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Bad MFT second HDD win200

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by jimbo

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Does any one knows how to fix second Hdd on win2000 ?

Unable to access the drive I have few image files on this drive.
I used zero assumption and on track recovery tools no success
I did recover few files but not an image file, which I need
Ntfs partition is intact drive letter is there just can?t access the drive
Chkdsk /f , chkdsk /p reports
The volume appears to have few unrecoverable problems

Made image with ghost and dump into another hdd I had same problem since
I had todo sector copy same result with clone disk to disk
Most of problem report is bad Master file table
Can?t read directory, or bad volume
Since I have recovery console already loaded into first hdd and I used it
To run tools like check disk still getting nowhere

Thanks
Jim

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by cg it

the problem seems to stem from it's a NTFS Drive which only W2K/NT/XP can utilize. A little more detail on what happened would help out re did you have to reinstall the O/S and in doing so you lost access to the 2nd Drive? I had the same problem with W2K when I had to reinstall the O/S and did so using FAT32 and then after that was installed did a command line convert to NTFS. I overcame that by having setup format the 1st drive to NTFS before install and my 2nd NTFS drive became accessable. Might try that approach. Still additional info on what when where the problem stated would go a long way in trying to get you access to your NTFS drive.

by jimbo

system was in working state with both hdd, one day i came to
work noticed system is hanged and i could not do anything with it so i restart system after that i could'nt access second hdd ,clicking on drive letter or trying to access from cmd ,, takes few minuts to get error.how ever result is same in oringal system or out into another system,, the problem is MTF table which i did not resolve yet.

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