Hi,

My external NTFS drive will no longer let me write to it. I had
corrupted it, recovered it with chkdsk and it was fine though it took
windows a long time to recognise it when I plugged it in (used to
recognise it instantly). Now it had decided that I cannot write any
files to it - I just get either "access denied" or "device is
invalid/write protected/corrupt". Norton 2002 thinks that the drive is
fine as does chkdsk with the /f /r commands.

Can anyone recommend some software (preferably freeware!) or solution
to this - I dont have enough space to back everything up and do a
reformat!

Cheers
squelch41

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My external NTFS drive will no longer let me write to it. I had
> corrupted it, recovered it with chkdsk and it was fine though it took
> windows a long time to recognise it when I plugged it in (used to
> recognise it instantly). Now it had decided that I cannot write any
> files to it - I just get either "access denied" or "device is
> invalid/write protected/corrupt". Norton 2002 thinks that the drive is
> fine as does chkdsk with the /f /r commands.
>
> Can anyone recommend some software (preferably freeware!) or solution
> to this - I dont have enough space to back everything up and do a
> reformat!

Then buy that capacity.
>
> Cheers
> squelch41
>


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> Hi,
>
> My external NTFS drive will no longer let me write to it. I had
> corrupted it, recovered it with chkdsk and it was fine though it took
> windows a long time to recognise it when I plugged it in (used to
> recognise it instantly). Now it had decided that I cannot write any
> files to it - I just get either "access denied" or "device is
> invalid/write protected/corrupt". Norton 2002 thinks that the drive is
> fine as does chkdsk with the /f /r commands.
>

I suggest you use Partition Table Doctor to resolve your
problem.The software provides very useful functions:
Backup partition table, Restore partition table, Rebuild
partition table, undelete partition, Fix boot sector,
rebuild mbr,etc.

First thing I recommend you download the demo version of
Partition Table Doctor.( http://www.ptdd.com/download.htm )


Run the program and right click the partition and choose fixboot.
http://www.ptdd.com/fixboot.htm
http://www.ptdd.com/mbr.htm