Fix Drive is Not Accessible
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How to fix drive is not accessible in Windows 10/8/7
External hard drives and USB Flash drives are used everyone nowadays to store personal data on there drives, this could be data like documents, photos, music, videos and a lot more.
Sometimes, without warning the disk shows a Location is not available popup box or "Drive is not accessible when trying to access the drive, you get Access is denied" error message. This error will make accessing the drive impossible until you fix the error. You can't get access to your personal data. Over the years I have seen this error on different versions of operating systems like Windows 10/8/7.
Remember A USB flash drive is not a long to backup solution.
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Thank you for this video 🙏🏽 my mom passed away yesterday and I had to recover my usb with photos on it. I’m crying I’m so happy that it worked. Bless you!!
Rip to your mom
Abraham Seven thank you 🙏🏽
I'm in your same position 😭😭😭
Oh wow...man im in same situation...i really feel like crying man for your mom and for my files so important i cant access..im trying this out now
Sorry for your loss mate. May she rest in peace.
Took about 18 hours but it worked thank you!!! For anyone panicking if it gets stuck, mine stayed on the same percentage for about 6 hours but eventually progressed, depending on how big your files are it can just take longer :)
You are a life saver mate. I have documents that can't be replaced and I managed to restore them. Thank you so much.
You should have 6 copies of your data, like I do! ... Was it 11 that screwed with your data?
I cannot thank you enough for this method, you have saved me. After weeks for not being to get back data back and access my hardrive, you helped though this. I hope doors open up in your life.
Nice! but unfortunetly didnt work in my case, it appears "the type of the file systen is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives" Any thoughts? Thank you!
Mine says also like that.
me too
me too did you find any solution ?
Mine also
me too
That's what it says after the last step 😭
C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk /r d:
The type of the file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.
@@Siavosh9 It never worked for me after that. I had to do restore the data to another hard disk at a professional shop. But it worked with many people as I saw in the comments. So maybe keep on trying or call a professional shop for support. Hope it gets resolved
@@Siavosh9 you find any solution ?
@@Siavosh9 how to transfer data to healthy one ? plz tel me a method
try doing /f instead of /r
Hi Britec09, your post saved my 8TB drive! Than you. I had about 800gb of music files and some other data and used your tutorial. The chkdsk repair took about 18hours, I assume do to the size of the external drive (8tb), glad I didnt end it as the actual master boot record fixes seemed to be executed at the very last minute. Again thanks!
BTW, I looked at 2 other videos before finding yours, and your tutorial is the clearest and most complete.
Just bought a new flash drive and just put in about 25gb of files. How long do you reckon it'll take? Been about 10 mins and still at 0% and I need to submit the files..Ugh
@@Isaac.D.grizzlyhave you been able to submit the files?
@@dfw4866 I don't remember exactly but if that's okay, do share your qualms
Why show this error "CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives"
my disk also available in RAW drives. please help me
me too i need some help
Samee
@@norshahiraahmadmukhid2265 are you solved?
@@iyeetsauce99XD are you solved?
@@洪铭杰 until now...still..not solve yet..so sad😔
Thank you SO much! I was freaking out that I may have lost all of our family pictures. You are so calm on the video and it worked :)
@@zohaibraza8674the letter is e
Had a 4tb hard drive with many photo folders that had the exact issue as in your video. Followed your instructions, it took about 2.5 hrs to go through all the stages. Afterwards the drive did open, however many of the folders were deleted & the folders remaining were emptied out, I lost everything. I'm sure it does work most of the time, however depending on your drive issues you might not always get a positive outcome.
Using CHKDSK /f works for disks that only show up as "Local Drive" So for example, if the disk with the problem is only showing up as "Local Disk (E:)", then open a command window (You need to be logged in as an administrator).
Then type "CHKDSK E: /f" (the fix is for 'fix'. It won't format anything). Once CHKDSK is finished, your drive should show up normally.
why my cmd is, Access Denied as you do not have sufficient privileges.
You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode. what can i do? please help
Thanks, it worked.
after i enter that and click enter it doesnt show anything at all just the line blinking down below
damn thanks man
F/ didn't work for me. It just says insufficient privilege
Honestly man thank you, you saved my entire semesters work.
