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It was a mistake to use chkdsk should have used testdisk maybe it could have restored the corrupt MFT from the mirror, oh well lessons learned
Unlikely, mirror only mirrors 4 file records. You can not restore or repair the MFT in the sense you want to. Instead you use file recovery tool, as you're doing now.
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The data is there, don't know if fully but without an MFT it can't been seen
Per my understanding in this case:
either restore data which is the files, loosing the structure and some metadata
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restore some of the MFT from MFT fragments which preserves the data and the structure to some degree
Interpreter needed.
In general there's 2 ways to recover data: file system meta data (such as MFT), plenty of tools do this, or raw recovery in case you'll indeed lose folder structure and such (any info that's kept in FS meta data basically).
All this babbling about MFT fragments, it is far from uncommon the MFT is fragmented and good file recovery tools should have no problems with that. DMDE is a perfectly good tool for it and 'state of the art software' in essence does the exact same thing.
Some tools may handle things slightly differently from each other or take into account some odd circumstances so it is possible one tool does better in scenario X while the other in scenario Y.
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