Hard Disk Recovery

Have you ever received the following scenario? When trying to access to files stored on partition hard drive or USB drive, you get an error message “The parameter is incorrect”. In this situation, what should you do? Is it possible to find important files stored on this drive without affecting the original data?

In general, this error is of common occurrence that partitions on external hard drive, USB flash drive, SD card, etc. can’t be opened and accessed. And, various factors can cause this issue. For example: power failure, virus attack, and so on.

However, how can we retrieve data stored on this inaccessible partition? Now, MiniTool Power Data Recovery, a piece of free yet professional data recovery software, can help to easily and quickly recover lost data because of its excellent performance. Next, let’s see the detailed steps.

How to Recover Data from Partition whose Parameter Is Incorrect

Step 1: Launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery to open its main interface.

Step 2: Five different data recovery modules are listed in the main window. Here, you can select a suitable one according to actual needs to retrieve lost data. For instance, you can choose “Damaged Partition Recovery” since this feature is specially designed to recover data from damaged, formatted and RAW partition. In general, as long as partition exists, and lost files are not overwritten by new data, you can recover them with this module.

Step 3: In this window, select the target partition contains lost data and then click “Full Scan” button to thoroughly scan it. After scanning, you will see all found data are listed in the following window.

Step 4: Select all needed data and then click “Save” button to store them on a safe place.

After all data are stored on a safe place, you have finished recovering data from the inaccessible by using MiniTool Power Data Recovery. After that, you can format this partition to use it again.