How to recover acronis hard drive partitions. How to restore Windows using Acronis True Image. Recovering a hard drive using the Victoria program
Sometimes there are cases when you need to quickly restore Windows with programs and drivers. Most laptop manufacturers include hidden partitions and/or recovery disks in their products. With their help, you can restore the system to the state it was at the time of purchase. Read more about this in this article.
Despite many positive aspects, pre-installed Windows recovery systems have a number of disadvantages:
They are very picky. For them to work, they often require the original MBR, a specific partition structure, and the hidden partitions themselves; Not only Windows itself with drivers is restored, but also a large number of unnecessary programs, which then have to be removed; Hidden partitions take up quite a lot of space; if you delete them according to these instructions, you will need to restore them before restoring the system.
The user may encounter a number of inconveniences and problems. Among them we can highlight the need to restore hidden partitions along with the MBR, and the need to remove many unnecessary programs that came with the laptop, and install programs and updates, and configure the system itself, and so on.
How to solve these problems? How can you quickly and without unnecessary headaches get an already configured system, with installed updates and the latest drivers, with all the necessary programs and documents?
Allows you to solve these problems very conveniently and easily. First, we use it to pack all the files from the Windows partition, and then, if necessary, restore the system from the archive (image). As a result, we get everything as it was at the time of packaging. Fast and easy. Let's take a closer look at working with this utility.
This utility is used to create backups and restore information, you can download it from us using the link provided: Acronis True Image 2017 20.0.5554
To organize a Windows recovery system on a laptop with programs and drivers, you must:
1. Installing and configuring Windows
Installing Windows has already been described in detail on this resource Installing Windows XP, Installing Windows Vista, Installing Windows 7, Installing Windows 8/8.1, Installing Windows 10 so I won’t dwell on it. After installing Windows with drivers, we install and configure the necessary programs. In other words, we bring the system into the form it should have after restoration.
2. Creating an image of the system partition
At this stage, we will, roughly speaking, copy all the files from the Windows hard drive partition into one archive, which is called an image. This will help us.
Install and launch. In the top menu Operations select Archive:
Since we need to create an image of an entire partition, select My Computer:
Now we indicate the partition where you have Windows installed:
Since we are making a backup copy only once, we can safely disable scheduling and click Next
Important note: Acronis True Image allows you to perform archiving according to a specific schedule. It is possible to create both a full partition image and incremental or differential images.
Let's look at them in more detail.
A full image is essentially an archive with all the files.
An incremental image is an archive of changes since the last backup.
A differential image is an archive of changes since the creation of the full image.
To restore from a differential image, you need the differential image itself, as well as the complete image.
To restore from incremental images, you need the full image and all incremental images. The size of a differential and incremental image is often much smaller than a full one. This is because they only contain changes to the full image compared to the situation at the time of archiving. If you schedule backups once a day, for example, then even in the event of a serious system failure, you can get a working system as it was yesterday in 10-15 minutes. A very convenient thing.
Since we are creating a system image for the first time, we select Complete:
Here you can see which files should not be written to the image. . Click Next:
On this tab you can configure the compression level of files in the image. On another tab you can specify settings for splitting the image file:
Many other settings are also available there. When finished, click Next. On this page you can specify a comment for the image:
To start the image creation process, click on the Proceed button:
As a result, you will receive a message like this:
That's all. The system image has been created. Now let's move on to the next stage.
3. Creating a disk to run Acronis True Image
or areas on the hard drive to run this program without a disk
Naturally, to restore the system from a previously created image, you need the utility itself. How can you start it if Windows doesn’t boot at all?
There is a way to run this utility:
Download the finished utility image Acronis True Image 2016 19.0.6571 BootCD Acronis True Image 2016 19.0.6571 BootCD
and having previously recorded it on a DVD or USB drive and booted from it through the BIOS. Read below on how to create such a disk yourself.
Let's consider these methods separately.