Same here
Thank you Bri, this worked like a dream on my WD Passport external drive. PC was showing the drive as RAW, but I followed your instructions and left it overnight to run. All fixed by the morning, brilliant 👍
i am also havin this prob with my WD passport 2tb. in stage 4, this man only has 240. In my case it is 221424 😑😑
@@thevixxstudios so just wait for 3-4 hours or more. In my case it is 83696 because it is the partition only having 530 gb and it is completed in 1.76 hours
same i had 1.5 tb of movies and shows that i have been ripping and processing for literally months . i couldn't believe it my heart sank ... this video help im now in the process of moving my data to a samsung drive ... western digital can do one
WD HDD on 11? ... It's happened to me TWICE so far! ... I blame 11!
THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH! YOU LITERALLY SAVED ME FROM BEING UNEMPLOYED!!!!!!! GOD BLESS YOUUUU!
close one
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That's serious.
😂 I can only imagine how many prayers you made
i did the same steps but CMD response was: The type of the file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.
same, anyone have a solution
me too
@@ablkglfgjhaskdjkqi did you find any solution
Same here, not working for me
It didn't work at first but I applied the method you used to another set of permissions and got lucky. 20+ years worth of data restored. Thank you!
Which method did u use please
@@kelly1st I followed what the video said but also applied the method to another folder I will have to back track to find out exactly what I did. I was just basically throwing darts blindfolded and got lucky but the method worked. I was just so happy that I was able to read the drive. I'll definitely get back to you about where I applied the fix.
It said: "CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives". Now what to do? Thanks in advance ;-)
this just happened to my harddisk last night. and this worked for me. thankfully all my personal and work files are safe. Thank you!!
i am getting an error after the command chkdsk /r h: ( Cannot open volume for direct access)👈
Same here
Metoo
My one partisan of Hard-drive became 'not accessible'. I had used CMD command as described in this video and all processes and stages were completed but still same problem existed. On next day when I power on my computer, it goes through all the processes by itself during booting. After my computer started up, I opened 'MY COMPUTER' and found my concerned drive fully accessible. My problem was solved. Thanks for your valuable information.
Having the same problem here! Can u pls elaborate on what exactly you did?? That’d be very very helpful 🥺🤧
Thanks so much for this video. I have many external drives and first time I ever experienced this! It was a new drive that I'd transferred some files over to, then I had this same problem accessing the drive afterwards. Had no clue as to what was going on till I googled and found your video here. I had formatted it beforehand so not sure what caused it? The only issue (ha) was that it's a 2TB drive so it took like 8-hours or so to complete step #5 (verifying the free space). I started to stop that step, but then decided to just let it run. When complete, it worked perfect as you described. THANKS AGAIN for your help!!
Guys if it says
The type is raw
CHKDSk is not available for Raw Devices
Try this out:
got to devices and printers. right click on the device that is not working. troubleshoot. the system detect the problem and say the problem was that "device was not responding." press okay, eject, and reinsert and see if you can open now! worked for me!!
Thank you!
It says troubleshooting couldn't identify the problem 😢
Thanks so much for your advise on this one. I had 32000 shots saved on a Comstar external drive and could not access them. You guys certainly made my life a lot happier when the problem was fixed and I managed to copy all the shots onto my PC drive. Brilliant!!!
Hi bro , even I have AE files and 30000 shots ll I be able to recover it ?
yeah i have my whole lifes work on this drive, with so many 32 bit exrs and work files and assets, running chkdsk, hopefully recover
You’re a lifesaver, mate! I had documents that couldn’t be replaced, and I managed to restore them. Thank you so much!
Took 11 hours for 1TB Hard drive, 900 GB occupied. Thank you!!! This worked!!!
oh really?????? my cmd was do nothing after i typing chkdsk
@@astotoh do you carefully followed all his method?
He says that you must run CMD as an ADMINISTRATOR.
Do you run the CMD as an ADMINISTRATOR?
