Fix Drive is Not Accessible

Fix Drive is Not Accessible Access is Denied The File Directory is Corrupt or Unreadable

How to fix drive is not accessible in Windows 10/8/7

External hard drives and USB Flash drives are used everyone nowadays to store personal data on there drives, this could be data like documents, photos, music, videos and a lot more.

Sometimes, without warning the disk shows a Location is not available popup box or "Drive is not accessible when trying to access the drive, you get Access is denied" error message. This error will make accessing the drive impossible until you fix the error. You can't get access to your personal data. Over the years I have seen this error on different versions of operating systems like Windows 10/8/7.

Remember A USB flash drive is not a long to backup solution.

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Thank you for this video 🙏🏽 my mom passed away yesterday and I had to recover my usb with photos on it. I’m crying I’m so happy that it worked. Bless you!!

[dalitsozulu]

You are a life saver mate. I have documents that can't be replaced and I managed to restore them. Thank you so much.

[samanhaaji]

I cannot thank you enough for this method, you have saved me. After weeks for not being to get back data back and access my hardrive, you helped though this. I hope doors open up in your life.

[TheStifled]

This was such a massive help, thank you so much :)

[XiosandraFirelyte]

I havent been this friggin happy about something so simple in FOREVER !! TRULY TRULY thanks :)

[lesliecoch]

Thank you SO much! I was freaking out that I may have lost all of our family pictures. You are so calm on the video and it worked :)

[theglorioussapphiremonkey]

Thanks a bunch! I thought I lost all my personal decades of memory! Thank u!!!

[xaviernavarro]

Honestly man thank you, you saved my entire semesters work.

[staxoffunk]

Hi Britec09, your post saved my 8TB drive! Than you. I had about 800gb of music files and some other data and used your tutorial. The chkdsk repair took about 18hours, I assume do to the size of the external drive (8tb), glad I didnt end it as the actual master boot record fixes seemed to be executed at the very last minute. Again thanks!
BTW, I looked at 2 other videos before finding yours, and your tutorial is the clearest and most complete.

[The_Last_Post]

Thank you Bri, this worked like a dream on my WD Passport external drive. PC was showing the drive as RAW, but I followed your instructions and left it overnight to run. All fixed by the morning, brilliant 👍

[yammyhaw]

Thanks so much for this video. I have many external drives and first time I ever experienced this! It was a new drive that I'd transferred some files over to, then I had this same problem accessing the drive afterwards. Had no clue as to what was going on till I googled and found your video here. I had formatted it beforehand so not sure what caused it? The only issue (ha) was that it's a 2TB drive so it took like 8-hours or so to complete step #5 (verifying the free space). I started to stop that step, but then decided to just let it run. When complete, it worked perfect as you described. THANKS AGAIN for your help!!

[kyrill_]

this just happened to my harddisk last night. and this worked for me. thankfully all my personal and work files are safe. Thank you!!

[elrenshi]

Thanks so much for your advise on this one. I had 32000 shots saved on a Comstar external drive and could not access them. You guys certainly made my life a lot happier when the problem was fixed and I managed to copy all the shots onto my PC drive. Brilliant!!!

[danylashtur]

Amazing video. It worked for me.Thank you very much . Saved me hours of filming.

[shyamal]

Wow great help I was so screwed up with the hdd. Thanks for the free data recovery tips

[KitJBenn]

Thank you Brian!! Appreciate your help!!

Have been trying this for about a week now! Not finding fault with you Brian!! Okay? I'm hoping today is the day!!

(Moved an old drive to another new old desktop)

I've been nothing your very wise comments so I'm feeling confident today Brian!! You will be the first to know if my slow mind gets around the problem!! Once again!! Thanks!!👍👍

[F_CGaming]

i am getting an error after the command chkdsk /r h: ( Cannot open volume for direct access)👈

[RIPUZI]

Thanks Brian. I've got my Hirens thumb drive ready to go. Looking forward to seeing what it can do. All the best.

[bamboobamboo]

Thank you, this works for me. I have a 3T external hard drive with the same problem. I followed every step in the video, and after overnight running (like 7 hours), everything is back.

[rapmantheoneman]

Worked perfectly! Thank you so much!!!! Truly appreciate you posting to help us