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Restore Option Missing - True Image 2016

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Please accept my apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

After a catalogue of disasters whereby Win 10 has deleted my Virtual XP machine along with the programmeas and data files, I have come to try to restore these from my TIB backup. My idea was to restore the entire drive to a blank hard drive and search for the files as I don't know where the data files will be. However when I connect the backup stand alone drive, there is no restore disc (or even restore files) option. Can anyone assist or direct me to instructions please. For some reason my entire Acronis True Image 2016 desk top appears to lack a certain 'ease of use'. Probably due to my lack of experience in this situation.

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Paul, welcome to these public User Forums.

What type of backup are you trying to restore your VirtualXP files from here?
Is this a Disks & Partitions backup file, or is it a Files & Folders backup file?

Assuming that you have ATI 2016 installed on your PC, and can see your backup .tib file in Explorer, then I would suggest just double-clicking on the .tib file in Explorer, which will allow you to view the contents, and if wanted, to use normal Copy & Paste commands to recover any files & folders related to your VirtualXP machine.  This should be the easiest method if you are not familiar with using the ATI 2016 GUI application.

Hi Steve. Thank you for your response. The backup that I have, appears to be a files and folders, I think. My other backups all have the option to restore files or restore disc, and they were all prices in the same way.

Further research has shown me that the files that I am looking for were stored under a particular setting within a VMware directory (win XP sp3) and, unexpected by me, when Win10 took out the VMware it took the data files as well, without putting the files in recycling. As such, I cannot find them in the tib files using explorer or anything else. I was hoping to try to restore the whole drive as it was,and then search for the files, but, unlike the other backup routines I have, the one I need has no tab showing to restore the whole drive, typical isn't  it. I would like to know for the future why this has happened. I have managed to redo the work the hard way, but it would be handy to know what went wrong for the future. Thanks

... things have moved on a little since my previous post. I found and clicked on the 'add to this backup' tab to see what it did and after poking around a bit clicked on a couple of files from the backup disc which appeared to be able to be  accessed and, low and behold, 'restored files' and 'restore disc' tabs have now appeared. It looks like, in my ignorance, I may have somehow deleted the drive directory structure, leaving ATI thinking that it was a blank drive. I am currently restoring what I think might be the complete directory structure and will then try to restore the whole disc contents to another drive...watch this space.!!!!!

Paul, I have never heard of Windows 10 causing any VMware data to be lost and am very glad that I haven't experienced the same as have a good number of different VM's.

For reference here, I keep all my VMware data in a separate partition on a second disk drive, so it is well away from Windows 10 and the OS disk drive.

I tested including my VMware data in my disk backups but decided on using a different approach by using a free file / folder synchronisation program (SyncFolders) that I run after each time I have been using a VM to copy all the changed files to an external backup drive.

Steve. Thanks for your message and help. I think that the problem may have been due to me using an old version of VMWare (12), which a Win10 update took exception to. I notice that you are on VM15, which I will look into. I have been totally unsuccessful in restoring the files, but, as mentioned previously, I have thankfully managed to recreate them. It just goes to show my lack of knowledge here, in that I assumed that my VM stuff would be easy to find in the case of loss. How wrong could I have been. Not only is the desktop of my ATI version a pig to use, it has no built in search routine that I can find, and is reliant on Windows Explorer which I have not used for years, to find files. In my ignorance I also assumed that the VM written files would be visible on my drives outside of the VM shell.  Was on earth was I thinking of!!! Anyway, a steep and time consuming learning curve which I could have done without. Perhaps VM15 will be more stable with Win10 updates. The irony is that I am using VM to run a 1995 piece of accounting software which is still very acceptable, even today, but Win10 won’t run it. Anyway thanks for your advice and help it is very, very much appreciated.