Gerry85 Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Hi there! When I tried to open the external HD's drive,it showed "Location is not available,L:\ is not accessible,The device is not ready". I tried to change ownership of the drive ( current owner:SYSTEM),but showed "Access is denied". When I tried to eject the drive,showed: "The device is currently in use.Close any programs or windows that might be using the device,and then try again". Any idea how to fix this issue? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyg Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 (edited) maybe the file format is not windows compatible. type in disk manager into start box and launch disk management. Try and find your drive in the list based on the size and possibly drive letter - it should show the format type - if it says raw its either not windows formatted, has a problem or is encrypted. If you don't care about the data it might be worth just formatting the drive over again as ntfs - you can do this right clicking on the drive in disk manager. Edited April 19, 2021 by flyg typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry85 Posted April 19, 2021 Author Share Posted April 19, 2021 The file system for external drive is NTFS,but CHKDSK couldn't run,because showed RAW file type 🤔. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 (edited) @Gerry85 If there's nothing you care about on that external drive, then diskpart will reset it back to a useful form very quickly. https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10 Edited April 19, 2021 by wolfie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry85 Posted April 19, 2021 Author Share Posted April 19, 2021 The external HD has 1.2 TB data on it,and I don't have another HD to save the data to it,and I'm not 100 % sure,that recovery programs will recover the 1.2 TB data after formatting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrojanK Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 2 hours ago, Gerry85 said: Hi there! When I tried to open the external HD's drive,it showed "Location is not available,L:\ is not accessible,The device is not ready". I tried to change ownership of the drive ( current owner:SYSTEM),but showed "Access is denied". When I tried to eject the drive,showed: "The device is currently in use.Close any programs or windows that might be using the device,and then try again". Any idea how to fix this issue? Hi! Did you try restarting your computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry85 Posted April 19, 2021 Author Share Posted April 19, 2021 11 minutes ago, TrojanK said: Hi! Did you try restarting your computer? Hi! No,I didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyg Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Since the file system is now raw when previously it was NTFS you looking at having to recover the partition before trying to get back any data. Some free partition recovery programs are EaseUS Partition Recovery - Easy Partition Recovery Software to Get Lost/Deleted Partitions Back! - EaseUS Partition Recovery Minitool Partition Wizard Free - Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Testdisk - TestDisk Download - CGSecurity If they recover the partition you can then go from there with tools like recuva - Download Recuva | Recover deleted files, free! (ccleaner.com) Unless of course a reboot makes it work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry85 Posted April 19, 2021 Author Share Posted April 19, 2021 I've installed EaseUS Partition Master Tech. Ed. and Disk Genius Pro. ASC's Disk Doctor couldn't find any problems,but Disk Genius found the bad sectors.I figured out too late,that WiseCare365 interfeared to the repairing of the bad sectors.I'll run again the Disk Genius to fix the bad sectors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry85 Posted April 30, 2021 Author Share Posted April 30, 2021 Any suggestions for a reliable and long lasting (external) HD at reasonable price for home storage ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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