Where is the recycle bin?
My laptop windows system became corrupt and will not boot. My latest backup was some time ago and I did not want to lose new data, so I removed the disk, placed it in a usb enclosure, put an older, working disk in the laptop and booted it. I then ran Acronis True Image 10 on the laptop to make backups of the user data on my corrupt usb mounted disk.
I did a data backup (not needing to backup the entire disk. Only windows is corrupt, not the entire disk) and saved all of the data I wanted to save except for the recycle bin. I want to save some digital images that were accidentally deleted, but I cannot find the recycle bin using the Acronis browser when doing a data backup. I thought I looked everywhere, but I cannot find it. Can anyone tell me where it would be?
I am running 32 bit Vista, latest service pack. Perhaps there is some Acronis setup value I must change to see it? Or perhaps it is hidden somewhere in windows? I worry that when I restore windows from the PCAngel parition it will destroy the recycle bin contents. Help??
Thanks.
I fear that the issue has now become more academic than real since I ended up having to restore an earlier version of windows and, of course, that over-wrote my disk. My issue was (and perhaps still is) that windows went south on me. During some processing a windows file (or cab) became corrupt and attempting to roll back to an earlier date did not help. The system would no longer boot.
In an attempt to save what I could I made an Acronis backup, using Acronis 2010, of the items I knew I needed plus the user area. I also made a separate backup of the $Recycle bin since I wanted to recover the files in there. I then had my restore partition do a full restore, but save all of my user data. So I now have 2 Acronis backups (unfortunately neither is a whole disk backup) and the data windows saved for me during the restore.
1) After the windows restore I retrieved the digital photos I thought I might have lost from the Acronis backup,
2) I also retrieved much of the download data I needed,
3) I attempted to restore the saved recycle bin, but every time I try to do a restore of the recycle bin from the Acronis backup I end up with nothing. I have tried restoring it to the original location, to a new location and to a new location with full path information. It acts as though it is restoring the files, but I end up with nothing after it is all done. I have begun to think that the recycle bin that is saved by Acronis (save $Recycle bin) really only saves pointers to the files, although I cannot be sure. When I try to copy-and-paste the files from the Acronis backup I get only very small files (about 500 bytes) instead of the 25MB raw image files. And when I try to restore the files themselves I get, as I wrote, nothing.
However if I knew where the actual recycle bin stuff is store I could possibly retrieve it. My explorer settings already are set to show hidden files, so that is not the problem. I just don't know where, in real terms, the deleted stuff is stored in windows.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.