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Reverse a Clone...
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I cant be bother to go into the aspects of how this happened... but it wasnt my fault! 
If you used norton ghost 2002 to clone a hard drive to another (both of them originally had data) but you acidentally did it the wrong way round, are you screwed, or is there anything that can be done about it?
If you used norton ghost 2002 to clone a hard drive to another (both of them originally had data) but you acidentally did it the wrong way round, are you screwed, or is there anything that can be done about it?
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But basically, you're up the creek without a paddle. It takes a long, long time to recover data without specialist tools - it was bad enough on the 500mb drives of yesteryear, I'd run a mile from anything modern
Oh well, bugger it! Thanks for the advice guys!
Incase anyone is interested, here is what actually happened...
A customer brought in there PC for repair, the hard drive was on its way out (Clunking, crashing etc etc)
We have an apprentis with us at the moment, so I thought I would show him how to clone a hard drive.
I cloned the customers drive onto a brand new drive, it didnt work... turns out the new hard drive was a bit dodgy, the clone went fine, but it wouldnt boot windows and a repair didnt work.. it just kept cutting off the display before getting in.
So I gave the apprentis another drive and said you can do this one under my supervision. As he started a customer phoned for me... yep, you guessed it... he carried on and by the time I got back he had cloned them the wrong way round.. wiping the other disk!! :mad:
Had an idea this morning though, I cloned the original and dodgy brand new hard drive onto a new one, done a windows repair and it all boots fine!
That was a very close escape!! lol
well small package and all that?