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Cuchulainn · 11-15-2005, 10:29 PM

Hi everybody,

thanks for reading, could realy use some help here.

I have a WD 200GB ATA HD. Running as a slave on the primary IDE channel of A Gigabyte GA7DXR with the bios updated to support over the 137GB barier. Has been runnng nicely for months. Under Win2k Pro SP4

I was defragging the disk with the version of Diskeeper that comes bundled in Win2k and the defragger failed with an error message suggetsting I run checkdisk. I scheculed checkdisk to run at startup and rebooted. I started scrolling
deleting orphaned file...
deleting orphaned file...
deleting orphaned file...

Having seen this before and lost over 100Gb worth of data I killed power and restarted and skipped checkdisk. once inside windows it recongnised the partition but not the file system on it. I've read before that this happens when windows loses entries in it's MFT, it then helpfuly deletes files off your hardrive untill it matches the MFT.

Having stopped it from deleting the files this time I was hoping it would be easier to recover. I've tried using a coupls of tools to scan the partition talble and they say it's fine. But I don't have a clue how to fix a hashed MFT. NTFS drives have a backup of the MFT in the logical center of the HD but how can I make windows use it.

I've also tried a couple of data recover tools on the hardrive (EasyData Recovery 6, ActiveUndelete) they find about 2/3 of the directories and almost no files.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

11-15-2005, 10:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
Cuchulainn Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2	WD 200GB HD partition vanished Hi everybody, thanks for reading, could realy use some help here. I have a WD 200GB ATA HD. Running as a slave on the primary IDE channel of A Gigabyte GA7DXR with the bios updated to support over the 137GB barier. Has been runnng nicely for months. Under Win2k Pro SP4 I was defragging the disk with the version of Diskeeper that comes bundled in Win2k and the defragger failed with an error message suggetsting I run checkdisk. I scheculed checkdisk to run at startup and rebooted. I started scrolling deleting orphaned file... deleting orphaned file... deleting orphaned file... Having seen this before and lost over 100Gb worth of data I killed power and restarted and skipped checkdisk. once inside windows it recongnised the partition but not the file system on it. I've read before that this happens when windows loses entries in it's MFT, it then helpfuly deletes files off your hardrive untill it matches the MFT. Having stopped it from deleting the files this time I was hoping it would be easier to recover. I've tried using a coupls of tools to scan the partition talble and they say it's fine. But I don't have a clue how to fix a hashed MFT. NTFS drives have a backup of the MFT in the logical center of the HD but how can I make windows use it. I've also tried a couple of data recover tools on the hardrive (EasyData Recovery 6, ActiveUndelete) they find about 2/3 of the directories and almost no files. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.