How to recover data from ghosted hard drive-Partition Recovery Software

In imaging program of hard disk such like Symantec Ghost are used to make identical copies of hard disk. These copies either can be used as a backup of system file or make easy to transfer data from another hard drive. This imaging program also called ghosting.

If you are tying to use ghosting program in an incorrect process or use of ghosting programs can have very serious penalty of data loss because as the data previously held on the hard disk that is to receive the image will often be completely overwritten. This case is not always though, it can happen some times disk receive the image may be significantly larger than the original disk. Disk imaging of this type some times destroy the file system and root directory structure but some of the data that was previously on the hard disk may still be recoverable. Other problems can arises in Ghosting like imaging of system in the wrong direction, unforeseen program termination or system break down due to program defects or problems on one or more hard disks. It happens due to a bad sector.


Data Recovery from Ghosted drives is often complex and time overwhelming. You should frequently need to perform a substantial amount of examination on a hard disk before you even know if the data is recoverable. If your raw drive corrupted having corrupted partition in windows, check out some possible symptom are as follows:


• Invalid Media Type reading aborts, retry, and fail?
• 'RAW' is displayed by File system
• "Disk not formatted” Do you want to format now?" Pop ups may come
• 'weird' characters can shown in file name
• Pop Up with 'Sector not found' may come

We recommend that you should try data recovery or partition recovery programme , such as Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software. This Software is most advanced and powerful Partition Recovery Software. It supports FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems based partitions and volumes. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 (Currently in RC1), Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.
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