Lost Data Recovery with the first installation
Hi to all,
I've just installed Acronis True Image Home 2011. I have never used Acronis since today because I lost my Data Files and I would like to Recover them from my Laptop.
I ask for your advice because I am not sure if Acronis can recover Lost Data.
Please help!
Thanks for your support!
Because I haven't never backed up my Lost Data with ATI, could you suggest me an alternative method or recommend me another software or utility in order to recover my Files?
Thanks :)
Depending on how you lost them there are a few painful possbilities with little chance of success. If you deleted them and the recycler hasn't reached capacity, you could undelete them.
If disk errors corrupted some of the names, chkdsk /r might bring some or all of them back.
If you reformated the drive or restored a disk or partition, then the data is almost certainly wiped out.
There is specialty software you can search around for to Unformat a drive but it is unlikely to help if you've done any writing to the drive in the meantime.
There is other specialty software that lets one examine clusters byte by byte and you can copy bytes. This is an extremely tedious and rarely successful method of getting some of your data -- usually just text is all that one can identify. This method had some limited success inthe old DOS days where the OS wasn't writing tons of bytes all the time -- but even then, it was spotty.
There are some professional firms that specialize in recovering lost data -- this is usually expensive and, ime, rarely successful.
I realize it is poor solace to say it, but this is why backing up is so terribly vital -- why it's not built into every OS, I don't know. After all, the first criterion for computer performance isn't speed, capacity, etc., it's Data Integrity -- without that nothing else a computer can do matters.