Formatted issue

[Rogebas]

I have by mistake used an image cloner to do an image of my physical drive with two partitions to clone over an external drive much larger. I was naive not to realize that it was going to overwrite whatever is on that drive.
So now I have an external disc partitioned in two being an exact image of my internal drive except the size.
My question is, will it recover whatever could be left underneath? Should I unpartition it? It is a 250 gb drive.

[GDH]

The bad news is that whatever the image file landed on at the start of the disk has been overwritten and destroyed.

The good news is that whatever the remainder of your external drive will still contain the old data so you have a good chance of getting the data back.

However, the partition old partition information has probably been badly messed up. I suggest you try the following:

Download Recover My Files from www.recovermyfiles.com:

1. Run a Complete Format Recover of the Physical Drive searching for the default seleted file types only. You will recover the two new partitions - but you should also find files from the old file system. Look in both File View and Folder view of the Recover My Files results screen for your missing files. Click on the files found to preview their content.

2. The follow up plan is to run a Complete File Search of the drive. I presume that currently your two new partitions dont take up the entire drive? If you start changing more things then you run the risk of making thing worse. I would just run a Complete File Search of the physical drive for specific file types that you are trying to get back. Because you are searching the physical drive you will aslo find the files from the first two new partitions, but it will also search the remainder of the disk. Click on the files found to preview their content.