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by lgcnlgc
19 Dec 2025, 10:48
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: 9
Views: 14116

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

Thanks, I've already went through Step by Step instruction initially.

The guide says When all partitions are available and data correctly listed, you should go to the menu Write to save the partition structure.
In my case the data is not listed. And even when I tried to change the type of ...
by lgcnlgc
19 Dec 2025, 07:54
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: 9
Views: 14116

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

I'm not able to create an image of my HDD using TestDisk or ddrescue because I don't have other disk of 2TB size. I can only recover files with PhotoRec but there are millions of files on that HDD and I don't know how I will process each files to understand what is that and put it into correct ...
by lgcnlgc
18 Dec 2025, 18:46
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: 9
Views: 14116

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

1. Maximum temperature with 65°C way beyond reasonable value.
2. 3 reallocated sectors in 3 event

1. may have caused 2.

The first may be because of HDD was connected and running too long because of this long smartmontools test. But I don't think that all that issues which TestDisk notifies me ...
by lgcnlgc
18 Dec 2025, 13:18
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: 9
Views: 14116

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

Hi, I've tried smartmontools, I've run both short and long tests, below are the results of the long one. Could you please advice what's wrong with my HDD based on this output?


smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.14.0-37-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen ...
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: 9
Views: 14116

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: 9
Views: 14116

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 ...