Two situations requiring NTFS partition recovery on a PC
There are two scenarios wherein NTFS partition recovery must be enacted so as to either render a computer operable or rescue from a hard drive partition contained files. In theory the former has a ready solution of using an NTFS partition recovery tool to compare operating system file structure and from that comparison determine which missing or corrupted file must be overwritten. Replacement of these files should restore the partition to visible and functional status. This rarely works.
Just as with most crashed hard drive problems it seems that when we replace damaged or missing files in a partition with the hope of reinstating function, there is always an unknown file or files that we have not replaced. We then must make sure all of the needed files are definitely reinstalled by reloading our entire operating system. Prior to doing so we must affect a plan to recover NTFS partition data that includes accessing the files within the failed partition and copying those archives to external storage.