1. 2009/09/30

   

   lmacaulay Inactive Thread Starter

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   While cloning a failing HDD on to a new one of equally size, I inadvertently cloned the blank on to the one with data!
   I used a file recovery program, but many of the files were unreadable tho' recovered.
   So what would the cloning have done to the data, and is it reversible?
   

    

   Last edited: 2009/09/30

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2. 2009/10/01

   

   TonyT SuperGeek Staff

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   Cloning earses what's on one drive and replaces it with the other or cloning makes a duplicate of one drive onto another one. Unfortunatesly, you did the former.
   
   You could try to recover using TestDisk but realize that you may end up haing to reinstall Windows and classify your data files as gone.

    

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