External Hard Drive corrupted and unreadable error

[JobinM]

I have a Maxtor OneTouch II external hard drive that connets through USB. When I try to access the drive now it says:

K:\ in not accessible.

The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

I attempted to do chkdsk /f, however the Command Promt window appears for a second then dissapears. Is there anything I can do without having to format it?

 

[Samstoned]

JobinM
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