Restore from disc backup to new hard disc fails - log reports MFT corrupt
I am trying to restore a disc backup onto a new hard disc of larger capacity on a DELL Inspiron 1545 laptop but get an error when reaching the restoration of the OS partition. The restore fails and the log says the MFT is corrupt. What do I do now?
Is this a symptom of a defective file system on the original disc from which I made the backup? ATIH2012 says the backup is valid. The OS (Vista) and applications seem to run fine but since doing the disc backup there have been increasing signs of the disc being on the way out. The Western Digital diagnostics say so and chkdisc loops at stage 5 on checking free space. An open source utility called Testdisc says the partition is not recoverable because the apparent size is larger than the disc size on which it is residing! It has a feature to copy the backup MFT but this produced a write error! So all is definitely not well.
I managed to restore the hidden diagnostics partition and the recovery partition (supposed to contain factory image) but when I try to restore the OS partition, all goes awry. When selecting the partition to restore it says it is the correct size but after I have set the restore location, it shows it of zero size and the option to resize the partition is greyed out. If I try to restore it anyway, I get a failure message. The log for this operation says the MFT bitmap is corrupt.
Does this mean that the tib backup file although technically valid contains a backup of an already defective file system from the original disc?
I am coming to the conclusion I have no hope of restoring the partition in a working form if this is the case but is there anything else I should try?
If all else fails and I have to rebuild the OS, is it still possible to recover my data from the backup of this partition using ATIH2012?
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