3.1 Burning a disc with Acronis True Image utility
This is a simpler and more reliable method, but it has one very significant drawback: you need a disk and a drive. According to the law of meanness, when Windows crashes on a laptop, the necessary disks temporarily disappear somewhere :)
Let's look at how to burn such a disc. To do this, you need to start and in the Tools menu select the item Creating a boot disk:
If other Acronis products are installed on your computer or laptop, you can also burn them to disk. Select on the left and click Next
Select your drive with a blank CD/DVD disc:
Important note: this utility also allows you to create an ISO image for subsequent recording or organize downloading over the network.
To start recording, click Start
That's all. The disk is ready:
To run the utility you need to boot from it.
3.2 Creating a small partition on a hard drive with Acronis True Image
This method of launching the utility is more interesting. Unlike the previous method, a disk is not needed here. The program is recorded on a hidden partition of the hard drive and is loaded when you press the F11 key at boot. This method is perfect for owners of netbooks and portable laptops without a CD/DVD drive.
To create a copy of the program on the hard drive, you need to select the item in the Tools menu Boot Recovery:
We select from the list from which section to “bite off” the free space for a small hidden section for the program:
Specify the volume of the hidden partition and check the box next to Activate:
Important note: in addition to the program itself, backup copies can also be stored on this partition. You can make it more, and also assign a password for access. This section is hidden from most programs. Read more about it in the instructions for.
In our case, the password can be omitted:
This page displays all proposed changes. To apply them, click on the Proceed button:
The system may ask you to reboot:
In this case, all changes will be made when the system boots:
That's all. Now, when loading, a window like this will appear asking you to run
If you press F11, it will load. To remove the hidden section and return everything as it was, go to the Tools menu, select the item Acronis Secure Zone, click on the Delete button and indicate which section to attach the hidden section to.
4. Restoring Windows with programs and drivers from the image
Let's now consider how to restore the system from a previously created image.
First you need to boot from the disk or using F11 from a hidden partition. Select Acronis True Image Home from the menu:
After some time, the utility itself will launch. Click on the Restore button:
Click (if necessary) on Search for a backup:
We indicate where the image itself is saved:
Select the image from the list below and click Restore:
Select an item Recover disks or partitions:
Select the hard drive partition in the image that you want to restore:
Important note: if you launched from a disk, then you should check the box next to MBR, if you launched via F11, then you should uncheck the box next to MBR.
Click on New storage:
Specify the partition to which you are going to restore the image and click Accept. Here it is very important to select the partition where the system was and from which you removed the image.
Click on Change default settings:
For the system partition we set the type Main and active:
Click on Change default settings:
In the fields Free space before and after the section set 0:
To start the recovery, click on Proceed:
We wait a bit:
That's all:
Restoring the system partition is complete. Now all that remains is to reboot the laptop and get a working system.
Often, personal computer users encounter hard drive problems that affect the operation of the system. The main causes of hard drive failure are: bad sectors in HD D and faulty file system. In this material we will describe in detail HDD problem fixing process, and also describe methods for recovering information on hard drives, if it is faulty or completely out of order. I would also like to note that problems associated with the hard drive need to be given special attention. For example, if the HDD becomes completely faulty, then you are unlikely to be able to recover information from it. That is, all your documents, personal videos and photographs, as well as other files may be lost forever.
Reading SMART readings from the hard drive
If files are not copied on your computer, or programs freeze after opening, then a possible reason for this may be faulty HDD. Typically this behavior of the operating system is due to with bad sectors in the hard drive. To be sure that the problem is related to bad sectors of the HDD and not to malware, the first step is to confirm this guess. If the situation described above is observed on your computer, we will install the utility on it CrystalDiskInfo. This utility describes the status of all hard drives installed on your computer. You can download CrystalDiskInfo from its official website http://crystalmark.info. The utility supports Windows OS, from XP to Windows 10.
To check information about the hard drive, the utility uses self-diagnosis technology SMART. SMART technology is used on all manufactured HDDs. Below is an example of checking SMART readings using the CrystalDiskInfo utility in the hard drive WD1200JS. From this window you can see that the program has detected its status as " Fine" - this means that this hard drive is in perfect order and you should not worry about it.
