Windows 10: Repair External Hard Disk Errors

Hello, Dear Sir / Madam, please help me in a problem. I have an external 500 Gb hard drive and it has bad things on it. Please be nice to tell me how you can solve it. Thank you! IM waiting for a message! A wonderful day!

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Repair an external hard drive connected to Windows 10

Hello Jeff,

You may try running Disk Error Checking and the CHKDISK tool to help you repair your external hard disk. Both tools are designed to fix errors on your disk. Make sure that you're signed in as administrator before performing
these steps:

Run Disk Error Checking

• Plug in your external hard disk.
• Open File Explorer by pressing the
  Windows keys button + E.
  
• Go to This PC.
• Right-click your external hard disk under Devices and drives.
• Select Properties
• Go to Tools tab.
• Under Error checking, click Check.
• If prompted, click Yes or enter the administrator password.
• Click Scan drive > Repair drive.
• Wait for the process to finish.
• The scanning process may take a while depending on the size of your external hard disk and the specifications of your PC.

Run the CHKDSK tool

• Plug in your external hard disk.
• Click the Start button.
• Type Command Prompt.
• Right-click Command Prompt and then select Run as administrator.
• On the Command Prompt screen, type the command below:
  • chkdsk <drive letter>: /f
• <driver letter> would be the letter assigned to your external hard disk.
  • For example: chkdsk E: /f
• Do take note of the spaces between the command.
• Again, the scanning process duration depends on the size of the external hard disk and your PC's specifications.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

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External Hard disk contents are not visible.

Hi Pranoti,

For us to narrow down your concern with your external hard disk, we would like to know the following:

• Were there any changes made on your computer prior to the issue (e.g., updates, software installation)?
• To make sure that we have not missed on anything, what troubleshooting steps have you done so far?
• Do you hear any clicking sound when connecting your hard disk?

In the meantime, we suggest that you update all your device driver.

We look forward to your response.

 

3rd master hard disk error

Ugh, i just got that on my dads pc, he was ripping a dvd to his external hdd to play off the ps3, when we rebooted it he got a 3rd master hard disk error.

Anybody got any suggestions?

I reset the cmos for about 5 minutes thinking thats all i needed to do, but that didn't happen.