Access denied C drive

Jimmy1983 · 31 Aug 2009 at 20:16

Been playing around with my home network today both PC and laptop running win7, and now each time I try to access C drive I keep getting 'access denied' anyone know why iam being locked out? :confused:

theheyes · 31 Aug 2009 at 21:30

Have you changed any permission settings as part of your tinkering?

Jimmy1983 · 31 Aug 2009 at 21:43

Nope, but how can I check?

theheyes · 31 Aug 2009 at 22:42

Right-click the C: drive icon and go to Properties. Under the Security tab you should see a list of users including Administrators and Users. Administrators should have full control and and Users should have Read & Execute, List folder contents and Read checked.

I'm guessing you can still access your Desktop and My Documents folder etc?

Jimmy1983 · 31 Aug 2009 at 22:53

Yup tried that, but still having trouble

Yup can access both desktop and my docs etc.

Jimmy1983 · 1 Sep 2009 at 23:00

Anyone?

theheyes · 1 Sep 2009 at 23:26

Are you able to create a new admin user account?

Paddyw01 · 2 Sep 2009 at 00:13

Although I'm not running Windows 7, I had a similar problem with XP a few months ago, and it turned out to be a virus which stopped me accessing all my hard drives. There is a free program out there which disables autorun on all hard drives (at least that's what it said), thus stopping the virus from activating itself. I can't remember what it's called though (wish I could), but some other users might know what I'm talking about.

Worked for me so give it a go. Hope this helps.

Jimmy1983 · 13 Sep 2009 at 13:27

theheyes said:
Are you able to create a new admin user account?

Nope

Paddyw01 said:
Although I'm not running Windows 7, I had a similar problem with XP a few months ago, and it turned out to be a virus which stopped me accessing all my hard drives. There is a free program out there which disables autorun on all hard drives (at least that's what it said), thus stopping the virus from activating itself. I can't remember what it's called though (wish I could), but some other users might know what I'm talking about.

Worked for me so give it a go. Hope this helps.

Ah right, didnt even think about it possiably being a virus

Can you remember what program you used?

DustyMiller · 13 Sep 2009 at 16:21

Have you deleted any user accounts, win 7 has an issue if you delete the user account you first created when building the pc / laptop it will randomly lock you out of drives or volumes, you will need to use the diskpart command froma command prompt.

list volume

select volume # (numer of volume with issue)

attribute volume clear readonly

three command i keep on having to use, wish there was a fix.

Jimmy1983 · 13 Sep 2009 at 21:32

Nope not deleted any at all, ive only got one and thats mine-which was created apon installing win7

baroniuk · 15 Sep 2009 at 05:08

Having the same problem myself, i have tried fresh install etc totally confused as it worked fine a week ago.
Suggestions i have had are that its hard drive related but all scans on it seem o.k.
Are you having problems with updates and downloading progs?

Paddyw01 · 15 Sep 2009 at 11:17

baroniuk said:
Having the same problem myself, i have tried fresh install etc totally confused as it worked fine a week ago.
Suggestions i have had are that its hard drive related but all scans on it seem o.k.
Are you having problems with updates and downloading progs?

Jimmy1983 said:
Nope

Ah right, didnt even think about it possiably being a virus

Can you remember what program you used?

This is the program I used

finally remember lol!
From what I can see, it removes your autorun.inf files on your drives, removable drives (connect those to your PC too by the way) thereby stopping virus/worms working. It doesn't remove viruses, it just stops them from activating themselves.
Oh and as a side note, this fix worked for me, and my computer is fine, but I'm not going to promise it'll work for you.