How to repair corrupted files windows 10

I can imagine your astonishment when you click on a folder or a file and it doesn’t open on your Windows 10 PC. Instead, you view a pop-up telling you that the file or folder is corrupt.

Most users get some version of ‘The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable’ message. It’s odd and concerning.

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That’s why we shall help you fix that, and open corrupt Files and Folders on your Windows 10 PC.

In the case of external hard drives or USB drives, you will see ‘X:\ is not accessible’ (where X is the respective drive letter) error followed by the same corrupt file message.

The system will then bring up another pop-up that will ask you to format the drive saying, ‘You need to format the disk in drive X: before you can use it.’ You don’t want to format it because you’ll lose all files and folders on the drive.

Here are a few ways to fix corrupted folders and files in Windows 10.

Follow them and make sure that never happens again.

Let’s begin.

How Did the File or Folder That Got Corrupt

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