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XP drive MFT corrupted: Recovery needed with Ubuntu rescue remix

Asked by ams3

Hi,

ok after hibernating my Dell laptop, and power it back up it blue screened...XP says do a chkdsk on it...safe mode didn't work, "last good configuration" using F8 didn't work...so I set it up as a "slave/secondary drive" as a "d:/" drive.

then I chkdsk d:/....it fails after doing some corrections

chkdsk d: /f does something then fails after doing some corrections...and then the drive is gone from "My Computer" totally.

It comes and goes on "My computer"...but only shows up as d:/ with no files on it...XP says "please insert a drive into D:/" as if D:/ was a DVD drive

So Help desk tells me do a quick format on d:/ which i do...and now I have a formatted d:/ drive which XP says healthy under "My Computer"...

What now? Files are still there(from trial 3rd party recovery tools like recuva...I couldn't get recuva to work completely), but I want to use Ubuntu Rescue Remix?

How do I put things back the way they were...how do i rebuild the MFT file(i'm assuming this file holds all the file names and folders for the drive)...Its a healthy drive, as far as I can tell.........

Your help is appreciated. Thanks.

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Zach Grogg (yearomonkey) said : 		#1

Wow, that's sounds like a fairly messed up drive. I would suggest using a file recovery program like Undelete-360.

http://www.undelete360.com/

I'm not sure how you can go about recovering the operating system. Errors like this tend to be fatal in Windows. I have never actually had to use Ubuntu Rescue Remix, so I'm not knowledgeable in its capabilities. I would suggest that you recover what you can from it and then use Gparted to nuke it.

http://download.cnet.com/GParted-LiveCD/3000-2094_4-10698802.html

Good luck and ask questions!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/forum

I suggest you post there. None of the ubuntu spinoffs are supported in the Ubuntu channels.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#3

your windoze system is toast. the only thing you can do is reinstall windoze and lose whatever you have. i had a similar problem. you will most likely have bad sectors on your hard drive as well. the only thing you can do at this point is boot off a ubuntu cd drive and try to receover whatever data you can.

ubuntu recue won't fix your windoze system. it fixes ubuntu.

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