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Ghost problems

Discussion in 'Software Apps' started by arbitrater2k, May 21, 2004.

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  1. arbitrater2k Newcomer, in training

    I got real stupid a accidentally ghosted the wrong direction. Result is that the partition table on the data drive was overwritten and zeroed out along with the FAT. I am using Ghost 2002 on WD 100g drives. Does anyone know of anyway to recover the partition tables and FATs, or better yet, reverse the process.
  2. Nodsu Newcomer, in training

    Everything that was physically overwritten is unrecoverable (unless you are willing to pay a lot of money to some lab for maybe getting something back). Anything that wasn't overwritten can be recovered.
  3. arbitrater2k Newcomer, in training

    The system has not been accessed since the completion of the ghost process. There could not have been more than the Partition table and FATs since start to completion was almost instantaneous and the drive being ghosted only had 7.9G available out of 100G.
  4. Nodsu Newcomer, in training

    OK. There are programs that can restore partition tables by scanning the disk for partitions. There is no way to restore the FATs that got overwritten. You can recover single files from the HD though if there is something you really need.

    If the target drive had several partitions then you probably lost the FAT only on the first one and after partition table recovery you should be able to access the other paritions.
  5. Samstoned TechSpot Paladin

    try scavenger
    I had my fat tables overwritten and this was the only software out there that found my stuff
    the demo works great up to 64mb
    I am not working for this company ,just a happy customer.
    good luck
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