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• locked out of my access denied hard drive I'm the adminastrator? files was broken or something how to fix without cd

  Access hard drive c: undeniable access I'm the adminastrator. files broken or something that I don't have a cd to reinstall his striped how to fix no cd and no access to drive c? In addition to the upgrade

  If you can log in as any user with administrator privileges, you should be able to 'ownership '.

  The quick check for administrative privileges is to right-click on 'start '.  If "Open All Users", it's one of the options displayed in the window, so you don't have administrator privileges.

  "How appropriate a file or a folder in Windows XP"
    <>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/308421 >

  HTH,
  JW

• Access denied on hard drive

  with a portable hard drive attached to my desktop (it is attached at this time). When I double click on the harddive it is said that the L:\ is not accessible. access is denied. Here is some info I have.  How can I access the hard disk.

  Device Manager
  Disk management
  disc: disc 1
  type: basic
  status: online
  Partition style: Master Boot Record (MBR)
  Capacity 305244

  for disc 1-recovery (m :)) 10.75 NTFS healthy (primary partition).) Partition_1 (l) 287.33 NTFS healthy (active, primary Partition)

  When I double click on the drive to access I
  "the location is unavailable" Vista "access denied."

  -the total size and free space of the disk (L) does not appear. However, the recovery of that disk partition shows still its size and space (m).

  I took the boat owner and I still have the same problem.  To make sure I did it right.
  I right click on the hard L drive
  Click the Security tab
  Click on continue
  Click on system and Admisistrators (I did for both, just in case)
  checked the box for full control, increase, read and execute, display the contents of the folder, read, write
  I restarted the computer.

  Sill gettting a message that says
  Location is not available
  L:\ is not accessible.
  Access is denied.

  Help, please

  original title: double-click the hard drive to access it I get__ "location is not available" "access denied."

  The fact that the total size and the use of the drive does not appear suggests that may not be connected correctly.  Check your connections (unplug them and reconnect them - don't tighten them just straight up).  Also, make sure you use the right connection cables.  When connected, you can see the Drive and the drive M in Windows Explorer - you should even if access is denied when you try to open?  You can access drive M?  If you do not see the drives in Windows Explorer there is more here than a simple permissions problem.

  Here is some information on getting the right permissions and ownership (which, moreover, you do not have the procedure that you used).

  To view your permissions, right-click on the file/folder, click Properties, and check the Security tab.  Check the permissions you have by clicking on your user name (or group of users).  Here are the types of permissions, you may have:http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/What-are-permissions.  You must be an administrator or owner to change the permissions (and sometimes, being an administrator or even an owner is not sufficient - there are ways to block access (even if a smart administrator knows these ways and can move them - but usually should not because they did not have access, usually for a very good reason).)  Here's how to change the permissions of folder under Vista:http://www.online-tech-tips.com/windows-vista/set-file-folder-permissions-vista/. To add take and the issuance of right of permissions and ownership in the right click menu (which will make it faster to get once it is configured), see the following article:http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/05/21/take-and-grant-full-control-permissions-and-ownership-in-windows-7-or-vista-right-click-menu/.

  To solve this problem with folders/drives, takeownership files or the drive (as an administrator) and give you all the rights.  Right-click on the folder/drive, click Properties, click the Security tab and click on advanced and then click the owner tab.  Click on edit, and then click the name of the person you want to give to the property (you may need to add if it is not there--or maybe yourself). If you want that it applies to subfolders and files in this folder/drive, then check the box to replace the owner of subcontainers and objects, and click OK.  Back and now there is a new owner for files and folders/player who can change the required permissions.  You can change now switched to read-only (even if the main folder indicates that they are always read-only - you can access yourself as the owner).  You can keep them in read-only to other users, customers and administrators even (although they can support themselves and access, if they wish, and it is really not that you can do to stop it except protect the file with a password by using a 3rd party product.)  Here is more information on the ownership of a file or a folder:http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67717-take-ownership-file.html. To add take ownership in the menu of the right click (which will make it faster to get once it is configured), see the following article:http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/.

  Good luck and I hope this helps!

  Lorien - MCSA/MCSE/network + / has + - if this post solves your problem, please click the 'Mark as answer' or 'Useful' button at the top of this message. Marking a post as answer, or relatively useful, you help others find the answer more quickly.

• "Access denied" error XP trying to access an external hard drive used on Windows 7

  Hello

  I used my external hard drive as usual on my XP machine for months, but yesterday I had to use it on another computer running Windows 7. Windows 7 asked something like "do you want to enable access to this hard drive?" and I clicked Yes thinking that it wouldn't cause any problems (showed a green bar that drains into the upper part of the window), but now that I'm trying to use it again on my XP machine I get an access denied error such as permissions changed. I just installed service pack 3, but which did not help.

