Ghost imaged hard-drive recoverable?

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I accidentally deleted some files on my original hard-drive a little while back. Then my friend made an image of my old hard-drive to my new hard-drive since the new hard-drive is supposedly a lot better and faster. Now I want to recover my deleted files from this new hard-drive. I wonder if it is possible at all?

I am not sure how my friend made an image of it, but it looks like it does maintain as much information as possible. For example, I had a dual-boot OS, but the new hard-drive is immediately usable and boot-able. My original drive is 400GB for one OS and 100GB for another OS, the new drive is 2TB total, but on the new drive still one OS gets 400GB and another gets 100GB. No clue where the rest of the space went. :) But that's not my concern. My concern is can Recuva still recover ghost imaged hard-drve?

Thanks

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It is almost certain that Ghost has the normal capability of excluding "free space" which is the habitat of deleted files,

so if that ability was used then your new drive will not have any trace of your files.

You need to obtain full details from your friend.

You are probably better off using your original drive as a secondary HDD or connected as an external and using RECUVA on that.