Help! Norton Ghost erased the wrong drive:-(

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Please help! I used a Norton Ghost image on the wrong drive (from
Norton 2003). I had an almost full 200 gb drive and used Ghost to
restore a 10 Gb image to it by mistake. Now I see only the 10 GB
Norton info on it. Can I recover the drive to its previous stare, or
if not, can I recover the data in reasonable form to another drive?
How can I do either? Thank you!
 
Tommi007 said:
Please help! I used a Norton Ghost image on the wrong drive (from
Norton 2003). I had an almost full 200 gb drive and used Ghost to
restore a 10 Gb image to it by mistake. Now I see only the 10 GB
Norton info on it. Can I recover the drive to its previous stare, or
if not, can I recover the data in reasonable form to another drive?
How can I do either? Thank you!
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If multiple partitions were present, all that started > 10 Gb can probably
be recovered by rebuilding the partition table (you'd want to skip the first
10 Gb (The Ghosted) partition. If the disk only contained one partition
occuying the entire disk then you can not undo this damage. You can try if
you can recover files/folders using iRecover or a similar program.

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Tommi007 said:
Please help! I used a Norton Ghost image on the wrong drive (from
Norton 2003). I had an almost full 200 gb drive and used Ghost to
restore a 10 Gb image to it by mistake. Now I see only the 10 GB
Norton info on it. Can I recover the drive to its previous stare, or
if not, can I recover the data in reasonable form to another drive?
How can I do either? Thank you!
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Send your drive to Odie.
He says he can retrieve erased (copied over) data and even more.
He is a regular magician, our Odie.
 
It had only one partition. Actually, the ghost image is less than 5
gigs - I assume this is a good thing on a 200 gig drive - hopefully
most of the date has not been overwriten. What is a good recovery
utility to get at this? Hopefully, I will get a whole folder or two,
rather just a jumble of files....

Ah, trying to run GetDataBack now, will see what it comes up with. In
the world of recovery utilities, is this a good, bad or a great one?
Thanks again.
 
It had only one partition. Actually, the ghost image is less than 5
gigs - I assume this is a good thing on a 200 gig drive - hopefully
most of the date has not been overwriten. What is a good recovery
utility to get at this? Hopefully, I will get a whole folder or two,
rather just a jumble of files....

Ah, trying to run GetDataBack now, will see what it comes up with. In
the world of recovery utilities, is this a good, bad or a great one?
Thanks again.
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If the partition was NTFS, the master file table normally would be
within the first 5 GB. If the master file table is lost, you will have
to use tools that look for actual file content without using the file
system structures. But generally nothing is known until it is
examined.
 
I have used something called Easy Recovery and Active@ Recovery with
success. I had long filename issues with Easy Recovery, but no problems at
all with active@ recovery. Good luck.

--Dan
 
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