Need help fast!! (with Acronis True Image Software)

[mgravy]

Here's what I have done...

On PC#1, I have a 40 GB Hard Drive and a 120 GB hard drive.

Not knowing the program very well, I created an image of the 40GB hard drive to backup (which I need to wipe clean to install into another system-PC#2).

There was about 50GB of storage on the 120GB drive in PC#1, so I restored (extracted) the 40 GB image from Acronis directly onto the 120GB drive.

Now I cannot see the 120GB drive or any of the data that was previously on it!

Did I just delete it? I have a huge lump in my gut right now

Any help would be very much appreciated!

 

[theMan]

you must have restored the image over the other data in the drive. you should have created a new partition for the image. you will need to get some sort of data recovery software, i dont know which one would be best for this situation, but maybe somebody else does.

 

[viperbri]

Try GetDataBack for NTFS by Runtime Software. I have had great luck with this software...I even recovered photos off a hard drive that had been formatted twice!

 

[inveterate]

there goez ur tenticle p0rn

 

[drwngflies]

I'm not sure how Anandtech will react to posting another forum's link, but here goes:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdis...=f018307314f4a9859f7eea8dab69a73f&f=65
This is the forum that Acronis uses as a link if you click on "web support / forums" for their software.

 

[mgravy]

Thanks. I'm trying to recover with getdataback right now. I wish I knew why the hell I did this.

 

[bucwylde23]

Originally posted by: mgravy
Thanks. I'm trying to recover with getdataback right now. I wish I knew why the hell I did this.

Did you "create image" or "clone" your drive?

I think you cloned your hard drive to the 120 GB drive instead of creating an image.

 

[mgravy]

No, it was definately an image, but of the entire drive. At least, I know I didn't use the clone function....

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: mgravy
No, it was definately an image, but of the entire drive. At least, I know I didn't use the clone function....

So what was your outcome? I'm about to purchase Acronis True Image, but don't want to screw something up if I need to do what you did.

Sounds like you chose a restore option instead of extract....is there even a way to extract without restoring?

Another question: if you remove the partitions, say zero out the drive (just for example), will acronis re-create all the partitions, etc. on its own?