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Recovering old data after ghosting with Norton Ghost

Hi all! Thanks for having a look. I'm probably totally out of luck, but if there's any hope I'm sure I'll find it from you guys. I have an Iomega Network HDD that I have connected to my server via USB. I was using this drive to temporarily hold some programs and files before I transferred them to another drive. Well, last night I ghosted my server onto this Iomega drive, not remembering that I still had these other files on there. Needless to say now I have a perfect mirror of my server but none of the other files I had on there previously. I'm running Windows 2000 Server and have system restore enabled. Is there ANY way I can get those previously stored files? Whether it be through forensics software or whatever other means besides taking it to a lab. Thanks in advance for your time and help!!


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Ghosting a drive to another drive will typically overwrite everything on the target drive - there is very little chance you can recover anything from it.  If there is any chance at all, www.ontrack.com has a data recovery service that might be able to do it, but they are not cheap.
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Thanks for all the help, guys! I'm scanning the drive right now with r-studio. I was wondering, though, do any of you have any experience using GetDataBack for NTFS or FAT? Is this a good data revovery program? I'm asking because I have access to a copy of it through a friend, but I don't know anyone who can let me borrow r-studio. THANKS!
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Thanks for all the help! It looks like I'll be able to recover a lot of the data I erased.