Corrupted ntfs files

[sieidi]

Any help for my situation?

My customer had his laptops hard disk with full of customer files and his
disk space was running off. I cloned the disk to new bigger one, but XP
didn't show the partition size right. Disk manager showed the size, but
explorer showed the size that was the one of the earlier hard disk. I told
customer to run chkdsk /r, but it hadn't any effect for the problem.

But customer needed his laptop and after three weeks he came back and wanted
to have partition size bigger. So i adjusted size using Gparted -software.
After the adjustment ntfs was lost from the disk and it told partition was
raw.

Got files restored using Zero Assumption Recovery -software. They are right
size files and assosiated with right software. But when i try to open files
they say that they are corrupted.

If i try to open e.g. doc-file with word 2007, it asks what encoding im
gonna use and for pdf-files it says the file is corrupted. I have tried to
run chkdsk /r, but it doesn't have any help for the problem.

Is there any tool to repair corrupted ntfs-files ? Every help for problem is
high appreciated.

I can get the old files restored from old hard disk, but files changed
within than three weeks are broken now.

 

[db]

perhaps, you should try to
restore the original disk and
its files over as they use to be

"and" hope they are recoverable.

if the above doesn't pan out.

then you might try acronis disk
director and it will likely fix
the ntfs crash.

but there are no guarantee's
that the user files will be recovered.


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[GTS]

Usually if the cloned drive shows the original size it is because of an
issue with bad sectors on the original. Did the original drive have any?
If so, I'll advise further on how to address this.

 

[C.Joseph Drayton]

Any help for my situation?

My customer had his laptops hard disk with full of customer files and his
disk space was running off. I cloned the disk to new bigger one, but XP
didn't show the partition size right. Disk manager showed the size, but
explorer showed the size that was the one of the earlier hard disk. I told
customer to run chkdsk /r, but it hadn't any effect for the problem.

But customer needed his laptop and after three weeks he came back and wanted
to have partition size bigger. So i adjusted size using Gparted -software.
After the adjustment ntfs was lost from the disk and it told partition was
raw.

Got files restored using Zero Assumption Recovery -software. They are right
size files and assosiated with right software. But when i try to open files
they say that they are corrupted.

If i try to open e.g. doc-file with word 2007, it asks what encoding im
gonna use and for pdf-files it says the file is corrupted. I have tried to
run chkdsk /r, but it doesn't have any help for the problem.

Is there any tool to repair corrupted ntfs-files ? Every help for problem is
high appreciated.

I can get the old files restored from old hard disk, but files changed
within than three weeks are broken now.

There are a couple of things I would do.

1) Do a raw copy of the new drive that has the 3 weeks worth of new data.

2) Using PartitionMagic or a similar product (I have had a few (not
many) cases of bad luck with GParted and other Linux based partitioners).

3) After you have partition the new drive to its full size then use a
program like Ghost to do a partition to partition copy. Make sure to
have it copy the MBR and tell it not to resize the partition on the new
new drive drive.

4a) Once you've got the customer up and running, look at the raw image
you made and try pulling looking at some of the known files with a
hex-editor and see if there is actual corruption of the file itself or
if the NTFS system simply was reading it wrong. If they look right in
the hex-editor, then save the file to a separate drive and try reading
it on to the customers machine and see if it will read on the customers
machine.

4b) If the hex dump between what is on the old drive and the old drive
do not match then you do probably have corrupted files. At that point if
the data was important enough you could go through them and see if there
is a pattern to the corruption. Note that the files really need to be
important because your talking some serious hours and some serious
modeling to find possible patterns. I had to do that once for a person
who's doctoral thesis got corrupted. It took me about 10 days to find
the pattern and restore that one file (It also tied up two of my
computers doing the modeling).

Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

CSD Computer Services

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