How to recover the data of the mobile hard disk if the directory is corrupted and cannot be read

Generally, the MFT of the NTFS partition is corrupted, which may be caused by malicious damage by viruses or random pulling of the portable hard disk. If you need to recover data, it is better not to format and repair the hard drive directly with commands. Because both operations will once again destroy the "site" of data loss, which will increase the difficulty of recovery and even lead to data unrecoverable.

The file or directory is corrupted and the ,.. cannot be readSome partitions are formatted raw.

Recover data. Analyze the reasons first.

Analysis of the causes of data loss.

This error message is caused by an error in the disk file directory (FAT, MFT) due to various reasons. It mainly occurs on mobile devices such as USB disks, mobile hard disks, and mobile hard disks, among which external mobile hard disks with large capacity (more than 160G) NTFS partition format have the highest and most common occurrence. There are many reasons for this, and there are generally the following reasons:

1. The mobile device is not plugged and unplugged normally, and the system does not complete the complete read and write operation, resulting in the file directory information being disordered and incomplete. For example, if we copy a file to a mobile device, shut it down, restart it, pull it out, open it again and use it on another computer, we will have symptoms.

2. Inferior products are selected, including inferior power supplies, motherboards, data cables, especially inferior external hard disk enclosures. The power supply and main control circuit of the product are unstable, resulting in disk addressing errors and writing information errors.

3. Disk partition adjustment tools such as PQ and PM are used.

4. Viruses, hard disk hardware failure, sudden power failure during work.

Restore the quality of the effect.

If the hard drive is large and in NTFS partition format, the recovery quality is ideal, and the files and directory structure can be successfully recovered.

If it is in FAT or FAT32 format, the recovery quality effect is slightly worse than that of NTFS partition according to the degree of damage, so it is recommended to use NTFS partition for daily use, and its data security is higher.

Data recovery readiness.

I don't know who started, some people on the Internet told you to format the partition first, and then use some data recovery software to recover the data, don't do it after formatting, especially the FAT formatting points.

The directory structure of the recovered data is incomplete, especially often the most needed files, because the file fragmentation is more, the recovery software loses the comparative analysis of the FAT table, and most of the recovered files cannot be opened. The correct way should be to use WinHEX to analyze the hard disk to see the specific situation of the damage and then recover the data.

Hope it helps.

1. Inspection: Typical bad sector faults. You can use MHDD to detect the bad sectors of the hard disk, and use the built-in repair function of the MHDD to repair the bad sectors of the hard disk. How to use MHDD:

1.Run MHDD to enter the main screen.

2.Enter Port (hotkey shift+F3) and select the number of the hard drive that needs to be detected or repaired.

3.Enter scan (hotkey F4), and the default parameter is the detection of non-destruction of hard disk data.

4.Click F4 to start the test. On the right, there is a note explaining what status each block color indicates in the scan screen.

You can search for other commands on the Internet, recommend MHDD, because this software is the most accurate test, and has a powerful bad sector repair function, but if there are many red blocks, it is recommended to give up, even if it is repaired, it is very unstable.

Part 2: EasyRecovery

EasyRecovery Professional is a safe, inexpensive, user-operated data recovery solution that supports the recovery of deleted or lost files from a wide variety of storage media, including hard drives, optical drives, flash drives, hard disks, optical discs, USB flash drives, digital cameras, mobile phones, and other mobile devices.

1. Select **Type; EasyRecovery Professional offers hard drives, storage devices, optical, multi-mobile, RAID systems, and more.

2. Select the volume label that needs to be scanned; Select the volume label for which you want to recover data, and pay special attention to ensure that there is a disk connected to your system and enough space on the disk to save the recovered data during the data recovery process.

3. Select the recovery scenario. EasyRecovery Professional offers five recovery scenarios: Browse Volume Labels, Recover Deleted Files, Recover Formatted**, Disk Diagnostics, Disk Utility, and more.

4. Check your options; Check the options you chose in the first three steps and start scanning. If you want to change your options, go back. The scanning process can take several hours, depending on the size of the disk.

5. Scan the partition to find the lost data files and save them.

3. Reason: The file or directory structure is corrupted and unreadable" is generally caused by the MFT corruption of the NTFS partition, which may be caused by malicious damage by viruses or random pulling of the mobile hard disk. If you need to recover data, it is better not to format and repair the hard drive directly with commands.

Because both operations will once again destroy the "site" of data loss, which will increase the difficulty of recovery and even lead to data unrecoverable.

If your data is important, I recommend that you find a professional data recovery center to recover it. If your data is not very important, you can find some data recovery software from the Internet to give it a try. The software on the web is not genuine, so the recovery effect is not very good.

This situation occurs due to two things. The first is poisoned, and the second is that the hard drive has bad sectors

Data recovery software easyrecovery, this is quite easy to try out.

What should I do if the portable hard drive is inaccessible and says "The file or directory is corrupt and unreadable"? How can data be recovered? In fact, the method is very simple, now let's take a look at the correct solution.