Clone Disaster

[iLLuMiNaTiCa]

Originally Posted by dnanian

I have absolutely no idea how that coul dhappen, iLLuMiNaTiCa: you didn't boot from the backup before you erased the original? Do you have the log from this failed run? This was a Leopard install? Why did you erase it at all?

I did not boot from the back up,

After restarting with the DVD clone partition, i erased my internal MBP drive to re install a fresh system, totally un aware that my CLONE partiition never atcually took place properly or got corrupted!

my intention again was to erase the original and then restore only several files after having a fresh system.

And no log since it is all erased, no SuperDuper either, i do have other drives with files but they are older, i am about to FILE SALVAGE the drive to see what it can recover., i need to recover documents from programs that have files inside in order to re open them , would you happen to know a recover application that does that? like recovers the folder and structure rather then just a list of movies and renames then 001, 002 etc which is useless.