Is there a quick way to restore the file structure and to retrieve my data? I’m particularly interested in 1 folder, which is over 160 gb. I recovered some data with Recuva after terminating the deep scan early, but its results did not organize the files by folder. Those programs confirm that the data is on the disk, but Recuva takes forever to do a deep scan (which I have to run - it cannot run a quick scan because it says it cannot read the disk) and Easus charges to recover more than 1 GB of data. If the MFT is damaged, it will try to repair the MFT using the backup. TestDisk will compare the MFT and MFT mirror (its backup). In the Advanced menu, select your NTFS partition, choose Boot, then Repair MFT.

If Microsofts Checkdisk (chkdsk) failed to repair the MFT, run TestDisk. When I try to run chkdsk, it returns a message that “windows cannot recover the master file table.” I have run a few scans with data recovery programs like Recuva and EaseUS Data Recovery. The MFT (Master File Table) is sometimes corrupted. I get a message that the drive is not accessible and that the “disk structure is corrupted and unreadable.” I ran the Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics on the drive - both the quick and extended tests - and the quick test passed (I think the extended did also, although I’m rerunning it now to confirm). Click on Yes in the User Account Control Window. 3.Open C:/testdisk-6.12, right-click the testdiskwin.exe icon and Run as administrator.

About a week ago I was unable to access my External Hard Drive. Download the latest version of Test Disk Windows version from 2.Unzip the downloaded file to your C drive.

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