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Undoing Norton Ghost...

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One of the guys at work Ghosted a new hard drive to an old hard drive over writing everything on the old hard drive. When he was supposed ghost the old drive to the new drive.

Is there a way to undo this and recover the info from an overwritten partition?



-Michael
 
I'm pretty sure that ghost, like most all drive cloning utils, is a low level write. Meaning that it just starts at the boot strap and starts writing. So, no, unless there's a cumputer jesus, the old drive is fiddlesticked. Sorry.
 
Originally posted by Error401
I'm pretty sure that ghost, like most all drive cloning utils, is a low level write. Meaning that it just starts at the boot strap and starts writing. So, no, unless there's a cumputer jesus, the old drive is fiddlesticked. Sorry.
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Yup thats the way I understood Ghost as well, I've tried other utilities that recover deleted partitions and such and they can't find anything - to them the drive is perfectly fine.



-Michael
 
I have helped run a linux recovery program that actually takes bits or bytes (chunks of info) and writes them to files with a guess as to their format

Like this

file 18906 (jpg)
file 18907 (txt)

You rename the files it recovers with the proper extensions IE; 18906 to 18906.jpg

Then you open the file, and if you recognize the picture/file you rename it to what it was.

We recovered an entire web server full of files with this utility. My job was to rename the files with their proper extensions, and put them in folders sorted by file type.

Unless the entire drive had 1's and 0's written to it, those files that were not overwritten can be recovered.

Depending on how important it is, it may be possible. My friend and I spent a week recovering the drive and only lost a few replaceable files. Since he was a web host, we had no choice. It worked out well for him, considering the loss of data would have been a loss of his complete business.

*edit* if you are interested I'll find the naeme of the utility.
 
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Ouch that sucks. I was rushing to finish a project before the end of the day and I wasn't paying attention. I ended up doing the same thing. Ghost is your friend....but sometimes it can be your enemy if your not paying attention.
 
Originally posted by Waste Land
Try control Z, lol. Okaynvm I'll shut up
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The impression that I'm getting is that FD is the cure-all for most issues.
 

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