Hi guys,

I have a toshiba 640Gbs External Drive. Recently it has been corrupted and changed file system from NTFS to RAW, even after using a couple fixes the drive isn't working, so i ran a couple more diagnostic softwares...and i found a damaged boot sector and backup bootsector.
So i have to rebuild the boot sector on the drive to fix it...thing is....its takes a lot of time using TestDisk 6.13
Does anyone know a quicker way to fix this problem?


Thanks

What's wrong with your existing boot sectors?

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

Here is a screenshot of testdisk:

It would be helpful to know if the sectors are present but garbled, or completely unreadable, or what

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

They are unreadable...

at first i could list the files on the disk and copy them using a raw copy software....but i cant even do that anymore...

Trying the rebuild option....but its been 2 days...and its still at 200.000.000 of 1.250 mils sectors... xD

http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2 ... ion-drive/

This shows you how to use winhex to manually create the mbr Using there templates. Info in the mbr template for sector 0 needed changing to the following for me
Start heads 32, start sector 33 & Start cylinder 0
My ntfs lba was 2048
Also make sure at the end of sector 0 & your ntfs sector it has 55AA

If your drive is developing bad sectors you should be cloning it rather than running software scans or doing anything that will write to it

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.