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Cannot open/copy files on an external USB NTFS drive because of an issue with permissions
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I have an external USB HDD drive (NTFS) with some important files which I cannot open/copy any longer because of an issue with access rights.
I assigned all necessary access rights in ...
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File permissions not preserved on external hard drive
I have a brand new 3TB Western Digital "Elements" external (USB) hard drive. When I copy (cp, rsync) stuff across from my laptop file permissions are not preserved. In fact everything (files and ...
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Windows 8: Cannot access external drives. "Location is not available" "Access is Denied"
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Our office is running a pilot of Windows 8 on a 100 machines.
As I've been using Windows 8 at home since the Consumer Preview, I put my name into the pilot. My laptop was due ...
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Cannot copy file from external disk to laptop
I have an external hard drive which contains many files copied from another PC running XP. While I was copying files from this external disk to a laptop running 64 bit Windows 7 I got errors that I ...
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Permissionless external drive with NTFS
I have an external hard disk which has 1 partition, formatted in NTFS. I use this drive on multiple computers with a different logins on different machines, Windows XP and Windows 7. All files are ...
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