H:\ is unaccessible. The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable

fartchitect

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Before anything else i want to say that i have browsed the forums and searched for answers but none of the posts helped or gave that detailed instructions so here I am posting this question.

I have a laptop hard drive that i turned into an external drive. Its divided into 3 partitions. the other 2 partitions are ok and working. but one partition, the biggest and most important hard disk partition of my entire life and future is showing up this message. I saw a post and somebody said Partition Wizard solved his problem. but i dont know if i should format the partition first and then run partition wizard. Or should i just run partition wizard. this is just one option i have found in case somebody will say that i should post in the Partition Wizards forums. Are there any other way. where in i can fully fix this. because file recovery (i have experienced recuva) is really messy. or are there recovery methods that restores folder structure? Has anyone here ever experienced this and succesfully fixed this. All my work for office and school is here. please help. thanks a lot.
 

fartchitect

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Just in case this info could helP

It started out while i was modelling and rendering in sketchup, and i cant open a folder inside the said partition which is Test Renders folder, it says the directory is corrupt. but all other folders and files inside the partition is ok. So i decided to unplug it so i safely remove it. but the pc says it cant be stopped. so i closed all my work and shut down the pc. i plugged it out, turned the pc back on, and plugged it in again. this time the whole partition cant be opened and it says:

H:\ is unaccessible
The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable.