Corrupt NTFS File System

From: Sean <sean1229@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:01:02 GMT

Hi,

I have a 200GB hard drive that has crashed. I cannot access it from
windows XP and when running chkdsk, I get this:

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
Corrupt master file table. CHKDSK aborted.

So it looks like my files system is corrupted. I thought that there
was always a backup file system in case the master ever got messed up
so my question is, how do I copy the backup file system to the master
file system and hopefully restore the drive?

Is there a utility out there that I could use?

Thanks for any help!

Cheers,
Sean
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