Q:

The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable fix to recover data?

My external hard drive wont open msg says H:is not accesable. A file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

A:

Sometimes, when you connect an external hard drive, USB flash drive, SD card or other data storage devices into your pc runs Windows 7/10/8/XP/Vista, Windows OS prompts error message: "Drive X:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." If you check the file system of the device, it shows as RAW file system. "X (C , D , E, F, G, H, I, etc.) is not accessible, The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" is a pop-up message usually showing on various storage devices such as External hard drive (WD,Seagate,Toshiba, Transcend, etc.), SD card (Sandisk, Kingston, Samsung, etc.), USB flash drive (Sandisk, Kingston, PNY,etc.),SSD, etc. When "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" error message happens, you can not access your storage device and data loss at most times. Many ways can solve this error, but first, you need recover the lost data and backup. Bad sectors, virus infection or file system corruption, MBR damaged, partition table damaged, and other reasons caused The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable error. Use CHKDSK or reformatting are the best ways to fix the error. But, you still recover data first. So, to solve this case, three keys: 1, Use data recovery software to recover data. 2, Use CHKDSK to check the device. 3, Reformat the drive.

Downloa Aidfile data recovery software, Use "Unformat" to recover files from the partitions before you format the Drive

Use "Recover partition" to recover files from old partitions changed or damaged or deleted.

Use "Full Scan", to recover files if partitions show as "raw" or recover deleted files which can not be found with "undelete" and "unformat" and "recover partition" after showing an error,display as raw file system,unformatted,unknown partition,unpartitioned,needs to be formatted.

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