Cleaned HDD

[Capt.Avery]

Hello,

 

So just to be clear this was very stupid and I recognize the stupidity in the fact that i created this problem. So I was in the Disk Management tool trying to figure out why my computer continued to crash due to memory errors. By this point i had found out it was a partion. So as I am looking for ways to fix this i came across the command to "clean" i forgot clean is synchronous with "wipe". So I thought this would get rid of that pesky partion. It did but also everything else along with my backups (I also did this to another drive because who wouldn't want clean HDD). Now i have not written everything over it. I downloaded and bought Minitools recovery. I can now see all my files. However all the mapping i did with steam and other programs I am assuming I will have to redo. My question is there a way to activate the backup i delete because i can see the .nij file. However it will not run. Appreciate any help if it can be had. Otherwise i am just sitting here watching my files load on a external i bought to transfer everything.

 

Best,

[Enderman]

You should clean install your OS, not use a backup that was deleted then recovered.

[Capt.Avery]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

You should clean install your OS, not use a backup that was deleted then recovered.

My apologize for not stating this. The OS is good i keep that on a SSD that i do not touch unless i have someone much much smarter than me around. I connect a lot of programs through the OS on the SSD. The drives i cleaned were HDD attached to the SSD.  So as opposed to having to re-download everything I am wondering if I can use the backup to the only way i know how to describe this is "remap" or "link" everything to the SSD and will recover everything i cleaned.    

[mjbeez46]

you may get lucky and not have to relink/remap to steam and other programs because you didn't erase windows so the registry will still have all the values in it.

 

you might not be able to recover every file, usually more than a few files wont recover correctly, plus also keep in mind most recovery software or at least the ones ive used don't recover the files with the same names, so this would 100% cause a problem with windows knowing where it is

 

my 2 cents...

[mjbeez46]

oh and yer you really need a 3rd hdd now to put the recovered stuff on because you cant write it directly back to the drive that was wiped, it will conflict the recovery 

 

its probably faster to just redownload everything tbh, just focus recovery on the stuff you really didn't want to loose

[Capt.Avery]

3 minutes ago, mjbeez46 said:

oh and yer you really need a 3rd hdd now to put the recovered stuff on because you cant write it directly back to the drive that was wiped, it will conflict the recovery 

Oh yes i got a 1TB drive. The Bio isn't recognizing it yet and like i said i have a external where I am storing all the files now. So once i know they are there I will restart the computer add the drive and then transfer all the recovered files over to the new HDD. Yes i though it was strange that the for example steam still recognized some of the games but when i click on it, it is unable to find the drive. Mabye if i name the new HDD that same as the old it will remap? Anyway. Thank you though 2 cents is always appreciated.  

[mjbeez46]

yes everything if named exactly the way it was and recovers correctly should work, if they don't its cuz they are not complete even though the file size may be correct