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Lost access to drive - "Access is Denied"
I'm having a serious issue here with my external USB 3.0 HDD enclosures. They used to work fine with Windows 7. Now with Windows 10 I fought all last week trying to get Windows 10 to see the enclosures. I have no idea what happened but suddenly Window 10 was able to see the drives so I thought everything was okay. This morning I'm trying to copy some files over to one of the drives on the enclosure using Teracopy and it just freezes mid-copy. suddenly the green bar at the top of the window starts moving left to right as if the drives are being "found" again. This takes over a minute. At some point Teracopy tries to resume and then hangs again while the same thing happens over and over. All the lights on the enclosure blink on and off as this happens, like they're being found again. Same thing happens when copying using Windows Explorer. I end up having to cancel the copy process and it takes a good minute before it cancels. It won't let me to a dskchk because Windows can't access the drive.
Now 1 of the drives is inaccessible. I have no idea what happened but I'm freaking out because I"m afraid to do anything that might jeopardize losing the drive. It shows the drive letter but n bar indicating space available and if I click ont he drive I get:
I:\ is not available.
Access is Denied.
I've tried rebooting the PC, and connecting the enclosure via esata but nothing is getting the drive back. The other drives show up fine but I can't copy to them without the issue described above. Also, I was using the enclosure just an hour ago to zip some files up from the enclosure to an internal drive, and it worked perfectly. So I have no idea what's going on here. Can anybody help?
Searching this error suggests I should take ownership of the drive which I've never done before. I'm afraid to do anything that might risk losing or corrupting my data. Under properties>security tab for that drive, it lists 2 entries : SYSTEM and Administrators. Both entries have all the checkmarks under allow except "special permissions".
Last edited by rivre; 11 Oct 2016 at 12:01.