FAILURE TO ACCESS EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE Closed

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Hello,

My Maxtor basic external hard drive has been working fine recently until I reinstalled windows vista on my computer.  Now the computer recognises the hard drive (k), but won't allow access (Access denied).  I have tried all manner of adjustments in the properties, device manager and disk management settings, without success.  I do not believe it to be a problem with the drive, but a settingon the computer, however, i could be wrong (It has been known).  Can anyone shed some light?  Regards

xpcman · Answer

This is a "ownership" problem.  Vista thinks another computer owns this drive.

Check this link for a script that should fix this problem:

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

Good luck

xpcman · Answer

I couldn't get that registry mod to work on my copy of Vista. So here is a more basic way  to take ownership.

http://www.vista4beginners.com/Change-permissions-take-ownership

FAILURE TO ACCESS EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE

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