I’ve formated a drive as NTFS and moved some files into it, then on Windows I got the error

Location is not available

G:\ is not accessible.
The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable.

I used chkdsk g: /f /r /x from an admin cmd but it says:

Corrupt master file table. Windows will attempt to recover master file table from disk.
Windows cannot recover master file table. CHKDSK aborted.

How should I attempt to recover the files in the drive?

  • HorseChandelier@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    If it was an SSD… Its possible you have an SSD that claims to be say 256Gb but actually has a 32Gb chip inside (or smaller) that lies about how big it is and just wraps the writes so they complete… However the format is broken, as is the drive.

    • LostXOR@fedia.io
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      6 months ago

      I second this. Use a tool like ValiDrive to test whether that’s the case; if it is, anything you’ve copied to the drive is unrecoverable.