Re: Wrong hard drive accidently ghost imaged over

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"stoperrorman" <stoperrorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Basically thought the files would be OK because the accidental ghosting
only
made it a few percent in before I realized and stopped it, so I imagined
that
only a few megabites of the ghost image were written.

One question is, after recovering a file, say named "23JSAD.avi" that
doesnt
work when opened by media player, would that point to the fact that it
might
not be an avi file, but rather say a doc, or htm or mht etc or just
corrupt
and not recoverable?

I ask because a lot of the recovered files open in the correct "recovered"
format, while many others don't.

And lastly, those data recovery firms, what exactly do they do to recover
the data (that cost 500 and upwards)? Is it better recover, with more
success?


The .avi extention is most probably correct however the file itself has been
destroyed.
If you get any of your files recovered...consider yourself lucky...
but I would not expect you to get all your data back .


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