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I purchased a new Western Digital 2TB External HD Model #WDBAAU0020HBK-01 and hooked it up to a Windows XP machine with Service Pack 3. I coppied a fair amount of data to this WD External HD and everything worked great. No issues with anything until: The maching I had it hooked up to has been updated to Windows 7 64-bit Operating System. When I first hook up the WD External HD it says new hardware found and installs it and says it's ready to use. The drive letter shows up in Windows Explorer but when I select it, it gives me: F: is not accessible.
Access is denied. I have unhooked the WD External HD and restarted the OS and hooked the External HD back up and now it tells me: You need to format the disk in drive F: before you can use it. It then gives me an option to format it. I really don't want to format it because I will lose all the data on the drive. Is there any way around this? I hooked up the WE External HD to 3 different Computers that had Windows XP installed on them and I get these same results: The drive letter shows up in Windows Explorer but when I select it, it gives me: F: is not accessible.
Access is denied. I looked in Devise Manager on the OS with Windows 7 64-bit and the WD External HD is listed there and shows: This device is working properly. Also went to driver update and says driver is up to date. Under Volumes in Device Manager for this WD External HD there is nothing listed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
(I'm hoping I don't have to format the WD External HD) Thanks much! Hi, I would like to clarify if the drive is shared on a network. Method 1: T ry to take ownership of the drive and then test. A) Right click on the F: drive Properties Security tab. B) Click on Edit button and on the following screen click on Add button type in “ your user name” in box and then click OK c) Now select (highlight) “your user name” on the permissions window place a check mark on all the permissions (full control, modify, read and execute.) In the permissions for “your user name” box. Or a) Click on Start Type in cmd in the search box b) Right click on cmd that appears on the start menu under programs and hit “ Run as administrator ” c) Type in the command takeown /f /R /D Y you should replace the with the target drive name. Reference You may refer the steps mentioned in the link below which addresses similar issue You may refer the steps mentioned in the article below which addresses similar issue Error message when you try to access the root of a drive after you leave HomeGroup in Windows 7: 'Access is denied.'
Since the issue persists on several other computers, you may want to check with Western Digital for any known issues Thanks and Regards Ajay K Microsoft Answers Support Engineer. Visit our and let us know what you think. This External HD is plugged into this computer I'm trying to access the HD from. I right click on the drive letter F: and then click on Properties but the Security tab isn't an option, it's not listed. I went to the Sharing tab under Properties and then went to Advanced Sharing. I then click on Share this folder setting (the Share name is listed as F). Under Advanced Sharing I selected Permissions and added my username to the Group of user names.
I checked all the boxes for Allow and clicked Apply and this dialog box closed. Now in the Advanced Sharing dialog box I click Apply or OK and I get this message: An error occured while trying to share F.
The volume does not contain a recognized file system. Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that the volume is not corrupted. The shared resource was not created at this time. When I went to Start, typed in cmd, right clicked cmd.exe and ran as administrator, I typed in: takeown/f f /R/DY and got this message: ERROR: File or Directory Not Found. Do you have any other suggestions? I'm not to the point where I want to format it.
Thanks in advance. CDK I checked out the references you suggested but never had any luck. You probably should go back to the sharing tab and undo the Share first of all. Next, to carry out Ajay K's suggestion you need to see the Security Tab which means first you need to have Simple File Sharing disabled.
This can be done from My Computer - Tools - Folder Options - View Tab - Untick box for Simple File Sharing. Security Tab should now be available when you right click on Files, Folders or Drives. Best of luck. Mine has no sharing enabled and I still have no security tab.
Only some folder show this error. But the errors are consistent on my XP computer, My Windows 7 computer and my Windows 8.1. None of the systems have been altered since the drive was last working Except that some of the folders were added with a mac book air. Those were the first to show the error, but now the error is coming up on some of the first folders created on my xp system. The tabs that are available are General, Autoplay, Tools, hardware, Sharing, and Quota.
Does the drive have a letter assigned to it in Windows? You may have a corrupted file system on the drive.
If it has a letter, you can check by doing the following: If you are using Vista or higher, you will first need to open an elevated command prompt. From the Start Menu, under Accesories find Command Prompt and right click.
Select Run As Adminstrator and accept the User Account Control prompt. If you are using XP you can just run the Command Prompt. When the command prompt appears, type CHKDSK driveletter: /F (replacing driveletter with your assigned letter). It will check the file system and attempt to correct any errors. Vtg 1992 storm technology picture press for mac.
However, be aware depending on its condition you may still end up with corrupted files. Some times this corruption can occur when unplugging from your TV or not safely removing the device from your computer. If this is a portable drive (no separate power supply), then this may be a power issue.
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Portable hard drives require a fair bit of power, and while they SHOULD fall within the USB specs (500mA for USB 2.0), some demand a little more. Equally, some hosts (computers, TVs etc) provide just a little below spec, so sometimes you get a bad combination. To test this theory, try the HD on a number of different USB ports on different computers (not just your PC & Mac) and see if they can be read on any of them.
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If this is indeed the problem, and none of the ports on your computers provide enough power, then there are two things you can do: 1) get a USB 'Y' cable which will aggregate the power from two different sockets or 2) use an external power supply if your HD has a socket for one (if it does not, you may be able to obtain another HD enclosure, which does have such a connection, and transfer the drive itself to it.