The portable hard disk can t be read, how to fix it?

60g old hard disk, used for too long, it is likely to be broken, the hard disk contains important data, it is better to find a professional repair (regular and professional data recovery company).

There are not many ways for ordinary people to recover data, unless you know it well, you don't have to bother (if you are practicing your hands and have no important data, you can toss it casually)!!With DiskGenius, you can open many problematic disks and recover data, if not, find another recovery software.

Portable hard drive unreadable Centralized repair scenarios that are not recognized.

Hard drive unreadable repair method:Operating Equipment: Dell laptops.

Operating system: win10

Operating procedure: DiskGenius software.

1. Data will need to be recovered.

Connect the portable hard drive with the computer and run the DiskGenius software.

2. Select the inaccessible portable hard drive partition and click the Browse Files tab on the right.

3. Select the partition where you lost data, and then click the Recover Files button, after which the Recover Files window will pop up.

4. Click the Start button to let the software perform a complete scan of the partition.

5. Preview the data in the scan result: Double-click the file will pop up a preview window to display the file content, so that you can easily determine whether the file is damaged.

6. Copy the data in the scan results to other disks to complete the data recovery of the mobile hard disk.

Tick the desired data >> right-click the mouse >> select Copy to the specified folder.

After the file copy is complete, open the destination folder and check whether all the recovered data is correct. Once you're sure that you're okay with the files, you can format the inaccessible portable hard drive partition and copy the data back to the external hard drive.

The portable hard drive cannot be read, and if the data is not important, it can be formatted directly. But sometimes the data inside is very important, then you have to go through Hi Format Data Recovery Master first.

Restore the data and then format it, otherwise the data will be further corrupted.

Step 1Run the data recovery software on your computer Hi Format Data Recovery Master

1.On the interface, according to the data loss situation, you can choose Accidental Deletion Recovery, Accidental Format Recovery, USB Disk Memory Card Recovery, Accidental Emptying Site Recovery, Disk Partition Loss Recovery or click Deep Recovery, depending on how you lost your computer data.

2.After the selection is done, select the storage location of the original data, click Start Scan in the bottom right corner to scan the location you specified to get back the lost file data.

Step 2Preview the scan results and export the file.

Lost data files.

2.Once you have found the lost folders and files, tick the files and hit Recover to save the files to your computer or external hard drive.

Tips: In order to ensure the effect of data recovery, it is recommended not to install Hi Format Data Recovery Master software on the original data lost disk. That is to say, if you want to recover data from C drive, don't install Hi Format Data Recovery Master in C drive.

Summary. If the portable hard drive is unreadable, you can try the following methods to fix it:1

Check whether the hard drive is in poor contact, if so, please plug and unplug the hard drive again; 2.Check if the hard drive is corrupted, if so, try using a hard drive repair tool; 3.Try to check the hard disk using the disk management tool that comes with your system; 4.

Try using a third-party disk management tool to check the hard drive; 5.Try to format the hard drive using the system's built-in formatting tool; 6.Try using a third-party disk formatting tool to format the hard drive.

If the portable hard drive cannot be read, you can try the following methods to fix it:1Check whether the hard disk is in poor contact due to burndown, and if so, please re-insert and remove the hard disk; 2.

Check if the hard burn disk is damaged, if so, try using a hard drive repair tool; 3.Try to check the hard disk using the disk management tool that comes with your system; 4.Try using a third-party disk management tool to check the hard drive; 5.

Try to format the hard drive using the system's built-in formatting tool; 6.Try using a third-party disk formatting tool to format the hard drive.

I'm still a little confused, can you be more detailed?

Of course, when the portable hard drive cannot be read, you can try to fix it with the following methods:1Check whether the hard disk is in poor contact, if so, please re-plug the hard disk in front of the trip; 2.

Check if the hard drive is corrupted, if so, try using a hard drive repair tool; 3.Try to use the disk management tool that comes with the system to check the hard disk; 4.Try using a third-party disk management tool to check the hard drive; 5.

Try to format the hard drive using the system's built-in formatting tool; 6.Try using a third-party disk formatting tool to format the hard drive. If none of the above methods can solve the problem, it is recommended to send the hard drive to a professional repair shop for inspection and repair in time.

The methods that a portable hard drive cannot read include initializing the portable hard drive, updating the hard drive driver, checking and fixing the hard drive error, changing the BitLocker encryption service, formatting the hard drive with Partition Assistant, resetting access permissions, etc.

1. Initialize the mobile hard disk.

Connect your hard drive to your computer, then press Win+R Enter and press Enter to open the Disk Management tool. Right-click the hard disk and click "Initialize Disk", select the desired disk partition form from MBR and GPT in the pop-up window, and click "OK" to complete the disk initialization task.

2. Update the hard disk driver.

Press Win+R to enter and press Enter to open Device Manager. Locate the drive, then right-click and select "Update Drivers" - "Auto-Search for Drivers" to update your old hard drive drive program to a new version.

3. Check and repair hard disk errors.

Run the chkdsk : fr x command in the Command Prompt tool running as an administrator to scan the hard drive to detect and fix the errors.

4. Change the BitLocker encryption service.

Press Win+R to enter and press Enter to open the service options. Find the BitLocker service in the list, then right-click and select "Properties", change the startup type to "Automatic" in the pop-up properties window, and click "Apply" - "OK".

5. Partition Assistant format the hard drive.

Open Partition Assistant, connect the hard drive to the computer and make sure Partition Helper can detect it, then right-click on the hard drive and select "Format".

6. Reset access permissions.

Open File Explorer, right-click on the hard drive that is not accessible empty, select Properties, and then select —Add in the Security tab. Add a new user in the pop-up window, and then click OK. Go back to the previous permission window and grant the "Full Control" permission to the newly added user, then click "Apply" - "OK", and the hard disk should be successfully accessed by restarting the computer.

If the computer does not read the disk, first eliminate the computer interface problem. Try a different interface or computer. The second big step is to eliminate the problem of mobile hard disk enclosure and cable, you can connect the internal disk directly to the host to try.

If you don't read it, the hard disk itself is faulty, and if the data is important, you can find a data recovery company to recover it. Die chain.