I recently pulled some cables behind my desk which knocked over a station which houses my 1gb SATA drive which I use as extra storage on my Win10 machine.
After the incident the drive couldn't be read, I was getting:
"the file or directory is corrupted and can't be read"
I ran chkdsk which took several hours to run, I was then able to read the disk and any files in the root are fully accessible. The folders in the root however are all empty if I try to open them.
It this point I cloned the drive and then ran some file recovery software, it seems that all the content of the drive is available in subfolders of "found.000" but since each archive in its own unique folder it's nearly impossible to manually piece it all back together.
I've read that maybe the MBR is corrupt and as they drive is NTFS there should be a duplicate of the table at the end of the diek? I've tried to Google the problem but all I get are tutorials which lead to links to another file recover program to download.
Is there any hope of recovering the content and structure of the folders on my drive. Since the incident all I have done in terms of writing or changing the disk is the initial run of chkdsk. Given that the content is available (albeit in the founb.000 folder) I am hopeful but would appreciate any pointers.
Thanks!
After the incident the drive couldn't be read, I was getting:
"the file or directory is corrupted and can't be read"
I ran chkdsk which took several hours to run, I was then able to read the disk and any files in the root are fully accessible. The folders in the root however are all empty if I try to open them.
It this point I cloned the drive and then ran some file recovery software, it seems that all the content of the drive is available in subfolders of "found.000" but since each archive in its own unique folder it's nearly impossible to manually piece it all back together.
I've read that maybe the MBR is corrupt and as they drive is NTFS there should be a duplicate of the table at the end of the diek? I've tried to Google the problem but all I get are tutorials which lead to links to another file recover program to download.
Is there any hope of recovering the content and structure of the folders on my drive. Since the incident all I have done in terms of writing or changing the disk is the initial run of chkdsk. Given that the content is available (albeit in the founb.000 folder) I am hopeful but would appreciate any pointers.
Thanks!
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