Recovery of NTSF Boot Sector
Posted: 29 Mar 2012, 09:05
Hi,
I have a Sea Gate Go Flex and recently while in the middle of copying a video file to a USB stick, it suddenly crashed.
And when I re-opened it, it is now asking me to format the disk...this led me to availing TestDisk, which has been very helpful. My disk analysis showed all my files are still intact although my hard disk still does not boot. I followed TestDisk instruction but got this instead -
Boot Sector
Status: OK
Back-up boot sector
ntfs_boot_sector: Cant read back-up boot sector
Status: Bad
Now I tried to copy the Original BS over back-up boot sector but it came back with an error of -
Write Error: Can't overwrite NTFS backup boot sector
Can you please help...as I have no other copy of the files in my hard drive and they are quite important!
I have a Sea Gate Go Flex and recently while in the middle of copying a video file to a USB stick, it suddenly crashed.
And when I re-opened it, it is now asking me to format the disk...this led me to availing TestDisk, which has been very helpful. My disk analysis showed all my files are still intact although my hard disk still does not boot. I followed TestDisk instruction but got this instead -
Boot Sector
Status: OK
Back-up boot sector
ntfs_boot_sector: Cant read back-up boot sector
Status: Bad
Now I tried to copy the Original BS over back-up boot sector but it came back with an error of -
Write Error: Can't overwrite NTFS backup boot sector
Can you please help...as I have no other copy of the files in my hard drive and they are quite important!