Hard Drive - Access Denied (Win 7)

Retromatic · 6 Jan 2012 at 14:40

HazardO said:
Having just finally managed to remove my old windows directory from dirve d: (was vista) while in win7, I can point you to a blunt tool which will give you ownership and full permissions for a folder (and I assume a drive if required).

Taken from :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930527/en-us

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WARNING: This will give all permissions to administrator, and you may still need permissions for other users (e.g.: SYSTEM and TrusedInstaller) for your backup/antivirus etc. to be able to use the drive..
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I just get "Invalid argument R/A".

I am typing : takeown /F E:\* /R/A

Disco Boy · 6 Jan 2012 at 14:46

Do you have a spare drive? Or space on other drives for the stuff on the rogue drive?

If yes then what I would do is boot from a Ubuntu live USB stick and transfer the data from the rogue drive to another location.

Then just reformat the drive and put the stuff back on.

Retromatic · 6 Jan 2012 at 16:16

Disco Boy said:
Do you have a spare drive? Or space on other drives for the stuff on the rogue drive?

If yes then what I would do is boot from a Ubuntu live USB stick and transfer the data from the rogue drive to another location.

Then just reformat the drive and put the stuff back on.

Yes, I have a few spare drives, but will it allow access to the drive to copy it?

If so, no-one else comes up with anything I will give this a whirl tonight. Would be nice to find out why it's happened, so I can try and prevent it again but getting the data back is obviously most important!

Deception · 6 Jan 2012 at 16:32

Leviathon said:
I just get "Invalid argument R/A".

I am typing : takeown /F E:\* /R/A

Might need a space between /R and /A as its seeing it as one argument.

Deception · 6 Jan 2012 at 16:33

Might be worth starting from scratch. Remove yourself from the security tab, then apply ownership to the administrator group. Then in the security tab (without going advanced etc), just give yourself full permissions there as it might of corrupted a long the way and not actually gave you full permission as its states; This is windows after all

Retromatic · 6 Jan 2012 at 16:38

Deception said:
Might be worth starting from scratch. Remove yourself from the security tab, then apply ownership to the administrator group. Then in the security tab (without going advanced etc), just give yourself full permissions there as it might of corrupted a long the way and not actually gave you full permission as its states; This is windows after all

Hi, I'm not sure what you mean. Currently there is 2 options :

Administrators (Zaraal pc/Administrators)
&
System

System I had to add in myself (see further up the thread)

Retromatic · 6 Jan 2012 at 16:41

Deception said:
Might need a space between /R and /A as its seeing it as one argument.

right now were (possibly) getting somewhere.

It says " Error, the current logged on user does not have administrative abilities"

But (Administrators Zaraal/PC Administrators) is a big pointer towards me having admin abilities for the love of god. :confused:

skyripper · 6 Jan 2012 at 16:47

If you have UAC enabled you may be an Admin, but Command Prompt may not have been started with admin privs? Try the RunAs command to elevate, or right click the shortcut for Command Prompt and choose from the popup menu.

Deception · 6 Jan 2012 at 16:56

skyripper said:
If you have UAC enabled you may be an Admin, but Command Prompt may not have been started with admin privs? Try the RunAs command to elevate, or right click the shortcut for Command Prompt and choose from the popup menu.

^This. Always remember to run CMD as admin from now on. What is your username on the PC, is it Administrator or something unique?

Retromatic · 6 Jan 2012 at 17:22

Thanks, it's Zaraal (my swtor character name) - I will give this a go now, I may wel have forgotten to right click>run as admin.

Swordfish · 6 Jan 2012 at 17:26

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html

Use the reg file from this.

Do not run it on your C Drive but other drives are fine.

Can work on drives or folders.

Works via a right click on the drive/folder.

Retromatic · 6 Jan 2012 at 17:28

Still no joy. I had my fingers crossed, the commands appeared to be different to what I had already used earlier but it cycled through everything, no errors at all.

End result : E:\Access Denied. :\

Retromatic · 6 Jan 2012 at 17:30

Swordfish said:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html

Use the reg file from this.

Do not run it on your C Drive but other drives are fine.

Can work on drives or folders.

Works via a right click on the drive/folder.

Trying now!

Swordfish · 6 Jan 2012 at 17:30

Leviathon said:
Still no joy. I had my fingers crossed, the commands appeared to be different to what I had already used earlier but it cycled through everything, no errors at all.

End result : E:\Access Denied. :\

Have you tried the reg file I suggested - I use it all the time.

Retromatic · 6 Jan 2012 at 17:34

Nope didn't work.

Swordfish · 6 Jan 2012 at 17:35

Leviathon said:
Nope didn't work.

Strange.

So you have a drive full or folders/files that you can see in explorer but cannot access?

Here is a daft idea - can you share the folder and view its contents via the network (on the same pc)? If so do you have space enough to copy them across?

Retromatic · 6 Jan 2012 at 17:43

Swordfish said:
Strange.

So you have a drive full or folders/files that you can see in explorer but cannot access?

It says E:\ NTFS and that is it (in my computer).

My first thoughts were a corrupt drive but when I take ownership etc it scans through the files and you can see them named fine. Also it lists in Diskmanager as healthy etc..

Yup the drive was 95% full of files/folders.

needforspeed · 6 Jan 2012 at 17:44

Can you give a print screen of the HDD Security and Group or user names. Blank out your username if you want, in your print screen.

Retromatic · 6 Jan 2012 at 17:44

If I were to reformat my C:\, would I get back access to the drive? I'd rather not as I only just formatted about 2 months ago, but if it's the only way...

Retromatic · 6 Jan 2012 at 17:45

needforspeed said:
Can you give a print screen of the HDD Security and Group or user names. Blank out your username if you want, in your print screen.

Sure I'll sort that out now, thanks for the help.