The Volume Does Not Contain A Recognized File System

Because the title suggests, you encounter the “The amount doesn’t comprise a acknowledged file system” error whereas attempting to open a detachable drive with an unsupported or lacking file system.

Every drive requires a file system to retailer and set up knowledge. If such a system is lacking or incompatible, your OS gained’t be capable to learn the contents of the drive. And trying to jot down to the disk might haphazardly retailer the information in areas that already contained some essential recordsdata, resulting in knowledge loss. So, your system doesn’t enable accessing a quantity and not using a acknowledged file system.

This situation often outcomes as a consequence of corruption of the disk or file system. So, it is advisable to troubleshoot these points to repair the error.

Causes for “The Quantity Does Not Include a Acknowledged File System” Error

How to Repair “The Quantity Does Not Include a Acknowledged File System” Error?

First, if there are any essential info within the detachable drive, strive recovering them utilizing recovery software program because the strategies beneath might lose the information. Then, undergo the potential options one after the other and examine in case your situation resolves.

Set up January 17 2022 Out-of-band Update

The January 11 2022 Windows update comes with a bug that will trigger this situation. It prevents your system from mounting the detachable drives with the Resilient File System (ReFS) or mounts them as RAW.

It’s essential set up the January 17 2022 out-of-band update respective to your OS model to resolve the problem. Nonetheless, needless to say the update will solely patch the problem for ReFS 2 and later variations. It is because Microsoft additionally eliminated the help for ReFS 1.x throughout the identical time interval.

So, for earlier variations, it is advisable to roll again your system, copy the contents of the detachable drive to a different drive/location after which format it utilizing a supported file system.

Run Disk Checking Utility

In case you are not experiencing this situation on a ReFS drive or the update didn’t resolve the problem, your disk sectors may be corrupt. It’s essential run the CHKDSK utility to repair the logical and partition errors on the disks and resolve such points. Right here’s how you are able to do so:

1. Open Run by urgent Win + R.
2. Kind cmd and press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open the Elevated Command Immediate.
3. Enter the command chkdsk /r /x E: whereas changing E: with the drive letter of the disk with the error.
   

Additionally, needless to say you gained’t be capable to run this software if the amount has RAW file system. In such circumstances, it is advisable to format the storage drive.

Format Exterior Drive

If the above strategies didn’t resolve your situation, your solely remaining choice is to format the detachable drive. There are a number of methods to format a drive. You’ll be able to merely click on Format after the failed try and open the drive and comply with the directions.

Nonetheless, it’s higher to make use of the Diskpart command line utility because it gives essentially the most success fee. Right here’s what it is advisable to do:

1. Open Run and enter diskpart to open this command line.
2. Enter the next instructions:
   • listing disk (Be aware down the disk variety of the detachable drive with the error)
   • choose disk # (Change # with the above quantity)
   • listing quantity (Be aware the amount quantity in the identical method)
   • choose quantity #
   • format fs=fat32 fast (You’ll be able to substitute fat32 with different file techniques like ntfs)
     

If you happen to can’t format the drive on this method, it is advisable to delete all of its formatting info and take a look at once more. Right here’s how you are able to do so,

1. Open Diskpart from Run.
2. Enter the next instructions:
   • listing disk
   • choose disk # (Change # accordingly)
   • listing quantity
   • choose quantity # (Change # accordingly)
   • clear
   • create partition major
   • format fs=fat32 fast (Change fat32 with the file system you need)