hard drive recovery

[mjrand]

I just did something very stupid. I had 2 hard drives for backups that were 6 months apart. My motherboard has a crazy feature of immediately copying all of drive 1 to drive 2 as soon as they're plugged in. Unfortunately I plugged them in backwards and 6 month old backup overwrote the other drive instead of the other way around. Is there any possible way to reverse this or to recover any of the files i lost?

 

[mpilchfamily]

Nope. Well you may be able to get a few files if the newer backup had files stored in areas outside the actuall areas the where writen over. If the drive had just been deleted but not writen over then you could easly recover the data.

 

[mjrand]

The backup is about 30GB less than my current one. I tried some recovery programs, but they're barely finding anything. Are there any decent recovery programs? I don't care what it costs. My budget is $400-$500 for any software that will work.

 

[mpilchfamily]

May want to ask areound for other options there may be something better and more specific to your needs but this is what i would use.
http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

For about $90 its one of the best out there for fixing HDD problems and recovering data. It recovers DATA from crashed drives and should be able to pull up any data that was deleted.

 

[Laputa]

As long as the task was completed, consider kissing your data and say goodbye If you happen to stopped it in the middle of the task, some of the files might be current.

 

[RebateMonger]

I'm curious --- What's the "crazy feature" that immediately copies all of drive 1 to drive 2 as soon as they're plugged in? What's the motherboard and what's the feature called? I mean, it sounds like RAID 1, but is this something else? Thanks.