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 soooooooooooo 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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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. ;)
This is really the most helpful video on RUclips. 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 ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
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
You just saved my life, have been on RUclips for the past 7 hours looking at tutorials and none of them work. I was like I’m try this video and if it don’t work I’m done with gaming! You are a life saver!! Thank you so much
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!
Thank you so much. It fixed my WD My Passport Ultra external drive. It wouldn't open reading ' the directory or file is corrupted or unreadable'. Thank you again for enabling me to access my data on this drive. Brilliant!
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. ⚜⚜⚜⚜
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!
Thank you very much! I was very worried about my hard drive. But now it is working well again. Again: thank you very much for helping me and other peoples out. You made a very good tutorial. Very easy to understand, and no waste of time.. Subscribed!
Thank you so much for this video even after 5 years this still works I was trying to fix this for 3 hours just to delete one broken undeletable folder even tool apps couldn't fix it but with your video it fixed it and made it deletable in just 1 minute (my drive was kinda empty).
Thank you! Was worried i'd have to download all my music again. I transferred over 1000 songs from my itunes to my external HDD, cause i changed to windows 8 from windows 10. Got that msg when i clicked on the music folder in my external HDD. Now it's working. Thanks bud!
God bless you Sir. Thought I would leave a comment to reassure your viewers that this method still works today (July 2019) as it worked perfectly for me and helped me to restore some very important documents on my external hard drive (E). I got the message ‘File Or Directory Is Corrupted Or Unreadable’. I followed your direction and it was fixed. Very quick and very simple. Thank you.
Thanks a lot! I wasn't able to use my PC for almost a week. But when I stumbled upon this video, I was able to solve it immediately. God bless you!! 😇 Ps. Sorry for my grammar.
Thank you so much, you were very specific on making sure we knew when to space and when to add letters. I was frustrated from other videos until I came here, followed your instructions carefully and it actually fixed all the errors. I thought I was going to have to reformat, being a DJ with thousands of music files, that would have been a nightmare, yes, I have them backed up on other drives, but to copy them over takes a very long time. Thanks again
I did as you said but i still received this in the terminal. Please Help The type of the file system is NTFS. The first NTFS boot sector is unreadable or corrupt. Reading second NTFS boot sector instead. Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted.
Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first. ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID. Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N) mine says this
Damnnn Bro ,You saved me bro .For me it didn't asked for Yes or No it directly repaired the corrupted pendrive now i am able to use the pendrive .bro respect for you
"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" what it says help me?.
Man you basicly saved my life! My entire work from the last 5 years were in a ex hard-drive that failed my. Just didn't opened, I've tried everything! Do you have a paypal account? Im dead serious!
So after restart I got a screen telling me that "Your PC ran into problem and needs to restart. We are just collecting some error info, and then we'll restart for you .. 0% complete). Should I wait for this to be restarted. It takes almost one hour without any changes right now though I've just installed windows 10 in my machine (the drive is almost empty).
sir .. i downloaded windows 10 bootable from Microsoft website to my external harddisk. unfortunately once download complete ifound only window10 installation and all my others are there but not accessible . any idea please
Just awesome.. I retained my files after watching this video thanks a lot.. I just had back up data of 10 years and was scared that I would loose it but this video saved all of it... Once again thanks a lot...
Thank you so much..... you rescue me. After doing so many think what others are saying, you are the only one gave me correct solution. If any one have trouble to access to potable hard drive or can not open it's files try what this video said. 100% recommend.
Hi, thank you for your video. I've tried the method explained but got the following message: Windows cannot recover master file table. CHKDSK aborted. Do you think there is any hope?
Hi. I have a memory stick showing this massage (( The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. F:/ is not accessible )) I tried many selutions but no one works. would you please help me to fix it?
It's showing that that 'Chkdsk may run if the volume is dismounted first as it is in use by another process. And that all opened handles to this volume would then be invalid. Would you like to force a dismount on this volume?' What do I do?
