I recently placed a 40gb hardrive in an external USB encloser. The hardrive had existing information on a NTFS 5 partition from another server. Just a drive for storage - no installed apps. Drive was working great until I started a download of a large ISO image from the web. This disk was getting full and I think or doing some research the download most likely filled up the hardrive. I checked the workstation the next day and it had reboot (power outage or something). When I try to access the drive now it report "not accessable". Disk Manager can see the drive, but no drive letter. I assigned it a drive letter. At first it was detected a RAW partition then NTFS. So I tried a chkdsk and it fails right away with "unable to get status of volume"...something to that affect. Nothing is physically wrong with the drive. So I ran Getdatabase for NTFS and various other utilities. What it all boils down to is the MFT is missing or corrupt. There is supposed to be a mirror copy but I can see to find the right tools to fix this. GetDataback looks like it will work. Just need some advis if there is a simpler way.
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Recover Data from hardrive
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