subject: Rectifying : Is Not Accessible Error In Windows [print this page] In Microsoft Windows, sometimes all of your hard drive partitions, files and folders become unreadable or inaccessible. When you try to access the partition or files form your Windows hard drive, you encounter an error message that all the files are unreadable and inaccessible. You need to repair the hard drive to retrieve these files. This behavior of Microsoft Windows cause serious partition loss situations and need Windows Partition Recovery to be fixed.
In a practical scenario, when you try to open or rename a file in Microsoft Windows using Windows Explorer, command prompt or File Manage, you might come across below error message:
: is not accessible
The file or directory is corrupt and non-readable. The file or directory is corrupt and non-readable. The file or directory is corrupt and unreadable.
Please Run the Chkdsk utility.
When this error message occurs, you can not access hard drive partitions. To salvage Windows partitions and stored data, you need to find out the cause of this problem and go for Partition Recovery by resolving it.
Root of the problem
This behavior of Microsoft Windows is caused by corruption to the file system index (MFT or Master File Table) or FAT (File Allocation Table) is severely damaged.
Both of these are critical data structures of a Windows computer and due to corruption to them operating system can not locate hard drive partitions and stored files.
Resolution
To resolve this issue, use ChkDsk to repair damaged file system. For this, go through underwritten steps:
Click Start button and select Run.
Type chkdsk /f in the Open box.
Click OK button.
When ChkDsk tool detects issues with file system and tries to repair them, data loss could take place. You are not recommended to run ChkDsk with /f switch, unless you have complete backup of your data. Otherwise, you will have to use Partition Recovery solutions to retrieve lost partitions.
Recovery is best possible using advanced third party Partition Recovery Software. The applications are fully competent to handle most of the partition loss situations. They are quite easy to use with simple and rich graphical user interface. Such tools have read-only and non-destructive conduct to perform safe recovery, by maintaining integrity of your data.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most excellent solution to effectively handle most of the partition loss situations. It recovers all FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. The software is designed for Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.
