Corrupt Master File Table

[Jaiye]

Yeah, the title says it all and I don't know what to do.

My setup is raid0 2x 120
Partition 1 = 20 gig system drive
Partition 2 = 210 gig everything else drive.

So tonight I was defragmenting my large partition, when it decided to stop and give me a strange error. My partition is now not accessable at all. I can see it, and see the size of it, but that's all.

Whenever I run chkdsk I get

C:\Documents and Settings\Jaiye>chkdsk /f f:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is iLife.
Corrupt master file table.  CHKDSK aborted.

I don't know what to do I'm about to panic, as I need the information on the partition.

 

[DougLite]

At this point, you have no hope of accessing that partition in Windows. Try the Ultimate Boot CD or Knoppix.

 

[Swatchie]

I did a google search and found this article.

http://www.ntfs.com/quest14.htm

that might help.

Here is another link that I found that really has a good description of their failure and how they fixed it.

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

I really hope you are able to get everything working.