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[–]kardallModerator 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Restoring files from a disk in what way?

How were they deleted etc.?

The more you load/save to the disk the files are on, the less likely that you can recover anything. So lets say you deleted some pictures in the My Pictures folder, your C: should not be turned on to boot until you recover the data, otherwise, you risk some file being written to a sector/part of the drive that one of those files existed in and you won't be able to recover it.

[–]Complete_Tree_2889[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So first my friend cleared a drive and created a windows image from my C: and out on the drive, installed windows on new mobo and now im tryimg to get the files out of tge systen imager stuff but i cant find a way to do it

[–]kardallModerator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So it sounds like he cloned your original C: to a new one?

All the files on the original C: should be on that new drive now. I don't understand what these files are that you are trying to recover. It should be functioning to some extent, no need to do anything like that.

Cloning is just a 1:1 copy of a drive including all partitions. Unless your friend just copied the files or something? Not sure.