HELP! Ghosted to wrong partition on sons hard drive!

[etech]

It's been a long day, 10 hours at work and a dentist visit with lots of drilling.

I was helping my son install a new hard drive and was using ghost for the first time to transfer the info. I was fuzzy and did NOT make an image of his two partitions first. He had a question so I sat down and and made an image of his C: drive. Since windows remapped the partitions I somehow screwed up and transferred his C: drive partititon to his D: drive wiping out about 30G of his stuff.

Help

What is the best way to recover the files that have not been overwritten!

 

[etech]

Aww, c'mom someone can help.

 

[pillage2001]

<< Aww, c'mom someone can help. >>



You're doomed.

 

[8602081]

if you ghosted a drive, I don't think you can recover anything that was on the drive.
Ghost is permanent, I believe...

 

[thomsbrain]

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<< Aww, c'mom someone can help. >>



You're doomed. >>




yup

 

[Splork]

Whoops! :Q

-sp

 

[d33pt]

get ontrack easy recovery 5 and see what it can find.. it should be able to recover the data on that drive that wasn't over written with new data

 

[yoda291]

I'm fairly positive the data is gone. Cuz ghost is really thorough on restoring images.

 

[etech]

I 'borrowed' a copy of Easy Recovery 5. His computer is not connected to the Internet right now so I tried to make the recovery diskette. It hangs at the data recovery screen when I run it on his computer. The floppy is still spinning but nothing happens past that. The data recovery screen shows up but there is no writing on it and no mouse cursor. Tried two different floppies and it hangs at the same place.

I think I might try taking his drive out and putting it in my computer and running E.R. that way.

Any better ideas?

 

[etech]

Bump for the day crowd and any more help.

Apparently my brain was not working at all last night. The image I made was from the new 3G partition on the new drive that had nothing loaded on it. It was then imaged onto his old drives's 38G partition. Since it was a 3G partition imaged onto a 38G partition what are the chances that only the first 3G would have been overwritten?

 

[brnbngls]

Yeah, you're pretty much dead. I've used Ghost extensively here at work. Even though you took an image of a 3 GB partition and threw it to a 38, Ghost will notify you that the destination and source do not match in size. If you select OK anyway, it will trash the exisiting 38 partition, use what it needs to and then format the rest. Kiss whatever data he had on there goodbye.

 

[skace]

Quick! Buy him an Xbox and hope he forgets about his PC

Honestly, that sucks a lot and the best you can do is apologize? :/ Or if you are real evil and he doesn't know about computers that much, you can lie and say his drive got corrupted and he lost his data, then teach him the importance of backing up data. I'd never be evil enough to live that one down though.

 

[rudder]

now you have to spring for a t-1 connection so he can re-download his 30 gigs of whatever.

 

[Karsten]

Since ghost does not copy files, but rather makes a snapshoot of the drive as a whole you are doomed indeed!
Little example is... you don't need to Format a new drive... since the whole formating is done as the image is restored.
We are using ghost at work as well and from expiriance I can tell you that all of the data is gone for good! SORRY!!!

Best is you focus on Downloading from scrach... Morpheus works well... Sorry but that is about the only thing!

 

[drewshin]

30 gigs?

prolly all warez anyway. good riddance! LOL

 

[Spikesoldier]

youre gonna be haunted mwahahaha

 

[dakata24]

this really isnt' ot. you might get more responses posting in the Technical Support or Software forums.. since this fits in either category...

 

[Nemesis77]

You're pretty much screwed I'm afraid. If I were you, I would prepare myself to meet one angry kid when you tell him the "news".

Do post here after you told him so we'll know you are still alive.

 

[Jen]

Powerquest Lost and Found utility is what i have used in the past to recover files from a hard drive that has been formatted over or when i lost my fat partition



Jen

 

[Grunt03]

I hate to say it but I think it is over.......

Buy your son a new game and say sorry.....