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On Saturday 09 January 2010 19:57:15 walt wrote: |
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> On 01/09/2010 03:48 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > Hello list, |
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> > Someone not far from here has yanked his USB disk out of his computer |
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> > once too often, without unmounting it, and now the whole disk is shown as |
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> > off-line and inaccessible by his WinXP system. I'm trying to recover his |
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> > data for him, which is mostly music files. |
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> > Does anyone here know of a tool that can rebuild an NTFS directory |
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> > structure? |
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> USB sticks are normally formatted with a FAT filesystem. Are you sure his |
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> is NTFS instead? |
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I thought that the OP mentioned an external USB drive, rather than a CF stick. |
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Either way, one more thing that came to mind: |
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if the drive is partitioned, what may have been corrupted besides the files |
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being written at the time it was disconnected from the OS, could be the |
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partition boot record. In this case running fixboot with a WinXP installation |
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CD would restore the partition record and you will be able to access it and |
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run chkdisk with the MSWindows OS. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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