Re: MFT Corrupt - File or Directory unreadable

I would suggest backing up your files from within Vista. The MFT has an MFT mirror (copy) that is used by the file system to repair MFT errors. If you get error messages involving MFT corruption the only fix might be to rebuild the drive. It would be a good idea to run a drive diagnostic utility to find out if the drive is in a good state, it might be on its last leg.

John

Coakeyoakey wrote:

MFT Corrupt - File or Directory unreadable


In my company, I have setup two computers with Volume release Vista fresh on HD and then 2 other computers with Dual Boot XP and Vista.

When launching XP on the dual boot computers, i have two partitions that appear 'File or

Directory is corrupted or unreadable'. But i can see these partitions fine in Vista.

I have a 160GB Seagate IDE hard drive in these 2 dual boot computer with partitions as

follows :

C:\ FAT32 40GB Windows XP
D:\ NTFS 40GB Vista
E:\ NTFS 40GB Test Apps
F:\ NTFS 40GB Test Apps2

I have just installed the Volume License release of Windows Vista Ultimate on Drive D. I

selected upgrade install and a fresh drive D:\ to Install to. Boot Loader has now got XP

and Vista.
Booting into Vista i got an error when the Taskbar was running, c:\$MFT (or C:\$MSFT)

corrupt.

Booting into Vista is does a Chkdsk on drives E & F, but when in Vista these drives can be

seen and all the files are intact.

Boot into Windows XP it does Chkdsk as well, launch explorer, drives E & F display as Local

Disk and an error stating 'File or Directory is corrupted or unreadable'

(1) How do do i rebuild the MFT ?
(2) Is their any way in XP to get the names of these partitions back. ( I have used Acronis

and the Names and files appear on the drive, its just XP doesnt want to show them ).

Can anyone help ?

.

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