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Help, Ghosted to wrong partition!

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Lifer
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 about ghost 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!

Is there a good free program that anyone would recommend?
 


<< 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 about ghost 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!

Is there a good free program that anyone would recommend? >>

Well, this isn't free, and it runs in DOS, but Symantec Ghost will definitely help.
 
If you made an image of C to D then it would not have wiped anything out.
However I think you copied the C partition to D which I believe will wipe the lot.

You could try lost and found, I have never used it.
 
Daovonnaex

I think you should have another read. He has ghost and it wont recover overwritten files.
 
I'll try to explain more clearly.

He had a 40g drive. We installed a new 60g drive. Both were partitioned into two partitions. I made an image of his C: drive. I then (stupidly) ran ghost and put the image of his C: drive onto his old D: drive. Somewhere near 30g of data is gone. I think I saw a tear in his eye.

Is there a good freeware recovery program. The copy of Ghost came with his motherboard Epox 8K7A and is I belive a limited version. I do not see anything about data recovery with it.

Help, he looks very sad.
 
Been there, done *exactly* that.....except I manged to wipe out an entire drive (20 GB)...filled with irreplaceable pictures of my children 🙁 ... talk about tears. Nothing like restoring an image to a *drive* instead of a partition.

In any case, my story has a happy ending (not free)....your son will have to decide how important the stuff on that partition was to him. I checked out Ontrack, web site here . They sell a number of packages that will recover most files in the situation you describe. Be sure to check out the Fix-it utilities 4.0 program (kind of like norton, I prefer Fix-it, actually), this program does come with some file recovery options. You may want to call the tech support there to figure out the best approach. But I know they sell software that should help.

Whatever you do, try to avoid directly accessing the partition you want to recover. It will decrease your recovery efficiency.

Good luck,

fraz
 
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