External hard drive does not work. Is there another way I could solve the problem without formatting the external hard drive?

My external hard drive works. I tried to plug and when I tried to open it, it says to format the drive until I could use it. Everything works well as when I plugged the USB icon shown on the screen. When I check the disk management, it showed that the partition of the drive is there.

I tried to change the drive letters, but still having the same problem. I also tried to run the disk check on the command prompt and the properties of the drive, but it still can not because there is error popping up saying that the disk check cannot be performed because Windows cannot access the disk.

Is there another way I could solve the problem without formatting the external hard drive?

I tried the first step in troubleshooting the hard drive, but it gives a
error in saying that "hardware changes might not have been detected.

So I tried the second method, and when I click on the "Check now" button his
gives an error saying that "the disk check cannot be performed because .
Windows can not access the disk".".

So is there any other way or option?

Thank you

Jason

Tags: Windows

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