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?

  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    1. If the contents of this drive have high importance and you don’t have backups, stop what you’re doing and sent it out to a data recovery specialist. It will cost ~$700+.

    2. Otherwise, I’d try Testdisk.