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Access is Denied!

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assasin
assasin Original post #1
Nov 3, 2006 at 8:39 PM
My pc was working fine when all of a sudden i'm not able to access 2 of my HDD prompts(I've six and D: & G: r not accessible).Whenever i try to access them from Win Explorer i get "Access Is Denied".I can access the prompts from <Ctrl Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Disk Management>.I've scaned for virus but dere arent any.How shall i be able to open my prompts from Win Explorer.Plz Help Me.
wizrulz
wizrulz #2
Nov 3, 2006 at 11:42 PM
Which Os???
NTFS or FAT32???
can u see the sharing, security tab in the property window of that drive. ???
assasin
assasin #3
Nov 4, 2006 at 12:19 AM
OS - Windows XP MCE 2005
NTFS
Yeah I can see sharing tab in the property of that drive
Vishal Gupta
Vishal Gupta #4
Nov 4, 2006 at 12:53 AM
Pls read following thread:

giving limit to each user in my pc..

And read my posts, may be it'll help U ;)
assasin
assasin #5
Nov 4, 2006 at 8:46 AM
Hey Vishal i;m d loneuser ofmy PC and i didnt do any such NOVIEWONDRIVE stuff.Still i checked it & dere was no 'NOVIEWONDRIVE' dword.Now wat sud i do.
wizrulz
wizrulz #6
Nov 4, 2006 at 12:14 PM
assasin said:
OS - Windows XP MCE 2005
NTFS
Yeah I can see sharing tab in the property of that drive
Click to expand...

Try this. Use the file I have attached, save it to your computer and extract it to your d:\

Go to a command prompt and type

takeown D:\(insert name of folder)
Similarly for G:....

This "should" give your current user rights to the folder. Your best doing this with your administrator account.

Hope this works.

Abt .exe, it won't do anything with your hdd, it only change permissions in order you can have access to you hdd.

GIVE UR FEEDBACK
anandk
anandk #7
Nov 4, 2006 at 12:28 PM
see if this helps :

right click the drive, go to sharing and security and enable sharing with full permission.
assasin
assasin #8
Nov 4, 2006 at 2:59 PM
Followed ur instructions Wizrulz.After executing d cmd i got d msg:"Successful,Protection Removed".But the prob is still dere.Cud it be a prob with my HDD i.e a hardware prob????????
wizrulz
wizrulz #9
Nov 4, 2006 at 3:40 PM
assasin said:
Followed ur instructions Wizrulz.After executing d cmd i got d msg:"Successful,Protection Removed".But the prob is still dere.Cud it be a prob with my HDD i.e a hardware prob????????
Click to expand...

For both drives same problem????

surprising.....if the data is not so imp and u have backup then best option is ...1st converting to FAT 32 and then back to NTFS .....

have u checked for bad sectors????
assasin
assasin #10
Nov 4, 2006 at 4:46 PM
just formatted d drives outright after taking bakup.Now dey r jst workin fine no probs.Lots of THANX toall u ppl.