[m00nw01f@hotmail.com]

Hi all, I'm having a bit of a problem.

I have an external usb western digital drive.

Everything was fine until on sunday when I was shutting done my PC and dismounting the usb devices in windows from the "Safely remove hardware" icon went all bad.

This was the layout of the drive:

[[logical (extended partition1 ntfs ] | [ primary ntfs partition2 ]]

When unmounting an error occurred I don't remember what (not the normal is in use message).

I tried to unmount again, & again, didn't work and after awhile I actually removed the usb cable.

Because I was unsure I plugged in the cabble again, one drive appeared but all the data in it was corrupted the other drive did not appear, and when I clicked on it windows said "disk structure is corrupted and unreadable".

Summarizing, I was abble to get all data from partition2 but from partition one not so lucky, I've been trying with lots off diferente software, some are demos some are free. With one of them at certain point I saw all my files names appearing in a list where the program window said filenamesomething.extension no MFT index, or something like that.

What happens I think, is that I don't have neither MFT nor the MFT mirror, is there anyway I can still recover the structure and the name of the files?

I have personal and company information on the drive (which I shouldn't, but have none the less).

When I'm trying to rebuild the mft with testdisk it says no MFT was found nor MFT mirror.

Write now I'm using testdisk to create a dd image of the drive.

with this I'm asking if there is way for me to recover the files from the drive with the names they had, preferably with the old structure (without an mft it seems a bit hard).

Will your software be ablle to recover any sort of structure?

Windows seems to see the drive in raw mode and some recovery applications get different answer to what was the File system type, I have used this drive in various file system types in the past.

I'm going a bit nuts with this...