[Ham-Computers] Backup/restore help

[Phil]

Were you trying to restore from a back-up that was on a separate 
(perhaps external) hard drive?  If so you should be able to restore the 
files.  IF you were trying to restore from a backup that was on your 
primary (operating system) drive you probably lost EVERYTHING when you 
formatted and did a new Windows install.  In that case it's highly 
unlikely that you'll be able to recover anything.

Now, you can try a (free) deleted file recovery program like Pandora.  
It is very good at recovering files that have been deleted, BUT it won;t 
be able to recover anything that has been overwritten.

When you delete a program from a hard drive, it's not really deleted, 
but instead the space is marked as being "available for use".  Using 
Pandora I've recovered as much as 200GB of files from an external drive 
that I had previously re-formatted to get rid of a virus.  But in that 
case, after formatting the drive I DIDN'T write anything to the drive 
and specified which files to recover (avoiding the folder that had the 
virus).  All the files were usable and 'clean'.

NOTE:  IF you decide to install a file recovery program, DO NOT install 
it on the drive that you want to recover files from.  ALSO, DO NOT 
specify that drive as the place that you want to save the recovered 
files to as that can overwrite files you want to recover.  Use a 
separate hard drive for recovery. . .

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On 12/24/2011 5:43 PM, WØQFC wrote:
> Due to a very stupid mistake I just lost all data on my HDD.
>
> I thought 'no problem' because I had used MS backup to backup up the Win7 Pro system; now, when I try to restore the system, it goes through the backup process but when it finishes I only have the newly installed Win7 system on the computer.
>
> Before the restoration I had re-formatted the HDD. . . .
>
> I have tried two different backups with the same NG result.
>
> Any ideas on how to solve this problem?
>
> Tks es 73
>
> Gene, WØQFC
> Spring Hill FL
> Lafayette Lodge #91 A.F.&  A.M.
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