MFT corruption leading windows partition inaccessibility

By Partition Recovery

MFT (Master Table File) corruption in Windows is a common scenario, which ultimately leads to corruption in windows partition and hence the data within becomes inaccessible or simply lost. MFT is of utmost importance for smooth functioning of Windows based computer system. Any kind of damage or corruption in MFT .dat file could land you in great troubles.

Consider practical situations where you attempt to remove a file from NTFS file system partition, you may come across the below error message:

“Cannot delete file name: The file or directory is corrupt and unreadable.”

At the same time, you may see any of the below entries in the Application Event Log of Microsoft Windows operating system:

“Event ID: 41

Source: Diskperf

Description: The file system structure on disk is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the device with label ”

Or, something like this

“Event ID: 55

Source: NTFS

Description: The file system structure on disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume ”

As a measure of solution, first of all you would use CHKDSK tool for fixing this problem. But no one is sure whether using CHKDSK will bring some fruitful results or not? When you apply CHKDSK utility against affected Windows partition, it may or may not fix the problem. The data remains inaccessible after this behavior and you need to figure out the root cause of this problem and are suggested to perform Windows partition recovery to fix it orderly, without any loss of data.

Root cause of this problem

The above problem is caused if MFT (Master File Table) is damaged. Whenever there is corruption in Windows partition or its file system is faulty, you cannot delete a file. Corruption also renders entire hard drive partitions inaccessible and unusable, causing serious partition loss problems.

Solution

After MFT corruption, Windows operating system cannot read the partition entries and thus cannot access them. To fix this problem, you need to format the hard drive and recreate hard drive partitions. However, it removes all hard drive partitions and partition recovery is the only way to fix this problem.

Windows partition recovery software is a third party utility that ensures complete and accurate recovery of windows partitions despite the reason of corruption behind them. Windows partition recovery software utility performs only a read only scan of the damaged hard drive or partition to restore the lost and inaccessible data of FAT and NTFS file systems. Free demo version of Windows Partition Recovery software gives you fair idea regarding recovery of partitions and windows data too. Windows partition recovery software is compatible with FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems.

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