MFT corruption

[giannis267]

Hello everyone and Happy New Year!!

Patient drive:
2.5" Seagate Momentus Thin ST500LT012
Partitiong:
EFI GPT

Symptom:
Was in a friend's laptop(internal) and one day, without fall or something else, missing operating system error shown.

Needs:
Recovery of photos

Procedure(so far):
A)Clone to a new drive with Media Tools Pro, almost 7000 sectors BAD from a total of 976.773.168
B)New drive seen as RAW on my PC
C)Easeus Data Recovery Wizard Pro found and recover ALL needed files BUT almost 70% of photos are not shown correctly..
some had lines, others color mismatch etc
D)Trying TestDisk to fix MFT, with the purpose of getting the contects of the drive and do a chkdsk for repair the files(90% of similar cases, chkdsk repair with success all corrupted files) but TestDisk cannot repair MFT.. "MFT and MFT mirror are bad. Failed to repair them."

Any ideas for next step??

Thanks

[giannis267]

Thanks for reply Spildit

Just finished the scanning with GetDataBack, photos are still corrupted, but the strange thing is that corruption
is not exactly the same as with Easeus..
i mean, same photo recovered with Easeus had lines on top, with GetDataBack had lines on bottom...same thing
with all recovered photos, corrupted but not exactly the same kind of corruption..

Took a 2nd image, with less bad sectors(5763 bad, this is a another strange thing), to a different HDD(to be sure) and will scan it with R-Studio to see what happens.

I think that this corruption will gone if somehow be able to chkdsk that partition..
When i try to chkdsk, gives an error "unable to determine volume version and state. chkdsk aborted"

[giannis267]

Never and nothing to patient drive, only on clone!

Finally, i figure out the cause of the corruption problem..
I had to chose the whole drive, not only the main partition on GetDataBack search, after that, all photos and vids are 100% correct!!

Thanks Spildit for replies