  Help it would be greatly appreciated the fixing, I'm happy to just continue to use the external drive on my XP machine - use it on other Windows 7 machine was just one time.

  Thank you!

  Simon

  This should help: How is ownership of a file or a folder in Windows XP .

  Boulder computer Maven
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• Get the "Access denied" error when you try to play all video files in another folder on my external hard drive.

  A couple of days, I've had accidentally one of the folders slipped on my hard drive in the folder above him and was presented with the "Access denied" error messages when I tried the two a) reglisser it out & b) open it from the record she had been driven to (which was not a folder of my making that is a jibberish titled folder containing two .vdm files it contains first)

  After receiving advice of a friend, I did a restore from safe mode on the eve of the day when he moved and he did bring him back with all the files and files in the right place, but now I'm getting an access denied for each file, I try to play. Whether Real Player, Windows Media Player etc none will play.

  Just to test, I slipped a .avi file in the folder to see if he was going to play and he did it can be the folder settings, I'm just hoping that all these files are now not corrupted and unplayable as I have some 180 GB of data in this folder in more than 1000 files.

  Any help is very appreciated.
  Kind regards
  Haley

  Hey HRolston,

  What version/service pack of XP are you using?

  What format of your hard drive is formatted to?

  You can check the version/service pack:

  ·         Click Start

  ·         Right click my computer

  ·         Click on Properties

  ·         On the general tab, under System: you will see your information

  For example: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, Service Pack 3

  You can check what is the format of your hard drive is:

  ·         Click Start

  ·         Click on my computer

  ·         Right click on Local disk (c) (or letter that contains your operating system)

  ·         Click on Properties

  ·         On the general tab, next to file system: you will see the format of your hard drive (Fat32 or NTFS)

  Can't wait to hear back on your part.

  Steven
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• USB - external hard drive WD My Book 1230 is not recognized (Code 28 - access denied)

  Problem started with the purchase of a an external 4 TB My Book Western Digital drive.

  I bought this second external drive for backup on a fully functional IDENTICAL existing WD my book 1230 4 Tb.

  My PC is a HP Pavilion e9180f running under Windows 7 64-bit.

  The new external drive is not recognized by the PC... I get the error message

  Device driver software was not successfully installed

  Please consult the manufacturer of your device to help get this device installed

  My book 1230 X failed

  When I put the driver (with admin rights) I get the error message

  Windows encountered a problem installing the software driver for your device.

  Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error trying to install it (USB Mass Storage Devive - access denied)

  I tried the HDD not recognized on a HP Envy laptop running Windows 8 and it is recognized and work very well (if the disk is OK).

  As a possible solution, I downloaded and installed the driver for the WD HARD drive without erasing the situation.

  I tried to plug the WD My Book 1230 on all existing 7 port USB of the PC and the situation still exist.

  In Device Manager the defective WD My Book 1230 appears under the category "other devices."

  I tried the Microsoft Mr.Fixit running without correcting the problem.

  You have a trick to help me solve the problem.

  Thank you.

  Unfortunately, your procedure has not worked as the device could not be uninstalled from the Device Manager.

  As I prepared to reinstall Windows 7, I gathered information from Control Panel - programs.

  I did a search by the most recent dates, and I realized that an Application has been installed and I was not aware that I installed it.

  The cause of my 9 day long search for a solution was a malicious program called Manager of adjustment by the AZTECS.

  Removing and restarting desktop cured the problem.

  Now all USB devices, including my Western Digital My Book 1230 are recognized.

  Thanks for your advice, support and everything.

  It is a "case closed" with a happy ending :-)

• "Access denied" error on all hard drives external and MagicDisc

  I just purchased a Lenovo B575 running Win7 Home Premium and I'm very frustrated that I can't access my external hard drives, which are essential to my work. I get the error "Access denied" the normal start, but I'm able to use disks normally in safe mode. Here are some of the things I've tried:

  -Change the permissions/ownership after normal startup: does not work. Windows doesn't let me change the permissions or ownership, even if my single user account is set to administrator.

  -Change the permissions and ownership in safe mode: I found a solution online saying "Everyone" to add to the list of users in the Security tab. It works * temporary *, until I unplug my hard drives. When I plug back them, it's back to square one.

  -Install MagicDisc to access some files I saved in the form of ISO images: MagicDisc seems to work very well and load images normally... but also, I get the error "Access denied" when you try to open the drive in Explorer.

  -USB flash drives: same problem.

  -Other erratic behavior: one of my USB drives will not stop read/write as soon as I plug. I don't know if it's the McAfee antivirus analysis each of millions of files that I have on this subject, or if something else is happening.

