Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

I've created a virtual block raid partition, however I believe the original MFT was corrupted when the original raid array went down; R-Studio gives me a number of 'Unexpected MFT record' and 'Claimed attribute size was shrunk' errors when I scan the drive. I know that a backup MFT is stored in the last sector; is there a way to have R-Studio use this instead of the primary one to recover files?

I'm getting a lot of files turning up in the scan, but the directory structure is lost, and all the files show up in one big file-type bucket, many of them corrupt.

TIA ~
James

R-Studio uses both MFT copies, although the second MFT copy is too less informative.
Sometimes data on disk is so damaged, that the directory structure is totally lost.

How does it know which entries to use, the primary or backup MFT? Can it tell that one is damaged?

Thanks for the help!