AcidDragon
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On my second drive the MFt has become corrupt, and most tools rely on the MFT mirror being intact to recover, however my MFT mirror is corrupt also. Any ideas on how I can recover/rebuild the MFT?
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Corrupt MFT
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mpnut
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- Aug 27, 2003
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I had the same problem and finally got it to work. Here's a copy of the thread. Hope it helps:
I finally found a way to get what I needed. I ran Norton Ghost with a switch of -IA which "forces Ghost to perform a sector-by-sector copy of all partitions. By default, when copying a partition from a disk to an image file or to another disk, Ghost examines the source partition and decides whether to copy just the files and directory structure, or to do a sector-by-sector copy. If it understands the internal format of the partition, it defaults to copying the files and directory structure."
For anyone not familiar with how to run Norton Ghost with switches (I wasn't and had to learn out on the fly), when you are running a backup (or restore) you will see an "Advanced Settings" screen. Click button and you have some tabs to choose from. Choose the "Ghost Command Line" tab and you will have a text box to type in. Just type your switches in there. For my I just typed in -IA. You can use multiple switches, just seperate them with a space. Here is a list of switches:
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It backed up fine and I was able to restore onto a new HD.
I finally found a way to get what I needed. I ran Norton Ghost with a switch of -IA which "forces Ghost to perform a sector-by-sector copy of all partitions. By default, when copying a partition from a disk to an image file or to another disk, Ghost examines the source partition and decides whether to copy just the files and directory structure, or to do a sector-by-sector copy. If it understands the internal format of the partition, it defaults to copying the files and directory structure."
For anyone not familiar with how to run Norton Ghost with switches (I wasn't and had to learn out on the fly), when you are running a backup (or restore) you will see an "Advanced Settings" screen. Click button and you have some tabs to choose from. Choose the "Ghost Command Line" tab and you will have a text box to type in. Just type your switches in there. For my I just typed in -IA. You can use multiple switches, just seperate them with a space. Here is a list of switches:
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It backed up fine and I was able to restore onto a new HD.
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