Mine didn’t do anything either just sat there blinking
Hi i tried until command prompt and keyed in the command chkdsk /r e: and it shown "the type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives. Whst can i do next? Thks
Sameeee😭 please tell me what did u do
Same, thats ny problem as well
I almost format my 1TB drive with 90% Data (1 click away from formatting), but then I search google and found this video, boom, my hdd is now detected, thanks bro I owe you.
I love u brother, you save my all data, i like your video
I love your idea
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I am watching so many videos and still having problems with my hard disk But
When I watched your video I solved the problems.
Honestly man thank you so much.
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Thanks a bunch! I thought I lost all my personal decades of memory! Thank u!!!
I have two NVME Drives one became raw when viewing it on the other and it couldn't access it. I tried this and it totally worked, thank you so much!
Thank you 😭😭
holy sh*t!!
@@tmdragon6996 What happened?
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type of file system is RAW
chkdsk is not available for Raw drives
any suggestion ?
Thanks Brian, another excellent video. !! 👍 However it did not resolve my issue. When I ran the syntax from the CMD line for my external 2.5” internal drive slaved out USB I received the error: “Cannot open volume for direct access.” Not only that but following your previous step before the CMD line, I am also “Not,” able to read/recognize the drive in its raw form. I’ve been battling this issue for quite some time now. I go from either, “disc is not initialized,” to “cannot initialize due to fatal hardware device error.” I’m about out of options here. The disk that I’m trying to access and recover data from was the former “primary drive,” from one of my other laptops. It has data that I need to recover, but cannot mount the volume for some reason. Anything at all that you could suggest would be greatly appreciated. As always I appreciate all of your tutorials. Best regards from across the pond 🇺🇸 - Keith
same here. need for the same issue advice. Did you find any sollution to your problem? I tried the solution, and I get a message:
The type of the file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.
my cmd displayed " this type of file system is RAW CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives"
Now what should i do ?
why it says chkdsk isnot available for raw devices
Having a same problem here, can anybody help us please ?
Do you fixed it? If yes may we know how from you?
I dont know if this is the same case, but my harddisk drive is working perfectly fine when i plug it to another device. Maybe you want to try it
same here
same issue is I am facing , what to do man
Good one. I am currently trying the command prompt, but the process is hanging on step 4. Second, the external disk indicator light is off, and the hard disk is no longer running. What do you think I should do?
It’s not available for RAW drivers, help 😭
I found this useful, thanks for sharing your ideas now my entire disk is full accessible with all of it's volumes and my data are still functional in they are compatible formats. I real thank you in advance.
When I run the "chkdsk" I get an error message saying, "CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives." :(
Oh no reply yet. Have same problem :(
Same here. :-( Wish the OP would respond to this issue ...
me too...............
Same problem with me !!
same here. In the video yours was too, but actually it was somekind of glitch for you. And the disk actually was NTFS!!
Can you help with "CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives."
Thank you very much for uploading this video. My working drive was inaccessible. I just recover my drive with all files after seeing this video. May Allah bless you.
i got error on cmd after type chkdsk /r h: then i got error "Cannot open volume for direct access." can you plz telle me how can i fix?
I also got that
Now have u got the solution...
Yes me too got that
Tell me PlllZzzzz
My drive is now not visible in disk management after following your video . what should I do now?
"Cannot open volume for direct access." That means?...
+1
didn't work for me either
same issue
+4 :(
Am also facing same issue
This kind of problem is coming in the partition of my computer, bro, this trick you have told will not cause any harm with my entire data? Is all the data back?
Please reply.😢
You Fixed My Broken Heart ❤️ Thanks Brother
Hi mine comes up with file system is raw. Chkdsk is not available for raw drives. Any suggestions please, thanks
Hey Britec, when i try to access my drive like clicking on it tells me it needs to be formatted, i checked disk managment, it shows its in raw.. when i tried to do the chkdsk /r (drive letter) it says :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." ... what to do?
put the usb in another port in your computer or use another computer hope i helped
I have the same issue
Same issue
it says: "the file system type is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives"
Anyone with this error too?
Same
Thanks Brian. I've got my Hirens thumb drive ready to go. Looking forward to seeing what it can do. All the best.
