DISK DATA RECOVERY

Today, most people mentioned Ghost not to refer to the soul or spirit of a dead human or animal that can appear to the living, but to refer to the disk cloning and backup tool. The full name of Ghost is actually General Hardware Oriented System Transfer. Originally, the tool was developed by Murray Haszard in 1995 for Binary Research. However, since the technology was acquired by Symantec in 1998, Ghost now is also known as Norton Ghost.
 

 
Currently, there’re lots of users asking how to recover files after Ghost. Why? Please let’s explain the reason for you. With Ghost, you’re able to perform a disk-to-disk or partition-to-partition clone easily. Convenient as it is, it also leads to serious data loss problems now and then. When users selected the wrong disk or partition to backup data to during Ghost, all data on that disk/partition will be lost since it will be formatted.
 
So, users will need to know the way to recover files after format immediately after they noticing the mistake.
 

How Ghost Formats a Large Partition Quickly

Firstly, create a small partition (for example, 40MB) on the hard disk and use the Format command to format it (please note that you shouldn’t store any files into this partition).
 

 
Then, restart the computer with a DOS boot disk, run Ghost and choose “Local”, “Disk” and “To Image” one by one, to make this partition into a GHO image file and at last, store it into another partition.
 
When we need to format a large partition later, we should restart the computer with DOS boot disk, run Ghost and choose “Local”, “Disk” and “From Image” to select the GHO image file we’ve made. After that, select the large partition, press the OK button, and finally press the YES button to finish.
 

How to Recover Files after Ghost

Now, run MiniTool Power Data Recover and start to recover Ghost files.
 

 
Since we’ve mentioned that during Ghost, the target disk/partition selected will be formatted, how to recover files after Ghost actually equals to how to recover files from formatted drive.
 
Thus, we should choose “Damaged Partition Recovery” after running software. Then, select the Ghosted/formatted drive and press “Full Scan”. Afterwards, browse the scan result and checked the needed files to recover by pressing “Save” button. Finally, select another drive to save those files and press “OK” to finish the steps to recover files after Ghost.
 
Note:
If the original partition(s) is (are) missing from a disk after Ghost, please select “Lost Partition Recovery” to perform Ghost file recovery.