In the following image in the SMART readings, the CrystalDiskInfo utility detected the status of the screw with the message " Anxiety" This message means that the hard drive already has bad sectors or is overheating.
If you see the message " Bad", then this will mean that all the bad sectors on the hard drive have been reassigned and soon it will be completely covered.
In both cases, when the program detected messages " Anxiety" And " Bad", you should make a backup copy of all data on your computer, since the screw will soon become unusable.
One solution that can temporarily fix your screw is the utility Victoria. This utility can do REMAP BAD sectors, that is, it will reassign bad sectors to backup ones. In the next section we will describe in detail the process of REMAP BAD sectors using the Victoria utility.
Recovering a hard drive using the Victoria program
Utility Victoria created by a Belarusian programmer and distributed free of charge. You can download the utility on its official website hdd-911.com. The Victoria utility is distributed in two versions for Windows and DOS. In our case, we will download the Windows version. After launching the Victoria utility on Windows, we will be taken to such a window.
To fix the hard drive, we need to go to the “Tests” tab. On this tab we are interested in the area with the radio buttons Ignore, Erase, Remap and Restore, as well as the Start button. To fix it, we need to select the Remap radio button and click Start.
After these steps, the Victoria program will begin the process of repairing sectors, which can take quite a long time.
After reassigning the sectors, Victoria may be able to restore the bad sectors, and the CrystalDiskInfo utility will display the value “Good”. But a magical fix may not happen, since the reserve sectors may simply be absent and Victoria will not be able to help. In this case, there is only one way out - do a complete HDD replacement. In addition to screw treatment, Victoria also provides checking readings SMART on the “ tab SMART».
I would like to note that all operations that you perform using Victoria are done at your own peril and risk. Using the utility, an inexperienced user can damage the hard drive and also deprive it of warranty service.
Fixing file system problems on your hard drive
Many users on Windows computers often experience problems related to file system errors NTFS. File system problems occur due to malicious utilities and various software. Also, file system problems most often occur due to inexperience the PC user himself. For example, incorrect handling of the utility Acronis Disk Director. To solve this problem, Windows itself will help us. Windows provides file system repair tool. To fix the file system on a specific partition, you need to go to its properties. In our case, this is the system partition of the Windows 10 operating system. To run the fix, we need to go to the “ Service».
On this tab there is a button Check that we will click.
After this action, a window will appear in which you need to confirm our actions.
After confirming the action, Windows will scan this partition.
After scanning, the system will display a message with the results of scanning the partition for errors.
Using this method, many users restored the operating system to normal operation without having to reinstall it. If the problems lie in the HDD itself, then no amount of checking the disk or reinstalling the OS will help in this case. The only option in this case is that you can resort to the Victoria utility or completely replace the screw with a new one, while reinstalling Windows.
Recovering disks using Acronis True Image 2016
The software is the ideal tool to create a full backup all local partitions, including the system one. This feature is used by many administrators around the world. The created backup of local disks can be restored in a very short time. For example, if the system is infected with a virus or the HDD is broken, in this case you will restore all OS disks in a short period of time. You can find Acronis True Image 2016 on its official website www.acronis.com. By launching the program in question, we will be taken to such a window.
First of all, we will show our readers how you can create a backup copy of local Acronis True Image 2016 partitions. On the first tab “Backup” you can see that the entire computer is selected for backup. That is, a complete backup of all local partitions, including the system one, will be carried out. In the next block you need to select a backup location. In our case, this is local drive E. After selecting the type of backup data and where to save it, click the Create a copy button located in the lower right corner.
Depending on the amount of data being saved, the time it takes to create a backup will depend.
Having completed the backup, we will describe the process of restoring the computer. To do this, we need to create a boot disk or flash drive for Acronis True Image 2016. This can be done by going to the “ TOOLS/BOOTABLE DRIVE CREATION WIZARD" Below is the wizard that should open.
In this wizard, we will select the first option and continue. In the window that appears, select where we will save the boot drive: into the image or to a flash drive.
After saving the boot drive, the wizard will display a final window.
