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My SSD holding Windows crashed and I am currently stuck trying to recover the data from my 750GB HDD. I am using GParted to do this, and the drive with all my important data on it is not mounting. Here's a screenshot of the screen and error:

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I'm no expert, but it looks to me like I might have a major problem with this data recovery. Any suggestions are appreciated.

karel
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Trent C
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  1. install ntfs-3g if that is not already on your system

  2. try again gparted

  3. if it fails again with the same error: get yourself a windows rescue boot CD one of these will do: http://www.pcc-services.com/windows/guide-noboot2.html

  4. boot with it and follow the instructions

  5. if that is done, boot windows and run chkdsk /f

  6. reboot two times

thom
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What gparted is trying to communicate is that the boot parameter block and volume boot record were corrupted and illegible\unreadable. Like a corrupt file header. In that block is the pointer to the $MFT (Master File Table) similar to Superblock in Linux. Somehow the partition got shifted leading to the offset and loss of magic number. Good news is that there is a backup of the bpb\vbr at the end of the ntfs partition ... Total number of sectors -1 there could be an issue as to whether it is at the end of user data or formatted space. Nevertheless it is there and has the location of your $MFT which will get you your data back. So invoke gnu ddrescue and run it in reverse to image the backup boot sector. Then image the whole drive extract $MFT and use Johann Schnicht's "RawCopy" to do a low level extraction of data from Master File Table.

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