Question How to fix $MFT manually on USB drive ?

[marvinxu]

My usb drive fail to open in file explorer and show as "RAW" in disk management.

"chkdsk" doesn't work.

I open using WinHex and found that $Logfile and $Volume is missing.

 

[Ralston18]

What is on the USB drive: OS, game, data? I see a setup.exe and autorun files listed.

Make and model USB drive?

Capacity, how full?

I also noted a "reference" to an E: drive - 51% full, NTFS, and possibly 1 TB capacity.

Is that the USB drive in question?

Did you attempt any editing via WinHex? If so, what did you do and why?

 

[fzabkar]

The MFT record in your screenshot appears to be that of the $LogFile, in which case it is corrupt. You may be able to repair it by copying the corresponding record from $MftMirr.

That said, you should clone the drive to an image file and then recover your data before attempting any repair.

Try to view the file/folder tree in DMDE:

https://dmde.com/

Personally, I would only attempt a repair to satisfy my curiosity and to find out what went wrong.