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There are no copies of the MFT. There are some copies of some entries. If they are sufficient for repairs Testdisk is one of the few programs, maybe the only one that will write on a logically broken partition.
If it's as simple as you think why do all the recovery programs only extract and never ...

I tried the latest CHKDSK it didn't help.

Commercial tools did save some of the data but now i have another question.

I used recuva (please suggest something better if you know it) and besides the files there were copies of the $MFT file.

I think if i restore that file my HDD will be accessible ...

You could check if you ran a faulty chkdsk version.
Otherwise you could run any other commercial recovery software.


Not familiar with the first option, can you elaborate? how can chkdsk be faulty.
Also it's the same OS as when the drive was made so the version is the same if that helps.

So if ...

Hi,

MFT somehow became corrupt, linux suggested i ran chkdsk, booted windows which loaded chkdsk, it *fixed* the problem the drive became accessible but all the files were gone, replaced by chkdsk logs...
Can i still get the files? there is not physical issue with the drive or any bad sectors.

I ...