Vitally important information can be damaged or even lost forever which is a serious problem for an ordinary user – frankly speaking, most of us still tend to neglect regular backups. Quite often, you may see a notification that a file or directory cannot be accessed because it is damaged or there is a read error. However, in spite of modern storage devices being very reliable, sometimes there are situations when you can’t do it.

Advice on safe application of external data storage devices.Īll kinds of information are stored in memory devices and it is important to make sure that users can always access it when addressing the memory device.

Stage 1: Recover data with specialized software.

Formatting a partition or volume without losing data.

Checking and recovering damaged file system, fixing disk errors.

Solutions to fix the problem with unreadable data and inaccessible partitions.

Removable drives are not safely removed from a PC.

Physical defects in the storage device.

An external hard drive or USB drive infected by a virus.

The main causes behind the “corrupted and unreadable” error.

Fat file system error