Having created a bootable USB flash drive or optical disk with Acronis True Image 2016, you can begin data recovery. To do this, we will boot from the bootable USB flash drive when the computer starts. After booting from the boot drive, we find ourselves in the Acronis True Image 2016 menu. Select the first item in this menu, after which we find ourselves in the main Acronis True Image window.
In the program window, go to the “” tab and find the backup copy of the entire system we previously created.
Now, to restore the system disk with Windows and local disks, click the button Disk recovery.
In the wizard that appears, select the item “ Recover disks and partitions" and continue.
In the next window, select all local disks and continue the wizard.
In paragraphs " Destination"For the first and second disks, select the original HDDs. If there are many hard drives installed in the system, be careful not to mix up the screws. In the final window, click the Proceed button.
The backup recovery time depends on the size and speed of the HDD. In our case it took 10 minutes.
The example shows how easy it is to make a backup copy of your entire computer, so if you master the Acronis True Image 2016 software package, you can easily restore its functionality in cases where the system is infected or the hard drive is broken. Also, after mastering the program, you will not have questions about how to recover data from a hard drive.
Data recovery using Recuva
There are times when, when reinstalling Windows or using Acronis software, users mistakenly erase all information from the hard drive. If this is exactly the situation you have, then you shouldn’t be upset, since all the information can be found restore. A free utility will help us with this task. Recuva. You can download the utility on its official website www.piriform.com. After launching the utility, the user is taken to a wizard that will help you restore all your data. Below is the sequential work of the master.
The example shows that recovering information using Recuva is a fairly simple process and almost any PC user can handle it.
Let's sum it up
From this article it can be emphasized that restoring a hard drive is not a very simple task, but depending on the situation, even an ordinary PC user can cope with it. I would also like to advise laptop owners to handle it as carefully as possible. For example, if the laptop is dropped or receives a strong impact, the HDD may be damaged. In addition, if you yourself have identified a problematic screw, then do not be afraid to open the case of a laptop or desktop computer yourself, since replacing the HDD is a fairly simple task. And we, in turn, hope that our material will be useful to our readers and will allow you to restore your hard drive.
Video on the topic
Today, the issue of restoring a hard drive is quite relevant due to the fact that it can fail at any time after the next update or a sudden virus attack. And then what to do when the problem has already overtaken you?
Almost the only way out in this situation is to restore previously saved data. To do this, it is best to contact specialized organizations that specialize in data recovery. After diagnostics, specialists will tell you to what extent and in what time frame it is possible to restore files. Therefore, we advise and recommend that if there is important information on the disk, you should not experiment with it yourself. Without special knowledge and experience, it is better not to restore information that remains in a single copy!
In this article we will tell you how to restore partitions using Acronis Disk Director. Moreover, even if you need to make two or more from one logical drive, there will be no problems either, because managing the program is extremely simple due to the full Russian language.
Recovering data from a hard drive in Acronis
To perform data recovery from a hard drive using Acronis, you must have an image file saved on one of the logical drives. Therefore, first we will look at how to create this very image.
Creating a recovery image
After installing all the programs required for normal operation, insert a boot disk or flash drive and launch the OS or bootable version of Acronis from it. You can do it yourself; to do this, launch Acronis and in the window that opens, select the item “Create bootable disks”, before that insert the flash drive or disk into the computer.
If a flash drive is used, it must first be formatted as FAT32.
Data recovery in Acronis
Data recovery using Acronis is performed quite quickly and even in large volumes. The principle itself is to copy entire partitions to the same or another hard drive, so before creating a copy you need to make sure there is enough space.
In the photo, file recovery is performed using Acronis using the example of a 500 GB hard drive. A space equal to the volume of the system disk was allocated from logical drive E, where the entire partition was subsequently copied.
Using the Acronis program, data recovery in this way is the most effective, because it involves a global copying of information from one disk to another.
So, with Acronis, file recovery is carried out in the same way as creating a copy, but only in this case, copying will be carried out from the selected partition to the remote one. But in order for the program to determine the need to restore the partition, it must be deleted.
