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Does Disc Clone erase the entire target disk?

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I cloned my C: drive onto a larger external drive that had other files on it. I got no warning I was deleting files on the external target harddrive but now there is nothing left except the cloned C: drive on the external. Is any way to recover about 75GB of crucial data that got overwritten on my external drive during the cloning process. I'd be EXTREMELY grateful if there's a way. Please...

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I hate to be the one to give you bad news but all the data, partitions and partition tables are wiped on the destination drive when it is overwritten either restoring or cloning

You should have got a warning during the process if the destination drive was already partitioned
See the manual page 168 section 20.3.4

"The destination hard disk drive you have chosen contains some partitions that could contain useful data. Click OK to confirm deletion of all the partitions on the destination drive"

Try file recovery software like GetDataBack. Many of your files were written over but you may be able to recover a few of them.

Also File Scavenger may be worth a try

http://www.quetek.com/download.htm