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corrupted fat

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dipdog

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May 24, 2004
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My 40gb hard drive was corrupted while transferring files. After running scandisk and defrag, it became unaccessible. I rewrote the MBR with a program called testdisk, and now the drive is accessible. However, the majority of my subfolders now look like 32kb files. I'm assuming the fat is somehow damaged, particularly since 32kb is a cluster size. However, all of my subfolders are there; they're just not accessible or somehow mislabeled. Does anyone know of a way to fix this, particulary without having to transfer everything to another 40gb drive? I ran another program called getdriveback, which analyzes the disk sector by sector, and it retrieved all of my files, but required that I copy them to another drive, and unfortunately I only have one 40gb drive.

Thanx
 
You might have some luck with ontrack recovery,but it is not free. Rich

I shall use google before asking stupid questions!
 
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