Solved: Hard Drive Shows “0 Bytes” Error

This tutorial post will provide the free solution on how to fix hard drive showing “0 bytes” error or hard drive showing 0 bytes used space and 0 bytes free space corrupted hard drive. Also how to recover files from hard drive that shows “0 bytes” space issue.

First of all let us start with recovering files from hard drive showing 0 bytes space issue.

You can use the recommended Photo Recovery software which is suitable hard drive data recovery for recovering multimedia files. With the help of this program, one can:

• Restore inaccessible or missing file such as photos videos and audio from hard drive showing 0 bytes error.
• Also retrieve multimedia files from corrupted, virus infected, formatted hard drive.
• Easily get back data from external hard drive showing 0 capacity.
• Retrieve folder showing 0 bytes in hard drive. 
• Also recover files from flash drive, sd card showing “0 bytes’ space issue.

Free Recover Media Files From Hard Drive Shows 0 Bytes

Now let us discuss about effective solutions to fix hard drive showing 0 bytes space issue.

Also Read: Crash Hard Disk Data Recovery: Retrieve Photos, Videos & Audio Files

Solutions To Fix Hard Drive Shows 0 Byte Error

Solution 1: Fix External Hard Drive 0 Byte Error Using Disk Management

• On your PC click Start>My Computer.
• Right click on the hard drive showing 0 bytes and then select the option Properties.
• Click on Security tab and then click on Advanced settings and then go to Owner tab, just to check whether the list is empty or not.
• Next click on Edit button and add Administrator (name of your account of your PC).
• If not, then you can also type Authenticated Users and see if it can trigger.
• After this go back to Permissions tab and check mark Change Permissions, select each one that you have added on owner tab an then checkmark everything that listed on the type of the permissions.
• Lastly, click OK and Apply.

That’s All!

You can now be able to access your hard drive data as usual.

Solution 2: Use CHKDSK Command To Fix Hard Drive Shows 0 Bytes Space Issue

• Click Start and type cmd in the search bar and hit Enter button.
• A new command window will get open. Now type chkdsk Drive Letter: /R and hit Enter (drive letter will be the drive name of your 0 bytes hard drive, flash drive or sd card.)

After, this you have to just wait for CHKDSK to fix the error it finds. After that, you can access your hard drive and its data as usual.

Recover Digital Media Files from Hard Drive Showing 0 bytes

As I have mentioned in the beginning of the post that you can use Photo Recovery software, if you do want to lose any digital media files, before following the steps for fixing the hard drive shows 0 bytes error.

    

The software perform deep scan and extract every single file format of multimedia files such as photos, videos and audio from hard drive. This software also fix SD card showing 0 byte space error and restore files from it.

Steps To Recover Files From Hard Drive Showing 0 Bytes

Step 1 – Download and install Photo Recovery and launch it on your PC. Now connect your external storage devices such as memory card, USB drive, hard drive or digital camera. Once, connected, now on your PC click on “Recover Photo, Audio & Video” to start recovery process.

Step 2 - Select the drive from which you want to recover files and then click on “Scan Now” to begin the scanning process.

Step 3 – You can see that scanning is in progress.

Step 4 - Once, the scanning process gets complete, you can now preview recoverable files. After previewing the files you can select those files that you want back and click on “Recover” button to save them on your PC. 

Step 5 - Select the location on your PC to save the recovered files. 

    

Conclusion

Since, you have now got the idea on how to fix hard drive that shows 0 bytes error, I hope you can now fix the problem by yourself. However, if you do want to risk the saved photos, videos and audio files on the hard drive, we recommend you to use Photo Recovery software.