X:\ is not accessible.; Access is denied.

Whenever I try to click on X:\ in My Computer I get the following:

X:\ is not accessible.

Access is denied.

That's kinda funny given that earlier today, chkdsk /F was able to not
only run on the drive but actually told me a few filenames (the
records for those files had to be updated).

I ran Ubuntu LiveCD and was able to access the drive just fine from
that, as well.

My question is... given all this, why am I unable to access the drive
from Windows Vista? Sure, maybe the drive is going bad, but that
doesn't explain why Ubuntu LiveCD and chkdsk /F can access it and
Windows Vista cannot.

So, short of just abandoning Window Vista all together in favor of
Ubuntu, what can I do?

Is X:\ a mapped drive, external drive, partition? Some more information
would be helpful.

In the Disk Management console does X: show up as healthy?

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/

"yawnmoth" <> wrote in message
news:fc63a2ab-0a09-4bf4-bb5e-...
> Whenever I try to click on X:\ in My Computer I get the following:
>
> X:\ is not accessible.
>
> Access is denied.
>
> That's kinda funny given that earlier today, chkdsk /F was able to not
> only run on the drive but actually told me a few filenames (the
> records for those files had to be updated).
>
> I ran Ubuntu LiveCD and was able to access the drive just fine from
> that, as well.
>
> My question is... given all this, why am I unable to access the drive
> from Windows Vista? Sure, maybe the drive is going bad, but that
> doesn't explain why Ubuntu LiveCD and chkdsk /F can access it and
> Windows Vista cannot.
>
> So, short of just abandoning Window Vista all together in favor of
> Ubuntu, what can I do?

On Feb 8, 10:39*am, "Kerry Brown" <ke...@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m>
wrote:
> Is X:\ a mapped drive, external drive, partition? Some more information
> would be helpful.
>
> In the Disk Management console does X: show up as healthy?

According to Disk Management, the Status is "Healthy (Primary
Partition)". It's an internal drive and I'm not sure what you mean by
mapped drive. It's not a mapped network drive if that's what you
mean.

Incidentally, I right clicked on the drive letter, clicked on the
Security tab, and took a look at the permissions and... none of the
Allow permissions were checked off. I checked Allow under Full
Control for SYSTEM and Administrators and a few hours later they were
updated. Unfortunately, I still can't access the drive.

yawnmoth <> wrote in news:ba3e3535-acda-40ef-b3b0-
:

> On Feb 8, 10:39*am, "Kerry Brown" <ke...@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m>
> wrote:
>> Is X:\ a mapped drive, external drive, partition? Some more information
>> would be helpful.
>>
>> In the Disk Management console does X: show up as healthy?
>
> According to Disk Management, the Status is "Healthy (Primary
> Partition)". It's an internal drive and I'm not sure what you mean by
> mapped drive. It's not a mapped network drive if that's what you
> mean.
>
> Incidentally, I right clicked on the drive letter, clicked on the
> Security tab, and took a look at the permissions and... none of the
> Allow permissions were checked off. I checked Allow under Full
> Control for SYSTEM and Administrators and a few hours later they were
> updated. Unfortunately, I still can't access the drive.
>

Is your account an Administrator account ?

"yawnmoth" <> wrote in message
news:ba3e3535-acda-40ef-b3b0-...
On Feb 8, 10:39 am, "Kerry Brown" <ke...@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m>
wrote:
>> Is X:\ a mapped drive, external drive, partition? Some more information
>> would be helpful.
>>
>> In the Disk Management console does X: show up as healthy?

> According to Disk Management, the Status is "Healthy (Primary
> Partition)". It's an internal drive

Very unusual for an INTERNAL partition to be given "X" as a drive letter -
did you install this drive?

--
Asking a question?
Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about,
your OS, Service Pack level
and the FULL contents of any error message(s)

"Gordon" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "yawnmoth" <> wrote in message
> news:ba3e3535-acda-40ef-b3b0-...
> On Feb 8, 10:39 am, "Kerry Brown" <ke...@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m>
> wrote:
>>> Is X:\ a mapped drive, external drive, partition? Some more information
>>> would be helpful.
>>>
>>> In the Disk Management console does X: show up as healthy?
>
>> According to Disk Management, the Status is "Healthy (Primary
>> Partition)". It's an internal drive
>
> Very unusual for an INTERNAL partition to be given "X" as a drive letter -
> did you install this drive?
>


X Y and Z are usually mapped networked drives. Was your machine part of a
corporate network at some point and now isn't?