Yeah them videos are coming.
I tried but got this error: "The type of the file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives."
Same issue 😞
This was such a massive help, thank you so much :)
CHKDSK not available for Raw Drives😢
go to cmd as administrator
type - diskpart
type - list disk
type - select disk 1
type - list partition
type - select partition 1
type - clean
type - create partition primary
type - delete partition override
type - exit
then go to disk management and create new volume
@@Harbi15 if i recover files using command like "chkdsk" , should i be rest assured that it wont get corrupt again ?
For me it says not RAW, but NTFS, what shall i do, please someone reply :(
Did you find a way to fix it ?
hi, I know it's been a year and maybe too late but the same thing happened to me. I still followed every step that he said and it worked :>. I guess it doesn't matter whether raw or NTFS is indicated in disk management as long as you follow the command
plz help me same prob
C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk /r d:
The type of the file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.
You're a life saver... I gotten everything back and in order
Thx Britec
In my case after writing the command chkdsk /r d:
Cmd shows "access denied as you do not have sufficient privileges or the disk may be locked by another process. You have invoke this utility running in elevated mode and make sure the disk is unlocked."
So now what should I do to restore my data from my harddisk d
Please help me
Run it as admimistrator
@@jom3767 its ran in administrator i get the error too
I have the same problem..
Sae
Im running it as administrator and get the same issue, anyone got a fix?
When i type command chkdsk /r and my drive letter it said cannot open volume for direct access?
Cannot open volume for direct access?
Same here :(
Make sure you have the correct drive. It happened to me.
Howdy. Nice.
I would like to tell my experience with a severely convoluted Toshiba 1T.
1. The drive showed in windows. The drive letter showed, but absolutely no information.
2. Running chkdsk /f and /r in win11 could do nothing. The message was that there was not enough free space to replace bad clusters.
3. I ran chkdsk in windows XP. That began to work. I ran chkdsk /f many times, until it showed it had done no more fixes.
4. Still in XP. I ran chkdsk /r and went to bed. Next morning it had finished. It had replaced many bad clusters. The drive was still inaccessible though. But the drive properties tab showed information of used and free space.
5. And still in XP. I ran chkdsk /f. It fixed some more stuff. Again I ran chkdsk /f until no more fixes showed. Still windows could not access the drive.
6. I booted into Ubuntu Linux. Hooray. The contents showed.
7. In Ubuntu I was able to copy and paste to another drive. Ubuntu had difficulties copying long paths, though. I had to manually create the folder and subfolder stucture to the new drive first. Then I could copy files from folder to folder. It took me a day to manually do this. Many files are OK. Some are broken but the file consistency is fixed. The folder and file names are most important. Knowing the names I can hunt them from backups and the internet.
8. Thank You Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux.
Regards.
Thank you so much, you saved my life! I was having a heart attack after I almost lost 1TB of precious data, now I have them back thanks to you 👍🏼
Bro how much time did it take?
How much time did it take?
@@adnan.lok9 About 14 hours
It says "The type of the file system is RAW, CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives
Same issue 😞
Me too broo😢
go to cmd as administrator
type - diskpart
type - list disk
type - select disk 1
type - list partition
type - select partition 1
type - clean
type - create partition primary
type - delete partition override
type - exit
then go to disk management and create new volume
@@Harbi15 Don't select disk 1, he's trolling. select the partition accordingly (the disk you have problems with)
@@Harbi15it will erase all the data right?
Thank you so much for your clear and helpful video. I regained access to 15 years worth of travel photos i thought i had lost!
The cmd option still didn't work in my case. It says invalid parameter -/d:
Same here man!!!
What now(?
yeah, same here !!
@@diamondblack4006 i tried another way!! It worked for me!!! In the properties!! In security tab!!! Read files , write files etc they were turned off!! Try checking those box on!!!
Somas Sk I cant find properties or security tab
All of my games and other stuff were in my disk and i could not acces it. But because of you, i saved a lot of time to download them again thanks alot!
This happened to one of my 4TB HDD's after taking the computer apart and back together. The drives got over 3TB worth of Data on it I hope this works..
