The hard drive is NOT physically damaged, only inaccessible due to the current state: I accidentally, began ghost imaging and completed about 10% of the initial process before I canceled it. So now the system won't boot. I get a single flashing cursor in the top left corner of the screen. If I connect the hard drive to a SATA-to-USB adapter and connect it to my Windows XP computer it will show that the 'Mass Storage Device' is found and installed. But I can't see the device in My Computer or Disk Management. What I think needs to be done is have the device connected via USB mounted so that I can use a file recovery program to scan the drive for files. Does anyone have any ideas? I know I can complete the reimage and then try to recover the file but its about 2.6 GB in size and I have a feeling that no programs will be able to successfully recover the whole file. I would like to recover the file without reimaging the drive because chances of the files being overwritten are much greater if the image completes.

There are plenty of recovery tools (eg. Pandora Recovery ) are available. You may try that to recover.

Most NTFS volumes have the $MFT at about 3GB from the start of the drive.

If your drive was over 30GB in size and Ghost got to 10%, then it may be that this $MFT table has been destroyed, which is bad news!

You can try a disk repair utility like TestDisk (usually comes with PhotoRec). 

The drive would need to be visible in Disk Management even as a 'raw' device.

If not, you can try a bootable CD or USB drive that contains and will run TestDIsk

There are plenty of file recovery tools to deal with your problem. But whatever tool you use, I would still make an image of the damaged drive just in case that revovery tools makes more damage than necessary. Use Zip Restore Toolbox from http://www.zip.restoretools.com/

• Marked as answer by stefanospatras 9 hours 2 minutes ago

There are plenty of file recovery tools to deal with your problem. But whatever tool you use, I would still make an image of the damaged drive just in case that revovery tools makes more damage than necessary. Use Zip Restore Toolbox from http://www.zip.restoretools.com/

• Marked as answer by stefanospatras Saturday, July 18, 2015 10:22 PM