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Old 4th Oct 2008, 19:36
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So in a previous thread I had a 500GB crash (corrupt MFT). I've bought another external 750GB HDD to back the data up onto.
I was copying some file soff of that and the electricity cut.
Now all I can see is one empty folder and all other files are invisible but still taking up space.

I have various tools with which I can perform various tasks MFT restore, partition recovery, file recovery, etc
So I was just wondering what the best course of action would be.
Scan to see if the partition can be restored to the old state?
File recovery? (Issue being OO just numbers files and it would be a bitch to go through the data again!)
Or just go straight to MFT and hope chkdsk does some magic or other again?

I'd just do the scans, but they take FOREVER.
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Old 5th Oct 2008, 01:26
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Try taking a look at this topic.
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Old 7th Oct 2008, 10:46
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That doesn't really help me. I already have that. I was just hoping someone could tell me which router would be smarter to take.
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Old 7th Oct 2008, 17:13
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like a wireless router? is that what you need?
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Old 8th Oct 2008, 08:54
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Do you have the data backed up elsewhere?

If you have copies of everything on this drive you could just do a format and start again.
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Old 21st Oct 2008, 07:04
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Data is not backed up... it was just restored from a different drive that crashed and I was wondering which route was the best to take.
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