Help pls, I need serious help with this

[KhalidAli]

Hi All,
I will need some serious help from any kind soul out there.I have Acronis 8(build 768). What I have done is copied my C drives image on my data drive(which was d drive). Now Is there any possible way to revert this, I will pay money with in my limits. I swear guys, I need help. The drive contains my last 15 yrs data and I can not afford to loose it. Please guide me "Is there a way to revert that drive to its previuos state"

[Tommy]

Just for my understanding.
You overwrightet/restored drive 'D' with the image which was a backup of Drive 'C'?

[KhalidAli]

yes, I had an image of C drive which I was using to re write on C, but today(god i don;t know why I messed up I have been doing this for yrs) but accidentally I wrote that image on D drive which was my data backup a separate drive in my pc.
I beg you of helping me any 1

[aoz]

did you just MAKE an image of c:, to the d: drive, (which may just have used up some empty space on d:, and not overwritten files...)

or did you actually RESTORE a PRIOR c: image, to the d: drive (which would probably OVERWRITE data that existed on d:...?)

[KhalidAli]

Yes, I overwritten a previously made C drive image on my D drive which only contained data.
I screwed up so big that I can not imagine...please hlp guys
1. I had a C drive acronis image
2. I restored my wrong drive with that C drive image
3. meaning I restored that image on wrong drive

[Tommy]

So, that would be a task which i think can't be solved with absolute profesional help. With normal software methods i don't think that you can get back the data. Perhaps a soft like SpinRite can rescue some stuff (don't try it for now, wait for other response here).

But i think you should take the drive to one of the companies which are spezialists in recovering lost data from a disc. And of cource don't access this drive for now in any way. Unplug it.

[Christopher_NC]

-{ Quote: "Yes, I overwritten a previously made C drive image on my D drive which only contained data.
I screwed up so big that I can not imagine...please hlp guys
1. I had a C drive acronis image
2. I restored my wrong drive with that C drive image
3. meaning I restored that image on wrong drive" }-

KhalidAli,

I'm so sorry for what must be a terrible situation. I agree with Tommy, do not use your drive, nor attempt any recovery on your own.

Here's a Post & link to a recent thread on this subject, which may help you:

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Re: Oh My God
Quote:Originally Posted by seekforever:
I can't help you other than to tell you not to do anything at all with the disk until some people more knowledgeable about recovering the partitions respond. If anything writes over the sectors then it really will be gone.

In this situation, the ONLY safe choice is to use a service such as http://www.ontrack.com/.

Do NOT further use the PC.

Do NOT mess with any free, or not, file recovery programs." }-

lost data recovery thread titled: "Oh My God" (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=833713#post833713)

Spend the money on a professional data recovery service. I'd trust Howard's suggestion. Good luck!