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cloning destroyed life.

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bought a new drive.

cloned my windows 7 drive to 3tb new drive

software cloned drive to new drive and then made another clone in my backup drive and erased and overwritten everything.

4 years of data gone.

recovery software was unable to make any good out of recovered files.

everything was file000.. and there was 4 tb of data

how did this happen.

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Did you perform a second clone operation, during which you possibly selected to clone to the wrong drive? It's an easy user error.

My best advice: Do not Clone! Instead, do one extra step and create a full disk Backup to an external drive. If ever you need to return to that image state, you would do a full disk Restore/Recovery.

There is rarely a need to Clone. Really, Backup is safer and more flexible. Many users encounter problems Cloning which they would not have if they had instead used Backup.