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I have a dual boot on 2 SSDs: 1)Windows7 (main) 2)Ubuntu 17.10.

After copying a folder from Ubuntu to Windows NTFS partition and rebooting Windows stopped recognizing this partition as NTFS (DISKPART shows RAW) and can't boot from it at all partition.

Chkdsk shows something like Corrupt master file table... cannot recover.

When I try to mount this partition under Ubuntu - it shows error message: enter image description here

I tried to use ntfsfix, shows the same input:

sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb2

Mounting volume... ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress() failed: Input/output error
Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors... ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress() failed: Input/output error
Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error
FAILED
Failed to startup volume: Input/output error
Checking for self-located MFT segment... OK
Unrecoverable error
Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk.

I tried TestDisk, didn't help

I created windows VM on my ubuntu and installed Acronis Revive on it, Acronis Revive allows to do scan and even quick scanning SHOWS ALL FILES AND FOLDERS and allow to restore it (saving to another drive), but how to restore the partition's MFT instead of cherry picking?

Please help!!!

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    I've had good luck with the program testdisk in the past: https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk – WinEunuuchs2Unix Feb 25 '18 at 01:39
  • You need to repair the NTFS partition boot sector. Usually you can restore from backup. You want to get to this screen: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step#NTFS_Boot_sector_recovery [HowTo] Repair the bootsector of a Windows partition - YannBuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootSectorFix RAW means the boot sector was erased. Do you have Windows fast start up on, which is hibernation. And then forcing write would corrupt it. – oldfred Feb 25 '18 at 20:36
  • TestDisk didn't help, more over it actually corrupted it more when I copied MFT Mirror to MTF. I researched with low level disk editor, that Bootsector is fine, the problem is corrupted (and absent) file system metadata records including $MFT (Master File Table), $root (#5), $BitMap, $Secure etc. Surprisingly I didn't find any tools that automatically recreate it by scanning the ntfs's FILE-records, the best thing I found is just cherry picking of files/folders to recover using Acronis or similar tools – Philipp Munin Feb 26 '18 at 09:23
  • @oldfred a damaged MFT has nothing to do with the boot sector. – Andrea Lazzarotto Feb 26 '18 at 16:04

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