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Today, I carelessly wiped a data partition. I tried to recover the complete partition but it failed for some unknown reason.
I did have a Macrium Reflect backup, but it was about three months old. None of this data was critical but useful, and I have been a bit lazy in backing up this partition.
Importantly, I have not written anything to this partition.
I have a copy of Easeus Data Recovery Wizard (paid version), so I thought I would give that a go, first before restoring older Reflect image.
I was really impressed as it recovered everything, as far as I can tell (to a different drive), and was very quick - about 5 minutes for 70GB.
More importantly, it recovered files into folders (with same name as original).
After that, I just reformatted the partition and copied folders back.
I always used Recuva before but it never worked as slickly as Easeus.
It just proves, sometimes it is worth buying a tool rather than use free versions!
I did have a Macrium Reflect backup, but it was about three months old. None of this data was critical but useful, and I have been a bit lazy in backing up this partition.
Importantly, I have not written anything to this partition.
I have a copy of Easeus Data Recovery Wizard (paid version), so I thought I would give that a go, first before restoring older Reflect image.
I was really impressed as it recovered everything, as far as I can tell (to a different drive), and was very quick - about 5 minutes for 70GB.
More importantly, it recovered files into folders (with same name as original).
After that, I just reformatted the partition and copied folders back.
I always used Recuva before but it never worked as slickly as Easeus.
It just proves, sometimes it is worth buying a tool rather than use free versions!
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My Computer
At a glance
Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.I9 13th gen i9-13900H 2.60 GHZ16 GB solderedIntegrated Intel Iris XE
- OS
- Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS Zenbook 14
- CPU
- I9 13th gen i9-13900H 2.60 GHZ
- Motherboard
- Yep, Laptop has one.
- Memory
- 16 GB soldered
- Graphics Card(s)
- Integrated Intel Iris XE
- Sound Card
- Realtek built in
- Monitor(s) Displays
- laptop OLED screen
- Screen Resolution
- 2880x1800 touchscreen
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB NVME SSD (only weakness is only one slot)
- PSU
- Internal + 65W thunderbolt USB4 charger
- Case
- Yep, got one
- Cooling
- Stella Artois (UK pint cans - 568 ml) - extra cost.
- Keyboard
- Built in UK keybd
- Mouse
- Bluetooth , wireless dongled, wired
- Internet Speed
- 900 mbs (ethernet), wifi 6 typical 350-450 mb/s both up and down
- Browser
- Edge
- Antivirus
- Defender
- Other Info
- TPM 2.0, 2xUSB4 thunderbolt, 1xUsb3 (usb a), 1xUsb-c, hdmi out, 3.5 mm audio out/in combo, ASUS backlit trackpad (inc. switchable number pad)
Macrium Reflect Home V8
Office 365 Family (6 users each 1TB onedrive space)
Hyper-V (a vm runs almost as fast as my older laptop)
