Search MFT number now surpassed expected size?
Posted: 30 Sep 2019, 05:09
Hi,
I have a 8 disk usb storage unit that suddenly ran into issues when i was moving a lot of files around between disks on the same usb interface, lessons learned i guess... But 2 disks out of 8 have the same problem, when mounted in truecrypt they mount but it's impossible to access the drive.
I have backup headers for all disks and i tried restoring the header on the first problematic disk but no different, my guess is that the MFT is corrupt.
I've been running testdisk over night on the disk to rebuild the MFT and to my surprise the number in "Search MFT" is now above the number it predicted it had to search (see screenshot)
How come? Is this normal? As you can see the number to the left started off at 0, and i expected it to be done once it reachced 2743151280 but it has passed it by far. How far should i go?
Thanks.
I have a 8 disk usb storage unit that suddenly ran into issues when i was moving a lot of files around between disks on the same usb interface, lessons learned i guess... But 2 disks out of 8 have the same problem, when mounted in truecrypt they mount but it's impossible to access the drive.
I have backup headers for all disks and i tried restoring the header on the first problematic disk but no different, my guess is that the MFT is corrupt.
I've been running testdisk over night on the disk to rebuild the MFT and to my surprise the number in "Search MFT" is now above the number it predicted it had to search (see screenshot)
How come? Is this normal? As you can see the number to the left started off at 0, and i expected it to be done once it reachced 2743151280 but it has passed it by far. How far should i go?
Thanks.