Getting error in external drive

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husain1415 Posts 3 Registration date Tuesday 13 January 2015 Status Member Last seen 16 January 2015 - 14 Jan 2015 à 00:10
KY_WD Posts 2053 Registration date Thursday 23 October 2014 Status Member Last seen 28 February 2017   - 20 Jan 2015 à 03:55
hello friends.
i am getting an error in my 500 gb transcend external harddrive. my computer is showing an error of "the file or directory is corrupted or unreadble".
Please help me.. I dont want to lose my data...
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KY_WD Posts 2053 Registration date Thursday 23 October 2014 Status Member Last seen 28 February 2017   122
14 Jan 2015 à 03:03
Hello husain1415,

In this forum I've managed to find a solution to a similar problem like yours. Please, click on this link to see if this could help: https://ccm.net/forum/affich-706028-file-or-directory-is-corrupt-or-unreadable
If that does not resolve your issue, then you should try something else like the chkdsk /r command from Command prompt. You could try with software for testing the drive, produced by Transcend. Let's see if this could fix the errors.
Another option is to obtain a Linux Live CD and try to extract your data using it.

Hope that I helped.

KY_WD
husain1415 Posts 3 Registration date Tuesday 13 January 2015 Status Member Last seen 16 January 2015
16 Jan 2015 à 12:18
Okk... I will try..
Thanks
husain1415 Posts 3 Registration date Tuesday 13 January 2015 Status Member Last seen 16 January 2015
16 Jan 2015 à 23:11
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
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C:\Windows\system32>
C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk /f l:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted.

I m getting this error while trying in command prompt
KY_WD Posts 2053 Registration date Thursday 23 October 2014 Status Member Last seen 28 February 2017   122
20 Jan 2015 à 03:55
Hi again,

When you have checked the command chkdsk /f I assume that my idea of chkdsk /r didn't work also, right?
If you can, try to bring the drive to a data recovery company if you couldn't get a Linux CD.
Also, you could find on the web some software that recovers MBR.

Good luck!

KY_WD