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So my friend accidentally messed up his MFT and MFTMirr of his NTFS windows 7 drive while installing Ubuntu (my guess is that he messed up the re-partitioning of his drive or something of the sort. He says that he has no idea how he did it)

He can boot Ubuntu but booting Windows just fails.

Does anyone know a good linux program to fix the MFT??

If it cannot be done does anyone know a good way to recover some of his files?

Braiam
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Akisame
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Under data-recovery on this site you'll find useful previous answers which cover both your needs for restoring a deleted partition table and bring back a whole partition after it's messed up or deleted, the same for your needs about file recovering. This list contains just a few but you may find more by following this link: https://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/data-recovery

  1. How to recover Deleted Files and Folders?
  2. How to recover a deleted NTFS partition with data
  3. Recovering data from /

Good luck!

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Geppettvs D'Constanzo
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To repair the Windows MTF the only known tool that will do it without problems is the chkdsk /f since it checks the MTF/mirr and repair any inconsistency. Sadly, NTFS as proprietary filesystem, there isn't any reliable tool to do this outside Windows, you can however, see the files if the MTF isn't too damaged using ntfs-3g driver.

Braiam
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