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Ahh! I need help with my external harddrive!

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imported_Krypto

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Ok, so today I turned my computer on, waited until windows booted up and then turned on my hard drive which is in an external Nexstar 2 enclosure and I got a E:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

Now all my stuff is on this hard drive and I was wondering what I can do to save it. The drive comes up and everything I jus can't double click it or I get that error. Can anyone help me out here! Please tell me I didn't lose my stuff. :/

EDIT: I get the same error through both firewire and usb connections. And is comes up in Computer Management.
 
Go to Start -> Run
Type in cmd.exe

In the new console window
Type:
chkdsk e: /f

After that it should begin checking your HDD
That should fix it in no time
 
Ok, I did that and I got "the type of the file system is NTFS. Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted." Now what do I do? Is there some way it can be run from start up?
 
Unable to determine volume version and state?
oO Never actually seen that problem before

In that case the drive is pretty much corrupted
Is that a notebook HDD or Desktop HDD? Can you try to pull out the HDD and connect it directly to your PC with IDE cables to make sure it's not external enclosure's problem?
 
Did you hear any weird noise when the HDD starts spinning?
If you don't then it might be just corrupted data. If that's the case some data recovery program such as disk rescue may work
If you hear weird and loud noises then the HDD is persumbly dead
 
It started just like it normally did. No weird sound or anything. the hard drive isn't old at all, but you never know with maxtor. I'll try a recovery program. Thanks for the help so far!
 
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