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    How do I repair a corrupted MFT on an NTFS partition?

    Thanks for your reply. I tried your suggestion early but again, only a small number of files were found to be recovered, just like an Advanced Recovery without specifying to ignore MFT. Thanks for your suggestion though, I appreciate everyone's time and effort on this, my biggest IT problem to...
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    How do I repair a corrupted MFT on an NTFS partition?

    I tried Restorer2000 which again only recognises a very small number of files. OnTrack's EasyRecovery recovery has worked the best for me so far, recovering 109GB of data using RAWRecovery. I have had in-depth discussions about the full extent of my MFP problems and suggestions on another...
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    How do I repair a corrupted MFT on an NTFS partition?

    I've had the drive less than 6 mths, Western Digital's DataLife diagnostic tools conclude that the drive is physical ok, it is definitely a filesystem corruption, I just don't know how to fix a corrupted $MFT. I installed the latest BIOS for my mobo recently, which helped big time actually...
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    How do I repair a corrupted MFT on an NTFS partition?

    Hi Meltdown75 I have tried running a virus scan on the corrupted partition using Kaspersky ant-virus which ends very quickly (only found/scanned 7 sectors!) and the report is completely empty so not much help there! ;o( Full Spec: Windows 2000 SP4 Athlon 1.4 Epox EP-8K7A+ mobo...
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    How do I repair a corrupted MFT on an NTFS partition?

    :o Oops! I used TestDisk on my other PC by accident! Well, TestDisk did recognise my corrupted partition... Analyse said the structure is OK but when I press P to list files I got "Cannot open NTFS filesystem: I/O Error"... when I press L to Load Backup I got "No backup found!" Any ideas...
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    How do I repair a corrupted MFT on an NTFS partition?

    Thanks for your reply. I ran TestDisk 5.6 in a command prompt in Windows 2000 but it didn't even identify the corrupted drive/partition! I can only see my other 2 (working) hard disks. Am I doing something wrong?
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    How do I repair a corrupted MFT on an NTFS partition?

    Hi I had a perfectly working Western Digital WD2000JB 200GB hard drive running 1 NTFS partition (not ideal I know!), storing media files (inc. AVI, MPEG, MP3, PDF, RAR, ZIP, EXE). It does not have an OS on it, Windows 2000 is running on my boot drive (Seagate 6GB). Then one day I get an...