I recently recovered my computer, went through all all kinds of crazy, amazingly my external hd which had my vital backups chose to fail concurrently.
I then had to recover my files from the sixth dimension of space-time, and I got a new external drive and am copying them on there as we speak.
Now my question is concerning the recovery I did:
It did something weird and in disk management it was saying I had two hard drives of the same size as the one in my laptop, which is obviously bogus. I want to do another recovery after I’m finished backing up my barely saved files.
Can I format my hd before doing the recovery to make sure everything is wiped clean? Or do I have to just startup with the recovery disk and hope it does it right this time?
I would really like to wipe the hd before doing the recovery if possible?
Best answer:
Answer by Kidd J
If you’re thinking about wiping your disk then doing file recoveries, don’t. Most probably you won’t get your files back. If you’re thinking about wiping your disk then doing system recovery, well, don’t. It’s pointless to do system recovery when your system is already wiped off. Is that what you meant?
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