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Windows 7 wont recognize or execute files on (D): drive only
Hello Sevenforum, first thing thank you for taking the time to read this and help me out.
I'm recently having issues with my computer. I had a perfectly working Seagate Barracuda 3TB drive [D:] running with 1 NTFS partition for backup (HTML, EXE, MP4, RAR, OBJ, JPEG, PDF). For some reason i decided to change the file association of a *.Mov file to be opened with a MP4 player (vlc player in this case), this is when the problem occurred (i think).
Now my computer won't let me open executable files (on this drive only [D:] or even view JPEG the rest of my computer works fine, but this drive wont let me execute anything, view images or load any PDF. I get an error message like "the file can't be viewed/executed because it appears to be damaged or corrupted" in windows 7.
I've spent sometime on this forum (5) days reading through everything i can find about this issue. I noticed that the files that wont load don't have anything in the value field of property (right click property > Details > Value), the other files that i do load will have something written in this field.
After reading this forum i came to the conclusion that i have to some extend a corrupt Master File Table (MFT). So far i did everything before asking anyone. I ran CHKDSK d: /r , CHKDSK /f, checked if i was infected with a virus, looked at test disk, defrag, all in all they say my [D:] drive is running perfectly and there is nothing unusual (no bad sectors).
I looked at some data recovery softwares, but they usually will recover files that are in the trash bin (i have my files i don't need anything from this option, its only that windows wont recognize them for now). I tried Getdataback but it will give me tags like 000998.pdf so i lose all my HTML due to the fact that folder integrity is messed up.
In essence what i'm trying to do is rebuild a working MFT for my files as it was before so i can execute/play/read my files, or any work around this issue. Can anyone help me with this ?
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by sampic; 30 Oct 2013 at 18:46.