I was thinking about doing just that but then I decided to take the drive back to the store and ask them to fix it.
I guess I will get a new drive - it is only one month old. One problem I have discovered earlier with NTFS is that if it is formatted with quick option - they have probably done that in the store - then the format process will not check the drive and there may have been a lot of bad sectors on it. The interesting part was the sector 0 where $Mft is/was was also bad. Also strange was that the drive just disappeared without warning and nothing appeared in any form of message nor anything saying what was/is wrong. Also I have never before had such a big NTFS disk and having so many files both big and small on it. Some of the files are bigger than FAT accepts. The files are mostly movies and also a lots of music files. The indexes in the $Mft are 31824 I guess I could have continued to use the drive with less amount of data and fewer files but as it is still brabd new i want the store to fix it or at least give me a new one and have it working. I guess that cheap 500G and 1T USB drives may not always be all good and probably not meant to be filled - at least not while the warranty is still valid. 2009/10/6 Michael Dykman <[email protected]>: > 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 -- 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
