Recovering deleted e-mail with Acronis Disk Director 11

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I have been reading up on “Unllocated Disk Space” in preparation to recovering
one full year of e-mail and contact info (Windows Live Mail) deleted from my backup disk. To do this, I am learning to use the Recovery Expert tool in Acronis Disk Director 11. The deleted volumes I am trying to recover were originally in my System disk and were backed up in my External HD with True Image Home 2013 before I reformatted the System disk to reinstall Windows. Subsequently, I inadvertently also deleted them from my backup disk but that disk was not reformatted.

I have 315 GB free space, 100 MB reserve space and 11 MB unallocated space in my System disk. In my backup disk, I have 218 GB free space and 2 MB of unallocated space. With that amount of free space, there is little chance (in my opinion) that the deleted volumes were overwritten. Yet,with the Recovery Expert tool of Disk Director 11, I find no trace whatever of anything deleted on either disk. This leaves me wondering about the efficiency of the Recovery Expert tool as I have personnally deleted volumes and other data from those two disks many times..

In some articles, I read that unallocated space on a disk is used to store remnants of deleted data and that recovery of such deleted data is only possible on disks that have unallocated space. On the other hand, I find all kinds of articles on how to use that unallocated space to either create new partitions or expand existing ones; thereby totally doing away with unallocated space. To top it all, I also find articles giving definitions of “unallocated disk space” that completely contradict one another.

This leaves me confused and brings me to ask:

1 - Since there is no doubt that data was deleted from those disks, should not Recovery Expert find some trace of it instead of just returning a “No volume is found” message ?

2 - Where do remnants of deleted volumes and data go when deleted from disks that do not have unallocated space ?

3 - If unallocated space is needed on a disk to ensure that deleted data can be recovered later if need be, why do we not see warnings to that effect when partitioning and formatting disks ?

4 - Why is there only mention of volumes in the Recovery Expert Help? There is no mention of folders,files or other data. Is it that once you recover a volume, you automatically recover everything in it ? Or is it that you must use a different tool such as the Acronis Disk Editor mentioned in the ADD 11 Help to recover loose files and folders ?

5 - Where do I go to get this Acronis Disk Editor? It does not even appear in Acronis’s own list of products. Searching for it on Acronis Web site keeps returning info on Acronis Disk Director but does not bring up Disk Editor.

6 - Finally, one more question won’t hurt. Since it is Windows Live Mail messages and contacts that I am trying to recover, is Recovery Expert the right tool to do this or should I look at other data recovery software? If so, any suggestions ?

Can anyone please address these questions. Any clue would help to get me started.

Sun, 02/03/2013 - 22:51
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Fiddler:

Recovery Expert in Acronis Disk Director is for recovering deleted partitions; not deleted files. You may want to look at file recovery software like GetDataBack or equivalent.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 01:48
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