Segate ST2000LM007 Chkdsk MFT Entries

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

Hello Everyone ,
I have a ST1000LM007 HDD for recovery And i see found.XXX 2 folders in the root of this HDD .Upon inspection of those .CHK Files i have come to know they are MFT entries ,Is microsoft chkdsk such a useless software that it can shift mft enteries into files "Nonesense " . Can someone tell me how i can add these to MFT scan of this hdd so that folders and files in these are added to hdd data treee and i can recover this .

PS : Either Using PC3K ,MFT or DFL or Some Logical Data Recovery tool .

[Arch Stanton]

Hello Everyone ,
Upon inspection of those .CHK Files i have come to know they are MFT entries

Could you share the contents of one of the files? Can you also see in MFT the entry that points to the .chk file?

,Is microsoft chkdsk such a useless software that it can shift mft enteries into files "Nonesense " . Can someone tell me how i can add these to MFT scan of this hdd so that folders and files in these are added to hdd data treee and i can recover this .

What do you mean? The files the supposed entries are pointing to? In DMDE you can import MFT chunks or whatever it calls it in virtual file system dialog. But if you do a full scan they should be detected anyway, DMDE will ignore them probably, if they don't make sense which is likely, unless you manually select them in the virtual file system dialog.

I don't know how it handles 'conflicts' (MFT entries are numbered so you could get doubles), you'd have to try. Or I can try later this week.

It's a weird situation though.

[Arch Stanton]

In/ex-clude MFT fragments in DMDE.

You can do using --/++ here:

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If you'd pick ++ all the way, the MFT fragments in the .chk files should be included automatically but you could also do it manually:

Or, load from file (your .chk file), then don't scan (just Open Volume), then click All Found / Virtual FS, advanced TAB, click Volume FS Fragments and open file dialog will pop up.

IMHO DMDE is perfect for this type of stuff. Hope it helps.

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

Sir ,
I Do Find DMDE a very hard tool to use ,why no idea ,Thanks for your help ,I am now Done with cloning and now i am scanning whole surface with UFS Pro ,I will try DMDE as you said