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I run a recovery to an external drive assuming that the recovery will create a recovery folder, instead it wiped our folders on that drive.  How to undo the recovery, is this possible, or this was just a really stupid move on my part?

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Krys, welcome to these user forums.

Unfortunately you have probably lost those folders on your external drive unless you have a later backup of the lost folders stored somewhere else.

You could try using data recovery tools but as you have overwritten the original data with new, then the chances of being able to recover the original data is going to be very low.

What type of recovery did you do here?  Was this a whole disk or partition recovery, or was it just a files & folders one?

If you did a whole disk or partition recovery, then I would say that all is lost.

If you did a files & folders recovery, then perhaps data recovery software may get somethings back.

For the future, when recovering files and folders, I would recommend recovering to a new location rather than overwriting the original data, that way you finish with two copies of the data that will allow you to compare and find any differences etc.

One final comment, ATIH 2013 is not officially supported for use with Windows 10 as documented in KB 56196: Acronis Products: Windows 10 Support - this wouldn't have made any difference to this specific issue but you may encounter problems in the future as Microsoft continue to release new builds for Windows 10 that may break ATIH 2013 on your computer.

Steve,

Thank you very much for detailed information.  I am running now a deep scan with data recovery software, but I think there is a little chance to recover anything.  I needed to recover some files from the last backup,  but restore recovered entire C:\ drive into the external drive.  I didn't see any option to recover just some files from the incremental backup.  To compund the problem the external drive is a SATA drive, so it looks as an internal drive to the system.  I wish that Acronis had a Restore selection screen giving 2 choices; 1. Wipe out destination with the restore, 2. Restore to folder / name folder.  This will help to avoid errors, and confirm the choice.  Maybe future edition of Acronis will add such feature.

There are several restore options with rescue media.  Disk, parition and file/folder.  If you have a disk or parition backup, there is an option to choose file/folder and only recover data from within it instead of a full disk restore.  

If you only need to recover files/folders, there are 2 other methods as well...

1) Navigate to the backup .tib file from within Windows where Acronis is already installed.  Double click the .tib file and it will open in Windows file explorere where you can then navigate the content and copy/paste from it as you see fit.

2) Likewise, navigate to the .tib and right click on it >>> Acronis >>> Mount.  Mount it as a volume (with a drive letter - like an external drive would show up) and then you can copy and paste from it as well. 

I don't have anything but 2017 installed, but these options should go back to the older versions as well (although 2014/2013 will look different than 2015, 16 and 17).  Similar options are in the rescue media, but I don't have an screenshot of one currently, nor a pre-2015 version to give as a reference.  YOu didn't mention which version you have, but it should be in the user manual. 

 

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Thank you for a very clear instuction.  This is what I missed.