namElEz Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 I have 2 hard drives.On 20gb is Windows XP Professional SP2 installed and on the 160gb is everything else.One day files and folders suddenly was becoming corrupt on 160gb and Windows crashed when i tried to copy data on 160gb.After that Windows cant read 160gb anymore.When i try to run chkdsk or anything i just get an error that my MFT is corrupt.Is there a way to fix MFT? (master file table) File system is NTFS5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 Taken of NTFS.comQ: How do I repair a corrupt master file table?A: It rarely happens that MFT becomes corrupted. NTFS stores a copy of MFT that is called MFT mirror. If problem occurs, NTFS tries to synchronize these copies.You can try to run Check Disk utility from Windows environment. Or if Windows is not bootable, boot from floppies or bootable CD-ROM to Recovery Console and run CHKDSK utility that could help you. If the damage to MFT is serious, standard utilities might help you and you'll see "Drive cannot be accessed" message when trying to access the drive in Windows Explorer. In this case we recommend you to use third party software, like Active@ UNERASER for DOS or Active@ File Recovery for Windows to access and save your files to another drive, and then reformat the partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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