Hard drive recovery questions

Hey Folks,

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I could not decide which forum to post this in - you guys won

I did something reeeeeally stupid a couple of days ago. Bought a new 250gb hard drive. The 250 I have been using was acting kinda flaky. So I put both drives (both WD - SATA) into a computer at work and ran Ghost. Yep, you guessed it - I copied the new blank drive over the other one. It must have been a caffeine deficiency.

When I finally stopped throwing things and cursing....

I started running any recovery program that I could "find". Most don't see the old partition at all but Ontrack's Easy Recovery Pro starts counting files and folders that it finds and it is in the 10,000+ folders so I know that the data is still there somewhere.

But while it is scanning/counting files - it crashes. No error message - it just throws me out of the program. I have run this on several different computers. Tried several sets of media. Tried a bootable CD and diskettes. I just can't win

Questions;

What do you folks recommend as far as partition recovery programs?

Is there anything out there that can do a kind-of Ghost undo thingy?

 

hi sprawl! welcome to major geeks!

Yep, you have a very unusual prob, i even don't know how to help you, anyway there are several progs which can help you to recover files and lost partition.
if you say that there is some data on the drive may be it worth to try getDataBack for FAT32/NTFS, this prog can recover files from lost partition.
the prog Recovery Expert can restore deleted by accident partitions.

 

Thanks for replying Plaphon.

By "have a very unusual prob" you mean I really screwed the pooch.

I found a KB article on Symantec's site that explains (sort of) what to do in the event you had a spontaneous brain cramp while cloning your drive.

It said that if you copied a blank drive over one with data - which I did - it would only change the partition table and the FAT. So I guess all I need to do is fix those.

Anyone have any advice on that?

I'll keep hunting.

I don't care what anyone says - stupidity hurts