Hard drive inaccessible, parameter incorrect

Question

Last night for an unknown reason, my 1 TB Seagate external hard drive wasnt allowing me to use things inside of it or open it. It would tell me the parameters were incorrect. When it was plugged in, I was unable to use the taskbar with the start menu unresponsive and my cursor turning into a loading cursor when it was on the taskbar. I eventually found out to open cmd as admin and run chkdsk F: /f /r. I tried that last night and it seems to be working but I left it going over night. It has been about twelve hours and it is on stage 4. It was on stage four when I went to bed. It says stage is only 14% done and total is 39% done, with about 19 hours remaining on the ETA timer. The last 2 entries in cmd also now say that there is not enough space to replace bad clusters. Do I really have to wait for this to complete or is there another method? Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

I just let the chkdsk finish and it seems to have fixed it. I can access files in the external HDD again

Answer 2

I am sure its not ssd problems, some files are missing or corrupted in OS , that's why you getting problems

Answer 3

It's only a few years old, and I've never dropped it. If theres anything wrong with it I suspect a power supply problem. I'm pretty sure I'm using the most recent version of windows 10

Answer 4

How old is the drive, any chance it is failing?

I have such a drive so I will set up mine to see if it has any problems and report back if it does.

What version of Win 10?

Answer 5

boot the windows into recovery environment , then go  to command prompt , use diskpart find the drivers letters of  external hdd ,  then  type  chkdsk commands 

chkdsk F: /f /r