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Oh Fvck. Corrupt master file table

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Every single partition on my slave HD has a corrupt master file table.

I lost all of my media, flash stuff, pictures, mp3s etc. All I did was boot my computer and then windows wanted to do a scan check on the drives and here I am.

What the hell do I do now?
 
Professional data recovery service, maybe?

I've never heard of an easy way to get your data back from something like that. Sorry to hear it, man. 🙁

Hopefully someone else will be buy with better/more useful information for you. In my experience, you're fux0red to the max.
 
Place the drive in the freezer for a while. Pull it out and place it back in your computer. Boot up and see what you can recover. You can try the freezer trick several times.
 
Originally posted by: Sqube
Professional data recovery service, maybe?

I've never heard of an easy way to get your data back from something like that. Sorry to hear it, man. 🙁

Hopefully someone else will be buy with better/more useful information for you. In my experience, you're fux0red to the max.
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shit. windows says my hds are healthy and the proper size in windows disk manager. in my computer they arent though... they say file type is raw and they are 0 KB. chkdisk wont run anymore on teh drives either
 
Originally posted by: minendo
Place the drive in the freezer for a while. Pull it out and place it back in your computer. Boot up and see what you can recover. You can try the freezer trick several times.
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the hard drive works... im scannign it right now... its just that the master file table is corrupted. i dont think the freezer will help that out at all
 
Originally posted by: minendo
Place the drive in the freezer for a while. Pull it out and place it back in your computer. Boot up and see what you can recover. You can try the freezer trick several times.
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I don't think that will work if theres data corruption on the drive.

And naughty Gobadgrs for crossposting 😉
 
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
could I ghost the drive, reformat and then reghost over the top?
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You'll just ghost the corrupted MFT as well I think. Ghosting copies the entire file system.
 
Originally posted by: Bassyhead
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
could I ghost the drive, reformat and then reghost over the top?
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You'll just ghost the corrupted MFT as well I think. Ghosting copies the entire file system.
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thats what I thought... damn.....

could I quick format the drive and then recover the data?
 
I'd suggest Ontracks Easy Recovery software for something like that, there's a free trial from their site so you don't need to buy it if it doesn't work.
 
awhile ago I had a similar problem.. and my brother went into dos mode and typed in a DOS command and it repairred the Master Boot Record...

I think it was Format /MBR or was it Fdisk /MBR

But i'm not too sure. Maybe someone here will recognize that command.
 
Check it to make sure you dont have a virus.....Sounds like a trojan horse virus....I had one and it did same thing except I had most of the info backed up...A simple scandisk of it recovered some of the files for me to move off of....I ultimately had to reformat and then kill the virus and have had no issues since....
 
I've used R-Studio to recover lots of data back from fubar'd partitions just like in your case. Since your drive ain't physically bad, forget the freezer trick and boot up from another drive, run R-Studio or any other data recovery app and see if you can get stuff back. Just don't USE the bad drive for anything other than reading data from it. Never copy stuff to it or install anything on it until you're satisfied with the recovery results.
 
boot from winXP CD go into recovery console and try the command FIXMBR command (HELP for a full list of commands)
 
Originally posted by: CrackaLackaZe
Wow, I never knew that XP had a FIXMBR command, is it effective?
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It worked fine when I fuxxered the MBR up trying to install linux on another partition. AFAIK winXP saves a copy of the MBR another place on the HDD and this command copy it to the right place.
 
Originally posted by: biostud
Originally posted by: CrackaLackaZe
Wow, I never knew that XP had a FIXMBR command, is it effective?
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It worked fine when I fuxxered the MBR up trying to install linux on another partition. AFAIK winXP saves a copy of the MBR another place on the HDD and this command copy it to the right place.
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That's going to try to fix th MBR, not the MFT like Gobadgrs is having problems with.
 
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