by Alex » Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:14 pm
As HDClone writes directly on the disk, there's little chance some of your data can be restored, as it depends what type of copy you made etc.
If you did *not* use SmartCopy, all the data is overwritten from the start of the disk until either the end of the disk or up to the capacity of the source disk (whichever comes first), and also the unused areas are overwritten.
If you did use SmartCopy, then there's a chance some spots in-between are left intact, but you'll need special recovery software in order to get the data left there (depends on the file system type, the partitioning etc.) To make matters worse, most recovery software will find the intact written system and probably won't bother looking for fragments of the old file system in the unused areas.