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• Cannot transfer pictures to the external hard drive (refused)

  Hey!

  I can't transfer jpg on my computer to my external hard drive all of a sudden. He's worked a lot of years and now when I try to drag the photos on it gives me a stop sign, that white circle with the diagonal line through it. What gives? Any help would be great appreciated! I have a lot of work there.

  Additional information:

  -J' have permission to read and write on the jpg photos, but the disk that he said that I can read only, and there is no way to change this, when I click on the little triangle down.

  -I can drag photos that already exist ON the disk hard ON my desk, but not vice versa

  -All files are jpg files, and they are in a separate folder on my desktop, not from my iphoto library or whatever it is

  -J' also tried to delete the "com.apple.recentitems.plist" of the finder, and nothing has changed

  -The disc model is a "Slim Seagate laptop drive"

  -Here is a photo of the hardrive info:

  

  Thank you

  The external HARD drive is formatted NTFS, which allows you to write on it unless you have a third party app like Paragon or Tuxera.

  You had these software installed by Seafgate in the drive, but it is now obsolete and should be updated.

  Ciao.

• 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.

• External hard drive USB on Time Capsule

  Hello

  I have an external USB hard disk and plug it into the USB port of my Airport Time Capsule makes it accessible wireless (if on the sidebar of the window under the section 'sharing' I click on the Time Capsule to enter airport name next to his record 'data', I also have a folder with the name of my USB HD and I can access).

  Now the problem. I have a USB external hard drive, I can access normally connect my iMac or iBook portUSB one, but, if connected to the time Capsule... nothing happens.

  So there must be a difference in the two external hard drive. What a difference creates the problem, why and what I can do is my question.

  Can someone help me?

  So far, here is what I found to be the similarities and differences:

  The two serial ATA, 2 to, partition GUID mapped external USB hard drive.

  In disk utility, one that is visible on the Time Capsule is displayed as 'external HARD disk support' physical disk with OS X extended physical volume. One who isn't appears as physical disk 'external media' with logic extended OS X volume.

  TX

  Hi Ranmaboy,

  I understand you have two external hard drives USB that you want to connect to your airport Time Capsule via USB, but one who is not recognized by the Capsule from the airport. Given that this player connects to your iMac without problem, I would recommend that you backup all data stored on the disk, and then follow the steps here to re - format the drive using disk utility:

  Backup disks, you can use with Time Machine - Apple Support

  Format a drive connected to an AirPort Extreme 802.11ac or Time Capsule

  If you are using an AirPort Extreme 802.11ac or Time Capsule, you can connect an external drive to the USB port on these devices for use with Time Machine. Follow these steps to reformat the hard disk in the first place, it is ready for use.

  1. Connect the hard drive to a USB port on your Mac.
  2. Open disk utility.
  3. On the left side of the disk utility window, select your external drive (or one of its partitions).
  4. Click the delete or delete button on the toolbar.
  5. On the Format menu, choose Mac OS extended (journaled).
  6. Type a name for your drive, and then click clear.
  7. After that the drive is deleted, close the disk utility window.

  Once the disk has been reformatted, try to connect this back to the airport Time Capsule to see if it is now recognized.

  Have a great rest of your day!

• My computer does not recognize the external hard drive that my virtual machine is stored (continuous thread solved problem)...

  A new problem arises.  After I crossed the wire attached and mounted my VM on the external hard drive, I can access is no longer my hard drive.  Y at - it a trick to recognize again?

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• Refusal of the WORKSTATION to access external hard drive window

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  I can't access an external hard drive (WD My Book Home Edition). The problem happened when I disconnected my external drive from my Win XP Pro computer and plugged into another Win XP Home computer that had another WD external drive attached to it. Both my drive ext as wel as the other disk ext became inaccessible. I disconnected my 2nd computer ext drive and connected to computer Win XP pro that I always use. However even though my computer recognizes the drive I have noticed that the icon WD changed to a regular folder icon and whenever I try to open it, it says drive H is inaccessible. I also noticed that the folder icon was the same as the 2nd ext drive connected to the computer Win XP Home. I tried the microsoft bulletin:
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  To take ownership of a folder, follow these steps: right - click the folder you want to take control and then click Properties.
  1. Click on the Security tab, and then click OK in the security message (if one appears).
  2. Click Advanced, and then click the owner tab.
  3. In the name list, click on your user name , or click on administrator , if you are logged in as administrator, or click the Administrators group. If you want to take ownership of the contents of the folder, select the check box Replace owner of subcontainers and objects.
  4. Click OKand then click Yes when you receive the following message is displayed:
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     All permissions will be replaced if you click Yes.

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

  5. Click OK, and then reapply the permissions and security settings that you want for the folder and its contents.

  I can not follow these directions as I do not have a visible security tab. I was able to save things to my ext drive but cannot access it from the my computer window. I am therefore able to see the contents of the disc in the 'SAVE AS' window. Given that I'm not very good at the computer stuff can someone give me step by step instructions on how to access my drive hard Ext. window "WORKSTATION". Thank you in advance.

  Soleil2012

  Harman salvation,

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  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/308421

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• Cannot access the images on external hard drive.

  I'm trying to access a folder on my external hard drive. The folder contains images and the hard drive is the internal hard drive from my old computer with XP as the BACK. The new computer I try to access the folder on a Vista like the BACK. I can open the file, but when I try to open the images, it says I don't have permission to access the location of the file. I tried to implement the steps described in this thread http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/accessing-files-on-external-hard-drive/1bd3550f-10fc-406e-be45-0de794343e53 but it did not work. Help, please.

  Hello

  Referring you BACK Disk Operating System?

  I suggest you to follow the steps and check if it helps.

  Step 1: Give Permission to everyone and check if it helps.

  (a) right click on the folder you want to take control and then click Properties.

  (b) click on the Security tab, click Advanced, and in the permissions tab, click Add.

  (c) If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

  (d) type like everyone else, the in called Windows Enter the name of the object to select it, and then click OK.

  (e) in the new window, give select full control and click OK.

  (f) click OK.

  Step 2: in the permission tab (follow step a and b in step 1 to open the authorization tab), if you have any user refused to try to remove it and make sure that include the permissions that can be inherited from the parent of the object is checked.

  Reference: troubleshoot "access denied" when opening files or folders

  I hope this helps.

• To access the other account via external hard drive

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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:

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    <>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,
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• Denied access in writing to a disk external hard drive for Windows XP laptop.

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  Try this,

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  Go to properties.
  Click Security.
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  Click on Add.
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• How can I remove restrictions file from an external hard drive so I can view or access these files on any computer instead of just one file has first been created?

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  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/810881

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

  Hello

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• 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

• CHKDSK changed on my external hard drive security descriptors, now I am unable to access

  My external hard drive is connected to my computer at startup and it began to run Chkdsk while I was away. I came back to find the security being replaced descriptors. Once this has been done and I logged in, I was unable to access the drive. "G: / is not accessible." Access is denied. "

  The disk appears in workstation but with no information of storage space. I changed permissions, sharing, and ownership as suggested elsewhere, but that didn't do anything either.

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  Hello

  Please contact Microsoft Community.

  It seems that you are facing problems while accessing the external hard drive on the computer. It would be great if you can tell us the brand and model of the external hard drive.

  Method 1:

  I suggest you to check the hard drive on another computer and see if the problem persists.

  Method 2:

  Check the link and try to run the Microsoft Fix it:

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  http://support.Microsoft.com/mats/hardware_device_problems/en-us

  If you are always faced with the question, please answer and we will be happy to help you.