Hello,
My laptop got bad, so i bought a case for my internal hard drive and i was able to use it as an external hard drive. For about 2 months it worked normally but after after that, it just stopped working normally. Now when i plug it into my laptop it keeps telling me that i can only use the hard drive after i format it. When i click to open and view my files, i get a pop up saying "The drive is not accessible - The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" I can't format the drive. It contains a lot of stuff. What can i do to solve this problem. Please help.
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Hello,
no software solution on your own will work, you only option is to a data recovery company retrieve the data off the hard drive, if it isn't too badly damaged.
sorry to hear this, if the data is important then seek professional advise.
Hey guys thanks for the respond. They were a little disheartening but thanks anyway. I found a solution to the problem a colleague helped me out. He used the command prompt to solve the problem. He entered this command "chkdsk / f *the disk name goes here(it could be h, or g, or whatever)*"
What this does is, it checks the disk (chkdsk) and fixes (f) the broken areas.
To be clear, the command is chkdsk/ f d This could help someone else, like it helped me. Pheeewww boy i'm i glad that i don't have to loose everything in my Hard drive
