Annoying external harddrive problem

Tusky

I was messing around with the settings on my external harddrive the other day and I seem to have made a booboo. I selected some folders and changed the settings so that they could only be accessed from my pc.

However, now I cant seem to open the harddrive at all, even from my pc. I get an error message that says "E is not accessible - access is denied".

Im running windows 7.

Voodu Child

Can you right-click the drive and access the 'security' tab ? And edit the permissions.

Tusky

Voodu Child wrote: »

Can you right-click the drive and access the 'security' tab ? And edit the permissions.

All of the 'allow' boxs are ticked in the security tab.

Tusky

Noone ?

bonzer1again

download a linux bootup disk like ubuntu, boot from the disk with drive plugged in and it should see it...copy your files off it then.........worth a try

Tusky

bonzer1again wrote: »

download a linux bootup disk like ubuntu, boot from the disk with drive plugged in and it should see it...copy your files off it then.........worth a try

Hmm - maybe as a last resort. Surely im just missing something simple. I mean, all I did was change settings so that one folder could only be accessed from my pc. Now I cant access the harddrive at all, even from my own pc. V.strange.

corkcomp

you say all of the allow boxes are ticket but for which user / users? can you post a screen shot? it sounds to me like you chose remove rather than copy permisisons and de-selected inheritance option.. you may be able to get around this by going to advanced security settings and "take ownership" and add everyone and full control ..

Tusky

corkcomp wrote: »

you say all of the allow boxes are ticket but for which user / users? can you post a screen shot? it sounds to me like you chose remove rather than copy permisisons and de-selected inheritance option.. you may be able to get around this by going to advanced security settings and "take ownership" and add everyone and full control ..

screenshots:

corkcomp

did you try adding everyone group and full control?

edit: the ownership tab does not appear to exist either which is not good

Tusky

corkcomp wrote: »

edit: the ownership tab does not appear to exist either which is not good

I can get into the ownership settings. I have selected the profile that I use as the owner. The same problem happens.

corkcomp wrote: »

did you try adding everyone group and full control?

What do you mean by this ?

Adam

try booting in to safe mode with administrative privileges and try the ownership settings as suggested?

corkcomp

Tusky wrote: »

I can get into the ownership settings. I have selected the profile that I use as the owner. The same problem happens.



What do you mean by this ?

at the advanced security settings screen and permissions tab click add and type everyone and tick all boxes and try again ..

Tusky

corkcomp wrote: »

at the advanced security settings screen and permissions tab click add and type everyone and tick all boxes and try again ..

Like this ? Doesnt seem to be working




[edit] It worked! Thanks so much.