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The best program to recover erased Hard Disc
The best program to recover an erased or formated Hard Disc?
The best program to recover an erased or formated Hard Disc?
That's is difficult as a fully formatted HDD is difficult to recover not mentioning recovering the whole OS!
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Hi all, novice to imaging, familiar with basic (auto mode) cloning. This discussion began in this thread. Quotes are brought over into this thread.
Thanks for the info. This is all new to me so I'll have to go slow with my digest speed :).
What I'm mainly interested in, with imaging, is to do a complete HDD image, with OS, MBR, all contents intact, for a plug-and-play ready HDD backup available when/if needed.
Since I already am running an overnight Acronis folder/file backup (only specific items at present), I'm wanting to learn the "full disc mode" imaging first, as an alternative to cloning.
Do I have this next part understood correctly?
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- I can periodically perform a complete disc image, a bootable replacement image in the event my source HDD becomes corrupt or is affected by an unrecoverable intrusion (virus/malware, etc).
This is essentially a cloned image of my source HDD, with the exception that the image is compressed with a compression scheme that's tied to the imaging tool, ie, Acronis, Macrium, etc.
If or when I have need of the complete disc image, I will then boot from the imaging tool's media, cd, etc, and perform a "restore" action and in effect, create the equivalent of a cloned HDD.
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If I understand one of the advantage of imaging vs cloning, is that I can create and store multiple full-disc images (bootable, OS, MBR, all items) on another HDD, thus having flexibility of choosing a specific time/date from which to restore my source HDD to that point in time.
The main advantage with this scheme is that I can have several images on another HDD.
Does the compression rate widely vary by imaging tool? In other words, would Macrium compress at a substantially larger or smaller rate than, say, Acronis imaging?
I'm guessing that this would determine the capacity of full-disc images that I could retain on my 500Gb HDD. My Source HDD is 1 Tb.
I like that capability, to be able to copy items from the stored image parent file.
This is one concern that I have too, regarding cloning. Since I'm currently cloning every 6 weeks, I'm potentially cloning over undesirable issues.
I sort of have a failsafe HDD in that I have a 3rd 1-Tb HDD, a cloned copy that's several months old. That one stays in the shelf for emergency use.
Thanks for this info. I estimate it'll take a year or longer before I could approach your knowledge with this backup scene.
More good info. You guys are providing great scenarios for backup's.
Just with my cloning routine, it's also saved me a couple of headaches during the past year. I was back up & running on my Desktop in minutes after I had been hit with a virus.
I think that's the main point from my perspective. As a rookie on this forum, and a basic cloner, just that alone has paid off for me.
I'm a newbie and being surrounded by Windows guru's here :), one point we all agree on, is the golden rule of "backup your stuff". I admit to being surprised at the # of overall PC users that don't have a backup scheme in place and lose everything when they're hit with a malware or virus incident.
I've been backing up my "must-have" data for many years, going back to Win '98, but only recently have begun periodic cloning. For me, it's a payoff in "peace of mind" alone, knowing that I can just grab my cloned HDD and plug it into the tower (hot-swap Kingwin Racks instlalled), and I'm surfing away on a 'net wave (emote for "Gregrocker" )
and Y'all have a
- Jeff / Dallas TX