Recovering Deleted Files after Restoring a Ghost Imae
Ok, so you reloaded a Ghost image onto hard drive "A". Deleted files in any part of hard drive "A" that the image was written to have been overwritten and permanently destroyed.
For example, hard drive "A" is 40gb in total size. The image you just reloaded onto hard drive "A" contains 20gb of data. When you reload the image the fist 20gb of Hard Drive "A" is written over and any deleted files it contains are toast. However, the second 20gb of hard drive "A" has not yet been touched and you will still be able to recover files from it.
All this depends of course on how you use Ghost. Ghost has the ability to take an entire sector copy of a hard drive (it is not the default setting so unless you tried to set it this way you probably have not done a sector copy). That means that when you restore an image of a 40gb drive (no matter how few files it contained) it will overwrite 40gb of data.
Does this help?
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