I forgot to mention "USBC" appears only when you are using external USB drives (badly programmed controller?), but I have seen MFT corruption for internal drive when power is pulled (MFT header is broken but directory structure and files can be found with undelete or data recovery tools).
Do you ...
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- 29 May 2019, 01:22
- Forum: Filesystem repair
- Topic: Feature Request: MFT Backup/Restore
- Replies: 6
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- 28 May 2019, 11:16
- Forum: Filesystem repair
- Topic: Feature Request: MFT Backup/Restore
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Re: Feature Request: MFT Backup/Restore
Just want to add this here from experience since I can't find it anywhere else:
Symptom:
- (On Windows) NTFS Partition becomes RAW.
- Chkdsk aborts. It correctly finds NTFS, but "Unable to determine volume version and state."
- Boot Sector is intact. Logical partitions is intact. Data is intact ...
Symptom:
- (On Windows) NTFS Partition becomes RAW.
- Chkdsk aborts. It correctly finds NTFS, but "Unable to determine volume version and state."
- Boot Sector is intact. Logical partitions is intact. Data is intact ...
- 28 May 2019, 03:34
- Forum: Filesystem repair
- Topic: Feature Request: MFT Backup/Restore
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7174
Feature Request: MFT Backup/Restore
I have noticed with consistency that both the Primary and Mirror MFT (so much for a backup!) gets corrupted when drives lose connectivity or power while in use on Windows systems. Would it be possible to have TestDisk add a "backup/restore MFT" to file feature?