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NTFS Index Corrupted

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xR07

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Jun 22, 2004
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I currently have a 160GB maxtor hard drive(secondary for storage only) and its NTFS format. Long story short the data is all there but its not indexed. Most of the hard drive is partially mp3s and the mp3s are chopped up like a mixed bag(A song would be 3 other artists singing). Top it off, 70% of the files I had on the drive are "missing" but the hard drive is still the same size meaning the data is there but its not seeing it. Is there anyway possible to somehow recover the index table or fix it without losing any of the data present? Any suggestions would be nice.
 
You can try defragmenting it, but I doubt that will fix things.

If no luck with that, then you may need 3rd party software similar to the following(professional version) to recover the data before repartitioning and reformatting:
 
From the command rompt type (w/o quotes) "CHKDSK c: /f". Then reboot. Be aware that the fix may take a while, depending how bad the index is.
 
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