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jumanji Thank you ever so much.

I have got my drive back with my data.

Thank you so much for your help. Thank you everyone who has commented on this thread. I wish you all the very best of...

Thank you Jumanji for your detailed assistance. Even someone of little IT knowledge found it easy to follow your instructions. Thank you.

I have the fourth possibility.
Boot Sector - OK
Backup...

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Thank you for your message Jumanji. ..and you time.

Yes the letter was E. I changed it to T following the advice of hroldan. The suggestion was that assigning a new drive letter may resolve...

Thank you for your responses.

I attach a screenshot of Disk Management & Partition Wizard. Hope I have done this correctly.
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My problematic hard drive is called T

The drive is housed in an enclosure and connects to the computer via a USB cable. I have tried various USB slots on the desktop. Including the ones at the back of the PC. This did not resolve the...

Perhaps many years ago? I have not had an operating system on this drive and used it simply a drive to store data for as long as I can remember.

Thank you for your replies.

When I try to access the drive from file explorer I receive the following message.

"E:\ is not accessible. The file directory is corrupted and unreadable"

I...

Hi everyone. My drive data seems to have disappeared. I think the file system may be corrupt? My back up failed some time ago and I have never got around to making a new one. Now I feel like a...