Re: repair NTFS: better than chkdsk?


"Hugo Trebl" <singalong@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all
got some bad sectors on a hard drive recently.
Most things are backed up, but, as usual, not everything in the most
recent version.

I attempted to relocate the data in the damaged sectors with Spinrite,
which reported some partial success.
I also cloned the disc in case further sectors go bad.

Now the NTFS file system is naturally still damaged. What steps should
I take to fix it?
Quit wasting time with a soon to be history disk. Replace the bloody thing
while you can still read some of the data.
Jim

Is chkdsk /r my best choice or is there a better tool?

My main concern is finding out which files are most likely corrupted,
and my second concern to recover what is salvageable.
chkdsk (whitout /r) finds several errors, but reports mainly file
numbers and file segment numbers, so is not very helpful in the first
respect. I don't know how good it is in the second.

Any other options?

thanks for your help.



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