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• Simply right click on any drive listed under ‘This PC’ window and choose ‘Properties’
• Navigate to ‘Tools’ tab and click on ‘Check’ button listed under ‘Error Checking’ rectangular box.
  
  
  
  
• System error checking process will begin immediately and will report any errors that it founds. In case, check disk utility don’t found any errors you will get a confirmation dialog box stating ‘You Don’t need to scan this drive’. Still not satisfied, you can proceed to perform disk error check by clicking on ‘Scan Drive’ button. 
  
  
  
• Disk scanning for errors and corruption is faster than ever. The whole system check can be performed in minutes.
  
  
  
• Once the Scanning is completed, you’ll get a confirmation dialog box stating ‘Your Drive was successfully scanned. Now Errors were found. ’
  
  
  
• You can also choose an option to scan and repair drive together. This option is limited to Window default bootable drive containing your system files.
  
  
  
• You can also chose to repair the problem drive on next restart. Additionally, if the drive you’re trying to repair is default windows drive, Windows will ask to repair this drive on the next restart to make sure that nothing bad will happen.
  
  
  
• That’s it. Check disk utility perform well and helps you deal with any minor or major disk related errors or problems.

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As all of your files were stored there, formatting will permanently wipes your important files and make it permanent non recoverable even by using professional recovery tools. We’ll go through series of steps mentioned in this tutorial to fix this error easily (if you are lucky) and retrieve all of your important files as well as make the external drive usable again.

Below are the common error types you’ll see once similar situation strikes to your external hard drive:

                     

Error 0x80070571 : The disk structure is corrupted or unreadable

This disk in the drive is damaged

Please format this disk!!

The Drive isn’t accessible

The disk in drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?

Common reasons behind this error
External hard drive is created using moving mechanical moving parts which will may fails either sooner or later. Some unavoidable instances makes these drive inaccessible or damaged immediately and makes user data beyond the reach of known recovery software. Below are the some common reasons responsible for this situation:

• Improperly connecting or removing the drive
• The file system itself become damaged cannot be used to access the drive
• File system has become RAW which cannot be used any longer to access, manage or format the drive. In most instances, those drives becomes completely unusable.
• Large number of bad sectors and blocks has been emerged which prevents externally drive to perform normally. You’ll get freezing, hanging, corrupt files or similar issues when bad sectors took place on your drive.

• Right click on My Computer and choose Manage.
• Enter administrative details if asked and hit enter
• Go to Disk Management located under Storage at the left hand side menus.
• From the image below, check and make sure that any or all the volumes is listed along with the drive that’s connected externally. If you’ve recently faced the above mentioned error, you’ll see the volume status as RAW or offline
• Right click on that drive and choose to format it. As stated earlier, formatting will permanently wipes off all your important files and folders and your hope to get it back ever.
• Alternatively, you can right click on the external drive from Windows explorer interface and go to its properties.
• Choose the Tools tab and hit enter after selecting the check box stating ‘Check this disk for errors’.
• Once the operation completed successfully, try restarting your system and see if the error resolved.