Drive/Folder Access Denied - External Hard Disk Folder Not Accessible FIX

Drive/Folder Access Denied - External Hard Disk Folder Not Accessible FIX.

Now, external hard drives are widely used by people to store personal data like text, pictures, audios, videos, etc. But sometimes, the disk shows a Location is not available window showing "Drive is not accessible. Access is denied" error message and prevent users from accessing any of their files. Users have reported this issue in many different situations as well as on different versions of operating systems like Windows 10/8/7.

Issues addressed in this tutorial:

hard drive not showing up
hard drive not working
hard drive not found
hard drive not spinning
hard drive not appearing
hard drive not accessible windows 10
hard drive not appearing in disk management
hard drive not accessible parameter incorrect
hard drive not accessible access denied

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems.Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung).

[NathanHarrison]

You are the man! Been trying to access my Maxtor Basics External Hardrive for over an hour now. This worked perfectly. Could not find the answer on Microsoft's or Maxtor's websites. Thank you! Subscribed! Now it's time to look at my children's childhood pictures!

[TheSimpleCitizen]

I love your videos, they are very helpful...but this one has me stuck....

I had access to this external drive last week no problem. It's 2 TB of files and programs. When i try to launch my music DAW (on local disk), i go to load a project which has files on my external drive, now it suddenly says i do not have access to this file/folder. I changed the permissions for just the file. I tried for just the folder as well as the directory. Nothing changed. I tried to share it as a network drive too . I also added full access for "everyone" applications, administrator, users and still nothing. I tried to share it as a network drive as well ..still no luck.

I can however copy and paste from that drive to my local just fine. But any programs on my external are now not opening correctly or at all, and nothing can be imported.

The last try was to change the permission to the entire drive but when I hit apply, it starts scanning EVERY FILE .... and i ain't got time for that lol.... But in between scan, an error will pop up for like e:\ $recyclebin or something.... That doesn't seem right.... I don't have a recycling bin on my external i don't think anyway....

Is there a more direct non time consuming way to resolve this? Surely I'm doing something wrong .. PLEASE HELP :( ❤️

[couchpotato]

thank you! after watching different tutorials for 30 minutes I finally found one that works!

[taidoebluu]

I tried it all, still won’t allow me to move a file from my external had drive to my my regular one, let alone even open the files normally, i got as far as it allowing me to look through the folders, but per say an image, or the ability to move it, same problem still, what’s the “enable inheritance” mode, maybe thats it? Let me know

[JohanAwesome]

I tried many different programs and a lot of different solutions but nothing helped. But this did help, thank you!

[siddharthkrishna]

It is showing failed to enumerate objects in the container. Access is denied. Please help

[webster]

Hello and thank you for posting this. I just transferred my data from a broken laptop to my new one .. I had trouble getting permission to access the files so I did your recommendations and it worked. Now should I change the settings back somehow to the original default settings? I changed the access to “everyone “ and don’t know if that would cause a security issue with anyone being able to access the new laptop.. thanks!

[Grandpabarry]

I've been working on fixing this problem for a week without success. This video finally solved the problem. Thank you.

[gustavoramirez]

i have errors for the subfolders "failed to enumerte objects in the container. Access is denied"

[mitsos]

What if windows cant access the files to change the privileges? Like on a disk with old windows in

[artisticmemoirsoffieldherp]

After following your steps… I got a window that says “Error applying security: an error occurred while applying security information to: D:\system volume information\IndexerVolumeGuid Faild to enumerate objects in the container. Access is denied”

Is there a way to fix it from here?

[mircea]

This is the only fix that worked for my HDD acces denied issue after plug in in a Samsung TV 4TB of data just saved thx a lot!

[TomRenegade]

Some indian guy could not help me, but you sure could! thanks!

[IRequiemI]

You saved me from an heart attack after i deleted one user from my SSD security option. Hours of work could be done forever.

[kimborch]

Been looking for this fix for years now. Thank you very much 😃

[ascencinmusic]

You have no idea how many sites i have went thru and what i tried to use to fix it but thank you so much man it actually worked thank you so much

[mrbatdance]

fixed. Straight to the point no bs. Thanks dude.

[GinolasSon]

Fantastic video! I went from panic to relief in 90 seconds!

[KPUNK]

So Clear and So helpful. Had been looking at solutions the day before and none that cut so quickly to the issue at hand. Thank you!

[prod.dazz]

when i go to the properties and then security it says "You must have read permissions to view the properties of this object."