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On Saturday 09 January 2010 11:48:35 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Does anyone here know of a tool that can rebuild an NTFS directory |
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> structure? I've tried several tools I found with Google, but the only one |
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> that had any success has extracted hundreds of small text files and lots of |
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> mp3 and other files, but with arbitrary names and no indication of how it |
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> all hangs together. It doesn't look very useful to me. |
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I have tried ntfsfix. It resets the ntfs journal and when the drive is booted |
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into MSWindows it'll run a chkdsk - make sure you do not interrupt this! |
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In your friend's case you can force a chkdsk by right-clicking on the drive in |
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Windows Explorer/Properties/Tools/Error-checking. |
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Other than that I think we're into a file recovery mode involving tools like |
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photorec and dd_rescue. |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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