Can My Partition/Hard Drive Be Recovered? "Filesystem seems damaged."

Using TestDisk to repair the filesystem
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crashtech
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Re: Can My Partition/Hard Drive Be Recovered? "Filesystem seems damaged."

#11 Post by crashtech »

After running "Repair MFT" in TestDisk I received this message:
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Re: Can My Partition/Hard Drive Be Recovered? "Filesystem seems damaged."

#12 Post by recuperation »

If you have cloned your disk using ddrescue as described in the manual, you can try out chkdsk.
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Re: Can My Partition/Hard Drive Be Recovered? "Filesystem seems damaged."

#13 Post by crashtech »

I'm on linux so that would be have to fsck, right?
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Re: Can My Partition/Hard Drive Be Recovered? "Filesystem seems damaged."

#14 Post by recuperation »

I would use Windows PE running on a pen drive. That brings in chkdsk.
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