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    Inaccessible external hard drive

    I was transferring a load of videos, mainly treasured family moments, from my windows 10 laptop to an external hard drive when windows crashed.

    When I restarted windows would not load the hard drive - it appears as a letter in explorer but will not access.

    I left it running and eventually got a message ''F:\ is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect.''

    Is there any way to recover the files from the hard drive and/or get in running properly please.

    Any advice woulkd be greatly appreciated otherwise I will have lost hours of family videos

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    Dont worry calm down calm down .
    This will recover the files from the drive.
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    along with many others , dont buy any software , as most are free
    First of all I.M.O. recover the files from the drive with the software .
    Once files are back ,just reformat external drive and your back were you starrted .
    Any more help needed just ask .................Paul

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    Have a look here Hidden Content
    and down to#10.Download Recover my files and install.I have used this a few times,works a treat.

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    Thanks guys I will give these a try when I have some free time at the weekend

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    pers id use easeus first to take an image of the drive

    then start by running chkdsk /v /f /r. on it
    if that doesn't cure it

    then use some recover software.
    its nice here....

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    Thanks for the info - can you get free versions of easeus or paid versions only?

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    NZB here ...............Paul

    If this post is against rules ,please withdraw the attachment ..........thanks

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    Thanks for the file plasterer much appreciated

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    Did you get this working again?

    Another place to look in Windows is Disk Management. Look and see what partion and file system are assigned to the drive letter of your external drive.

    This info can help further diagnosis and fixes.

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