Undoing a reimage

Clarifications

If the image process has over written the data, about the only course you have is to get a recovery program. Undelete works great, and you can use it for free to see if it finds the data you are looking to recover.

Well if you have a Backup you could recover from the Backup but I'm supposing that isn't an option here.

What you need is a Forensic Recovery Program or a company who can perform Forensic Recoveries. This is neither cheap or fast so you can expect to spend a lot of money no matter what you chose to do and it's going to take time as well. A simple Fast Forensic Program is somewhere around the $1,200.00 mark and may or may not be suitable.

A Full Forensic Recovery is going to cost somewhere in the vicinity of $750,000.00 and from my experience is only done by Government Agencies who are involved in Prosecuting Criminals. They do this type of Recovery in the worst cases of Kiddy Porn where the Drives have been wiped with a Military Spec Wiping Utility to prevent prosecution.

You can try looking at a product like X-Way's Forensic which is capable of doing a very Forensic Type Recovery which may be of use but it's not for beginners

http://www.x-ways.net/forensics/index-m.html

Col