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Old 01-14-2006, 11:41 PM
StrangeStuff StrangeStuff is offline
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Default Repairing NTFS files after chkdsk goes wrong

I was using Partition Commander to modify a logical NTFS partition on a new HD. There was a power problem and the maching frooze. I rebooted but the drive was unrecognisable. After two emails to the support people for Partition Commander I had the drive being recognised but WinXP wanted to run chkdsk on the drive. It found numerous errors that that is said were successfully fixed and when I intially looked at the drive all the files and directories seem fine. However, closer inspection and the files are almost all corrupted or cross linked to other data.

Most of the files on the drive a media files (images, mp3s etc).

Can you recommend a utility that will scan the drive at a cluster level, find the file headers and then piece togther the files? I have already tried Stop Softs Recover Lost Data but it thinks all the files are fine.

Any help would be appreciated.

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