That is, if Windows is damaged, the boot disk removes the partition so that the program can detect it. Next, Acronis starts and copies data to empty space. You can delete a partition and then perform data recovery using Acronis Disk Director, again using specialized programs. For example, Partition Magic or G-Host. You can also use the Windows boot disk itself.
With acronis, recovery of deleted files is performed with high reliability and system stability, but this depends on when the copy was created. Therefore, after installing the OS and the main programs, it is very important to create a copy of the partition while it is not yet damaged by various virus programs and update patches.
How to partition a hard drive using Acronis?
How to partition a disk with Acronis? It's easy to do this with this program. To do this, launch the program and select “Create partition” in the menu on the left. If there are unduplicated files left on the hard drive, then first of all, before resizing/creating new partitions, make a copy of all important information to another medium! Because In our practice, there were often cases when during normal work on changing/adding partitions a failure occurred and either data disappeared or
Naturally, accidental and intentional deletion of files destroys previously recorded information, which can be restored using special utilities. But you can also find cases of quick or complete formatting of hard drives, when data is believed to be deleted irrevocably, not to mention damage to the hard drives themselves. What to do in this case? This is where hard drive recovery programs come to the rescue. You can download mostly simple utilities for free. However, even they help, as they say, to bring the disk to life. Let's look at the most popular ones, including both free and paid utilities.
How does the process of deleting files from a hard drive work?
Before considering the main topic, let’s make a short digression into the theoretical part and see how information is deleted. In Windows systems there are two ways: deleting to the Recycle Bin and without it. In the first case, the files are simply moved to a reserved area on the hard drive, so restoring them from the Recycle Bin is as easy as shelling pears.
In the second case, what happens is that the first character in the name is changed to unreadable ($). If during work in the clusters where such a file is located, no overwriting was performed, the information can also be restored.
The situation is worse with quick or complete formatting of disks and partitions, as well as with situations when the hard drive begins to “crumble” or is simply subject to physical damage. Many users mistakenly believe that it is impossible to recover files in this case, saying that only professional experts can do this. Nothing like this! If you use, for example, the same programs to restore Seagate Barracuda hard drives, which at one time had many problems, anyone, even an untrained user, can carry out this process. And it’s completely elementary.
Programs for restoring hard drives after formatting: can it be done?
In the case of a quick format of the hard drive, the partition tables are overwritten, and with a full format, the disk surface is also checked and bad sectors are then corrected. In this case, we are not talking about factory low-level formatting at all.
This is precisely what allows many developers to create programs for restoring hard drives, which seem to perform the reverse process. This gives the same recovery effect. But first things first.
The best hard drive recovery programs
As for the most famous utilities today, a sample list might look like this:
- Victoria HDD;
- R.Saver and R-Studio;
- HDD Regenerator;
- Acronis Recovery Expert and Active Partition Recovery Pro;
- Hetman Partition Recovery;
- Zero Assumption Recovery.
Naturally, it is impossible to provide a complete list, since today hundreds of such software products can be found. But let’s look at the above utilities in a little more detail.
Victoria HDD
If we consider the most popular programs for recovering hard drives and disk partitions, the leadership certainly belongs to one of the most powerful utilities of our time called Victoria HDD, developed by Sergey Kazansky.
The program has five levels of hard drive testing, is capable of identifying and displaying faulty areas, eliminating errors, plotting surface condition graphs, measuring performance, etc. The operating modes also look interesting. The application can be run in a regular graphical shell, or you can use a somewhat unusual DOS mode. By the way, it is with such a test that the most powerful effect is achieved.
R.Saver and R-Studio
These two programs for recovering hard drives from flash drives work just fine and are very similar to each other. They can even be used as portable versions.
The main advantage of these utilities is that they support almost all file systems known today and are capable of recovering data on any type of media, including even formatted or damaged memory cards.
HDD Regenerator
This utility is relatively new among all programs. It is designed specifically for restoring bad sectors and, as the developers themselves say, even for resuscitating the surface of the hard drive.
