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

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.

"ruanv" wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> ruanv
>

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

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Flavius

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?

"Flavius" wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
> --
> Flavius
>

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


"ruanv" wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> ruanv
>

I also have this problem. I have a Dell Inspiron 545 and an external RAID drive partitioned into two volumes called SAFE and BIG. The computer shows both volumes but will only allow me access to SAFE. It says "Access is denied" when I attempt to open BIG. Any ideas?

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 differen
computers)
It should do it, as i tried it with my friend.
cheer

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aleqsie