Windows 10: Windows 10 - The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable

Hi, last night my internal hard drive is working fine but today when I want to access my hard drive windows said:




then I tried to chkdsk the hard drive, but aborted:




when I open the hard drive properties, the result is blank:




then I tried to error checking, windows said:




here is the status in disk management:




Anyway, my hard drive is WD Green 1.5TB, about 8 years old. Please help me to find a solution to fix this issue, thank you!

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DVD RW Drive (E is running really slow!

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D is corrupted or unreadable

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Hi, please download and run Hard Disk Sentinel (trial) and post a screenshot of its GUI showing its assessment of your E:

Other possibilities: hardware interface, cabling, connector...

Thanks.

Note that searching for your error message

gives plenty of results which could point you in the right direction. E.g. these which do have an outcome using certain tools.
[SOLVED] File or directory is corrupted or unreadable - Tech Support Forum
unable to determine volume version and state.

 

Hi again dalchina! Here's the result as you requested:
- Overview




- Temperature




Is there any information that you can enlighten me from that result?
And for your another suggestions I will reply it later, because I'm still in my workdays. Thank you!

 

Well, it looks as if it's suspect- I would suggest you make sure you have a full backup, else rescue what you can and consider a new disk.

 

I already recover some of files from that disk with data recovery software. But, is there any way to fix the hard drive? without format or losing any data from it? thank you.

 

You can't fix a dying drive. HDDs come with redundant sectors and these are automatically reallocated in normal operation invisibly to the user.

In your case there are additional warnings.

We constantly recommend people use disk imaging routinely - compressed copies of Windows partitions, disks and partitions- copied to an external disk.

This means you can recover easily without technical help even if your disk fails, your PC becomes unbootable (due to disk or file related problems). E.g. Macrium Reflect (free). Images also act as full backups.

 

Okay then. But, have you heard before software named SpinRite and HDD Regenerator? are that softwares is worth to try? because there are some files that important is still not recovered by data recovery software. Thank you!

 

IF the files are important to you STOP and send it to a data recover company. The more you mess with it the worse it gets and reduces the chance of a sucessful data recovery. You will never "fix" that drive. The tools you mention are mostly snake oil. I would make a sector by sector clone with a program called ddrescue and work only from that clone to recover your files.

 

No. Not worth a try. It will make it worse.

What would you say if I suggested you send me the old disk, a new disk and $500 to copy one to the other? You can pay postage obviously and I'll keep the $500 anyway.

If you had any sense you would say "no thank you, I will copy it myself (and ask how if I don't know)".

That is what these forums are for - to help you not waste money or get scammed.

 

If you consider that the data is not worth paying for Professional Recovery , then Porthos above suggestion is the next best thing you can try.

https://www.sevenforums.com/general-...-recovery.html

You may have to do some more research on it since that thread is dated and was only a starter to begin with.

 

I bought and used the MiniTool Power Data Recovery for $89 one time when I "accidentally" (unwittingly, actually) reformatted a hard disk with valuable data on it. It worked like a charm, but that was on a working drive that I had messed with, not on a failing drive with hardware problems. All things considered, if you really, really need that data, you should follow the advice from @Porthos and send it to a data recovery company for professional recovery. Otherwise, walk away and spend your money on a new drive, and resolve to learn from experience.
HTH,
--Ed--

 

To be honest though you could have just recreated the partition table. All the data was still there - formatting a drive doesn't delete it. If it was GPT you could even just copy the backup partition table from the end to the start of the disk.

The OP has a problem with a failing disk. The only sensible thing to do is copy it all (or all that is left) to a new one. dd would be the obvious choice - failing that Macrium will do a sector copy to a new disk (including unreadable or corrupted blocks).

Running recovery apps (even if they work) is a bad idea if the disk is failing. Better to copy it then run some free thing like 18 Free Data Recovery Software Tools (January 2018) on the new copy.

 

I agree with lx07, as I tried to say in my previous post to this thread. Given hardware issues, if professional recovery is out of the question, the only way to recover anything is to copy what can be copied from the old, failing drive onto a newer, non-failing one. End of story, I think,
--Ed--