Corrupt master file table

Discussion in 'Software' started by dlb, Aug 4, 2011.

  1. dlb

    dlb MajorGeek

    I'm working on a Dell laptop (Vista Home Premium) and it's not booting. It has a recovery partition (drive D) and of course an OS partition (drive C). Drive C is has a corrupt master file table (when I hook it up via USB to a tower and try to run chkdsk on it, I get the error "Master Partition Table is corrupt" or maybe it's "Master File Table is corrupt"; one of the two). I can't access the partition via the Recovery Console or via a PECD.

    Any ideas?
     
    dlb, Aug 4, 2011
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  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    TimW, Aug 4, 2011
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  3. tgell

    tgell Major Geek Extraordinaire

    Another thing you might want to try is TestDisk.

     
    tgell, Aug 4, 2011
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