  I had NONE of these issues on my old Acer and HP to my friend has no problem loading my readers. If I can't find a solution soon, I'll be forced to return this laptop that I need to access my work files.

  I lost my patience all yesterday and not the OneKey Rescue, restore my system to nine. Then, I named my new laptop of the same name that my old (relevant at all?). He immediately provoked a hard drive to work. The 750 GB it does not work yet, but I changed the permissions AND ownership to "Everyone" in SafeMode... now it seems to work correctly. No problem with other removable disks.

  That they are related or not, I have not initialized or changed some settings on the programs supplied with the laptop. My guess is that port Locker has something to do with the question I had - even if it has been disabled before. I'm uninstalling as I did not need. BioExcess, face recognition... everything goes down the drain. These should be optional, not enabled by default. Too many background services! I'm disabling a bunch of unnecessary stuff.

  Detective Conan?

• transfer files from the hard drive to laptop: access denied?

  The motherboard on my computer just died. I'm trying to get my documents, music, photos from the hard drive of the computer dead on my laptop. the old hard drive is in this removable thingy, connected to the labtop. The problem is that it says access denied when I click on 'my documents '. any suggestions on how to access the documents?

  When you move a disk formatted in NTFS from one computer to another, you probably need to 'Ownership' of files and folders on this drive.  Procedure is here:

  "How appropriate a file or a folder in Windows XP"
    <>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/308421 >

  HTH,
  JW

• External hard drive problems - we have most of the files to get a message "access denied."

  USB connected external hard drive was used with XP.  For a small period of time, we had to connect to a machine from W7.  Now that we are back to the XP machine, we have most of the files to get a message "access denied."  How we fix the problem.  The files are images, videos or music.

  Try this,

  Start in safe mode.
  Open your computer and right click on your external hard drive.
  Go to properties.
  Click Security.
  Click on Edit under a quote "to change permissions, click on change."
  Click on Add.
  Type in "everyone" in the white box.
  Then check in the box "total control".
  Press OK.

  This makes the hard drive usable by everyone (all users and different computers)

  I hope this helps.

• Hard drive crashed and now 'My Documents' reports 'access denied '.

  My drived by 'C' crashed. I replaced the trive and install a new copy of XP pro on a new drive. I plugged the old drive as slave and when I go to the 'Documents and Settings' area I am able to open most of all files except thoes in "Documents and Settings/username / My Documents". This directory and several others in the 'Documents and Settings' box report "Access denied" when I try to open them.

  Hi 1handclapping,

  You will need to take ownership of files or files that refuse to that you access from your old hard drive.

  Please see the following article:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/308421

• To access the files and folders from the hard drive Windows 7 on Windows XP, access denied error message.

  Original title: portable destroyed - need for car access

  I don't know if this is the right forum - please advice if it is not.

  My friend's laptop computer was destroyed in a car accident. I pulled the drive and placed it in my desktop XP system and the drive appear in good health. However, I received permission issues trying to access records on the disk and thought that it was because of me using Win XP and the laptop was Win7x64. My questions below are based on the assumption that I'm not able to access these files on my Win XP system. If this assumption is incorrect, so please let me know.

  I have a laptop that I don't use and put the disk in it. I was hoping it would be plug and play all the new material, but after reading a little online, I know that this is not the best thing to do and will probably not work as did the earlier versions of Windows.

  In the end, I care retrieves the contents of the disc, although it would be great if I could lend my laptop for a few weeks with "its files" until it sorts how to replace the laptop.

  Can I get the player Win7x64 working on the laptop computer of replacement by reinstalling Win7x64 on this laptop? I'm not "means a clean install/reformat, but have rather the Setup program detects an existing installation, and do its magic to get the operating system runs on new hardware?"

  I know that this raises questions of MS licenses. If the installation process could get his old system running on the laptop replacement, if I have a small window of time completely to access his files before being forced to re-register the OS? I'm hoping so.

  I'm looking for only a short-term solution - I do not recommend that he hopes that drive long term because the laptop got quite truncated of the accident, and once he gets a new laptop it will have everything he needs on this subject (OS, licenses, etc.). If I have a small window of time where I can simply copy their important files, or to lend him my laptop with its player and him can bring to its domestic network and the print out of all the things that are important, that it's going to be all together to move them to a new laptop when it is available.

  Thank you

  Hello

  You experience this problem because of the permissions applied to these s folder.  To resolve this problem, you will need to take ownership of these files and folders.

  Method 1: You can follow the steps mentioned in the link below to take possession of the records

  Troubleshoot "access denied" when opening files or folders

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/troubleshoot-access-denied-when-opening-files-or-folders

  (Article above applies to Windows Vista, not valid for Windows XP)

  Also check out the article below

  How to capture a file or a folder in Windows XP
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/308421

  Method 2:  You can try a custom installation (not a format\clean facility).

