Can't acces External HDD

[CCostach]

I just made a clean install on my laptop and when I try to access my external HDD it says : E: is not accessible

The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable

I have a lot of photos and things from school in it and I don't know what to do, I tried to change the letter, checking it

On the disk management in windows it says that de HDD is perfectly fine

Please help me!! Thanks

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just restore your backup and reformat the drive.

 

 

But if you dont' have a backup, you probably want to make a image of the drive and then use data recovery stuff on it. If you really care about the data send it to a pro.

[CCostach]

I don't have any backup. I can't do anything to save it?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, CCostach said:

I don't have any backup. I can't do anything to save it?

How much do you care about the data?

 

If you want to try something get a program like recuvra https://www.piriform.com/recuva

and see what you can get

[CCostach]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

How much do you care about the data?

 

If you want to try something get a program like recuvra https://www.piriform.com/recuva

and see what you can get

Well, I have a lot of photos with me, family, fiends... and my work from school that I need to send Monday

And I don't have time to make 3 works for school again

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, CCostach said:

Well, I have a lot of photos with me, family, fiends... and my work from school that I need to send Monday

And I don't have time to make 3 works for school again

If you care about your data sent it to a data recovery place. If not, image it and then try a data recovery program.

[Guest]

Try another computer. 

He also said take an image of the drive. So it would be a .iso I believe. 

[CCostach]

How can I image it, I can't access it

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, fpo said:

Try another computer. 

He also said take an image of the drive. So it would be a .iso I believe. 

file extentions don't really matter, but normally .img.

[CCostach]

I'm using recuva and it has found more than 8000 files, so I hope I get something at least

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, CCostach said:

How can I image it, I can't access it

Somethign like this http://odin-win.sourceforge.net/

[CCostach]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Somethign like this http://odin-win.sourceforge.net/

Ok, I will try this too

[CCostach]

Thanks for the help!

[kirashi]

I would recommend grabbing hold of a copy of the bootable PartedMagic live CD/USB and trying to access the drive with that.

Chances are, Windows is just really confused and claims it's corrupt when it's not - this happens a lot to me specifically with external HDDs.

 

What OS did you have on your laptop before?

Was the drive formatted on that laptop originally, or another computer?

If another computer, what OS was that computer running?

How was the drive formatted? NTFS? FAT32? exFAT?

What is the make and model of external drive?

[CCostach]

I solved it guys, I used Recuva and waited like 5 hours like a good boy... Now I recovered everything and I can access the HDD, i'm going to take everything out and format it