I have an external HDD with one NTFS partition. I wanted to transfer some files between PCs, so I have copied some files from Debian PC to the drive. After then as usual I have chosen safety remove before unplug the drive, then connected to Windows 7 PC which said "You have to format the drive before use", then connected to the Linux PC but it wrote errors only. Firstly tried to repair it under Linux using the ntfsfix (ntfstools 2.0.0-1) program, but it said:
"Mounting volume... Failed to open inode: Input/Output error.
FAILED Attempting to correct errors...
Processing $MFT and $MFTMirr...
Reading $MFT... OK
Reading $MFTMirr... OK
Comparing $MFTMirr to $MFT... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully
Setting required flags on partition... Failed to read $Volume: Input/Output error.
FAILED
Error setting flags."
After tried to update the ntfstools to 1:2012.1.15AR.5-2.1(testing) and got this message:
Mounting volume... ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x43425355 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 2303 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x43425355 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 140 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x00000000 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 0 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0xd8eb1fc2 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 1001 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x00000000 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 0 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x43425355 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 1277 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x43425355 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 160 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x00000000 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 0 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0xd8eb1fc2 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 1001 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x00000000 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 0 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
$MFT error: Invalid mft record for '$Bitmap'.
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors...
Processing $MFT and $MFTMirr...
Reading $MFT... ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x43425355 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 2303 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x43425355 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 140 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x00000000 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 0 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0xd8eb1fc2 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 1001 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x00000000 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 0 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
OK
Reading $MFTMirr... ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x43425355 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 1277 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x43425355 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 160 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x00000000 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 0 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0xd8eb1fc2 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 1001 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x00000000 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 0 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
OK
Comparing $MFTMirr to $MFT... FAILED
$MFT error: Invalid mft record for $Bitmap.
Cannot handle this yet. )-:
Then gave a try with chkdsk too on Windows, but it wrote:
Unable to determinate volume version and state, chkdsk aborted.
Please help to find a solution, I have important data on the drive and I need them.
