Cannot access my external hard drives

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• Two XP computers cannot access shared external hard drive connected to win 7 computer

  I have a Lacie 1 t hard shore connected via USB for win 7 computer. It is shared to "everyone" correctly on the network... with the same settings/properties as internal drives. the other 2 computers XP can see the drive letter and the name of the external hard drive, but cannot access the drive. When I try to save the files on this disc of compuers XP, I get an access denied message. I have caontacted LaCie and they say it is a matter of win 7.

  Hi Faye,

  Thanks for posting in Microsoft Community!

  It seems that you have a problem with access to a shared external drive of Windows XP computers and "Access denied" error message.

  I imagine the inconvenience that you are experiencing. We are here to help and guide you in the right direction.

  Method 1:
  I suggest you to make sure whether or not the disk is shared properties.

  (a) right click on the drive that you want to access.

  (b) click on the sharing tab.

  (c) click on share tab.

  (d) select user name or residential group you want to share with and click on the Add button.

  e level) right click on the user name or the Group residential and fixed the permissions you want.

  Method 2:
  If the problem persists I suggest you apply the full control permission on the disk that you want to share and check if it helps.

  What to know before applying permissions to a file or folder

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/what-to-know-before-applying-permissions-to-a-file-or-folder

  For more information, please see the link.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/share-files-with-someone

  Get back to us and let us know the State of the question, I'll be happy to help you. We, at tender Microsoft to excellence.

• Cannot access an external hard drive lost, encrypted BitLocker recovery key and do not know where to enter the password to unlock it.

  I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-Bit on a Sony Vaio. Worked great, seems awsome and rolls GOOS GOOS, for a new operating system. I decided to use the BitLocker feature that I wanted to use from Vista Ultimate, which was incredibly dificult unlike BitLocker in Windows 7, which is extremely simple to use. So simple in fact, I encrypted my external hard drive Verbatim 160 Gig where the original BACKUP files are with ALL my original documents, settings and files of the company are located. I haven't used a USB key, or don't have I recorded the RecoveryKey, I printed and completely loses it, I remember perfectly well the password I used. Problem is I have NOW, I can't ACCESS MY HARD DRIVE! When I try to access the hard drive it asked me not the password recovery key. Please help me, im in deep poopie. I wish I could change the world, if only I could find a diapper big enough to hold so many things...

  Hey thanks for the reply Kev, but I must say that I did and didn't. The new Windows 7 operating system has this feature built-in and it is much easier to use. So yes I did it, but I made using windows 7 have where, instead of download all the files, I just insert the original DVD of WIndows 7, I restart my PC and follow the instructions of recovery of BitLocker recovery key, and voila. The problem is that I've NEVER stored on this particular external hard drive recovery key. BTW: I tried to follow the steps mentioned by Mr. Vijay but inconsistent tool with my operating system (Windows 7 64-Bit) it only works with Vista (not 150 percent certain but close). Please correct me if Im wrong. I wish I could change the world, if only I could find a diapper big enough to hold so many things...

• Upgrade to Windows 8 and now cannot access my external hard drive

  I just changed OS from Vista to Windows 8 on July 3-4. Everything seems to work properly but when I tried to access my external Western Digital HD, it tells me access is denied. I copied this before making the switch: family videos and photos, documents, statements, etc., and now I can't access the drive. The drive appears on my computer but when I click on it it gives me an error message that I don't have permission. I don't see how that's possible, because I am the administrator. It is a home computer and I don't need all this security {deleted}.  The only thing I can think is that I didn't log on the computer when I used Vista but now I connect with Windows 8. The connection ID would be the reason why I can't access the drive? I tried to make the public drive and giving my self control of training, but I get refused every time. Someone at - it ideas? I'll be upset if I lost access to everything on my external.

  Jared

  Thank you for your help. I think that I finally thought to it. By clicking on the icon my computer, it would show all available drives. One was removable storage drive I: WD Unlocker but it is only 7MB. After the installation of Windows 8, I had to click this drive tell him to unlock my WD J: drive. Once I did, I could see the folders and files but couldn't access it. I clicked on the I: drive and select Properties. He says that the disc was not shared so I said to share. Then I looked at the permissions and he says: read-only. Once I changed it to shared with full access, I can access now fully my WD J: will try to restart now and see if I still have access. Thanks again for your help.

• Installed Win 7, cannot access encrypted external hard drive?

  Well, here's my sad story of misfortune: I copied all my files (encrypted with EFS, I think) on a hard disk, and then reformatted and installed Windows 7 Professional; not surprisingly, I can't access anything on the disk, because it is linked to my old XP account, now recognized as a unknown user by 7.
  After reading here, I think that I will well and truly up the Creek unless I want to pay hundreds to a data recovery company. Is there anything to do? Thanks in advance.

