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Broken MFT Data Recovery

I have a hard drive that crashed (Maxtor 1TB).
Windows will not recognize it (causes Disk Managemet to hang)

BIOS recognizes it.

The only software I've found that works on the drive is @Active NTFS Reader. I can pull off files from the NTFS drive to a FAT 32 drive.

I've been able to pull off a lot of data, and for that I am grateful (I had no back up... I know shame on me). So now, I'm just being greedy.

I've tried quite a few other solutions, and from what I can tell, they all fail when trying to mount the NTFS partition. (CleanWipe, NTFSDOS Pro, etc.)

So, is there anything like NTFS Reader that will allow me to copy from NTFS to NTFS at that low level.

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Hmm, what does "causes Disk Management to hang" mean. Does it show the disk, but not the partitions? Does it get that far? What happens if you try DISKPART from a command line (with administrative priviledges)? What does it show? Careful with DISKPART, any commands to change things will write, whereas Disk Management tends to be "safer".

The filesystem might be AOK but the partition table is what's messed up. Acronis disk tools may be able to remedy that.

PS can we move this out of networking zone? Miscategorized.

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Thank you all for trying to help me out. I was able to get at the files, but most were corrupted.

At any rate, what worked was XP (thanks for that!) and OnTrack. I didn't have a real xp machine, but had a virtual running it.

nobus

tx for the feedback !

ocanada_techguy

You're welcome, glad it was some help. :) Ya it's annoying that XP works and Vista/7 don't sometimes, they being more "sensitive" less tolerant to problems on the drive. Whose idea was that "improvement" eh?