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boron
Mad Scientist
Canada
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 Posted - Feb 01 2010 : 6:24:24 PM
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Hey Guys,
So something went wrong with my desktop so I decided to use my 750 Gb external USB hard drive to save the files and perform a clean install of the OS. The drive is usually plugged into my laptop.
My brother being the one transfering the files, plugged it into the problematic PC and when he tried to access it was told "I:\ is not accessible. Access is denied."
So he re-booted the computer and windows XP decided to perform a check disk on the external drive and my brother allowed this to occur. After the check was complete he was able to access the files no problem and transfer all the data we wanted saved.
Now the problem is that when I now plug the same drive into my laptop (on which it worked perfectly before) I now get the exact same error message and when the drive is connected Windows 7 informs me that the drive needs to be formatted before use...
So any ideas what went wrong and how I can regain access to all the files on the drive from my laptop?
Thanks in advance. |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Feb 03 2010 : 8:38:18 PM
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| Hook it to the Problematic computer or just try a different computer than your laptop, see if it works, back up all the stuff (as long as you don't have 750GB of stuff on it), format it. Maybe it "contracted a virus". |
If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over? |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - Feb 07 2010 : 11:22:00 AM
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Yeah, I agree. Put the drive on whatever computer can read it, back up the files, then delete the partitions, recreate the and reformat.
My guess that permissions on the drive were screwed up because the drive was removed from one of the systems while Windows was writing to the MFT. |
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boron
Mad Scientist
Canada
223 Posts |
Posted - Feb 07 2010 : 2:14:22 PM
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Thanks for the ideas guys. I plugged it into the computer that was capable of reading it and following that I decided to delete the files that were transfered to it, just in case those files somehow messed things up.
After deleting them my laptop was able to regain access to the drive and the problem has been solved!
Thanks again. |
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External Drive "Access Denied"
