Ghosting Accident

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Hi.

I have a friend who has accidentally cloned a blank hard disk onto his
original. He wants to know if there's any way of recovering any data.
Although, having done that myself once, and having tried to access his
hard disk on another PC, I realise it is unlikely, I would appreciate
any suggestions.

Henry.
 
Hi.

I have a friend who has accidentally cloned a blank hard disk onto his
original. He wants to know if there's any way of recovering any data.
Although, having done that myself once, and having tried to access his
hard disk on another PC, I realise it is unlikely, I would appreciate
any suggestions.

Henry.
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Probably the only hope is a professional data recovery outfit.
There is nothing worse than doing a sector-by-sector over-write
on the hard drive and this is what cloning does.
 
Hi.

I have a friend who has accidentally cloned a blank hard disk onto his
original. He wants to know if there's any way of recovering any data.
Although, having done that myself once, and having tried to access his
hard disk on another PC, I realise it is unlikely, I would appreciate
any suggestions.

Henry.
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You're screwed. The ONLY hope is professional data recovery.
 
Unless you have another Ghost backup of your PC before the accident. Alhough
you will miss out on any changes you have made since that backup, it should
get you a lot closer. Getting a professional outfit to totally recover a
hard drive is a very expensive procedure. You have to be very sure that
there is no other way back and that the data you want is utterly vital
before considering such an option. If anyone knows of a cheap recovery
outfit, hopefully someone will contradict me with that information.

Martin
 
Martin said:
Unless you have another Ghost backup of your PC before the accident. Alhough
you will miss out on any changes you have made since that backup, it should
get you a lot closer. Getting a professional outfit to totally recover a
hard drive is a very expensive procedure. You have to be very sure that
there is no other way back and that the data you want is utterly vital
before considering such an option. If anyone knows of a cheap recovery
outfit, hopefully someone will contradict me with that information.
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There are numerous outfits that charge only if data is recoverd
sucessfully. Others charge nothing for an evaluation.

http://www.iomegadatarecovery.com/

offers a no-cost (except shipping) evaluation. These are the guys who
did the Zip drives installed on many PCS.

Many of the hard drive manufacturors also offer data recovery.

In the case of this ghosting Fiasco, the cances of even a professional
recovery working are slim, and even slimmer with large hard drives.
So... if you find one of these outfits, it'll cost nothing to try and
fail, but, if the data is valuable enough, worth the money.
 
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