External Hard Drive Error

[neilsinc]

My external hard drive is showing an error.

G:\ is not accessible.

The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable.

Does anyone know how to fix it without formatting it? Have a lot of file on there that I'd like to recover if possible.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

 

[popatim]

You begin with having another drive to recover the files to. Then you run recovery software on the drive like Recuva, Testdisk,...
If the drive is making unusual (not-normal) noises, then stop using it immediately. Noise is most often associated with a hardware failure and if you really need the data on it you will need to send it out.