I ran command prompt as an administrator, then typed "chkdsk /f d:", it started checking the disk then stopped at stage two showing the following message "Correcting error in index $SDH for file 9. An unspecified error occured (766f6c756d652e63 461)". Any help please ?
wow this instantly recovered the corrupted folder on my flash drive. Why on earth doesn't windows offer to troubleshoot the error like this on the spot? lol
Hello, will it work for visual studio 2017 as well? Because when i click on link to open installer it sayed : "vs_setup_bootstrapper.exe - The file is corrupted" I tried to uninstall it and install it but nothing changed .... Can you help please?
![The Disk Structure is Corrupted and Unreadable [SOLUTION]](/img/1.gif)
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Thank you so much man!
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 soooooooooooo 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.
You're welcome!
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!
You know what ... People like you hold different level of respect in our eyes 👍 THANKS
Happy to help
I tried 3 different tutorials and all failed. this is the only one worked. Thank you.
Glad it helped
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!
I appreciate that Corey! Watching, rating, and commenting helps immensely!
Oh my god. Never has such a simple video showing a simple command given me so much pleasure.
Glad it helped!
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!
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!
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. ;)
You're welcome!
Still Works in 2022, this saved my external HDD with 1800 gigabytes of extremely important data on it, thanks very much!
A video from 2017, the best video of 2021.
Saved my data. Thanks!
Glad it helped
This is really the most helpful video on RUclips. 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 ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
You are welcome!
Just recovered 800Gb, you're a star man. I just subscribed to your channel!
Welcome aboard!
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
DAAAAMN! It's been a week since I'm finding how. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! IT WAS A GREAT HELP. I subbed :)))
Your welcome!
You just saved my life, have been on RUclips for the past 7 hours looking at tutorials and none of them work. I was like I’m try this video and if it don’t work I’m done with gaming! You are a life saver!! Thank you so much
Glad I could help
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!
Thank you so much. It fixed my WD My Passport Ultra external drive. It wouldn't open reading ' the directory or file is corrupted or unreadable'. Thank you again for enabling me to access my data on this drive. Brilliant!
Glad to help.
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.
⚜⚜⚜⚜
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!
You're welcome!
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!
Buddy, this solution has saved me from a potential business disaster. Thank you dude!
You're welcome
I had to leave a comment!!! I’m soooo excited. I thought my hard drive was gone but this simple step fixed it!!! Thanks man
You're welcome!
Thank you very much! I was very worried about my hard drive. But now it is working well again. Again: thank you very much for helping me and other peoples out.
You made a very good tutorial. Very easy to understand, and no waste of time..
Subscribed!
Glad to help!
Thank you so much for this video even after 5 years this still works I was trying to fix this for 3 hours just to delete one broken undeletable folder even tool apps couldn't fix it but with your video it fixed it and made it deletable in just 1 minute (my drive was kinda empty).
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 !!
it worked in 5 seconds...lol and I waited for 1 yr xD
You're welcome!
Thank you! Was worried i'd have to download all my music again. I transferred over 1000 songs from my itunes to my external HDD, cause i changed to windows 8 from windows 10. Got that msg when i clicked on the music folder in my external HDD. Now it's working. Thanks bud!
You're welcome!
God bless you Sir. Thought I would leave a comment to reassure your viewers that this method still works today (July 2019) as it worked perfectly for me and helped me to restore some very important documents on my external hard drive (E). I got the message ‘File Or Directory Is Corrupted Or Unreadable’. I followed your direction and it was fixed. Very quick and very simple. Thank you.
You're welcome!
Thanks a lot! I wasn't able to use my PC for almost a week. But when I stumbled upon this video, I was able to solve it immediately. God bless you!! 😇
Ps. Sorry for my grammar.
