My colleague’s hard disk (HDD) the day before was normal and the next morning when it was connected to the laptop, experienced the above error. Alhamdulillah, after I helped fix it, I was finally able to access the data again by doing the following in Windows 11:
- Here is the status of the HDD when connected to the laptop, only the E drive appears but the data status is not visible.
- When I click on the Local Disk E, the following error appears :
E:\ is not accessible
The parameter is incorrect
- Click Start or the Search icon, type cmd and select Run as administrator.
- Type chkdsk E: /f /x /r and then Enter, for drive E it is tailored to your HDD drive.
- The repair process ran for about 2 hours on my laptop.
- Here are the results of the fix, I can access the HDD again (ignore drive F) and there are bad sectors that may be the cause of the error.
The causes of the above obstacles include power failure, bad sectors, being infected with viruses or a damaged Windows system. I recommend always backing up your data to avoid unwanted things like the problems my colleagues are experiencing. Thanks.