NTFS File Allocation Table

[Rob]

I was backing up my computer using ghost to an external usb hard drive and
experienced a crash. After the crash I powered everything off. When I plug
in my external drive now, only the files and folders beginning with the
letters A-G are listed. The amount of disk space used is about the same as
before the crash so the space taken by the remainder of my files still is
showing as used. I tried the ghost operation again but got a warning when I
navigated to the external drive that the drive was not unmounted cleanly and
I did not attemped the force mount. Does anyone know how I can recover my
correct file listing? Also, this is a retail external drive so I cannot
easily remove the drive from the enclosure and connect it as an internal
drive.

TIA,
Rob
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[JS]

Are all the files on the external drives backup
copies of the originals and are the original files
and folders still on your internal hard drive?

 

[Rob]

Neither. The files are from several different computers. I really need
something to recover the file system.

Rob

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Neither. The files are from several different computers. I really need
something to recover the file system.

Consider tools such as R-Studio. There are demo versions that will let you
know what they can find.
http://www.r-studio.com/

You must have another destination drive capable of holding all of the
recovered files.

HTH
-pk