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much, you were very specific on making sure we knew when to space and when to add letters. I was frustrated from other videos until I came here, followed your instructions carefully and it actually fixed all the errors. I thought I was going to have to reformat, being a DJ with thousands of music files, that would have been a nightmare, yes, I have them backed up on other drives, but to copy them over takes a very long time. Thanks again
My mans literally saved me from restarting all my assignments and redownloading all my movies!!!!!
Wow it works! Thank you so much! I thought I lost my files on my flashdrive since it won't let me open it. This video saved it! Thanks a lot!
Glad it helped!
I rarely comment on RUclips videos - but just wanted to say thank you for this... I thought I'd lost almost 10gb of data! You're a star 🌟👊👍
I've been trying to fix this for days and this the only video that worked thank you!!!
I thought I'd lost everything on my hard drive. Thanks to you and this video I recovered everything. Thanks man🙏🏽
Glad I could help
words cannot describe how much i love you dude
i was going nuts over this issue
I did as you said but i still received this in the terminal. Please Help
The type of the file system is NTFS.
The first NTFS boot sector is unreadable or corrupt.
Reading second NTFS boot sector instead.
Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted.
Really appreciate for your tutorials!! It helped a lot due to my hard drive was showing corrupted and unreadable after plugged in... Thank you!!
Thank you, you fixed my pc that won't boot up and goes to automatic repair after a few restarts.
You're welcome!
You saved me, i thought all of my data was lost. You're the man!
Glad you like it!
Hi. Seems like worked for everybody except me. When I run this, i get "file record segment is unreadable". Any fixes?
You are so awesome! You saved all of my son's music on his external hard drive! Thanks!
Glad I could help!
Thanks man this literally solved all the problems I've been having with my SSD over the past week. Glad to find such an easy solution
Glad I could help
Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first.
ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.
Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N) mine says this
Damnnn Bro ,You saved me bro .For me it didn't asked for Yes or No it directly repaired the corrupted pendrive now i am able to use the pendrive .bro respect for you
OH MY GOD MAN YOUR SUCH GENIUS THANKS MAN I THOUGHT IT'S ALL FOR NOTHING WITHOUT THIS
Glad it helped
Thank you very much. I don't know how to repay you. But everyone's compliments will cheer you up. Keep doing it. Thank you
You're welcome!
Thank you so much! It helped me fixed the automatic repair problem I had! You're a star!
You're welcome!
Dude you saved my life man! You literally saved my 8 gigs of data!! Thanks man!!
"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" what it says help me?.
It says same in my case
Wow superb sir...within seconds its worked👏👏👏👏💥💥
Man you basicly saved my life! My entire work from the last 5 years were in a ex hard-drive that failed my. Just didn't opened, I've tried everything! Do you have a paypal account? Im dead serious!
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Thank you so much! My laptop is back working again!!!
You're welcome!
You a lifesaver man. Not all heroes....
Glad it helped!
So after restart I got a screen telling me that "Your PC ran into problem and needs to restart. We are just collecting some error info, and then we'll restart for you .. 0% complete). Should I wait for this to be restarted. It takes almost one hour without any changes right now though I've just installed windows 10 in my machine (the drive is almost empty).
If you can kindly elaborate, I will do my best to assist.
Thank you so much, this fixed the problems with my USB flash drive not being recognised...
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you SO much - I recovered everything on my USB stick and it was so easy! Brilliant!
Clear and concise best direction on how to fix 👍
Glad it helped
sir .. i downloaded windows 10 bootable from Microsoft website to my external harddisk. unfortunately once download complete ifound only window10 installation and all my others are there but not accessible . any idea please
Yo you’re a genius, tried many videos and options and this finally worked for me
You're welcome!
after doing that sir how long does it takes for the pc to go through the desktop? i can only see the mouse cursor and black screen
I have a 2tb external hard drive how long do you reckon the scan would be
Just awesome.. I retained my files after watching this video thanks a lot.. I just had back up data of 10 years and was scared that I would loose it but this video saved all of it... Once again thanks a lot...
pls! help it's not working
1.the type of the file system is ntfs.
