Recovered partition didn't delete old info?
I'm not understanding perhaps, but:
I was having problems with my Windows 7 after installing Open Office 3.3 (beta), even after uninstalling, so I decided to revert to an earlier backup that contained no Open Office, and then install v3.2, which had given me no problems. Okay, sounds good so far...
I restored the partition from the image that didn't contain ANY OO,. But when I started it up again, Open Office was sitting there on the desktop.
So, I went and double checked that OO was NOT in the image file, and then restored it again. Same result.
I went to Partition Wizard, deleted the partition on that drive (my "C" partition is all hat is on that drive), reinstalled Windows 7, THEN restored the same partition again.
This time, no Open Office carried over.
How could this happen? I thought that if I was restoring a partition, TI deleted prior partitions first.
??
Regards,
Chuck Billow
Paul, it was totally strange.
I looked all over and couldn't find any other image that may have gotten created somewhere other than where I was looking, but found nothing.
The real kicker though, was that the partition that was being replaced as a "full setup", where the image that was replacing it was a "minimal" setup, with bare essentials. That combined with the fact that the v3.3 of OO was totally new (to me) that day, so it couldn't have been part of the old image, even if I had missed it in review (when I mounted the minimal image double-checking that OO wasn't there). OO v3.2 wasn't even there in the old image -- and, not to be redundant, when I deleted all the images using Partition Wizard, and then (again) restored that same (minimal) image, all was fine.
*Totally* bewildered me to say the least. I've (heavily) relied in TI for some time. Seldom is a program perfect, but what I do try to reach is predictability -- and this episode was anything but.
I can just, I suppose, delete the partition manually any time I need to restore, but that seems a needless bother...
Regards,
Chuck
Chuck,
Was it a regular hard drive or an SSD? Some SSD drives have a bug in the firmware and changes don't get saved (in certain situations). This results in the "old" data returning even after restoring an image or doing a reinstall of Windows.
Paul, no, it was ( just) a Hitachi HDT725032VLA380 (320GB). PLus, this hadn't happened before -- at least not that I noticed!
Chuck