I have a 500G USB disk with 31.284 indexes in the $Mft. http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs-mft.htm
There are around 9G free on the disk but there are bad sectors on the disk. Problem is it seems that the $Mft has bad sectors so I am having problems with getting at the files. The problem is acting very strange and sometimes I can connect the disk and investigate the directory and sometimes it just disappears. I have used explorer, disk management and DOS command prompt and it behaves differently in between environments. I can sometimes see the disk and directories in DOS and not in disk management nor explorer and in a program for open files I can still see the files and even open files. I have tried chkdsk a few times and the first time it claimed to be moving files out of bad sectors including the $Mft but since then no errors reported. It looks like the $Mft needs to be in sector 0 but I have seen a reference of suggesting that I move the $Mft to another place but I have not seen how I should do that and that brings me to the question. Does anyone reading this have a suggestion what to try to get a working $Mft and how to move it if possible? I do not yet have a spare disk to make a backup of these files and I actually am not sure if or how I could make a copy of the files without a working $Mft file. -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fugl&Fiskur ehf, Þerneyjarsundi 23, Hraunborgum Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 Landslags og skrúðgarðagerð, gröfuþjónusta http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
