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Help please! Double (wrong) cloning

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I purchased true image to clone a 256gb sata ssd (almost full) inside a 1tb m2 ssd.

I entered and double checked the parameters and completed the job in about 30 minutes.

Everything good! until I realized that inexplicably I copied the contents of the source hard disk to a third destination on another  4tb sata mechanical hard disk ...deleting all the content and creating a 256gb partition on it (which instead did not do with the 1tb ssd .... in that case it kept the partition size at 1tb).

Help I lost 4tb of files and I can't recover them. I tried with different software but being 5-6gb videos each are all corrupted and chunked in small pieces and never complete files.

How could that happen!!!!!????? Thank you

 

P.s. I've been an IT systems engineer for over 15 years so I have a lot of experience and I don't think I made such a stupid mistake.
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Alberto, welcome to these public User Forums.

Unfortunately, unless you can find a disk recovery tool that can undo the disk wipe and clone of your 4TB drive, then there is nothing we can suggest to help in recovering the lost files.  A commercial disk recovery service may be able to help you at a cost if the files are very important to you.

The issue you have encountered here is most likely caused because drive letters can appear differently if you did the clone using the Acronis bootable rescue media to boot your computer, and this reinforces the advice we give in these forums to:

  1. Always make a backup before using Clone!
  2. Remove all other disk drives except the Source and Target drives!

I fully understand that the above does not help you after the event and I am sorry that I cannot give you any better method of recovering your data.

The only consolation I can offer is that even the most experienced IT people are human and can / do make mistakes at times!  I personally lost the contents of a 2TB disk drive when copying some diskpart commands when dealing with an issue for another user a while back, but fortunately all the data was backed up & was recovered quickly.  I have over 30 years IT experience working in IBM technical support to put this in context, and I still made a basic error!

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I did something similar a few days back - not with ATI but with a file manager. It has dual panes, and I selected the files I wanted to delete, pressed delete, and somehow deleted a directory in the other pane. Like you, it contained a lot of video files. I managed to recover the files, but there were not recognised by any of the file repair apps I tried.

While I have never worked in IT, I have been using computers since the early 1980s - my first PC had a 8086 CPU and miniscule ram. Even the most experienced users make mistakes. For this reason I always give Partitions unique names which minimises the risk of overwriting the wrong one.

Ian