Michael, you can try a disk restore program but your chances of success are pretty low as the drive has been first cleaned, then repartitioned and then data written back sector by sector. Note that the real data destruction will be performed only when you click Proceed on the last step of the wizard. If the selected destination disk contains partitions, you will need to confirm deletion of the partitions. On the Destination Disk step, select the destination disk for the cloned data. After creating the backup, make sure that you validate it.įurther, in the User Guide: Clone Disk wizard it has the statement: For information on how to create such a backup see Backing up partitions and disks. It could be your data saver if something goes wrong with your original hard disk during cloning. We strongly recommend that you create a backup of the entire original disk as a safety precaution.The ATIH 2017 User Guide: Disk cloning utility has the following very clear statement regarding the use of this tool. Your only means of recovery of those files would be if you have a full backup of the external hard drive made before this accidental wiping of the data. No-one in these user forums, or at Acronis will be able to restore all the files that you caused to be deleted by using the clone function of the software. TIB file extension and would not have wiped the drive or overwritten any of your data. If you wanted to make a backup image of your PC hard drive and store that on your external hard drive then this would have coexisted with any data already stored on the target drive, the backup image would be stored in a special container file with the. This is exactly the way that cloning works. So making a clone of your PC hard drive will wipe out the entire contents of the target drive that you point it at.

A clone by definition is an identical copy of the source drive written to the target drive, bit for bit, sector for sector.

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