Hi all,
yesterday i was finally getting round to putting my holiday pictures/video from 4 usa trips over the last 5 years onto DVDs to share with the rest of the family from my external USB HDD (200gb)
windows recognized the drive, started copying over the said pictures/videos to work with backup copies, got half way through when a error pops up, saying something like this "folder is inaccessible and can not be accessed" - @*!#
in a mad panic i managed to copy over all the files i could, out of 92GB i got around 50GB used a few disk manager progs i have, to the find the MBR and MFT are both corrupt, tried to repair the mbr, now windows doesn't even recognize the drive at all now, i could use windows disk manager to get it back but don't want to cause more problems
quick google, lead me to use a prog called all "active@ UNDELETE", found a copy on one of my cover discs way back from 2009, a quick scan showed i could recover a lot of my files BUT none of the folder structure and file names,which given the amount of pictures i had would be pain in the arse to sort out
any ideas on what to do next, suppose i could do a quick format of the drive which should restore the mbr/mft then use "Piriform's Recuva" software (used it before on SD cards/ internal HDD) works very well to say it's free, not sure if that would restore the file names tho
HELP
Cheers
Lyndon