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best (free) way to recover data on a corrupt ntfs hdd?

Asked by zarnold (708points) December 7th, 2007

I have a 250 gb external drive that will not mount in mac os (using macFUSE) or in windows. It is ntfs formatted, and I’m looking for decent freeware or just a simple way to get my data back/get the disk to work again.

(under winxp I get the message that the directory is “corrupted and unreadable”)

Also – a google search only returns several pages of shareware / demos – I’m hoping there’s an easier fix than that.

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klaas4's avatar

Search on www.download.com for “repair ntfs disk” and filter the results by selecting only free programs. HTH.

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milosml's avatar

If you have two hard disks,you can run OS on the second which is not corrupted,and recover the data.

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zarnold's avatar

sweet…looks like a great find. Thanks!

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netxm's avatar

try chkdsk from recovery console or chkdsk /f

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