If your disk is unmounted, unreadable, inaccessible, or corrupted, you can run CHKDSK /R. It will fix the possible errors on the disk and simultaneously check if the disk has bad sectors and do readable data recovery. CHKDSK /R /F vs CHKDSK /F /R on Windows 10 CHKDSK /R /F and CH...
With this error, users can't access the device nor open the saved files. Also, Windows will pop up a warning message, "Location is not available. Drive: \ is not accessible." Why a hard drive, USB, or SD card suddenly becomes inaccessible? Generally, the error is caused by the follow...
It is therefore strongly recommended to use a modern file system like NTFS, exFAT, or FAT32 whenever possible. A lot of Windows progams, including File Explorer that comes with Windows, have problems with paths longer than the old 259 character limit, regardless of which underlying filesystem ...
Step 1.Connect the inaccessible external hard drive to computer. Then open Disk Management to make sure it can be detected by Windows. Step 2.Install and launch DiskGenius from your PC. Right-click the corrupted partition on the external hard drive and choose "Load Current Partition Intelligently...
On one or many occasions, you definitely should have come across the "device is not ready" error message - it is one of the commonest Windows error messages you're likely to get when you try to access a flash drive, USB device, or any other external storage disk, including discs. The...
A RAW format drive refers to a drive that has not been formatted to any readable file system such as NTFS, FAT32, or exFAT by Windows. Then, it occurs on internal hard drives or SSD as well. Sometimes, a drive becomes RAW due to corrupted file system or serious bad sectors. Data on...
single file system when you first get them, for example, a FAT32 or exFAT file system. You can simply use the cmd.exe application, better known as “Command Prompt”, to create a bootable USB drive on all operating systems from Windows Vista (including Windows 10). T...
Bad sectors: Bad sectors are no longer readable or writable, and they can occur on any area of your disk. If the disk space where file system is stored contains bad sectors, then Windows cannot access it, resulting in an inaccessible partition. ...
HDD regenerator is compatible with all the latest versions of Windows, including Windows Vista, XP, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and 11. File System Agnostic: HDD Regenerator isn't restricted to any file system, so you can use it with NTFS, FAT, exFAT, and any other one, whether the disk is fo...
DiskGenius - Free disk partition software to format SSD/HDD with 4K alignment, convert RAW drive to NTFS/FAT32, transfer Windows 10/11 to SSD or USB drive, etc. Part 1. What are flash drives and external hard drives? Flash drives, often called pen drives or USBs, are small drives for...