  See the link below for custom installation
  using the install option custom without formatting the hard drive

  Note: In custom installation only data would be transferred in Windows. Drivers, applications and the old folder will need to be reinstalled.

• Access denied for backup external hard drive

  Hello

  I can not access my old files stored on an external hard drive Maxtor. It gives me an access denied error.

  I tried what you posted in another forum.

  Here are the steps to change the ownership and permissions:

  • 1. Right-click on the file or folder, click Properties , and then click the Security tab.
    2. Click Advanced , and then click the owner tab.
    3. Click Edit , and then do one of the following:

  ·         To change the owner to a user or group that is not listed, click other users and groups , in area enter the object name to select (examples) , type the name of the user or group, and then click OK .

  ·         To change the owner to a user or group that appears in the area of change of ownership to , click the new owner.

  4. If you want to take ownership of the contents of the folder, select the check box Replace owner of subcontainers and objects .

  5. click OK and then click Yes when you receive the following message is displayed:

  You are not allowed to read the contents of directory folder_name . Do you want to replace the the directory permissions with permissions granting you full control?

  All permissions will be replaced if you click Yes .

  Note folder_name is the name of the folder you want to take charge.

  6. click on OK and then reapply the permissions and security settings that you want for the folder and its contents.

  Additional considerations

  • • An administrator can take ownership of any file on the computer.
    • Affecting the ownership of a file or a folder might require that raise you your permissions using user access control.

  I got a laptop with Windows XP and these files have been backed up with XP as my operating system. Then I changed my laptop with Vista and cannot access files - they are just NTO open!

  Help, please!

  Hi Tdhar...  Are you able to take control by following the steps listed on the Web site below

  I take possession of the ROOT of the hard drive external and let it spread down through all the folders/subfolders and files...

  http://www.vistarevisited.com/2008/01/09/how-to-take-ownership-of-a-file-or-folder-in-Vista/

  Phreak_89

• Access denied to my external hard drive

  I changed the permissions on my external hard drive, and now I am getting an access denied when I click the hard drive icon in my computer. I can't even open the Security tab, on the Properties screen. Please help, this car has a lot of important things about it and I don't know what to do to solve this problem.  I'm using Windows Vista 32-bit, if this is helpful to the solution.

  Try to connect the external hard drive on another computer to see if you can access it.  That have you changed permissions for - you can have locked yourself on according to what you then try to be specific on exactlly what you did and what you have changed.

  I hope this helps.

  Thanks and good luck!

  Lorien - MCSA/MCSE/network + / has + - if this post solves your problem, please click the 'Mark as answer' or 'Useful' button at the top of this message. Marking a post as answer, or relatively useful, you help others find the answer more quickly.

• In Vista, after you delete all data on hard drive, now get the access denied error

  I deleted all the data from my hard drive. everything works, but I can't copy or move my files anywhere. When I opened my hard drive, access is denied. I connet Internet can´t or other. I ve tried to use the restoration of the system, but still the same.

  Hello

  ·         You met any question which did you to remove the data from the hard drive?

  ·         What happens when you try to connect to the internet?

  ·         How the hard drive is connected to the computer? Thanks to a USB or SATA cable?

  Method 1:

  Take possession of the location/folder where you want to copy the files to:

  To take ownership of a file or folder

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/troubleshoot-access-denied-when-opening-files-or-folders

  Method 2:

  Try checking the boot, if the problem persists:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135

  Note: Place the computer to normal startup by following step 7 from the link above.

• Access denied on external hard drive.

  I have an external drive, which works perfectly well. But I've just updated from vista to W7, and now I can not access the disk from that specific computer. I get access denied. On the properties, all users have full access. And the funny part is on my other computer, with the exact same OS, the drive works perfectly. So, I expect that there is a setting that I didn't know.
  Is there someone with good ideas on how to solve this problem?

  Hi I tried your instructions below to restore all my administrator permissions full on my external hard drive.

  1. click on Start , click all programs , and click Accessories .
  2. right click on command prompt , and then click run as administrator .
  3. in administrator: command prompt window.
  4. type
  takeown /F (external drive letter) and press ENTER.
  5 type
  CACLS (external drive letter) /G Administrator: F and press enter

  After that I followed these steps, my computer Windows 7 says that the drive is not accessible.  I plugged it to my old XP computer, and it also says "access denied."  I have a huge amount of important files there and I need to restore access, but I can't find an answer for how to cancel the steps I followed.  Please tell me how to reverse the steps I did your earlier suggestion.