Restore Drive after Copy a HD to a HD

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Bertk
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Restore Drive after Copy a HD to a HD

Post by Bertk »

Hello,

Using IFL I performed a "Copy a hard drive to another hard drive" thinking I was creating an image to free space on the second drive.
Instead it copied the two partitions from one HD to second HD that had backup files on it. :oops:
So my question is, is there a way to undo this and or recover the files? I also have a licensed copy of BIBM.
TeraByte Support
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Re: Restore Drive after Copy a HD to a HD

Post by TeraByte Support »

no. when it warns you it's going to overwrite, it's going to overwrite.
So the sectors now contain the data.

Using Backup is what will create an image backup to a file.

If you just copied to a "free space" area, that means no partition was
there, so you could just delete the partition and it will be "free space"
(unpartitioned area) again.


"Bertk" wrote in message news:9990@public.image...

Hello,

Using IFL I performed a "Copy a hard drive to another hard drive" thinking I
was creating an image to free space on the second drive.
Instead it copied the two partitions from one HD to second HD that had
backup files on it.

![:oops:]({SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif)

So my question is, is there a way to undo this and or recover the files? I
also have a licensed copy of BIBM.

Bertk
Posts: 14
Joined: Wed Jul 09, 2014 2:04 am
Location: SW Florida

Re: Restore Drive after Copy a HD to a HD

Post by Bertk »

That's what I thought, but had to ask. Luckily I have other backups. :)
After reading through some of threads here, I should have turned "Simple Operations" off in settings.

TeraByte Support wrote:
> no. when it warns you it's going to overwrite, it's going to overwrite.
> So the sectors now contain the data.
>
> Using Backup is what will create an image backup to a file.
>
> If you just copied to a "free space" area, that means no partition was
> there, so you could just delete the partition and it will be "free space"
> (unpartitioned area) again.
>
>
> "Bertk" wrote in message news:9990@public.image...
>
> Hello,
>
> Using IFL I performed a "Copy a hard drive to another hard drive" thinking
> I
> was creating an image to free space on the second drive.
> Instead it copied the two partitions from one HD to second HD that had
> backup files on it.
>
> ![:oops:]({SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif)
>
> So my question is, is there a way to undo this and or recover the files? I
>
> also have a licensed copy of BIBM.
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