  I think that I will well and truly up the Creek unless I want to pay hundreds to a data recovery company. Is there anything to do? Thanks in advance.

  You would be wasting your money. EFS is as good as you thought it was when you your files encrypted. Really it protects them from prying eyes.

• I am able to access my desktop to my laptop as part of a homegroup, but can not access the external hard drive that is attached to my office.

  share external hard drive

  I am able to access my desktop to my laptop as part of a homegroup, but can not access the external hard drive that is attached to my office. I want to be able to back up my laptop hard disk external.  Advice please.

  geraintjo

  I do not use homegroups, but 'true' to share, so I don't know how this is supposed to work with homegroups. But usually he should share a drive or folder, first before you can access it from another machine. (for example, click on the drive/folder properties and go to the sharing tab)

• Cannot reconnect the external hard drive

  Cannot reconnect the external hard drive after moving the computer. I have a WD external hard drive and after moving computer cant use. It is used to mount drive f and now in the g drive. He keeps asking me to format the disk before it can be used, but cannot do so. I am desperate to back up my files but can; "t.Any help would be much appreciated

  Hello meatindustries,

  What operating system do we use?

  The answer to this question, we can pursue various troubleshooting methods.

  There are many third-party data recovery utilities available for free online.  You can search for these using your favorite search engine to find one that you like.

  Let us know the operating system you are using and we can go forward from there.

  Best regards

  Matthew_Ha

• After Vista update cannot find the external hard drive, AutoPlay does not work, and new unusable disk appears under my computer

  After Vista update cannot find the external hard drive, AutoPlay does not work, and new unusable disk appears under my computer. Also I can't 'manage' my computer because I do not have "permissions". I tried a fix he 45071 and it did nothing.

  Applications, (Norton and McAfee) (including free evaluation versions are notorious for not not upgrade (or uninstalling) itself.) If NIS has been installed for 3 years, you have NIS update at least once and maybe twice (e.g., NIS 2009 > NIS 2010 > NIS 2011).

  [You may want to print these instructions for reference offline. If a step said to reboot, reboot.]

  1. download the Norton Removal Tool, save it to your desktop: ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/removal_tools/Norton_Removal_Tool.exe

  2. close all open applications (that is, anything with an icon on the taskbar).

  3. After completing some you have a copy of your handy product key, uninstall all Norton software (including LiveUpdate and everything Norton Add ons) viaControl Panel | Programs | Uninstall a program (or Control Panel |) Programs and features, if you are using the classic view).

  4 IMPORTANT! -Online activate Windows Firewall immediately after the restart.

  NB: Now you're "working without a net": no to ANYTHING else online (e.g., navigation, reading e-mail, chat) until you have completed step #7 below!

  5. right click on the file that you saved in step #1 above, and then select run as administrator.  DO TAP not your keyboard until the race ends, then restart.

  6. do a clean install of NIS 2011 (using your product ID, if need be) & reboot. CF. http://www.symantec.com/norton/support/kb/web_view.jsp?wv_type=public_web&docurl=20080514162318EN

  NOTE: Do NOT activate or install additional modules of Norton (for example, Norton Anti-Phishing) immediately.

  7. manually and repeatedly run LiveUpdate (Norton) until you get a prompt "no update more".

  8. open Internet Explorer (only) to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737 & run the difficulty.

  9. open Internet Explorer (only) to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058 & run that set it by DEFAULT and modes and AGGRESSIVE. [1]

  10. restart once again & test.

  NB: Installation KB971029 disables AutoRun/autoplay on USB connected but not 'brilliant media' external drives (i.e., CDs & DVDs). See http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2011/02/08/deeper-insight-into-the-security-advisory-967940-update.aspx

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  [1] full Disclosure: the difficulty operating in AGGRESSIVE mode will remove your update history but not list the updates installed in Add/Remove Programs (Windows XP) or installed updates.

  ~ Robear Dyer (PA Bear) ~ MS MVP (that is to say, mail, security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002 ~ WARNING: MS MVPs represent or work for Microsoft

• Cannot detect the external hard drive.

  Original title: USB to ATA/ATAPI bridge, cannot access hard drive

  I have a lenovo g570, its brand new, I have because I broke my old laptop but managed to recover my hard drive from my old laptop.

  I bought all the necessary equiptment to open it, I have different devices to connect my hard drive to that allows me to connect to any laptop.
  However everytime that I plug in my new laptop I get the USB to the ata /atapi view of bridge and can't access my hard drive. its really annoying me now. Ive tried all the links and updates that have been previously mentioned on many forums and still nothing works. Ive did go into the Device Manager... still no luck. It indicates that the device is functioning properly. I don't know what to do. some help would be great.

  Hello

  1. What is the brand and model of the external hard drive?

  2. what exactly happens when you access the hard drive?

  3. you receive an error message?