2.unable to determine volume version and state. chkdsk aborted.
same here.
Nice video bro 💯, but I wanna know what is the main problem which corrupts the folder or files.
Glad I could help
Thank you so much bro, you save me there. I saw this solution somewhere else but it did explain very well.
it works thank you so much sirrr, im hopeless and i planning to reformat my pc, but this video, is a life saver.
You're welcome!
I did a chkdsk at boot, and now my computer just goes through an automatic repair screen and comes to a screen saying the automatic repair failed.
Thank you sooo much you are my new hero! Really thought I was gonna lose years of data. Really thanks so much!!!
Glad I could help
Thank you so much I’ve been looking for days to figure out my problem im happy I came across this video
Glad I could help
Very useful video, this saved my precious data which i thought got currupted. Thanks alot
Glad it helped
thank you it worked for me, and for windows10 the command prompt is called windows powershell
Glad it helped!
help me. even cmd is not opening. when trying to open cmd it says "the file or directory is currupted and unreadable"
thank you! i got back all of my kdrama but why have some file still can't i get back? omg help me
2021 still works. THANK YOU SOOOOOO SOOOOO MUCCCCCH FOR THIS!
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I had a quick question on this. Ikeep getting CHKDSK AABORTED any recommendations?
Worked like a charm for my SSD, you're a life saver dood!
You're welcome!
Thanks so much this worked perfectly for me. I was worried sick about my external hard drive.
Thank you so much for this! You're a lifesaver!
please help me ..it was doing something then stopped and said Insufficient disk space for CHKDSK to recover lost files.
Thank you so much..... you rescue me. After doing so many think what others are saying, you are the only one gave me correct solution.
If any one have trouble to access to potable hard drive or can not open it's files try what this video said. 100% recommend.
Thank you so much for uploading this fix! All our photos have been saved! We are very thankful :)
Hi, thank you for your video. I've tried the method explained but got the following message: Windows cannot recover master file table. CHKDSK aborted. Do you think there is any hope?
I too got the same error
Hi. I have a memory stick showing this massage (( The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
F:/ is not accessible )) I tried many selutions but no one works. would you please help me to fix it?
all my files are gone ._.
You're a Legend! Thank you for saving my home office! Worked perfectly! 🙏👌🏽 Much Appreciated!
Thank you so much, easy clear instructions that actually fixed my problem.
Glad it helped!
It's showing that that 'Chkdsk may run if the volume is dismounted first as it is in use by another process. And that all opened handles to this volume would then be invalid. Would you like to force a dismount on this volume?'
What do I do?
I ran command prompt as an administrator, then typed "chkdsk /f d:", it started checking the disk then stopped at stage two showing the following message "Correcting error in index $SDH for file 9. An unspecified error occured (766f6c756d652e63 461)". Any help please ?
Man can't thank you enough you saved me i owe you and your channel big time
Glad I could help
This deleted everything on my SD card, am I able to undo it?
Sir after I enter the chkdsk and so on then all it said that file record segment is ubreadable..how to solve this?
thank you my brother! I'm a DJ and almost lost 2,000 songs
You're welcome!
hello i have a problem with my hardrive that it is not seen in the pc app AND i cannot acess any of my data
It worked thank you. I thought I lost my 1TB data and memories in it. Thank you MD Tech Videos
Happy to help
wow this instantly recovered the corrupted folder on my flash drive.
Why on earth doesn't windows offer to troubleshoot the error like this on the spot? lol
Who knows.
Hello, will it work for visual studio 2017 as well? Because when i click on link to open installer it sayed : "vs_setup_bootstrapper.exe - The file is corrupted" I tried to uninstall it and install it but nothing changed .... Can you help please?
This video is AMAZING!!! THANK YOU! I want to donate to you for all your help, how can I do it?
Pinned comment. (:
Thank you for this. I thought my computer was completely bricked.
You're welcome