The latest technology of so-called magnetization reversal is used here, which allows you to completely restore the hard drive and the information that was previously recorded on it. It works, however, only in DOS mode, which causes some confusion among many. In addition, the technology itself looks almost unrealistic, because some people cannot imagine how a surface can be remagnetized using software. Nevertheless, everyone who has encountered it expresses only admiration - the application is capable of resuscitating even completely “dead” disks.
Acronis Recovery Expert and Active Partition Recovery Pro
Here are two representatives of the family of HDD recovery utilities. The peculiarity of these applications is that they support a large number of file systems and hard drives.
In addition, they provide a mode for creating bootable media, which can be used to fix many problems if starting the operating system from a problematic hard drive is impossible.
True, the first utility is paid, the second is not. But the second application is also interesting because it can be launched from both DOS and Windows.
Hetman Partition Recovery
Another USB device or memory card and the information stored on it is interesting because it can work with all types of virtual partitions. It goes without saying that data can be recovered even after full formatting.
But the most important thing is that the program can work both in manual mode and in “Wizard” mode, which allows any user to automate the entire recovery process.
Zero Assumption Recovery
Finally, one more small and fairly simple application, abbreviated as ZAR. This program is designed primarily for restoring FAT and NTFS file systems, although it can also be used for Linux. For Windows system users, it is perfect.
But here it is worth considering that in this case we are talking exclusively about recovering information (even from bad sectors). In this case, the program does not make any corrections on the hard drive itself after analysis.
Conclusion
Of course, only the most basic programs were considered here. When choosing a program, you should be guided by the situation itself, that is, choose which operation should be used (recovering information or eliminating failures on the hard drive itself), and only then make a decision about using one or another utility.
Good afternoon, dear guests of our site. Finally, the hour has come when we can present to you another creation of the wonderful company Acronis. We have a unique application AcronisDiskDirectorHome , please love and favor. The legendary program is by far the best virtual partition manager for netbooks, desktop computers and laptops. But still, this product is interesting to us because it is also endowed with such a wonderful property as data recovery on a deleted logical volume of a PC hard drive. That's why Disk Director made it onto our list of quality software forresuscitation of lost electronic files. Also among the pleasant features of the application, it is necessary to note the full Russian-language design. The main disadvantage is the considerable total amount of installation data of this software solution.
Acronisdiskdirectorrus is a very high-quality software product from Acronis, which has all the necessary tools for professional work with personal computer hard drives. The powerful utility is simply unrivaled in diagnosing and recovering lost partitions for various types of hard drives (HDD, SSD). Despite all the bells and whistles, the program is extremely easy to use. With the help of Acronis Disk Director, even an inexperienced person will be able to maintain the disk storage of their computer system without serious problems. The complex allows you to carry out a whole range of useful procedures, such as creating, deleting, editing and restoring PC partitions.
Acronisdiskdirector suite is able to offer its users all the necessary preventive actions, without which the average user of a personal computer simply cannot do without. Today's utility gives you the opportunity to become a strong manager of your computer system. The publishers of Disk Director have made a really successful program. With the help of which you can now easily and quickly back up information from the source volume to another, format any hard drive partitions and bring back to life the digital data of a remote computer operating system. Exclusively for you, dear visitors of the Safe-Data.ru website, we have prepared a working, full-fledged, and also a completely new version of the Acronis Disk Director Home application.
Download this wonderful software to your device for free and start installing it on your version of Windows OS. The utility was released in 2010, so you don’t have to worry about compatibility with systems. Note that in our case, Acronis Disk Director was operated on the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system (Professional, SP 1). Without hesitation, we launch the program from a shortcut located on the desktop of our OS. Before launching, the application performed an express scan of all disk devices connected to the PC. In the working field of the window we can see recognized containers for storing electronic files. To restore a deleted HDD logical volume, the user needs to activate the built-in tool of this software package. On the left, in the “Tools” category, there will be a button for the already familiar Acronis Recovery Expert utility. Click on it.
The following procedure will be exactly the same as in our detailed review of Acronis Recovery Expert software. We recommend that you thoroughly familiarize yourself with this material and still regain full access to the damaged or lost hard drive partition on your computer. Without exaggeration, we can say that you simply won’t find better software of this kind, so download, use and share the link to the article.
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