I recently made a backup of my friend’s media collection on her PC as she was getting rid of it in favour of a new Apple Mac. This data along with a lot of my data was on my 250GB portable harddisk (NTFS).
I lent her the disk to take what she wanted and put it all on her nice shiny new macbook, everything transferred absolutely fine but then she pulled out the USB cable from her mac without unmounting the device first… I now have a corrupt MFT and therefore windows refuses to mount this disk. tried chkdsk, no luck there…
no worries, i thought, i still have a valid copy of ERD Commander so i ripped this disk out of it’s plastic casing and hooked it up to my PC’s SATA controller, booted ERD and ran Disk Commander. After running a full disk scan it recognised the NTFS partition so i went to recover the files… it errored out saying it could not mount the device… i’m now in two minds as to whether i should risk formatting the disk and then try running disk commander again?
if anyone knows anything that could help, i’d really appreciate any advice!
thankyou!
