HDD Data Recovery with start of disk over written

Hi All

After being a read only member of this list for a while, I seem to have 
got myself into a bit of a jam and need some assistance to see if I can 
get it sorted out.

Issue is that I was writing an ISO to a USB drive, but instead of 
writing  to the 4GB USB drive, I wrote to the first 500Mb odd of the 
750Gb USB HDD that was at the next drive letter. (f & g are very close 
on the keyboard.) The 750Gb drive is (was) formatted as NTFS.

I'm sure that there will be a way to get the data past the written ISO 
back, but I cannot figure it out as yet.

I have tried to use ddrescue to create a ISO of the overwritten drive 
(less the over ridden part) to another drive, but am unable to read it. 
Most likely the way I am trying to mount the image.

Is any body able to point me in the right direction of how I can recover 
the remaining data on this HDD. I'm not concerned if I use windows or 
linux to do the recovery.

Thanks all in advance.

Regards

Neil

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