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    ruanv Guest

    access denied to external hard drive


    Folks,
    I am trying to access my external hard drive, but keep getting "F:/ not
    accessible, access is denied". I can change the name of the "F-drive",
    but not access. This is happening even thu I am in Administration
    account.
    I have recently accessed the same external hard drive to change
    security settings to all the files so that all users have full control.
    Was this a mistake to do?
    there are very important data there that I need to access for my
    business..do I look at datarecovery software? or is that not gonna get
    me anywhere?
    Please help.


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    ruanv

  2. #2
    Brandon Guest

    RE: access denied to external hard drive

    I just had the same thing happen to me, and have many files that I need to
    retrieve. Any help would greatly help both of us.

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    Flavius Guest

    Re: access denied to external hard drive


    1.Check do you have this problem in safe mode
    2.Diagnose disk in looking for errors
    3.Check you don't have some viruses


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    Flavius

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    Yun Zapata Guest

    Re: access denied to external hard drive

    i have the same problem, but only on windows vista, on my xp pro machine, the
    hdd works just fine, and in every other xp machine i've pluged it into, but
    not on a machi that has vista, what ca it be?

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    Steve Guest

    RE: access denied to external hard drive

    Same thing with me, only this happend to my C: drive. What should I do to
    gane control again, do you know?

  6. #6
    Hank J. Guest

    Re: access denied to external hard drive

    FIRST... start your own thread because your situation is different
    from the one being discussed. What you did is considered to be
    hijacking someone else's thread.

    Second... next time you pop into a thread, take a look at the dates of
    the posts in it. If they are over a couple weeks old - in this case
    they stopped 3 months ago - it's best to move on because most folks
    will have started to ignore the thread after the first week, maybe
    quicker..

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    aleqsie Guest

    Re: access denied to external hard drive


    I had the same problem a while ago.

    Here is my solution:

    Open your Computer and right click your External Hard Drive.
    Go to Properties.
    Click Security.
    Click Edit under a quote "To change permissions, click Edit."
    Click Add.
    Type in "everyone" in the white box.
    Then check in the box "Full Control".
    Press OK.

    This makes the hard drive usable by everyone (all users and different
    computers)
    It should do it, as i tried it with my friend.
    cheers


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    aleqsie

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