Use True image 2010 for data recovery after format?
Hi there kind people. My daugter has a tosh laptop & inadvertantly reset it back to factory settings, how I have no idea, but she managed it! I have the above program but have stupidly not run an image of the machine. Have looked but cannot see if there is a way to recover her data using Acronis in this way. Not worried about the OS or anything, just the data.
Any help would be greatly appreciated with this. Thank you.
Hey MudCrab, yes I thought that may be the case. Just wondered if there was any util within Acronis fit for that task. I started Pandora recovery last night as all the data wa on a data prt that I created so hopefully it'll still be there somewhere & looking at pelim results it all seems recoverable which is a relief. Cheers.
The Tosh restoration puts the original screen image back on the main hard disk partition, which should wipe out whatever is there beforehand. Assuming you have Vista or W7, there should be three partitions on your hdisk -- one is the system partition and the one you usually see, one is a windows hidden partition for the OS and one is the tosh "backup" of the original partitions.
If you can use ATI on your machine, you might consider removing the Tosh partition or at least track down the Tosh Restore shortcut and delete that. More important, regularly make and save as many backups as you have room to store. In this case, if you had a full disk backup you could have been back to where you were before the Tosh restore in less than an hour, most of which time would simply be ati writing the image of the partitions back to the original drive, while you are having a cup of coffee, watching sports or doing whatver until it finishes.