Hello,
I just downloaded a trial of the program and am trying to figure out the best settings for my situation.
I have an 80GB internal Maxtor ATA drive with a single NTFS partition. It had a lot of files on it, primarily MP3s, videos, and downloaded programs (zip and exe's). All of a sudden, Windows would not recognize most of it and when I ran CHKDSK it said that the MFT was corrupt. The next time I rebooted the disk was completely unusable. Disk Management said it was a RAW drive and wanted me to initialize and format it. I DID NOT format it.
So what I have is an 80GB drive with apparently no MFT. Upon scanning it with other recovery tools, they all had a problem with bad sectors near the beginning of the drive. This lead me to believe that the drive has bad sectors in the MFT region, however I haven't been able to even find any files using these other programs.
Recover My Files is the only program so far that has actually found anything. I did the full format scan and while it did find a few files, there were only about 40 or so where originally there were in the 50,000 range.
My question is, what settings should I use for this disk? I'd REALLY like to get my stuff back (obviously
and have have reason to believe that most of it should still be there since I've not done anything to the drive since the crash and from what I can tell the MFT is simply missing.
Thanks a ton!
Nick