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