SOLVED: The File Or Directory Is Corrupted Or Unreadable - Hard Drive Wont Open

Fix the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable,

Issues addressed in this tutorial:
c the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable
the file or directory boot is corrupted and unreadable
the file or directory c boot is corrupted and unreadable please run the chkdsk utility
the file or directory c is corrupted and unreadable
the file or directory c is corrupted and unreadable Windows 7
the file or directory corrupted
the file or directory corrupted and unreadable

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems.Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung).

[sahibjotdigiride]

Just wanted to let you know that you just saved 8 years of my work with this single video. Thank you so so so so much. I would have to spend hundreds of dollars for this fix and they would have done the same thing I believe. Thanks a lot. Please keep helping the community. You're a life saver.

[gkotowich]

I Don't think there is many TECH Terms that are more scary then 'CORRUPT' when it comes to a file reading. I followed your method and had complete SUCCESS in restoring my external drive. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise!

[alexdunphy]

You know what ... People like you hold different level of respect in our eyes 👍 THANKS

[cgns]

Access Denied as you do not have sufficient privileges or
the disk may be locked by another process.
You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode
and make sure the disk is unlocked. this is what i get after doing the first command please help

[victoriawilenski]

I tried 3 different tutorials and all failed. this is the only one worked. Thank you.

[thefinalvendetta]

You just saved all of my art! I have a single folder with all of my Autodesk Maya projects which includes all the work I've done over that past 7 years and I couldn't get into it this morning, and after watching this video I'm back in and backing it up on a separate hard drive every day from now on! Thank you so much, liked and subscribed!

[jackzhang]

Oh my god. Never has such a simple video showing a simple command given me so much pleasure.

[herschey]

it worked in 5 seconds...lol and I waited for 1 yr xD

[ezrasdemise]

Still Works in 2022, this saved my external HDD with 1800 gigabytes of extremely important data on it, thanks very much!

[dabiggreasy]

Nice, I've been trying to delete a corrupted steam game going through all these different tutorials and up until this point nothing had worked. This tutorial was great thank you!

[azizal-nassar]

This is really the most helpful video on YouTube. I thought I was left with resetting my PC. You are a life savior. I can't describe how glad I am that I saw this video ... so much lovvveee ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[KansasCityDude]

I wanted to let you know this video saved me from having to drive 20 mins each way into the office for tech support during the 2020 pandemic !!

[Tamiil]

OMG it worked. I recently got a 4TB HDD so I wouldn't have to deal with a bunch of smaller drives all the time. I copied my work onto it and then it stopped functioning.

The connection of my HDD dock got a bit iffy recently, so it disconnected my new hard drive while it was booting up....more than once. Then I started to run into this small problem where I couldn't access it at all. With this I was able to fix it. I also got rid of the old dock ofc.

Thank you so much. You saved me from losing about 6 months worth of work. It entails video editing. Large files means a lot of required space in case you're wondering. ;)

[FreebeFreef]

I've been trying to fix this for days and this the only video that worked thank you!!!

[Surge]

Dude, you're a fawking master! I unexpectedly got the BSOD last night and thought I was going to have to spend money on a new laptop (mine is already seven years old), not to mention I thought I'd potentially lost of a ton of music and pics. I found your video this morning, though, and decided to give troubleshooting one more try. Your fix worked! You saved me a lot of money. A million thanks, buddy!

[Deimosx]

This worked perfectly and took little time. A 250gb ssd was checked in only 1 minute and I was able to fix my issue. Thank you!

[axvle]

A video from 2017, the best video of 2021.

Saved my data. Thanks!

[shariharris]

OHMYGOD - 2 years worth of client designs on my external hard drive were almost lost.... I read and watched this [and other videos] and screwed up enough courage to try it. This fixed it within 5 minutes! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

[ixplorevr]

Bruh, was having a meltdown, thanks for being clear...the admin part was where I was stuck, literally took 5 seconds on a very big amount of 360 video files. Thanks!

[jasonfromprx]

I wasn't really expecting for something to happen since my issue was based on a file in my hard drive D, and your problem was based on the entire drive. However, the system still checked for corrupted files in the entire hard drive. Only took the system around 45 seconds, great. Now I am able to download Valorant again. Thank you so much.
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