Corrupt Master File Table, Anyone know how to fix it>?

[jabbathewocket 0]

Ok peoples. had a nasty crash yesterday afternoon and it seems my C: drive has gotten itself messed up a "master file table corrupt checkdisk cannot continue" appears when trying to check the drive from a second win2k installation on a seperate drive

 

any ideas/suggestions would be most appreciated!

 

system:

abit BH6 celery 366

384 megs PC100

Promise ultra 66 PCI w/WD 10 gig, maxtor 13.6

hp cdwriter 8100/toshiba dvdrom on MB IDE

 

the 13.6 maxtor IDE 0 device 0 is the one that is corrupted btw

[Skywise 0]

Reformat and reinstall. You're screwed basically...

[RobGoo 0]

If you have the repair console installed you can try "fixmbr". This will fix the master boot record.

[Awaxx 0]

I hope he hasn't tried the first solution already .

 

Awx

[jabbathewocket 0]

well thanks guys.. first poster had the right solution. reformat reinstall, its not the master boot record, was master file table (that part at beginning of NTFS drives with index of all files in system) word of warning treat it very nicely you SOL if you hose your MFT!

 

thanks again!

 

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[ctunion 0]

I have found a link to a site http://http://www.ctunion.com/node/38

 

It says there is a way to do this successfully. I tried it and it worked for me.

[ctunion 0]

Originally posted by ctunion:

Quote:

I have found a link to a site http://www.ctunion.com/node/38

 

It says there is a way to do this successfully. I tried it and it worked for me.

sorry the link was broken, try this one

 

 

http://www.ctunion.com/node/38