I always give Partitions unique names which minimises the risk of overwriting the wrong one.
Ian
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