Well did it?
@@mrgotek8773 It did
@@fbmowner how long it take to finish recovery..?
@@zpiz couple hours
@@fbmowner bout to take me a whole few days
In cmd prompt it shows
"The type of the file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives."
What to do? Pls reply😕
Same bro .what did you do after that?
Same brother 😢
@@forgedreamlife i thre
w away the usb and bought another one😂😂😂
Same issue 😞
When I type in the command in the command prompt, it says cannot open volume for direct access
did you got it fixed?
@@justins2561 the same here, have any one got a solution ?
It takes more time so I just wanna ask you how did you speed up the process, please 🙏. I need to recover my data.
did not help at all...
At all!!!
my usb flash is still not accesible, I did everything in cmd, took me 30 minutes, now it is not showing as RAW, but it says OK, but when I click on my usb, it is still not accessible, any tips?
For me it says "CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.
Same issue 😞
I did this but I got a prompt saying
"The type of the file system is NFTS. Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted."
Please help
Sorry mate but your srewed
Thank you a million times, SUBSCRIPTION on the way
Thank you. But do I have to do that on every laptop I Use the hard drive on?
After doing all step "Cannot open volume for direct Access" showing please help
bro! I know this might be a 4 years ago video but gosh, I'm so scared that all of my files are gone forever. I was just trying to make sure that my brother won't have access to my files whenever he's using my pc. HAHAHAHHA super thanks!
You went into Disk Manager and pointed out that your drive is showing as RAW. Then you run CHKDSK in the command prompt and it says your file system is NTFS?
All I get when I run CHKDSK is the error "CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives :("
Thank you so much... It helped me... I am totally got stressed wen I saw that access denied... Now I am totally happy and stress free... Thanks again 👍
In my cmd window it says access denied. I don’t 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.
Did you solve it?
Wood. Yes. I had to reload windows. It was the only way. I wasted probably 12 hours of my life. Lol. The registry is was corrupt
Is the drive essentially non usuable afterwards? Thanks for the great video, just wondering whether to throw away my USB now or what 😅
I don't generally comment on videos, this probably is my first, but you have saved my life with this video! Great Stuff!
After I hit enter, curser just blinks on line below. Didn't check the drive. Ran exactly as in video. Any other options?
The type of the file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.
it said chkdsk is not avaialable for RAW drives, what does that mean?
how did you speed up the process, as you showed in this video
I have the same Question
When i wrote chkdsk in cmd it say
The type of the file system is raw
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drivers
Same
Pls help
Thank you so much! I am currently working in a ship and no where else to ask for assistance to recover and access my ssd now. But from your vid. It was a big help to me. Thank you so much, God bless to your channel and to u. Thank you!
It says: Acces denied as you do not have sufficient priviliges or the disk may be locked by abother procces. You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode and make sure the disk is unlocked.
May I ask ask what do you mean your drive letter? As in the first letter of the name of the drive?
it says chkdsk is not awailable for RAW drives. pls help
Worked perfectly 1st try on a 3TB WD it took a while just like you said because of the size of the drive and the bad files you saved me $80 from the nerds of Best Buy would have charged to recover disk lol thank you!!
I just formatted the drive and was in the middle of copying files and it quit. Has happened one other time. Is this malware?
when i command chkdsk a error is showing
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.
My results says
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 elavated mode and make sure the disk is unlocked.
HOW TO SOLVED THIS?
LIFEEEE SAVORRR. I was getting dizzy figuring out what hard drive software to download and use. Thank you so much sir!
In your Disk Management window, it says "Disk 2: Healthy (Active, Primary Partition)". Mine labels it "Disk 1" but doesn't give the status. It doesn't say healthy or raw or anything.
It worked ... And saved my most important data .. Thanks for such informative tutorial 👍
I took my hard drive from a next computer and connect it as a external hard drive to my desktop. I'm not getting access. I used the command prompt as you advise and it's telling me "Cannot open volume for direct access." What do I do now?
Sadly the chkdsk took 5 hours to format on my 2tb drive and at the end it did nothing, disk still has no access. checked permission, full permissions still no access granted.