I would be inclined to get access to an up-to-date linux system, mount that drive read-only, and explore/export from there.. MS operating systems can't seem to stop them selves from modifying drive contents even when 'reading'
- michael dykman 2009/10/3 Björn Helgason <[email protected]>: > 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 -- - michael dykman - [email protected] Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If they’re any good, you’ll have to ram them down their throats! Howard Aiken ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
