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Just thought I would post here that I successfully restored access to the filesystem. It turns out that the MFT and its mirror were intact, but were shifted out of place. I found this using a pretty powerful piece of freeware called Active Disk Editor by LSoft Technologies ( http://www.lsoft.net ...

Okay, thank you. I appreciate your help and thank you for your awesome software!

Yeah, that was going to be the final step I took. Does that mean you don't think the filesystem is recoverable?

I have a 1TB NTFS external backup drive that is unreadable. The drive has a single NTFS parition on it, which Windows disk management now shows as RAW. Below is a list of things that I have found and things I have tried.

1. Run chkdsk /r on the drive, which says the mft is corrupt. chkdsk is ...