Fix Drive is Not Accessible



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

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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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This Post Has 44 Comments

  1. Inga

    Worked! Thank you 💕😊

  2. Furqan Ayub

    my cmd displayed " this type of file system is RAW CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives"
    Now what should i do ?

  3. Andy Says

    Thank You so MUCH, Lad
    Without you , I was about to format ma USB
    You're the Boom !!!

  4. My results says

    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 elavated mode and make sure the disk is unlocked.

    HOW TO SOLVED THIS?

  5. Fire Wings

    CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives. Your solution did not work on windows 7

  6. Albert Memet

    C:Usersalbert>chkdsk /r f:

    Cannot open volume for direct access. pls help

  7. Roman Slaytanic

    I ran the same command, but my system displayed the below and I couldn't continue. What I can do?
    C:WINDOWSsystem32>chkdsk /r e:
    The type of the file system is exFAT.
    Volume Serial Number is 76E8-CACF
    Both copies of the boot information for this volume are corrupt.
    Chkdsk cannot continue.
    An error occurred while examining the boot region.

  8. Margie Umali

    Thank u for sharing super thank u..i save all my files….thank u so much sir…

  9. When i type command chkdsk /r and my drive letter it said cannot open volume for direct access?

  10. Catherine Fraser

    I watched the video, but unfortunately, I was not able to fix my external hard drive. In the command section, it said, "the drive, the path or file name is not valid. I have thousands of songs 🎵 that my computer is not recognising the drive. I do not know what to do. Please help

  11. It worked for me as well, but then when I opened the hard drive the files were not folders anymore. So when I try to open one of them gives me only the "open with" option… So I guess I just changed the problem… Someone would know what to do?

  12. Shoaib Haider

    It really Grate 100% perfect ********* I am very thankful to you (BRITEC09)

  13. Javed Shah

    I have exactly same problem on my desktop but open on laptop no problem
    only problem on desktop
    please tel me solutions thanks

  14. xasan Foojaa

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  15. Melissa Watson

    Omg, thank you so much for this 🙏 I've been going crazy trying all kinds of things for hours and this worked. 👏👏👏

  16. Richard Bonales

    mine says "cannot open volume for direct access" can I still fix this?

  17. Keith Monahan

    Thanks Brian, another excellent video. !! 👍 However it did not resolve my issue. When I ran the syntax from the CMD line for my external 2.5” internal drive slaved out USB I received the error: “Cannot open volume for direct access.” Not only that but following your previous step before the CMD line, I am also “Not,” able to read/recognize the drive in its raw form. I’ve been battling this issue for quite some time now. I go from either, “disc is not initialized,” to “cannot initialize due to fatal hardware device error.” I’m about out of options here. The disk that I’m trying to access and recover data from was the former “primary drive,” from one of my other laptops. It has data that I need to recover, but cannot mount the volume for some reason. Anything at all that you could suggest would be greatly appreciated. As always I appreciate all of your tutorials. Best regards from across the pond 🇺🇸 – Keith

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  24. Sukanya Patnaik

    I am getting below message at the end… Could you please help

    File data verification completed.

    Phase duration (User file recovery): 5.78 hours.

    An unspecified error occurred (766f6c756d652e63 470).

  25. Tokyo Nairobi

    Im on the process of loading stage 1. Its in progress 5659 of 8448 . Stage 66% total 0%. I hope i can reach the stage 5 and recover my video lessons. Does the progress ok? Thank u

  26. Tokyo Nairobi

    I finish this process for almost 5 days but to no luck.. still disk error at the end… and i cried a lot.😭😭😭

  27. Kayla Bellah

    this would not work for me because my file system is raw 🙁

  28. K life.

    It’s not available for RAW drivers, help 😭

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