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Old 01-26-2004, 02:02 AM   #1
Default MFT (Master File Table) and volume bitmap is corrupt, how to fix?


here is the situation i have. i have tons of invalid mft entries and
my volume bitmap is completely messed in XPro.

chkdsk/f and scandisk do nothing to fix the problem correctly. is
there any hope for me to fix this? so far i've been running the os
without many problems however this is really starting to bother me.

thanks for any help.




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Old 01-26-2004, 02:57 AM   #2
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 02:02:49 GMT, "RavenKnight"
<> wrote:

>here is the situation i have. i have tons of invalid mft entries and
>my volume bitmap is completely messed in XPro.
>
>chkdsk/f and scandisk do nothing to fix the problem correctly. is
>there any hope for me to fix this? so far i've been running the os
>without many problems however this is really starting to bother me.
>
>thanks for any help.
>


Get a program called Spinrite...run that.


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Old 01-26-2004, 05:42 AM   #3
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"RavenKnight" <> wrote in news:dz_Qb.7845
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> chkdsk/f and scandisk do nothing to fix the problem correctly. is
> there any hope for me to fix this? so far i've been running the os
> without many problems however this is really starting to bother me.
>


What do you mean they do nothing? If you have run chkdsk /f and it fixed
problems, and then later the same or more problems appear, it is probably a
hardware problem, indicating your disk drive is about to fail.

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Old 01-26-2004, 12:07 PM   #4
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I believe "DiskKeeper" can fix this.

RavenKnight wrote:
>
> here is the situation i have. i have tons of invalid mft entries and
> my volume bitmap is completely messed in XPro.
>
> chkdsk/f and scandisk do nothing to fix the problem correctly. is
> there any hope for me to fix this? so far i've been running the os
> without many problems however this is really starting to bother me.
>
> thanks for any help.

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Old 01-26-2004, 01:30 PM   #5
Thor
 
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"Trent©" <> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 02:02:49 GMT, "RavenKnight"
> <> wrote:
>
> >here is the situation i have. i have tons of invalid mft entries and
> >my volume bitmap is completely messed in XPro.
> >
> >chkdsk/f and scandisk do nothing to fix the problem correctly. is
> >there any hope for me to fix this? so far i've been running the os
> >without many problems however this is really starting to bother me.
> >
> >thanks for any help.
> >

>
> Get a program called Spinrite...run that.


Spinrite doesn't support NTFS volumes.


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Old 01-26-2004, 05:05 PM   #6
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On 26 Jan 2004 07:30:07 -0600, "Thor" <> wrote:

>
>"Trent©" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 02:02:49 GMT, "RavenKnight"
>> <> wrote:
>>
>> >here is the situation i have. i have tons of invalid mft entries and
>> >my volume bitmap is completely messed in XPro.
>> >
>> >chkdsk/f and scandisk do nothing to fix the problem correctly. is
>> >there any hope for me to fix this? so far i've been running the os
>> >without many problems however this is really starting to bother me.
>> >
>> >thanks for any help.
>> >

>>
>> Get a program called Spinrite...run that.

>
>Spinrite doesn't support NTFS volumes.
>


Interesting.

Yet another good reason to use NTFS! lol


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