Norton Ghost 2003 on Windows XP PRO

[vsmoly]

Got a serious problem here, running windows XP PRO, 2 hd's, 2nd harddrive is broken into 2 partitions, recently tried to clone my C: drive to my secondary harddrive, it went into pc-dos mode and began cloning, when system booted back up and I clicked into my computer to view my secondary hardrive on drive letter F: it was not there, there was only E: with the same stuff I had on my c: drive, I had a lot of stuff of my F: drive, any way on how to restore this through Ghost, I tried Windows restore point with no luck, please help.

 

[gpalmer711]

Has the size of E: increased? If it has then theres a good chance that f: is gone.

If it hasn't then it might just be a case of XP not being able to see the drive.

Click on Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management.

Click on Disk Management in the Storage Section on the left hand side.

Can you see any reference to your f: drive?

Let us know what you find.


Greg Palmer

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Any feed back is appreciated.

 

[vsmoly]

Hi Greg, your absolutely right the size of my e:drive has increased alomost to it's fullest being 120gb, it contains the same info thats on my c:drive, this is what I was afraid of, I went into disk management and only see my c, and e: drive no F, please tell me there's a way to undo this mistake through Norton Ghost or Windows, thanks for your help.

 

[gpalmer711]

I do not know of any way you can do this through Ghost, however try the free software at

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Hopefully it should help you.



Greg Palmer

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Any feed back is appreciated.

 

[wolluf]

Sounds like you copied C: to a drive, rather than a partition (or file).

You're only hope in that case is a data recovery app (or service - but that's expensive) - if you are using ntfs, the one Greg recommended may not find anything. Here's a couple more (not free, unfortunately), recommended by members here:-

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

http://www.webattack.com/get/filescavenger.html

You'll find more using Google.

 

[vsmoly]

Thanks for all your help guys, but I'm screwed, tried 2 utilities for NTFS, just restores the new stuff thats been converted from C:drive, no movies, no music, no data files.

 

[diogenes10]

Here's one other one that mentions ghost and possibility of recovery in some cases.

http://www.finaldata.com/sub_products/products_4.asp?p_no=12&pc1_code=wins