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

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

i do'nt work with atola

but the first you scan hdd with mhdd for god or bad sector

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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.

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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.zip

Extract the above archive to the one folder and execute the SIrun.bat file. The procedure will generate a report file named SIout.txt.

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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

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.htm

The partition table is at LBA 0. Offsets 1BE - 1CD will contain the partition data.

I believe the table should look something like the following:



The leading 80 indicates that the partition is active. A 00 indicates that it is not bootable.

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