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I am currently in the midst of a data recovery effort to recover some files
that were deleted by mistake. I'm wondering if a Ghost image of the drive
will have all of the necessary information for my data recovery software to
get the files...

Here's what happened:

1) Some files were deleted from drive #1 via the dos command, "deltree"
2) Drive #1 hasn't been touched since the files were deleted.
3) Data recovery software found all the files that I need to restore, so I
know they are available to be recovered. I just haven't done it yet.

My plan is this:

1) Ghost drive #1 to a 2nd hard drive.
2) Perform data recovery on the 2nd drive to recover the files that were
deleted from the drive #1

What I'm wondering is...will the 2nd drive still have all of the same
"recoverable data" that my recovery software found on the 'source drive'

Why do you need to ghost? What recovery software
are you using? GetDataBack will enable you to recover
the files directly -- just boot from drive #2 with drive #1
as slave.

GetDataBack
http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm


On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:33:27 -0500, in
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Jason E scrawled:

>I am currently in the midst of a data recovery effort to recover some files
>that were deleted by mistake. I'm wondering if a Ghost image of the drive
>will have all of the necessary information for my data recovery software to
>get the files...
>
>Here's what happened:
>
>1) Some files were deleted from drive #1 via the dos command, "deltree"
>2) Drive #1 hasn't been touched since the files were deleted.
>3) Data recovery software found all the files that I need to restore, so I
>know they are available to be recovered. I just haven't done it yet.
>
>My plan is this:
>
>1) Ghost drive #1 to a 2nd hard drive.
>2) Perform data recovery on the 2nd drive to recover the files that were
>deleted from the drive #1
>
>What I'm wondering is...will the 2nd drive still have all of the same
>"recoverable data" that my recovery software found on the 'source drive'

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Jason E wrote:

> I am currently in the midst of a data recovery effort to recover some files
> that were deleted by mistake. I'm wondering if a Ghost image of the drive
> will have all of the necessary information for my data recovery software to
> get the files...
>
> Here's what happened:
>
> 1) Some files were deleted from drive #1 via the dos command, "deltree"
> 2) Drive #1 hasn't been touched since the files were deleted.
> 3) Data recovery software found all the files that I need to restore, so I
> know they are available to be recovered. I just haven't done it yet.
>
> My plan is this:
>
> 1) Ghost drive #1 to a 2nd hard drive.
> 2) Perform data recovery on the 2nd drive to recover the files that were
> deleted from the drive #1
>
> What I'm wondering is...will the 2nd drive still have all of the same
> "recoverable data" that my recovery software found on the 'source drive'

Why bother with the ghost thing? It want work anyway.As the image it
makes concern the visible programs and files and settings not so called
empty space.Just use the recover program you got and do it.
al

°Mike° <> wrote in
news::

> Why do you need to ghost? What recovery software
> are you using? GetDataBack will enable you to recover
> the files directly -- just boot from drive #2 with drive #1
> as slave.

Why do people always feel the need to answer simple questions with more
questions and unrelated suggestions? I need the ghost because I need to buy
time. Ghosting was one of the ways I could do it. I have software that does
exactly what you're describing, but I can't do it right this second for
reasons I'm not going to get into.

allan <> wrote in
news::

> Jason E wrote:
>
>> I am currently in the midst of a data recovery effort to recover some
>> files that were deleted by mistake. I'm wondering if a Ghost image
>> of the drive will have all of the necessary information for my data
>> recovery software to get the files...
>>
>> Here's what happened:
>>
>> 1) Some files were deleted from drive #1 via the dos command,
>> "deltree" 2) Drive #1 hasn't been touched since the files were
>> deleted. 3) Data recovery software found all the files that I need to
>> restore, so I know they are available to be recovered. I just haven't
>> done it yet.
>>
>> My plan is this:
>>
>> 1) Ghost drive #1 to a 2nd hard drive.
>> 2) Perform data recovery on the 2nd drive to recover the files that
>> were deleted from the drive #1
>>
>> What I'm wondering is...will the 2nd drive still have all of the same
>> "recoverable data" that my recovery software found on the 'source
>> drive'
>
> Why bother with the ghost thing? It want work anyway.As the image it
> makes concern the visible programs and files and settings not so
> called empty space.Just use the recover program you got and do it.
> al

The ghosting gives me a way out of a jam. I won't go into details. Too
bad it's not possible. That's ok.. I have an alternative route.

Howdy!

"Jason E" <> wrote in message
news:Xns952C89EBF6A1oob@216.196.97.136...
> I am currently in the midst of a data recovery effort to recover some
files
> that were deleted by mistake. I'm wondering if a Ghost image of the drive
> will have all of the necessary information for my data recovery software
to
> get the files...

Yes - !IF! - you do a "Copy All Sectors" command. I don't have a
copy of Ghost nor the manual here, but if you go GHOST /? (or GHOSTPE /? for
the personal edition), it'll tell you how to make an exact image.

Although, what !I! do is do a full image to files (splitting at
650MB to make them fit on CD-Rs later) with the command:

GHOST -AUTO -SPLIT=650 -Z3 -NTIL -BFC

which "AUTO"names the files. "SPLIT"s them at 650MB boundaries,
compre"Z"es them at level 3, "NTI"gnores the "L"og file, and don't ask me
how BFC is "Keep trying to read bad sectors". You'd need to add the "Exact
Image" command to that tail.

>
> Here's what happened:
>
> 1) Some files were deleted from drive #1 via the dos command, "deltree"
> 2) Drive #1 hasn't been touched since the files were deleted.
> 3) Data recovery software found all the files that I need to restore, so I
> know they are available to be recovered. I just haven't done it yet.
>
> My plan is this:
>
> 1) Ghost drive #1 to a 2nd hard drive.
> 2) Perform data recovery on the 2nd drive to recover the files that were
> deleted from the drive #1
>
> What I'm wondering is...will the 2nd drive still have all of the same
> "recoverable data" that my recovery software found on the 'source drive'

Again, only if you use the proper options.

RwP

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:30:11 -0500, in
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Jason E scrawled:

>°Mike° <> wrote in
>news::
>
>> Why do you need to ghost? What recovery software
>> are you using? GetDataBack will enable you to recover
>> the files directly -- just boot from drive #2 with drive #1
>> as slave.
>
>Why do people always feel the need to answer simple questions with more
>questions and unrelated suggestions? I need the ghost because I need to buy
>time. Ghosting was one of the ways I could do it. I have software that does
>exactly what you're describing, but I can't do it right this second for
>reasons I'm not going to get into.

Well, bite me for not dusting off my crystal ball.

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