My girlfriend’s computer’s hard drive died, and my buddy had a spare Serial ATA 250Gb HDD. Unfortunately, her PC didn’t have SATA hookups readily available.
Mine did.
In my current PC I have a 80Gb SATA HDD as my primary, and I have a 250Gb HDD secondary HDD hooked up via IDE.
What I decided I would do is hook up the 250Gb SATA in place of my primary 80GB SATA, use Ghost 8.5 (via a Hiren Boot CD), and copy from my secondary IDE 250Gb HDD to my 250Gb SATA HDD.
Then, I need only format the IDE HDD, pop it in her PC, and install WIndows on it. And the 250Gb SATA would become my secondary.
But, of course, something went horribly wrong.
When I was in Ghost, I chose to copy from Disk 2 to Disk 1. It asked me to confirm, and I did. About a second later, the drive had been cloned, I was told.
I thought it should take a lot longer to clone about 175Gb of the 250Gb IDE to the SATA. I unplugged the 250Gb SATA from the primary spot, leaving the IDE 250Gb in its secondary spot. I put the 80Gb Primary drive back in its spot, and turned my computer back on, hoping to see that my secondary 250Gb IDE still had data on it.
No such luck. Instead, Windows found new hardware, even asked me to reboot, which I declined.
So, is there a way to get back the stuff that was on my 250Gb IDE drive before the Ghost, or is it all lost?
Should I just go ahead and plug that 250Gb IDE in my girlfriend’s PC and install Windows, or is there a hope of recovering the data that was on it before my screwup?
Thanks 
