Recover Data from formatted partition

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Manjunath

I have Ghost Image software from Norton.While carrying out restore
operation I mistakenly overwrote this image on a different partition
which contained my music files almost 50 GB collected painstakingly
over a long period.My complete music is gone and I can only blame
self.
Is there any way I can recover atleast some if not all the Data.

I will be extremely grateful for any suggestion.

Manjunath
 
I have Ghost Image software from Norton.While carrying out restore
operation I mistakenly overwrote this image on a different partition
which contained my music files almost 50 GB collected painstakingly
over a long period.My complete music is gone and I can only blame
self.
Is there any way I can recover atleast some if not all the Data.

I will be extremely grateful for any suggestion.

Manjunath
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Yes, your data can be recovered.

There is a company in Germany, that specializes on data recovery from
nearly destroyed disks. They have been doing this for the last
financial transaction in the burning WTC.

There is also a program used by the police to recover overwritten
data, e.g. child porn pictures.

Have a look at http://www.ultimate-anonymity.com/. If you register for
a small fee, you should find this program there. You might find it
also by a search elsewhere.

Hard disks store data by magnetisation which shows the phenomenon of
remanence, which means, that the produced magnetisation depends on the
previous history. As an exampleIf a 1 is represented by a magnetised
strength of +100 and a 0 by -100, overwriting a 1 with another 1 will
produce a magnetised strength of 110, overwriting a 1 with a zero wil
produce -90. Normally everything between e.g. -120 and -80 will be
read as a 0, but by narrowing this range, special software can tell
you, what was on the disk before.
 
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