How to recover files from corrupted NTFS drive?

I’ve formated a drive as NTFS and moved some files into it, then after restarting I got the error


<span style="color:#323232;">Location is not available
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">G: is not accessible.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable.
</span>

I used chkdsk g: /f /r /x from an admin cmd but it says:


<span style="color:#323232;">Corrupt master file table. Windows will attempt to recover master file table from disk.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Windows cannot recover master file table. CHKDSK aborted.
</span>

How should I attempt to recover the files in the drive?

The first software I tried was Recuva. I got a Warning saying


<span style="color:#323232;">Failed to scan the following drives:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A:: Invalid data run detected
</span>
2xsaiko,
@2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

photorec/testdisk

Shadow,
@Shadow@lemmy.ca avatar

I’ve used getdataback successfully a few times in the past.

LinusWorks4Mo,
LinusWorks4Mo avatar

use your backup to recover them

AnAustralianPhotographer,

I can’t help directly, but the people at lemmy.world/c/techsupport mighr be able to.

BenM2023,
@BenM2023@lemmy.world avatar

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.

LostXOR,

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.

jbk,

ntfs-3g on linux has some recovery tools, maybe they could work?

Kit,
  1. 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+.
  2. Otherwise, I’d try Testdisk.
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