  I suggest you try the steps mentioned below and check if it helps.

  Method 1: Try to connect the hard drive to a different USB port or try to connect the hard drive in another computer and check that the problem persists

  Method 2: Try to download and run the Fixit tool from the link below.

  Hardware devices do not work or are not detected in Windows:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/GP/hardware_device_problems

  Method 3: Also check if it is detected in disk management.

  a. click Start.
  b. Type diskmgmt.msc in the search box of start and press to enter.

  c. check if the external drive is detected.

  Hope this information is useful.

• How to access the external hard drive iPhoto library

  Hello

  I'm trying to access my iPhoto library that is on my external hard drive.  I try to free up space on my MacBook and want to make sure that I can still pick up stuff if I want to from the outside. I get this message (photo).   OK let me download a photojeeeeeezzzz... You have made changes etc, a newer version of iPhoto... .do you want to leave a use of the latest version, or creat new version etc,... I want to just access my library of tha hard drive...   All ideas

  Heres the phot o

• Access my external hard drive to Windows on my new Mac

  Hello world

  I am a new user of Mac Yosemite, recently moved from Windows and I am a passionate photographer

  All my photos are saved on two external hard drives of laptop computer Windows

  Is it possible to access outside data by car and it is hard on the Mac

  I keep reading things on the partition and FAT32 or the disc running utilities to reformat, but I'll lose all the images on the external hard drive

  I feel like I'm missing something here

  [What should I do to be able to view my images on Mac, I will then load in Lightroom for editing [the forest of Lightroom] that I'm very good]

  Thank you... Venus

  Simply connect the player and open the files. Unless you need to write to the disk, you don't need to do anything else.

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• User with limited XP Home Edition privleges can not access an external hard drive

  I can't set up an external hard drive in Windows XP Home Edition so that a user who has 'Limited' privleges can access.  The user receives the access denied message.  I tried to configure this by starting in safe mode.  I shared the unit with everyone.  If I'm the administrator user then it can access the drive.  The troubling question is that this system has been configured with the user having limited privleges as well as access to the external drive in the past.  I recently removed Norton antivirus and replaced by MS Security Essentials and I'm so glad I did.  But now it's problem arose.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  You probably just need to change permissions for access of the disk and/or subfolders.  The following article describes how to do this:

  "How to set, view, change, or remove special permissions for files and folders in Windows XP"
    <>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/308419 >

  The bad news is that this article was written for XP Pro and you have XP Home.  This means that the 'Security' tab, which is at the heart of the management of permissions is not present during the implementation of the properties of file or a folder on your computer. (Or y at - it an option to disable Simple file sharing).  The good news is that if you start your computer in safe mode (repeatedly tap the F8 key when your computer starts) and log on as a user with administrator privileges, you can then obtain access to the security"" tab.  Once you have access to this tab, you can give "Everyone" permission to all of the disk if you wish.  Once you set the permissions as you like them, you can restart your machine in Normal mode.

  HTH,
  JW

• Cannot recognize the external hard drive.

  Have an iMac with Parallels and Windows SP installed Pro computer.  Until yesterday, when we had a power outage, I had a Verbatim external disk set on the Windows side of the machine that worked very well.  I the embroidery machine and I keep my drawings on this small hard drive and access it through a software on the side of my Mac Windows.  Since the blackout, my Mac does not recognize the Verbatim.  I tried the Verbatim on another pc and it works fine.  Turned on my Mac, is gone on the side of the window, plugged in the Verbatim... little popup appears asking if I want it on the Mac or my Virtual Machine.  I loaded Virtual Machine.  When I go to my program of embroidery and search the external hard drive, he doesn't "see" it.  Then a box comes up and says "do you want it disconnected from your Mac" and it must be removed by force of the virtual machine.  NOTHING WORKS.  It worked perfectly before and I can't figure out how to get my Virtual Machine (Windows) to recognize.

  Hi gloriajstitcher,

  Check if the disk is detected by plugging it into a different port.

  I suggest you post in your query in the Parallels forums to improve the assistance:

  http://Forum.parallels.com/forumdisplay.php?f=60

  With regard to:

  Samhrutha G S - Microsoft technical support.

  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• "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 .

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  Most Microsoft Valuable Professional

• Android access to external hard drive attached to EA6900

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  I want to have my android device (4.4.4) to connect to an external hard drive attached to my EA6900 - wireless of course.

  What is the best way to do it? Better way

  (a) you don't need to be a network engineer

  (b) access to the files is fast

  I saw someone recommended software EAS, but then they said it took TWO HOURS to make it work. Give me a break.

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  I have been using an application called File Manager by cheetah mobile. version 2.5.0.442 and it took 5 seconds to access my NAS from inside the network. haven't tried it outside, but I know that I can ftp from the application. I think they have a free version to try, but not sure about that. might be worth looking at.