File Recovery
I am facing recovery for first time. Had to do a clean reinstall of Win 10 on new hd. I have Acronis backup on external SS hard drive. I need to restore apps running under Program Files(86) directory.
Will restoration of those apps also restore the apprpriate Registry settings? My old C: drive became infected. So, I need to be careful what I restore. Any suggestions on how to proceed would be welcome.
Jim
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Thanks reply. I understand. I guess if I was recovering the entire backup, I would get everything including registry settings. I now understand I cannot recover individual apps. I will use Acronis to recover those C: files that do not involve the registry. I will have to reinstall the PF(86) apps manually.
Jim
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Jim, if you have an older backup from before the infection problem then you could do a full disk restore from that, otherwise you will need to be selective of what you restore using files & folders because of locks held on the same by the OS etc.
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Thanks Steve. Sadly, I do not have a pre-infection backup. I have been nursing this problem for a couple monhs. New 1 TB drive installed as C:. Repair tech is installing OS - Win 10. I have placed the infected C drive in the D: drive position. That way, I can do file transfers from D to C. I will download and install program apps. So, it looks like Acronis recovery would not benefit me due to the nature of my issues. I have some very important Data files on the old drive I must recover.
Jim
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Jim, understand the issue and sorry to hear that you don't have a good backup to fall back to. Just double-check any files that you do recover are fully free from any infection / malware.
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