Applications don't work after recovering files from incremental backup
After virus infection, I restored partitions from an old full disk backup that I created after installing Windows but before installing most applications.
Then I recovered everything from a recent incremental/file folder of my entire C: drive.
I can see all my recent documents have been restored, and all of the newest applications are in the Program Files directory as expected, but if I try to launch any, they fail with various errors that suggest that they can't be found.
How can I make my applications work again?


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Thanks! So I should use my disk backup, re-install applications by hand, and then restore only my User directory, etc. from the incremental backup to get back to a working state?
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Doug wrote:of my entire C: drive.
Even that is often inadequate for a full disk restoration. You should create full disk mode backups, selecting the entire disk and not just C:. You may have necessary hidden partitions, and they might include the boot files.
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