Yes yes, backups, but for the sake of this conversation pretend they dont exist lol. Thoughts? Any half decent tools out there that can fix this without making the rest of the drive cactus? I've always gone by the rule, once your software finds the missing data, plug in another disk and get it off there. After rewriting the partition table and rebooting, though, nothing changed. I was able to look and confirm that the files were still there, as well. I ran TestDisk, and it was able to correctly identify the partition as NTFS. Now, I usually leave it at that, however today I thought of what other ways I could fix the MFT. The Disk Management tool displays it as RAW. I suspect she either didn't eject the disk correctly, or unplug from a TV (I have seen some TVs read NTFS drives, but dismount them incorrectly (or user pulls them out) leaving them in a weird state.) Easily resolved. Once I copied the data off, I formatted her disk and copied the data back - problem solved. No worries, cracked open Stellar Phoenix and restored the data to another disk I had. As soon as I plugged it in, Windows told me it couldn't read it and it needed to be formatted - classic example of the MFT being corrupt. So today at work I had someone bring me their USB disk that wasn't being read by her PC.
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