Corrupt Master File Table - Need Help

[amaunator]

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.

 

[tw1164]

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.

 

[COPOHawk]

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?

 

[amaunator]

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.

 

[COPOHawk]

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...

 

[amaunator]

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.

 

[amaunator]

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.

 

[amaunator]

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?