--
Asking a question?
Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about,
your OS, Service Pack level
and the FULL contents of any error message(s)

"yawnmoth" <> wrote in message
news:ba3e3535-acda-40ef-b3b0-...
> On Feb 8, 10:39 am, "Kerry Brown" <ke...@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m>
> wrote:
>> Is X:\ a mapped drive, external drive, partition? Some more information
>> would be helpful.
>>
>> In the Disk Management console does X: show up as healthy?
>
> According to Disk Management, the Status is "Healthy (Primary
> Partition)". It's an internal drive and I'm not sure what you mean by
> mapped drive. It's not a mapped network drive if that's what you
> mean.
>
> Incidentally, I right clicked on the drive letter, clicked on the
> Security tab, and took a look at the permissions and... none of the
> Allow permissions were checked off. I checked Allow under Full
> Control for SYSTEM and Administrators and a few hours later they were
> updated. Unfortunately, I still can't access the drive.

Was the drive partitioned and formatted from this Vista installation? In the
Security tab are there any Unknown Users with a SID but no user name?

If the drive came from another Windows installation you may have to take
ownership then give yourself permission to access it. This is a two step
process. You have to take ownership then exit and restart Windows Explorer
before you can grant yourself Full Control.

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/

On Feb 8, 12:13*pm, DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h....@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m>
wrote:
> yawnmoth <terra1...@yahoo.com> wrote in news:ba3e3535-acda-40ef-b3b0-
> b5ba0ed51...@j1g2000yqi.googlegroups.com:
>
>
>
> > On Feb 8, 10:39*am, "Kerry Brown" <ke...@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m>
> > wrote:
> >> Is X:\ a mapped drive, external drive, partition? Some more information
> >> would be helpful.
>
> >> In the Disk Management console does X: show up as healthy?
>
> > According to Disk Management, the Status is "Healthy (Primary
> > Partition)". *It's an internal drive and I'm not sure what you mean by
> > mapped drive. *It's not a mapped network drive if that's what you
> > mean.
>
> > Incidentally, I right clicked on the drive letter, clicked on the
> > Security tab, and took a look at the permissions and... *none of the
> > Allow permissions were checked off. *I checked Allow under Full
> > Control for SYSTEM and Administrators and a few hours later they were
> > updated. *Unfortunately, I still can't access the drive.
>
> Is your account an Administrator account ?

Yup - it is indeed.

On Feb 8, 12:29*pm, "Gordon" <gordonbpar...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
> "yawnmoth" <terra1...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:ba3e3535-acda-40ef-b3b0-...
> On Feb 8, 10:39 am, "Kerry Brown" <ke...@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m>
> wrote:
>
> >> Is X:\ a mapped drive, external drive, partition? Some more information
> >> would be helpful.
>
> >> In the Disk Management console does X: show up as healthy?
> > According to Disk Management, the Status is "Healthy (Primary
> > Partition)". *It's an internal drive
>
> Very unusual for an INTERNAL partition to be given "X" as a drive letter -
> did you install this drive?

Yes - I changed the drive letter. Read an article suggesting that
might fix the problem so I tried X.

On Feb 8, 1:23*pm, "Kerry Brown" <ke...@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m>
wrote:
> "yawnmoth" <terra1...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:ba3e3535-acda-40ef-b3b0-...
>
>
>
> > On Feb 8, 10:39 am, "Kerry Brown" <ke...@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m>
> > wrote:
> >> Is X:\ a mapped drive, external drive, partition? Some more information
> >> would be helpful.
>
> >> In the Disk Management console does X: show up as healthy?
>
> > According to Disk Management, the Status is "Healthy (Primary
> > Partition)". *It's an internal drive and I'm not sure what you mean by
> > mapped drive. *It's not a mapped network drive if that's what you
> > mean.
>
> > Incidentally, I right clicked on the drive letter, clicked on the
> > Security tab, and took a look at the permissions and... *none of the
> > Allow permissions were checked off. *I checked Allow under Full
> > Control for SYSTEM and Administrators and a few hours later they were
> > updated. *Unfortunately, I still can't access the drive.
>
> Was the drive partitioned and formatted from this Vista installation? In the
> Security tab are there any Unknown Users with a SID but no user name?

The drive was partitioned (1 partition) / formatted under Windows XP.
There were only two users in the Security tab - SYSTEM and
Adminstrative user.

> If the drive came from another Windows installation you may have to take
> ownership then give yourself permission to access it. This is a two step
> process. You have to take ownership then exit and restart Windows Explorer
> before you can grant yourself Full Control.

The 'Current owner' was 'Unable to display current owner'. I changed
the owner to the currently logged in user (an Administrator; the only
Administrator), rebooted, and... it didn't work. Still can't access
the drive.

Was a little surprised it took pretty no much no time at all when
granting the Administrator and the SYSTEM user Full Access permissions
took a few hours...