as you all know, the command fixmbr will only work when you boot from the OS installer cd.
i've been having this "$Mft is corrupted and unreadable" on my usb 750 gig Seagate drive for quite some time and found the solution at last. ^_^
ok naman yung drive kasi, been writing on it daily dahil dun pumapasok mga My Documents folder ng mga client pc ko. so hindi ko minamadali paghahanap ng solution. it's just that the error message is irritatingly frequent and running the checkdisk tool of xp doesn't solve the problem. i can't boot from cd because the drive is constantly in use the whole day.
just copy the file on your c drive.
open a cmd window
type: mbrfix /drive letter (in my case: mbrfix /h)
done!
"
mbrfix /?" will get you the program help
heniwey... you can download the fix
here (just scroll down that page) or
here (my personal download link, just in case you can't get in the first).
been half an hour and the error message has not popped up yet. yey! and the files on the drive are still intact. i guess you can also use the tool on flashdrives that refuses to read even though they're not defective. ^_^
