I’ve formated a drive as NTFS and moved some files into it, then after restarting I got the error
Location is not available
G:\ is not accessible.
The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable.
I used chkdsk g: /f /r /x from an admin cmd but it says:
Corrupt master file table. Windows will attempt to recover master file table from disk.
Windows cannot recover master file table. CHKDSK aborted.
How should I attempt to recover the files in the drive?
The first software I tried was Recuva. I got a Warning saying
Failed to scan the following drives:
A:: Invalid data run detected
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If the contents of this drive have high importance and you don’t have backups, stop what you’re doing and sent it out to a data recovery specialist. It will cost ~$700+.
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Otherwise, I’d try Testdisk.
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If it was an SSD… Its possible you have an SSD that claims to be say 256Gb but actually has a 32Gb chip inside (or smaller) that lies about how big it is and just wraps the writes so they complete… However the format is broken, as is the drive.
I second this. Use a tool like ValiDrive to test whether that’s the case; if it is, anything you’ve copied to the drive is unrecoverable.
use your backup to recover them
I can’t help directly, but the people at https://lemmy.world/c/techsupport mighr be able to.
