Re: corrupt Master File Table

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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DRBE wrote:
I've just had the same thing happen on my spare 500GB seagate drive
that I use for storing family videos etc. did you find a solution.
searching on google comes up with lots of software making great
promises to repair, but charging $69, and no idea if it'll do the job.
Had non stop hassles since I built this new maching and made the
mistake of installing VISTA.

Aitch, or anyone else please post here if you've found a solution.
regards
Bruce

"Aitch" wrote:

My bootdisk (Seagate 80GB) has gone on the fritz. The drive shows
Healthy & Active in Disk Management yet returns 0 bytes used and 0
bytes available under right click Properties/General. Tools / Error
Checking literally does nothing. From the command line CHKDSK
returns Corrupt Master File Table, CHDSK aborted. The drive makes
no nasty noises and appears to spin fine. It is recognized by the
BIOS in bootup correctly as ST3800013A. Strangely there are little
about solutions to fix this, yet I distinctly remember rebuilding or
repairing a FAT or FAT32 in an earlier smaller drive without loss
of data. Perhaps that was to the MBR or its equivalent whereas this
problem seems to be with the MFT. However since XP and NTFS? have
two copies of the MFT, itself and a mirror, it seems I should be
able to cobble something together to get the drive working again.
Any ideas? -Thanks, Aitch


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