Windows 10: External harddisk - No access in Windows 10

Hi,

I have this WD 3707a external HDD that I use as a third backup for my Synology NAS. In the NAS I use a feature called Hyper Backup to back up pictures to the WD HDD.

Hyper Backup and the NAS can easily read the contents of the NAS, however when plugging the HDD into a Windows 10 PC, it is reported to be not accessible...





The text in the image say:

Location not available

F:\ is not available

The file or folder is damaged and cannot be read

Can this be fixed somehow?

Thank you

:)

 

my harddisk can't delete a file showing error 0x80070570 in windows 10,saw online to perform chkdsk function,will it delete my files,what does it do

my harddisk can't delete a file showing error 0x80070570 in windows 10,saw online to perform chkdsk function,will it delete my files,what does it do,how long does it take..

And how to delete the file without further issues on the external harddisk

 

External hard drive does not show up in File Explorer on Windows 10.

NOT HELFUL

NEITHER WD ELEMENT IS WORKING NOR THE SEAGATE EXTERNAL HARDDISK IS WORKING OR SHOWING.

WINDOW 8 WAS EXCELLENT BUT WINDOW 10 IS SO BAD /POOR /IRRETATING

 

What file system is your Synology NAS using and is it setting any kind of protection status?

 

It uses NTFS and there is no protection on these backups. The strange thing is that I had three external disks where two of them was not able to be read in Windows. They were perfectly fine when opened via the NAS.

After formatting one of the two broken disks it works fine in Windows 10. The reason I do not want to format the last drive as well is because it contains more backup versions...

 

Maybe it would help if you posted disk mgmt shot with all columns opened.

Someone might spot something.

 

I'm sorry that I mislead you... The filesystem on the affected HDD is RAW, not NTFS... I have three external disks connected to the NAS from time to time, and the other two are NTFS. This last one not working is RAW... I assume that is the issue then? I do not know how that happened... I am sure I formatted it to NTFS, but apparently, I have not...

 

Raw is no file system as far as I know.

If you plug it back into where it belongs, I think you said you use it as a backup to NAS do the files show.

I will try to get someone who I think is the best on the forum with data issues.

 

A drive that is RAW is being interpreted as RAW. It does not mean the drive is RAW.
For example you could move a windows drive from one computer to the secondary bay of another computer.
The second computer could read it as a RAW drive but it still has all of the files intact.

There is a boot error: inaccessible boot drive
When the drive is viewed in diskpart it will typically display the drive as RAW.
There are troubleshooting steps to fix the RAW interpretation so that the files can be read.

 

"Hyper Backup and the NAS can easily read the contents of the NAS",

If that is the case, can you not copy the files to another HDD and then format the drive as you did in the case of other two HDDs? ( Or am I naive and that is why I skipped this thread? *Biggrin)

 

As long as you connect the drive to a computer that can read the files the files can be copied(Windows has to be able to read the files).

See these links: (These are for information purposes only)
How to repair RAW external hard disk and recover data from RAW external hard disk?
Fix Raw External Hard Drive and Recover Files - EaseUS
UPDATED How To Fix: External Disk Drive Suddenly Became RAW Unknown Kadath
How Do I Do SD Card RAW Recovery Effectively

 

Hi there

probably the easiest solution is for the NAS to copy relevant files to another device - then you can re-format / repair the other HDD.

You could also possibly try booting a live Linux distro and see if it can read the files -- if so you can then copy them to another device in case your NAS can't do it.

Cheers
jimbo

 

You are not naive at all, and this was actually the solution to the problem *Biggrin I connected both the affected HDD and a spare HDD to the NAS, and copied the contents over to the spare. After connecting it to the Windows computer everything was working perfectly and I could once again read the contents!

Thank you all for the help, and sorry for the delayed response.

 

Happy ending. Glad you got your data back.

 

Copying the data visible and accessible on the NAS to another drive was an obvious solution and we took it. Even jimbo45 recommended it later.
OK, fine. Make no mistake. I am still naive *Biggrin . 1. I still do not know why that drive was all true on the NAS but RAW when plugged into directly on Windows. Someone has to enllighten me. 2. I still do not know or makeout what you did further on the "affected drive". ( I am late to the party due to other exigencies and also I lost track of this thread.)

Notwithstanding, I am reporting to admins/mods to mark this thread solved on your behalf..(Oops... it is already marked as solved)