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Corrupt Master File Table - Need Help

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amaunator

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I bought Norton Ghost since my old backup software only did backups not system restores. Anyway, I loaded Norton Ghost in, and I was able to backup my C drive. My D drive would stop at the end of the backup with an error about LBA. I called Norton and their guy took over my computer and ran some chkdsk's. Anyway, I woke up this morning to find my D drive completely unaccessible when it was last night. The only thing it would not do was backup to my H drive.

I now get a Corrupt Master File Table when running chkdsk. I can see the drive on My Computer, but I can not access it. I really need help here. I have a backup from a couple months ago for the drive, but I'd rather not lose my data from the last couple of months. Any software that will save me so I can manually move it to my H drive and reformat D?

I'm using Windows XP SP2.
 
Try to run chkdsk from the recovery console. If that doesn't work I think you'll have to format the drive.

You may be able to get some of the files using Unerase or something similar.
 
I have had really good luck running the disk check from the Ghost 12 disk. It is basically the Vista error checking (since Ghost 12 boots into a thin-Vista environment). It fixed some issues that the Disk Doctor in Ghost 10 couldn't resolve...

What version of Ghost are you running?
 
Version 14

Wonder why the dope from Symantec didn't do that?

Right now I have demo version for:
GetDataBack for NTFS
RestorerPro 2000
ActiveFileRecovery
Unerase Personal

I'm a bit boggled how they work to be honest.
 
I have used Ghost back a number of years...but I haven't bought Ghost 14 yet.

Can't you boot from it? It has to be a similar environment to the thin-Vista of Ghost 12?

Choose the analyze disk option and check the option for a complete surface scan too...
 
There's nothing like that in this version. I also found out that I don't have disk doctor as Internet Security doesn't include it anymore. I tell you, if some other company made good products that competed with Symantec's I'd switch. God I miss competitive upgrades when you could switch companies products.
 
Just for more comic relief, Ghost 14 has a feature to give feedback to Symantec. I just filled it out and hit submit. It froze the program. Nice software, not.
 
Ok, I got my data off the drive. I am now trying to format it, but I get "The Format did not complete successfully." Any idea why I can't reformat the drive?
 
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