Ghost Partition lost only C drive left

Many people will often use ghost to recover their system when the system is installed, and then use Ghost's "from Image to Partition" to restore the system when the Windows system is unexpected, thus eliminating the tedious and time-consuming task of reinstalling the operating system.
however, when using the "from Image to Partition" function to restore the system, be sure to choose the right option, otherwise there will be unintended consequences! I have encountered a similar failure of the hard drive, the failure of the hard drive after the computer can start normally, but only to see a primary partition C: Disk, the other logical partitions are all not visible, using Pqmagic 8.0 Detailed view of the partition, found only one active partition C drive, the others are displayed as unassigned, Important data for the last 3 years are in other logical partitions.
after being asked to know that the Windows system is damaged, users with the original Ghost backup file recovery system, the above situation occurs. Let's take a concrete look at the process of ghost backup partition and recovery partition.
after Ghost is started, the process for backing up the partition is: Local-partition-to image
the process for recovering a partition is: Local-patrition-from image

However, if we choose to restore the system: Local-disk-from image. Ghost thinks what we're going to do now is to restore the previous hard disk backup image file (*.gho) to the entire hard drive. Obviously, the result of this selection operation is simply to restore the backup image file of one of the original backups to the entire hard disk. This is the only one partition after the boot, and the computer can start the cause of normal. Let's start by analyzing the possibility that all the logical disks can be recovered. Here we assume that the original hard disk has a logical partition of 4, assuming that the C drive is the system partition.
one, if mistakenly will be the primary partition C zone image file back to the original entire hard disk
When you restore ghost will write to the data from the start sector of the hard disk and redefine the hard disk partition table (the default capacity in the Ghost option is the maximum capacity of the hard disk) based on the drive capacity parameters entered by the user. Since the size of the restored data is limited by the capacity of the original C zone's valid data data, the data restored from the start sector of the hard disk will not be covered beyond the boundaries of the original C zone, which means that all data in the original D, E, and F areas should be intact, but not at this point D, E, Zone F is only because Ghost modified the partition table, which restores all of the logical disks after recovering the primary partition table.
Second, if you mistakenly restore the image of the logical D zone to the entire hard disk
because the original logic D disk does not have an operating system installed, the hard drive cannot be started, but it can boot from the floppy drive or optical drive, only one partition (i.e. the original logic D drive) and data will be visible after startup. There are two types of situations:
1, if the original D area of effective data capacity is less than the original C area capacity, the original C area data is destroyed, but D, E, F partition intact, can be restored.
2, if the original D area of effective data capacity is greater than the original C area capacity, the reduction of data coverage will exceed the scope of the original C area and enter D me, so not only the original C area data is destroyed, and the original D area data is also difficult to survive, but the original E, F partition data intact, can be restored

Ghost partition missing only C drive