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MFT Corrupt - File or Directory unreadable
In my company, I have setup two computers with Volume release Vista fresh on
HD and then 2 other computers with Dual Boot XP and Vista.
When launching XP on the dual boot computers, i have two partitions that
appear 'File or
Directory is corrupted or unreadable'. But i can see these partitions fine
in Vista.
I have a 160GB Seagate IDE hard drive in these 2 dual boot computer with
partitions as
follows :
C:\ FAT32 40GB Windows XP
D:\ NTFS 40GB Vista
E:\ NTFS 40GB Test Apps
F:\ NTFS 40GB Test Apps2
I have just installed the Volume License release of Windows Vista Ultimate
on Drive D. I
selected upgrade install and a fresh drive D:\ to Install to. Boot Loader
has now got XP
and Vista.
Booting into Vista i got an error when the Taskbar was running, c:\$MFT (or
C:\$MSFT)
corrupt.
Booting into Vista is does a Chkdsk on drives E & F, but when in Vista these
drives can be
seen and all the files are intact.
Boot into Windows XP it does Chkdsk as well, launch explorer, drives E & F
display as Local
Disk and an error stating 'File or Directory is corrupted or unreadable'
(1) How do do i rebuild the MFT ?
(2) Is their any way in XP to get the names of these partitions back. ( I
have used Acronis
and the Names and files appear on the drive, its just XP doesnt want to show
them ).
Can anyone help ?
In my company, I have setup two computers with Volume release Vista fresh on
HD and then 2 other computers with Dual Boot XP and Vista.
When launching XP on the dual boot computers, i have two partitions that
appear 'File or
Directory is corrupted or unreadable'. But i can see these partitions fine
in Vista.
I have a 160GB Seagate IDE hard drive in these 2 dual boot computer with
partitions as
follows :
C:\ FAT32 40GB Windows XP
D:\ NTFS 40GB Vista
E:\ NTFS 40GB Test Apps
F:\ NTFS 40GB Test Apps2
I have just installed the Volume License release of Windows Vista Ultimate
on Drive D. I
selected upgrade install and a fresh drive D:\ to Install to. Boot Loader
has now got XP
and Vista.
Booting into Vista i got an error when the Taskbar was running, c:\$MFT (or
C:\$MSFT)
corrupt.
Booting into Vista is does a Chkdsk on drives E & F, but when in Vista these
drives can be
seen and all the files are intact.
Boot into Windows XP it does Chkdsk as well, launch explorer, drives E & F
display as Local
Disk and an error stating 'File or Directory is corrupted or unreadable'
(1) How do do i rebuild the MFT ?
(2) Is their any way in XP to get the names of these partitions back. ( I
have used Acronis
and the Names and files appear on the drive, its just XP doesnt want to show
them ).
Can anyone help ?