“Don’t touch it. Bring it in. Now.”
Nina mounted the virtual image in DiskGenius and ran . The tool sifted through the ghost drive’s raw data, reconstructing fragments, re-linking directory entries, and—miraculously—rebuilding the master file table.
Aris let out a breath he didn’t know he was holding.
“We’re not recovering files yet,” she explained. “We’re building a ghost. A sector-by-sector image to a healthy drive. DiskGenius will log every bad sector and fill the gaps with zeros. It’s ugly, but it’s safe.”