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Ghost went the wrong way HELP!?!?!

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teqmod

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Sep 13, 2004
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It was late last night and I can make up lots of other excuses but I really screwed up. I was ghosting a drive last night and instead of copying the data to the new drive I copied the new drive to the Data drive. Does anyone know if there is a way to get it back. It happened so fast (under 10 seconds) so I doubt all the data was actually erased. Is there any way to get the data back??
 
Ok, it happens, we all learn really quickly that way!

I've had success in the past with a piece of software called MBRWork (I think, it's been a while ... ) and a bootable floppy - not sure if this will work on SATA or SCSI attached drives though.

If that doesn't help you, I'm sure there are other methods (off to Google and downlaod it again for the toolkit :)).
 
Thanks Satrow, This looks like it is what I need. Now to use this I assume I need to use a boot disk and access it through DOS? I am venturing into uncharted territory now.
 
I have it installed and ran the mbrwork executible. It displays only the following options:
1 - Backup the first track on a hard drive.
3 - Reset the EMBR area to all zeros.
4 - Reset the MBR are to all zeros.
5 - Install standard MBR Code
6 - Set a partition active
9 - Edit MBR partition entry values.


I assume the option I would need is :

A - If no partitions exist in the MBR and no EMBR exists then this option will allow you to recover lost FAT, HPFS, NTFS, and Extened partitions.

Is this option available even though it is not displayed. Sorry for all the questions I just don't want to screw this up and loose any chance of recovering the data.
 
Cool Thanks. I tried a couple things hoping but no luck so far.
 
No luck in getting the data on the drive back. Thanks for the info on this tool, I may be able to use it in other areas here though.
 
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