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by lgcnlgc
16 Dec 2025, 20:28
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: External HDD with NTFS. Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged. MFT and MFT mirror are bad. Harddisk too small.
Replies: 2
Views: 411

Re: External HDD with NTFS. Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged. MFT and MFT mirror are bad. Harddisk too sm

Thank you, I will try to use smartmontools and ddrescue.
By fixing I've thought about errors in partitions or MFT and I was hoping that TestDisk could help me fix those errors so that the HDD. That's why I used that word.
by lgcnlgc
15 Dec 2025, 08:38
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: External HDD with NTFS. Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged. MFT and MFT mirror are bad. Harddisk too small.
Replies: 2
Views: 411

External HDD with NTFS. Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged. MFT and MFT mirror are bad. Harddisk too small.

Hello, everyone. Need you help, please. I have external 2TB TOSHIBA HDD which I use for storing files, and there is a lot of important data. Yesterday it suddenly stopped working when it was connected to Windows PC. Chkdsk doesn't work so I'm tryiing to fix it using my Linux laptop with TestDisk but ...