Recocer data after an imaged drive

[KalMyster]

I made a fatal mistake that cost me all of my data that I have been gathering over the years.
Here is what I did. I have secondary hard drive that I copy all of my documents to and keep all of my family pictures and music. I was trying to copy an image of my c:\ drive to a partition on c:\. Instead I copied the image on the secondary drive d:\ and it became a copy of c:\ and I lost everything. I was using Symantec Ghost do to the imaging. How can I get my data back on d:\ after it's been imaged? I appreciate any ideas.

 

[micker377]

Confused: what is now listed on c: and d:? You said you were trying to copy an image of c: to a partition on c:. Ghost will not allow an image to be placed on the same physical drive. Have you looked at the image record with the viewer in the ghost program?

 

[KalMyster]

Thanks micker,
Ghost allowed me to copy an image of c: on a partition of c:. Although the problem is, I copied that same image on a secondary drive d: by mistake and I lost all of my files. I am trying to get old d: files back if I can.

 

[micker377]

Strange, if there wasn't enough room for the image AND the original files, you should have gotten an "out of space" error. What is the size of the d: drive. You should have the original files and the ghost image. Hard drives make it difficult to overwrite an area without some kind of warning.

 

[Walter349]

You would need a forensic utility suite to recover the data and then it would be fragmented. I don't think that you will be able to make a 100% recovery at all.

 

[Freestone]

micker, I'm sure he restored a C: drive image onto his D: drive, hence his statement "it became a copy of c:\ and I lost everything".

 

[KalMyster]

Thanks Guys,
I am leaning toward using forensic software to be able to restore some of the files. I tried several recovery utilities, but no luck. I am going to suffer a lot for making such a fatal mistake.