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Why am I getting an “Access Denied” error for an external hard drive folder?
I know this question has been asked before, but I've tried multiple solutions and none worked.
I am trying to access a folder [Local Disk] on my external hard drive, but it says Access Denied.
I made ...
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How to disable NTFS ownership enforcement on Win10 for Admins?
Classic story - moved a portable USB HDD to a new Win10 machine. All folders on it are marked as "Owned by the previous user", and therefore it hit me with the "You need permission to ...
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Lost all permissions to hard drive in windows 10
I had to share my laptop with someone, so I tried to change the access permissions of my storage drive, while windows is on my SSD. But somehow I lost all permissions to my drive.
After trying all ...
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Hard drive messed up after dual install of windows 10
I installed windows 10 on Hard Drive B (HDB). Then plugged in Hard Drive A (HDA) so I could copy over some files.
It prompted me that I needed admin access to access the files so I clicked continue.
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Can't access folder on external drive
I'm in a pickle. Yesterday, I was looking for a couple of old photos I had taken years ago. (I'm an armature photographer and over the years I've accumulated many terabytes of RAW images, edits and PS ...
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Can't open folder - Location is not available
I performed copy of all folders and files from hard disk A to hard disk B,
I had one shared folder on HDD A, this folder was also copied.
I removed HDD A from computer (disk is broken) and let there ...
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I cannot write to my disk despite having permissions
My laptop has windows 10 and logs into a domain. When I plug my external drive for backups I cannot write anything, not even create a folder.
I am a user of domain and belong to administrator group ...
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How do I stop Windows from stopping write access to an unmounted EFI partition on a disk that is not used by Windows?
Setting: The computer has two or more physical hard drives. One is entirely dedicated to a Linux installation, one entirely to Windows. Both can be booted up. The system is configured for EFI booting.
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I am getting access denied to internal hard drive and failed to enumerate objects
On Tuesday I noticed I was getting access denied to my data drive. I am running Windows 10. I have 3 other drives. The problem is only with this drive. I have gone through the properties and went into ...
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How to changing file permissions of contents in hard disk only for other computers?
How to change file permissions on my hard disk so that when I lend my hard disk for someone they can access only the files I wish them to see?
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Some files should be read-only so that they can ...
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D:\ is not accessible
I copied a Windows 10 hard-drive that was no more able to mount itself and I now want to acccess the files that were over there. I use Windows 10.
So I tried the answers by Kobaltz and Kabazi Robert ...
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Taking ownership of hard drive does not reveal files
I have two Windows 10 machines. A desktop and a laptop.
The laptop has completely died so I want to take the data off the laptop drive and copy it over to my desktop.
So, on my desktop, I can see ...
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E:\ is not accessible. The request is not supported
Yesterday I installed Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update (Version 1607 OS Build 14393.10) and my external disks no longer can be read.
When I attach them to the PC I get the following error message
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How to copy files off NTFS disk without getting Access Denied
I've upgraded to a new PC (Windows 10) and would like to make a complete backup of all files off my old PC's hard drive (also Windows 10) .
I have plugged the old HD into the new PC, so it is not ...
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Change Read-Only (even Admin) permission on Removable Hard Disk Drive
So basically, I made a goof-up and removed all permissions except Read-Only on my external HDD. Somehow Windows 10 allowed me to remove the permissions for the Administrator also.
Now the HDD is all ...
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