Hi Nick,
We are not sure why the MFT would be totally gone. RecoverMyFiles will recover MFT records even if the MFT table structure is corrupt (but not when the MFT record itself is corrupt). For the MFT to be completely gone (i.e. the 50000 records) something really bad must have happened. Also we have had instantances of CHKDSK doing things without "consent" (it happened on my own computer).
Anyway I don't think the MFT records are there anymore (although you can check with a hexeditor that looks at drives such as HexEditor - for XP look at about 1/3 of the way through the drive and for Win2000 at the beginning. If you installed XP on top of a previous 2000 installation then check at the beginning). The last restort and it is time consuming is to do a Complete File Search for the file type you need: mp3, mpeg and zip (we currently don't do exe's). I would suggest doing a "test" scan for just zip files (as this will be the quickest search), then mp3's then lastly mpeg (the slowest of the lot).
No filenames will be found (no MFT's), but you will probably get some data.
For the mp3's if the title/artist is present we might be able to make a renamer for you to rename the "Recovered_MP3_X.mp3" files to ones based on the title and/or artist. Let us know if you need this.
Hope that helps
Brett
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