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Dafydd
Yesterday, I downloaded 194 jpg photos from my digital camera to a large,
external NTFS drive.
There were definitely there: they were all listed in Windows Explorer; I
even looked at a dozen or so of them. But now they're simply missing: when
I click on that directory, Explorer looks around for a while, then shows an
empty directory. Other directories within the same parent directory still
show all their photo files.
In between, I ran a couple of programs: PhotoShop, trying to make
thumbnails of those 194 files (this crashed out); and a picture-viewing
program called CryptaPix, which also crashed.
I'm *hoping* the files are still there, but for some reason they're not on
whatever NTFS calls their file allocation table -- master file table?
Perhaps if I could get Windows to rebuild the mft for that drive, the missing
files would magically reappear.
Is there any way to rebuild the master file table on an NTFS drive, such
that it will look through the drive, find every file, and recreate the table?
I'm running Win XP sp 2 most recently updated via Windows Update about two
weeks ago.
Thanks,
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Dafydd
external NTFS drive.
There were definitely there: they were all listed in Windows Explorer; I
even looked at a dozen or so of them. But now they're simply missing: when
I click on that directory, Explorer looks around for a while, then shows an
empty directory. Other directories within the same parent directory still
show all their photo files.
In between, I ran a couple of programs: PhotoShop, trying to make
thumbnails of those 194 files (this crashed out); and a picture-viewing
program called CryptaPix, which also crashed.
I'm *hoping* the files are still there, but for some reason they're not on
whatever NTFS calls their file allocation table -- master file table?
Perhaps if I could get Windows to rebuild the mft for that drive, the missing
files would magically reappear.
Is there any way to rebuild the master file table on an NTFS drive, such
that it will look through the drive, find every file, and recreate the table?
I'm running Win XP sp 2 most recently updated via Windows Update about two
weeks ago.
Thanks,
--
Dafydd