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Recovering broken NTFS partition

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Mar 15, 20263630 views
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I have been given a hard disk that needs some data restore. Let me explain the situation... The HDD's owner says the disk cannot be mounted in Windows, I suspected a power problem but verified that the disk spins up and Linux (using a USB-to-SATA cable + power from plug) sees the partition. However…

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chkdsk /f

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Fix for: Recovering broken NTFS partition

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Disk utilities in general much prefer to work with a directly mounted device. If at all possible, always make a sata (or IDE) connection. Once you have the drive properly connected, run Testdisk, make a copy and try to repair the partition structure…

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