I have an external drive in a usb enclosure that windows was asking to format. I booted a live cd and ran testdisk. It recognized the disk as NTFS and found the partition and I was able to view the files. I repaired it as a primary partition and try tried to get Windows to recognize it but it still would not. I fired the live cd back up and looked at the NTFS boot sector. The backup was bad so I repaired it. No problem there. The problem occured when I noticed the MFT were different. I recovered the primary from the backup and now none of the files appear in the partition. I realize I probably should not have done that considering the files were accessible before but I did not think it would have that effect.
I'm running through ZAR X now and will try GetMyDataBack. Is there any hope here or is it hosed?
No files after MFT Repair
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Re: No files after MFT Repair
I don't recommend to fix a backup of the boot sector.
It modifies your file system.
Something to try would be to run a RebuildBS and have another try to list your files.
Please let me know, did it work for you?
Don't use RepairMFT either!
Fiona
It modifies your file system.
Something to try would be to run a RebuildBS and have another try to list your files.
Please let me know, did it work for you?
Don't use RepairMFT either!
Fiona