Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
November 22nd, 2010, 7:55
i have a WD which propably has a software problem
it is normaly recognised in bios and in windows.
when i am trying to access the drive (1 partition 250GB) says:
"can not access E:/
file or directory is corrupted and can not be read"
i tried EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional and got all data but not shorted in directories
e.g. image01001.jpg, image01002.jpg, image01003.jpg,image01004.jpg etc.
any ideas?
thank you
November 22nd, 2010, 13:19
i imaged the file with Atola.
at the file Recovery
i searched for partitions and the error message was:
11/23/2010 6:43:41 PM Checking MBR
11/23/2010 6:43:41 PM Verifying partition at 63, sector count: 488,375,937
11/23/2010 6:43:41 PM Invalid MFT file entry type: -191997696
11/23/2010 6:43:41 PM Invalid MFT file entry type: -191997696
11/23/2010 6:43:41 PM Partition is not valid at 63
11/23/2010 6:43:41 PM Searching for partitions using quick scan
11/23/2010 6:43:41 PM Verifying partition at 63, sector count: 488,375,937
11/23/2010 6:43:41 PM Invalid MFT file entry type: -191997696
11/23/2010 6:43:41 PM Invalid MFT file entry type: -191997696
11/23/2010 6:43:41 PM Partition is not valid at 63
November 22nd, 2010, 15:43
i do'nt work with atola
but the first you scan hdd with mhdd for god or bad sector
November 23rd, 2010, 0:34
You can try in winhex to manually rebuild your partition table on this drive. Other wise you can use R Studio or Get Data back NTSF or FAT depending on your file system and see what it says to you. If you have a partition error this has to be fixed. If you can not do this one then you can always use raw recovery and get the data back on it.
November 23rd, 2010, 17:44
Can you upload sectors 0 and 63?
Alternatively you can use Microsoft's Sector Inspector to capture the partition table and boot sector:
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/SecInspect.zipExtract the above archive to the one folder and execute the SIrun.bat file. The procedure will generate a report file named SIout.txt.
November 24th, 2010, 5:53
well i uploaded the file.
i had imaged the drive with FTK Imager *.dd
and i am using R-Studio to explore it.
i get data but unfortunately i am only getting raw files
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November 24th, 2010, 16:45
That's the boot sector at LBA 63 (= logical sector 0 of the volume). AFAICT, it looks like a normal NTFS boot sector.
See
http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/NTFSBR.htmThe partition table is at LBA 0. Offsets 1BE - 1CD will contain the partition data.
I believe the table should look something like the following:
- Code:
0x01be 80 01 01 00 07 fe ff ff 3f 00 00 00 81 06 1c 1d
The leading 80 indicates that the partition is active. A 00 indicates that it is not bootable.
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