HELP! ACRONIS DELETED MY TIB FILE
I had done a full backup of F: drive and saved the TIB file on G: drive.
Yesterday, I did another full backup of the F: drive and saved it to C: drive.
I then repartitioned and formatted my F: drive to put into another laptop.
So I was thinking I have 2 good TIB files of F: drive and proceeded to delete the old TIB file on drive G: to get back some space (TIB file is 239 GB). The problem is when I deleted the TIB on F: drive, Acronis automatically deleted the TIB file on drive C: as well.
I haven't written anything to my G: drive so I should be able to recover it with data recovery software, the data recovery software did show my TIB file, but the problem is it's showing as 0 bytes, so I can't recover my TIB file. So now I have nothing.
Can somebody please help!
I don't think TI does anything "special" when deleting the files. However, it is usually not possible to recover a large TIB because of Windows. In most cases, something gets written to the drive even if you don't do anything. Also, the size makes it very unlikely to have it recovered intact. If anything got written over part of the file, the image will be corrupted.
Try several different recovery programs. Some work better than others. Also, I would recommend working on the drive outside of a normal Windows system, if possible. Use WinPE, for example. There's less chance Windows will do something to corrupt or further corrupt the file.
If you delete a backup from within ATI2011, it can be very confusing whether you are deleting a task, a backup file or a set of backup files. I think even ATI2011 gets confused sometimes although 1ti2011 build 6957 is better about this than 5519 was. Upshot, the entire set can be deleted when that's not what yo want. For safety's sake, if I want to keep a backup while deleting others in a set, I always make a copy of the desired backup to another location. After the delete operation, if I end up with two, I'll delete one.